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

enevel

mrbanjo wrote: »

Heavens to Betsie, have people lost there marbles, all the bed shops have been snapped up in my area, are people really that desperate? No wonder MF can reduce the fee with every round of shops. Sad times indeed

Barely a single one of them shifted in my neck of the woods. Personally wouldn't touch them for twice that, now. They need to learn.

Meanwhile a pub in a one-eyed town my way, required 9.30pm to 1.30am shop, had been on the books for weeks. They'd ratcheted it up to a doubled-plus fee. The main requirement, that you walk in and ask for a Strawberry Daiquiri, juxtaposes nicely with the locality's fabled history in British-gangsterdom. Laughable.

So in the circumstances, if you were MF, what would you do? Answer: halve the fee again! Morons.

StabiloBrillo

I have a MF Steak gastro pub to do this week, it states no where about the use of vouchers and most job notes say whether your allowed to use them or not. Just thinking as I regularly go over the reimbursements for these places. Have contacted coordinator but nothing, has anyone ever used vouchers and been paid?

Larac

jammyg67 wrote: »

Hi,
I'm a complete newbie to mystery shopping/surveys and am looking for some help with getting started. I have read all 197 pages on this thread so I have a bit of an idea now! Any help with the best sites to register with would be much appreciated.
Thanks

ESA and GFK are good starting points as they seem to have more local jobs and you do self allocation. The agencies using 'Sassie' you have to apply for jobs and then it very hit and miss whether you get a job allocated. In my case its more 'miss' so can only assume that there are MS shoppers with higher gradings getting the allocations.

superliss

StabiloBrillo wrote: »

I have a MF Steak gastro pub to do this week, it states no where about the use of vouchers and most job notes say whether your allowed to use them or not. Just thinking as I regularly go over the reimbursements for these places. Have contacted coordinator but nothing, has anyone ever used vouchers and been paid?

PM me so I know which one your'e on about.

superliss

Larac wrote: »

ESA and GFK are good starting points as they seem to have more local jobs and you do self allocation. The agencies using 'Sassie' you have to apply for jobs and then it very hit and miss whether you get a job allocated. In my case its more 'miss' so can only assume that there are MS shoppers with higher gradings getting the allocations.

And if you can understand GFK's over-complicated briefs then it will be plain sailing from there...

3010

No-name wrote: »

MF back to their old tricks again! - On the gaming machine job the fee has gone down from £5.75 to £3.25!!! I know that naming fees on this forum is frowned upon but this time I just don't care about the "consequences".:(

I have never won any money on these machines during Msing. So, its probably not allowed but I don't care. I just play roulette and bet on both red and black. Once my time is up I withdraw the money I was asked to put in and keep it and get it back from the Msing company too.

superliss

3010 wrote: »

I have never won any money on these machines during Msing. So, its probably not allowed but I don't care. I just play roulette and bet on both red and black. Once my time is up I withdraw the money I was asked to put in and keep it and get it back from the Msing company too.

dodgy ground in the sense of it looking odd. But in all honesty I don't blame you. I won £40 on slots once, couldn't believe my luck. I make sure I come out with something, even more so now the fee has dropped again.

We do what we can within reason to maximise our earnings.

3010

superliss wrote: »

dodgy ground in the sense of it looking odd. But in all honesty I don't blame you. I won £40 on slots once, couldn't believe my luck. I make sure I come out with something, even more so now the fee has dropped again.

We do what we can within reason to maximise our earnings.

I try to find a machine away from the counter to not be seen as much as possible.

superliss

3010 wrote: »

I try to find a machine away from the counter to not be seen as much as possible.

I think all machines are in view of the counter, but really the staff don't take interest in what your doing unless you start getting angry and kicking the machine because you have just lost your last £100.

Big_Graeme

3010 wrote: »

I try to find a machine away from the counter to not be seen as much as possible.

The whole point of the shop is to be seen.