Mystery Shopping Thread 22 *PLEASE READ THE OP FIRST**PLEASE NO CLIENT NAMES OR FEES*

N.I.M

I do this with pretty much every company now. Heck it even worked with RE.

timefortea

Are any phones particularly good for accessing MS companies sites? Mine is rubbish so I can't check for work on it, but it's upgrade time soon! (Can't afford an iPhone though.)

whitelabel

a good android 2.3+ phone from china like dx.com could be great, i got one on blackfriday for £70 thats basically a htc sensation with above iphone specs,
a tablet is an alternative option
dont just auto renew your contract though check what else is available, there are some pretty good deals around at the mo if you factor in quidco
screen size helps with data entry so dont get too small

on a separate note:


Retail Maxim are also looking for trained video mystery shoppers, if your have your own equipment please contact them

Workie_Ticket

whitelabel wrote: »

on a separate note:


Retail Maxim are also looking for trained video mystery shoppers, if your have your own equipment please contact them

How much would it cost to set your self up for this? I have done some video work with MS company equipment and it was quite well paid. Is there a lot of work out there?

Monkeynut

I've had some fantastic extra payments from TNS on a few occasions now, and each time it's not even to cover very rural locations or anything, so I think I've just been lucky. I've managed to negotiate into 3 figures for less than an hour round trip

N.I.M

REALLY? RE got THAT contract?

muppettry

Can anyone let me know whether I can get away without having a printer for jobs with TNS, Gapbusters, ABAI or Retail Active?
I know that I don't need one for RE jobs, and I believe that I can get away without one for GFK jobs. I just don't want to be accepting a job that I cannot complete.

Thanks.

kst101

muppettry wrote: »

Can anyone let me know whether I can get away without having a printer for jobs with TNS, Gapbusters, ABAI or Retail Active?
I know that I don't need one for RE jobs, and I believe that I can get away without one for GFK jobs. I just don't want to be accepting a job that I cannot complete.

Thanks.

Am pretty sure that Gap say they are fine with you saving it to your hard drive. I have found that when my printer has been temperamental that it is possible to make notes of what you need and then fill in the questionnaire afterwards. There are some jobs where you need a letter of authorisation so need to print that, but you can use say a library to do that. The thing you do need though is a scanner for scanning in receipts. You can take photos of them but that seems to end up going wrong for me and they can't be seen clearly enough

serendipity2706

muppettry wrote: »

Can anyone let me know whether I can get away without having a printer for jobs with TNS, Gapbusters, ABAI or Retail Active?
I know that I don't need one for RE jobs, and I believe that I can get away without one for GFK jobs. I just don't want to be accepting a job that I cannot complete.

Thanks.

HI
You asked this a week or so back, and had replies. Look back to see the replies as the advice wont have changed.

serendipity2706

muppettry wrote: »

Can anyone let me know whether I can get away without having a printer for jobs with TNS, Gapbusters, ABAI or Retail Active?
I know that I don't need one for RE jobs, and I believe that I can get away without one for GFK jobs. I just don't want to be accepting a job that I cannot complete.

Thanks.

As I recall one of them said that you could get a printer for about £20 and that if you weren't able to pay for that, you would be limited with the jobs you can do as a lot of them require purchases etc in advance and you can wait up to 8 weeks for the reimbursement.