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Mystery Shopping Thread 23 *PLEASE READ THE OP FIRST**PLEASE NO CLIENT NAMES OR FEES

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  • whitelabel
    whitelabel Posts: 2,217 Forumite
    Daft question coming up:

    When doing a job for GFK and you get to the end. It says FEE CLAIMED. Is that your expoense box or is it the fee you are going to be paid for the job?

    if its blank you need to enter the fee
    if you put in more than it should be it will know and ask for a comment why it is more

    some jobs it has the correct fee in
    usually if ive renegotiated a fee I have to enter the higher fee in the blank box with a comment
  • catwoman150
    catwoman150 Posts: 974 Forumite
    Thanks, I havent done one for a while, so I was just checking.
    cross stitch cafe #90 UFO's 6 to finish in 2013, and loads of new kits to boot
    Refunded bank overdraft charges £915 :j
    SPC 2007-2008 #078 aim £500-£341.67
    SPC 2011-2012 #078 aim £500-£426.42
    SPC 2012-2013 #078aim £500 - TBC
  • mamashaz
    mamashaz Posts: 449 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    Daft question coming up:

    When doing a job for GFK and you get to the end. It says FEE CLAIMED. Is that your expoense box or is it the fee you are going to be paid for the job?

    If you forget to change it from 0.00 to the correct fee they don't pay you :(They did sort it out eventually but it acted as a warning to me.
  • PeteW
    PeteW Posts: 1,213 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 20 July 2012 at 10:13PM
    mamashaz wrote: »
    If you forget to change it from 0.00 to the correct fee they don't pay you :(They did sort it out eventually but it acted as a warning to me.

    GFK's system is so bad. It always asks questions that it already knows the answer to and other questions that it should know aren't relevant! And the census is so annoying - asking you 100 questions for each company asking if you have account a, b, or c, rather than first asking 'do you have any accounts with company x'!
  • PinkWing
    PinkWing Posts: 86 Forumite
    Teaboyseej wrote: »
    Just did a pub food and drink visit for MF. Had printed off all my paperwork and sat down to input the results. Once I clicked on continue a message came up saying

    "Before you commence your assignment, you MUST contact XXXXXX on XXXXXXX between 9.00am and 5.30pm Monday to Friday, regarding important information about this mystery visit.

    Failure to contact us at this stage could result in the mystery visit being invalid.

    You will not be able to proceed to the next stage without speaking to a member of the Market Force' support team."

    As there was no indication of this UNTIL I tried to put the details in at 7:30 tonight AND no one had contacted me wither by email or phone regarding this what are they up to? That wasnt there when I got my paperwork printed off or looked at the assignment notes. !!!!!!?

    I had that happen to me the other day. I rang them up, and explained that I had only seen it when I came to input the results, and they were ok about it. The phonecall was to confirm the exact location, but because I'd visited the correct place, all was fine and dandy.
  • Middy
    Middy Posts: 5,394 Forumite
    Getting a little fed up with the opticians for MF. I get my eyes tested for free at the hospital due to my eye condition. 14 assignments in 20 miles and all of them are for eye tests!
  • Middy wrote: »
    Getting a little fed up with the opticians for MF. I get my eyes tested for free at the hospital due to my eye condition. 14 assignments in 20 miles and all of them are for eye tests!
    anyone done the M-S currency jobs? I did one yesterday- took over 20 minutes and 6 assistants to get the international one :) Even then i wasnt sure it was correct
  • Big_Graeme
    Big_Graeme Posts: 3,220 Forumite
    Middy wrote: »
    Getting a little fed up with the opticians for MF. I get my eyes tested for free at the hospital due to my eye condition. 14 assignments in 20 miles and all of them are for eye tests!

    You don't have to do them.
    There are plenty of jobs across different MSC's that I either can't or choose not to do.
  • MysteryMe
    MysteryMe Posts: 3,465 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    A 1/3rd drop in the cheap supermarkets fee, way to go MFers ;)
  • serendipity2706
    serendipity2706 Posts: 1,843 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Big_Graeme wrote: »
    You don't have to do them.
    There are plenty of jobs across different MSC's that I either can't or choose not to do.
    I'd not do these as the fee is a pittance for an hour's work plus write up.
    There were jobs on Tern that paid quite well for an eye test.
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