Maximising income - Mystery Shopping? Surveys?

Quackers

As a retail manager I'm eagerly (or not so eagerly) awaiting our mystery shopping result as we always get mystery shopped in August - our busiest time of year.

The flower above is given with love and affection to all you mystery shoppers out there (a bribe - naaah, never )

dlb

Did my first one last week, was easy loved it.

But had problems already as was accepted for 3 jobs at same store in space of 3 weeks, i emailed them about same enquires and they have taken 1 job off me as i shouldnt have been offerdd it.

Rachie_B

leni wrote:

as soon as a grassroots email comes through I'm straight on it

I've got 2 this friday and 2 next week and I've just applied for 2 with bai but their "pending"

Quite tempted by the flight assignments but flying from leeds to london and back is abit sad really good if you can make a break/visit people during it!

just to let you know BAI take aaaaaaages to get back to you i found

i applied for some jobs and it was about 12 days before i heard back to say i was accepted to do them !!!

ive got 10 with them this wkend :eek:

the flight ones sound / look good ,fab to take note of in case i plan to go anywhere :T

Thefunkygibbons

As a retailer, make sure you all play a straight bat as the staff get annoyed if they get what they perceive is an unfair result

and it does affect the bonus that they get at the year end

PONDSAVER_2

Who is BAI?? Does anyone have a link to their site please?

freebird65

Hey funkygibbons......I actually give staff a little leeway....if their overall service has been excellent then I usually let silly little things go as I think it ends up making a report sound unduly harsh.

A question to all you more experienced MS's.....has anyone ever had a problem being paid for jobs.......I'm owed around £100 by one company for jobs done over 6 weeks ago and whenever I ring its "yeah sorry, we've got a bit of a backlog so it'll be a week or so". Is this normal?

The_Boss

PONDSAVER wrote:

Who is BAI?? Does anyone have a link to their site please?

Wouldnt bother - I've been mystery shopping professionally for 7 years and they are terrible. Plus as they pay in Euros, you tend to lose out on exchange rate and bank fees.

Fran

Smashing wrote:

I overhead a supervisor in sainsburys saying that they were being mystery shopped today.

I wondered why the checkout lady was being so friendly...;)

Still managed to overcharge me though. Hmph.

:rotfl: That's why yesterday two staff were helping me find an item and one even pushed my trolley!

Rachie_B

The_Boss wrote:

Wouldnt bother - I've been mystery shopping professionally for 7 years and they are terrible. Plus as they pay in Euros, you tend to lose out on exchange rate and bank fees.

oooooooooooh nooooooooo ive got 14 with this company lined up so far !

why are they so "terrible" ?

The_Boss

leni wrote:

as soon as a grassroots email comes through I'm straight on it

I've got 2 this friday and 2 next week and I've just applied for 2 with bai but their "pending"

Quite tempted by the flight assignments but flying from leeds to london and back is abit sad really good if you can make a break/visit people during it!

The flights are a total joke and I refuse to do them - the previous company was paying over £100 per flight, all out of pocket expenses (transport at 25p per mile, car parking hotel, meals) and since they outsourced to BAI, they try to cut costs by refusing to pay a fee and cutting most of the expenses and claiming it is a perk of a job!

I did them for over 3 years so its no perk for me to lose all of the above. Plus if you spend £600 on a premium economy ticket, you wont get that all back due to banking/transfer issues, so you lose even more.