Maximising income - Mystery Shopping? Surveys?

Spendaholic_Chick

catewithers wrote: »

I have a mystery shopping assignment this afternoon for BARE. I have to go to car dealerships.....

Has anyone else been involved in this recent wave? How did you get on? Any advice? Feeling very nervous!!!

I've done a couple of those - first one was great, second a nightmare as they couldn't get the car for four months so they were just not interesed at all in talking to me, but I got it done in the end.

Have two more to do today - they must be desperate as I'd already refused them and they came back and offered me an extra 5 euros for each job. Not a great deal, but better than nowt!!

Good luck, feel free to pm me if you need any help!

Taggie

catewithers wrote: »

Just convinced I'm going to forget everything and look like a complete muppet!

Keep a little notepad on you, that you can view at a glance if necessary without being seen. I did 6 in one day and it really wasn't that bad. When you have done it, you will realise how easy it was to remember the details :beer:

Brighouse

globbits wrote: »

Bit like Prestonpans out there, eh?

What? Who are you and why are you remarking on my posts?

Brighouse

Pilchard wrote: »

Hi there. I'm trying to sign up with NSS but am having a hell of a job completing the form. I can put the first line of my address in but can't do anyhting else, or I can use autofill to do most of it but it then says there's loads of information outstanding. Am I doing something wrong?

Try it without the autofil 'cos sometimes autofil adds things in fields you don't want. Good luck.

globbits

Brighouse wrote: »

What? Who are you and why are you remarking on my posts?

Post - singular. I am your Kodak moment

jobbingmusician

Taggie wrote: »

Keep a little notepad on you, that you can view at a glance if necessary without being seen. I did 6 in one day and it really wasn't that bad. When you have done it, you will realise how easy it was to remember the details :beer:

Ummmm - I did the last wave, and didn't bother to hide the notepad. It seems TOTALLY natural to me to have details of the car you are interested in (the precise spec), the prices you have been offered etc. written down. That's certainly what I would do if I were shopping for a car in 'real life' so IMHO it is totally acceptable behaviour for a MS. I did 11 visits, all for different specs, and it would have been impossible to remember the precise specifications of the car I wanted without my notebook. But hand on heart I can say that if I'd really been shopping for one specific car, I would not have been able to remember the specs without a notepad! (and certainly would not have been 100% confident of the prices I'd been quoted. The result of my researches was that I got some excellent offers for purchase of the cars, by the way! :cool: )

sweetangel63

hi

from april the 16th my little one will be going to nursery for the day which means i am child free for the day. with my benifits i am allowed to earn £20 a week........do you think its worth me becoming a mystery shopper?
also are you allowed to take your kids with you as i find it hard to get people to look after them?

Angela xx

also what is the grass hopper link you all seem to like this one

Taggie

catewithers wrote: »

Just convinced I'm going to forget everything and look like a complete muppet!

How did it go :beer:

Rachie_B

sweetangel63 wrote: »

hi

from april the 16th my little one will be going to nursery for the day which means i am child free for the day. with my benifits i am allowed to earn £20 a week........do you think its worth me becoming a mystery shopper?
also are you allowed to take your kids with you as i find it hard to get people to look after them?

Angela xx

also what is the grass hopper link you all seem to like this one

lol do you mean Grass Roots ??? all the links are on the first page of this thread

Some assignments you can take children to accompany you,others you cant

I have taken my 2 sons on many assignments,they are 5 and 10 though so pretty well behaved most of the time ! and not likely to be bratty whilst in a shop etc !

It will usually state on the brief if you can / cannot have anyone accompnay you
and some *specifically* ask for children to be present,we have recently done a few restaurant assignments and cinema ones too for the whole family

Brighouse

globbits wrote: »

Post - singular. I am your Kodak moment

No, the photos of the pizzas are my Kodak moment, you are just terning into a stalker.