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

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  • Big_Graeme
    Big_Graeme Posts: 3,220 Forumite
    Yay, BARE Paypal payments rolling out.
  • superliss
    superliss Posts: 867 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    I've got all mine to do tomorrow... this is filling me with confidence now ;p

    Can you still access Nottingham station to buy tickets? I did alfreton yesterday and I still have notts and an online to do as well.
    Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
    I'm a woman's man: no time to talk
  • superliss
    superliss Posts: 867 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    I wonder how long the German car company will stick with MF? Pittance for what I know will be a ridiculously long and repetitive report. You pay peanuts....
    Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
    I'm a woman's man: no time to talk
  • superliss wrote: »
    Can you still access Nottingham station to buy tickets? I did alfreton yesterday and I still have notts and an online to do as well.

    I haven't actually checked yet and didn't think about it TBH.... I'll go that way home and check
  • whitelabel
    whitelabel Posts: 2,217 Forumite
    Furnival wrote: »
    Does anyone know if ESA use video shoppers?

    And, does anyone have an email address for them - I've only got email addresses for specific people.

    Check/update your extended profile
  • Big_Graeme
    Big_Graeme Posts: 3,220 Forumite
    See IMS are stuck for counters, if they had been paying a decent fee in the first place and one that covers all the time you'd be fannying around then they may not be in this position. I did some of these last time and what should have only taken half an hour ended up taking 2 hours.
  • whitelabel
    whitelabel Posts: 2,217 Forumite
    Big_Graeme wrote: »
    See IMS are stuck for counters, if they had been paying a decent fee in the first place and one that covers all the time you'd be fannying around then they may not be in this position. I did some of these last time and what should have only taken half an hour ended up taking 2 hours.

    Plus the data entry time.
    I agree have done in past for higher fee not doing any this time round though, even for increased fee
  • Big_Graeme wrote: »
    Oh the form filling is a piece of cake, its the stupid way it has been set up, where the answer is and can only be N/A, Yes or No it still wants a bloody comment. After 7 of them I am getting a bit tired.

    Yep it sure does need a N/A, and I didn't know what number to put into column 1 of the spreadsheet, but still thing the pay is fair.
  • JohnnyG
    JohnnyG Posts: 583 Forumite
    edited 23 July 2013 at 1:10PM
    Hmmmm, have done 5 GAP fast restaurant visits this month, with some slow timings that are usually questioned, yet have not been asked one question and not received one e-mail from them. Had a well dodgy hand written receipt also but still nothing.

    Anyone else noticed this?
  • chinora
    chinora Posts: 63 Forumite
    Anyone else get asked loads of times to do a visit which is miles away cause uve done it once in the past when in the area!
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