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Mystery Shopping Thread 24 *PLEASE READ THE OP FIRST**PLEASE NO CLIENT NAMES OR FEES

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  • superliss
    superliss Posts: 867 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    I can't see these visits on MF -- either I'm not in the right area or I've not earned enough points to be offered such premium work. :rotfl:

    Had a chat with a woman at work yesterday who was telling me about how she has great fun at weekends doing mystery shopping. Oh, I said, that sounds interesting... do tell me more! Then I heard all about how you get free stuff and sometimes they even pay you cash too, and you're supposed to ask all these stupid questions but no-one ever knows if you just make it up as long as you say everything was fine.

    Oh well. :(

    Is it bad that I want you to ask her what companies she does work for so you can 'grass' her up?
    Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
    I'm a woman's man: no time to talk
  • JohnnyG
    JohnnyG Posts: 583 Forumite
    samtastic7 wrote: »
    OMG :eek: the garden centers I could see earlier have gone...
    I hope RE took them off.
    please dear god if people accepted them we are all gonna sink.!

    for those who missed them you would have to do 2 to have enough to get a shopping trolley.

    I didn't have the pleasure of seeing them but, at that price, I clearly didn't miss anything. That is a shocking fee :eek:
  • sparklysaver
    sparklysaver Posts: 392 Forumite
    skivenov wrote: »
    Hope you told her about Gyp, she sounds ideal for their fast food jobs! :D

    They already sacked her, and apparently they're rubbish to work for anyway because you're supposed to time everything with a stopwatch and that's just stupidly complicated. :shocked:
    superliss wrote: »
    Is it bad that I want you to ask her what companies she does work for so you can 'grass' her up?

    I was thinking of saying to her that, isn't it funny, but someone else I know was telling me about it at the weekend, what a coincidence! But they gave it up after the tax man found out, because apparently all the companies report... Oh, didn't you know that?

    :A:A:A:p
  • Lil_Me_2
    Lil_Me_2 Posts: 2,664 Forumite
    samtastic7 wrote: »
    OMG :eek: the garden centers I could see earlier have gone...
    I hope RE took them off.
    please dear god if people accepted them we are all gonna sink.!

    for those who missed them you would have to do 2 to have enough to get a shopping trolley.

    Thankfully MF admitted on their FB that it was a mistake and they shouldn't have been released.

    "These were some internal test visits that should not have been released for shoppers to see and are currently being removed from the website. Apologies for the confusion."
  • cherylai9
    cherylai9 Posts: 43 Forumite
    Hello everyone, I've not posted on this thread before, I normally reserve my posts for the alerts thread.
    Just saw a post from someone advising jobs on FT... but what is FT? I've checked my sites and I don't know if I am signed to them... could anyone help? V Confused, though easily done lol ;)
  • Lil_Me_2
    Lil_Me_2 Posts: 2,664 Forumite
    cherylai9 wrote: »
    Hello everyone, I've not posted on this thread before, I normally reserve my posts for the alerts thread.
    Just saw a post from someone advising jobs on FT... but what is FT? I've checked my sites and I don't know if I am signed to them... could anyone help? V Confused, though easily done lol ;)

    First Tracking
  • cherylai9
    cherylai9 Posts: 43 Forumite
    Thank you... I don't think I have registered with them.
  • mrbanjo
    mrbanjo Posts: 279 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    Lil_Me wrote: »
    Thankfully MF admitted on their FB that it was a mistake and they shouldn't have been released.

    "These were some internal test visits that should not have been released for shoppers to see and are currently being removed from the website. Apologies for the confusion."

    Probably RE/MF testing out how many sad people would be desperate enough to pick up the visits. I would bet a fair few would have accepted.
  • skivenov
    skivenov Posts: 2,204 Forumite
    edited 21 June 2013 at 9:47PM
    They already sacked her, and apparently they're rubbish to work for anyway because you're supposed to time everything with a stopwatch and that's just stupidly complicated. :shocked:

    If she thinks that's hard, I'd love to see her try and do The Chemists availability audit :rotfl: My mate tried to do the one I normally do and by the time he'd finished in store he was on about £3ph before he even started typing. He informed me I could ****ing keep that job.
    Yes it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
    Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?
  • CrazyClum
    CrazyClum Posts: 242 Forumite
    Logged into MF for the first time in ages.

    Seen a well known furniture store with the fee less than half of what I done it for last year. For the fee, with minimal transport time, parking etc, I worked out I'd be making £1 an hour!
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