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

Big_Graeme

hamsterholly wrote: »

Sorry to be thick but on the alerts thread who is the company that shall no longer be named ? Feel free to pm if cant be named on here. Thanks

If you find out gimme a shout, I've looked on the usual suspects too.

brooke3

Big_Graeme wrote: »

If you find out gimme a shout, I've looked on the usual suspects too.

Me too. I've looked and can't work out who it is. I'm a bit worried about breaking the rules now!

DPJames

You all can't have looked too hard. Try again.

brooke3

I read this thread most days and all I've ever seen is people asking who the company is and others saying they're a company who don't want to be named. If I was working for this company would it be immediately obvious to me that I wasn't supposed to mention them at all? And is it that they don't want to be mentioned anywhere in any form or is it specifically they don't want to be discussed on forums or have their jobs listed?

brooke3

tattybonce wrote: »

Not very happy at all with RE (or should I say MF?). Just had a job deleted from my account without anything at all being said to me. Also worked my lunch hour at work today so I could finish my full time job to complete theirs. Not being funny, but if I did that to them ... What is wrong with them just lately? It was a chicken job btw. :mad:

I haven't worked for them since they became MF but I used to do a lot of jobs from them but stopped because I had things like that happen a couple of times. One time I completed a job, they asked me to wait to submit it because of a recording needing to be uploaded, so I waited, went back on the day they asked me to and the job had been deleted. When I called them I was told it had been reallocated because it hadn't been completed. All the data was entered, I just had to wait to submit it. Plus it left me out of pocket.

mimi1234

Did anyone watch The Apprentice? The wrong one got fired. The scary one with the loud eye make up should have gone!

Has anyone done one of the new ESA shops, (think opposite of a one sinner)? It's like a 4 part visit and they are paying peanuts. It's wose than the riot shops that used to be on motherfunkas, those were 2 parter visits and paid 1/3 more than these!

Big_Graeme

brooke3 wrote: »

I read this thread most days and all I've ever seen is people asking who the company is and others saying they're a company who don't want to be named. If I was working for this company would it be immediately obvious to me that I wasn't supposed to mention them at all? And is it that they don't want to be mentioned anywhere in any form or is it specifically they don't want to be discussed on forums or have their jobs listed?

This is the same company who are pushing their Facebook site as a place to meet and discuss, I very much doubt they would whinge about job alerts, more so if it fills the jobs that they are struggling to fill.

@DPJames - Looking in the right place but they are hidden to those lowly silver punters.

Big_Graeme

tattybonce wrote: »

Not very happy at all with RE (or should I say MF?). Just had a job deleted from my account without anything at all being said to me. Also worked my lunch hour at work today so I could finish my full time job to complete theirs. Not being funny, but if I did that to them ... What is wrong with them just lately? It was a chicken job btw. :mad:

Mine went too, client pulled the job I was told, no great loss I got a steak job in its place.

weeg

Big_Graeme wrote: »

@DPJames - Looking in the right place but they are hidden to those lowly silver punters.

That makes sense now. I'm once again a semi-lowly gold punter. Two reports that were late brought my average down. Boo! Should be back up soon though, as I've go two jobs booked in and the lowest score is about to drop off the bottom of my latest 10. They really do mean that 12 noon deadline.

Cat2011

Started mystery shopping this year and having to do my first tax return soon. Quick question:
Do you include all purchases/refunds as income/expenses?
e.g. £20 fee for shop, £5 refund. Income = £25.
Expenses are £5 on fuel, £1 on printing, £30 on a purchase.

What's the profit for tax purposes?
Is it all income minus all expenses, so £20+£5-£5-£1-£30= -11 (no tax payable)
Or refund/purchases not included so £20-£5-£1= £14 profit, so £2.80 tax to be paid.

Or only the refunded part of the purchase included (so £5 of the purchase is due to the mystery shop, and £25 due to my whimsical nature) so
£20+£5-£5-£1-£5=14, so £2.80 to be paid.

Sorry, not such a quick question. Just want to make sure I get it right from the start. Thanks!