Maximising income - Mystery Shopping? Surveys? (Part Two)

mimi1234

Re: Alittlestressed's query. If it says you HAVE TO ASK FOR A RECEIPT in the brief, then you will need a receipt. If you get one of the numpties in the Quality Control department checking your report, you will get lots of emails asking you for a receipt. Best thing to do is write to them, via the enquiry. If you genuinely forgot, they will probably ask you to reshop the site, but it depends who answers your enquiry.Oh and MATT is absolutely brilliant. Everytime I have decided to quit (due to some other numpty at GAP messing me around, he has restored my faith in them). We should get a petition signed and get him a promotion or something. He really is a lovely chap and goes out of his way to help us, the shoppers, out.

mimi1234

And can we have an update on the mystery shopping sites people use. I mean the ones that actually give you assignments to do? There is GAPbuster (https://www.xec.gapbuster.com), GrassRoots (https://www.grassrootsmysteryshopping.com), TNS, Retail Eyes, CCA (this one is really good for shoppers in Scotland) (https://www.ccauk.co.uk). Does anyone know of any other genuine sites? I have so far joined up to Retail Maxim, GFK, and ABA, and I have not heard a thing off them. I would stay as far away as possible from IMS, they never get back to you when they are meant to, and it annoys the living daylights out of me.

Sarahsaver

Re. the grassroots jobs going quickly, I am SO glad I am not the person sitting by the PC all day waiting for jobs to come up LOL;)

Re. the burger jobs they will be v picky and get on the defensive if you have anything remotely negative. Once it was apparently MY fault that they were making one big queue then feeding that one queue off to the tills instead of having separate queues.

A_little_stressed!!

mimi1234 wrote: »

Re: Alittlestressed's query. If it says you HAVE TO ASK FOR A RECEIPT in the brief, then you will need a receipt. If you get one of the numpties in the Quality Control department checking your report, you will get lots of emails asking you for a receipt. Best thing to do is write to them, via the enquiry. If you genuinely forgot, they will probably ask you to reshop the site, but it depends who answers your enquiry.Oh and MATT is absolutely brilliant. Everytime I have decided to quit (due to some other numpty at GAP messing me around, he has restored my faith in them). We should get a petition signed and get him a promotion or something. He really is a lovely chap and goes out of his way to help us, the shoppers, out.

i have got the receipt, it just says *ORDER MODIFIED AFTER TOTAL* for some reason and TO GO!! I've sent the report and receipt so fingers crossed

nickik1970

I have done phone shops for gap, but have had to revisit them as they have been completely naff. Not enough staff/information or the willingness to bother trying to sell anything. The one near me has only 1 team member in there and the shop is in the middle of a very busy town centre Doh!

nickik1970

mimi1234 wrote: »

And can we have an update on the mystery shopping sites people use. I mean the ones that actually give you assignments to do? There is GAPbuster (www.xec.gapbuster.com), GrassRoots (www.grassrootsmysteryshopping.com), TNS, Retail Eyes, CCA (this one is really good for shoppers in Scotland) (www.ccauk.co.uk). Does anyone know of any other genuine sites? I have so far joined up to Retail Maxim, GFK, and ABA, and I have not heard a thing off them. I would stay as far away as possible from IMS, they never get back to you when they are meant to, and it annoys the living daylights out of me.

I have actually come across some of the sites by accident when on google when not really looking for them. I do look on mystery shop forums which can sometimes really help.;)

TractorGirl327

Sarahsaver wrote: »

Re. the grassroots jobs going quickly, I am SO glad I am not the person sitting by the PC all day waiting for jobs to come up LOL;)

Re. the burger jobs they will be v picky and get on the defensive if you have anything remotely negative. Once it was apparently MY fault that they were making one big queue then feeding that one queue off to the tills instead of having separate queues.

LOL, if that is aimed at me, yes, I was sitting by the PC all day, and yes, I did have GR open all that time - but I was doing other work most of the time, I wasn't sitting there merely refreshing the page every 10 seconds!!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

TractorGirl327

mimi1234 wrote: »

And can we have an update on the mystery shopping sites people use. I mean the ones that actually give you assignments to do? There is GAPbuster (www.xec.gapbuster.com), GrassRoots (www.grassrootsmysteryshopping.com), TNS, Retail Eyes, CCA (this one is really good for shoppers in Scotland) (www.ccauk.co.uk). Does anyone know of any other genuine sites? I have so far joined up to Retail Maxim, GFK, and ABA, and I have not heard a thing off them. I would stay as far away as possible from IMS, they never get back to you when they are meant to, and it annoys the living daylights out of me.

I did my first ABA assignment a few weeks ago and got a £10 gift card as payment. Do I need declare this to Mr Taxman or can I keep quiet about it?

nickik1970

:rotfl: :rotfl: I can honestly say I leave grg on the pc and refresh it throught the day. You miss the jobs as they go so fast. I live on merseyside but they keep putting jobs on for Ireland as being near my location! :rotfl:

nickik1970

Saying that I have just refreshed again and missed 4 jobs. Just shows how quick the jobs do go!