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

samtastic7

PinkWing wrote: »

Has anyone done a RA camera shop yet? Just wondering if the staff members have been automatically writing their name down on the written reccomendations? I know it'll depend from shop to shop, etc, but I want to be prepared for having to ask them to write it down... (I fear it'll scream MSer!)

mine got rejected no name

samtastic7

blimey retail maxim cutting it fine i just rang betwwen now and saturday they normally give you a week!

mskitten2904

Blimey, is it my imagination or are all the jobs apart from GFK banks for piddling money on MF? wheres all the ESA supermarkets and GAP mini cooks and all the old usual ones gone?

redcar_2

Think MF are going for the tactic of dropping every round of fees by 25p until it gets to a point where they can't fill the jobs. Can't blame them as a short term business model but from a shopper point of view I won't be going out of my way for any.

mimi1234

redcar wrote: »

Think MF are going for the tactic of dropping every round of fees by 25p until it gets to a point where they can't fill the jobs. Can't blame them as a short term business model but from a shopper point of view I won't be going out of my way for any.

Well I would rather they knock 25p off instead of the £2 shave they did on almost all their shops a good few months ago.

Anyway, their plan is not working. I can see shed loads of shops on my webpage and they have been there for ages. Well done everyone. Just try and not pick up all the supermarkets with the slave labour like fees! Those always go as soon as they go on. Am I missing something?

mskitten2904

mimi1234 wrote: »

Well I would rather they knock 25p off instead of the £2 shave they did on almost all their shops a good few months ago.

Anyway, their plan is not working. I can see shed loads of shops on my webpage and they have been there for ages. Well done everyone. Just try and not pick up all the supermarkets with the slave labour like fees! Those always go as soon as they go on. Am I missing something?

I think you said somewhere earlier they/MF are finding jobs almost every week now for certain companies? wouldnt it be more beneficial to bunch the money together and do it once a month? When I say beneficial ... I do mean for us :rotfl:well.... probably them too with all the send backs for checking! lol

superliss

I'm now about 18 months into my MSing career and to be honest I now turn my nose up at the MF fees as they slowly get ridiculous. I notice certain jobs stay much longer. I have only done a couple of jobs for them in recent months. One phonecall for bowling and a hotel phonecall for next week. Even the bookies that people used to gobble up are now hanging around for a while, not surprised when they half the fee and set up a stupid scenario.

Short term no doubt they will save money, but surely with poor quality reports they will only lose more clients?

mimi1234

mskitten2904 wrote: »

I think you said somewhere earlier they/MF are finding jobs almost every week now for certain companies? wouldnt it be more beneficial to bunch the money together and do it once a month? When I say beneficial ... I do mean for us :rotfl:well.... probably them too with all the send backs for checking! lol

Sweetie, MF's mind does not work the same as yours. That's all I can say.

Hopefully clients will get fed up with the lack of results and the poor results they get from MF and go back to the MS company they came from. Wooohooo!

redcar_2

mimi1234 wrote: »

Well I would rather they knock 25p off instead of the £2 shave they did on almost all their shops a good few months ago.

Trouble is I think they'll get there in the end and with much lower fees they can pass (some of) that saving on to their clients and so pinch them from other better paying companies.

sparklysaver

I've not taken anything with MF for ages now. Not worth my time. If the companies receiving the reports are happy enough with the standard they'll get for that money, then more fool them.

This evening, I will mainly be internally debating whether (and how) to mention a sales assistant's eye-watering BO. :rotfl: