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

HeavensDevil

Just about to settle down to a mini Chinese banquet with red wine, accompanied by a delicious cheese board - thought I would treat myself when getting my GR home delivery, rather than just buy the normal everyday stuff I'd get in real life

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice

I'm shattered.... 8 audits today. Just uploading the results of my road trip round the county! My mantra was "think of the money, think of the money".

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice

londoner01 wrote: »

Just agreed to my first assignment as a mystery shopper! :j It looks like one of the most basic shops and already I'm finding it a bit much - pretty much one pound per each of the 13 pages of notes!!!!!

Good Luck! I felt really overwhelmed on my first one but over 10 years later I'm just as conscientious but more relaxed now... it's just practice.

londoner01

Boredupnorth wrote: »

It's not for everyone

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice wrote: »

Good Luck! I felt really overwhelmed on my first one but over 10 years later I'm just as conscientious but more relaxed now... it's just practice.

I agree it's not for everyone. I decided I'm going to give it a go for this assignment, see what it's really like. It may be that it looks overwhelming on paper but I can actually pull it off.

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice

I think it gets easier because they're often asking for the same observations. When you first start you need to remember to do lefts and rights, get staff members names, timings etc. but after a while this becomes second nature. So reading the briefing notes gets easier and while conducting a shop you can concentrate on remembering the scenario or hot topics which are different for every shop.

littlemiss1612

it is alot of paperwork and reading but it gets easier. Ive been doing this for coming up a month and am starting to enjoy it now. i completely screwed my first job up by using a voucher i had, its only when i got the report back saying my error that i went back to the note and saw in big red letters DO NOT USE VOUCHERS lol. after being very cross with myself i laughed it off but i learnt from it and now lose count of the amout of times i read everything.

the one thing i have been doing the last week is setting up a filing and accounts system which i recommened doing before you lose your table underneath paperwork like i did

whitelabel

this is thread 22, read through all the other 21 threads too.

there is a WEALTH of information there that money cant buy and is the best education youre going to get on it all, other than experiencing it.

RichieM_2

Whoop I've scheduled my first assignment, its with GfK for phone shop, only thing I'm concerned about doing shops is the recording of timings :-/

System

RichieM wrote: »

Whoop I've scheduled my first assignment, its with GfK for phone shop, only thing I'm concerned about doing shops is the recording of timings :-/

the phone shops are not bad to be honest although those reports can be looong. I would say just do the report very quickly after you have done the shop so you can remember everything because there are a lot of questions.

londoner01

RichieM wrote: »

Whoop I've scheduled my first assignment, its with GfK for phone shop, only thing I'm concerned about doing shops is the recording of timings :-/

I'm on the same assignment! And timings is one of my [many] concerns!

But that's exactly the worry I have, if I need to concentrate on *absorbing* detailed information during the visit, I'll be bad at also playing my [ubersimple] scenario. As I have a pretty good phone at the moment, I will have to invent reasons for looking for a different one! :P

Anyway, enough of complaining before I've even tried!