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

ViksB

Whilst watching the One Show- Mystery shopping was mentioned. The sites they mentioned were retail eyes and the following 2 I have never heard of.
Quality eye
Mystery shop agency

Do anyone have any experience of these companies?

Viks

moi

ViksB wrote: »

Mystery shop agency
Do anyone have any experience of these companies?

..aka Retail Rapport.
I've been on their books for years now but have never heard a peep! I wondered if they still existed!

A_little_stressed!!

Can any1 help with info in retail-Maxim, theres nothing on the 1st page but the address, is it self allocation like the others?
Which companies are best for meals? I'm just gone back to work, so am cutting out most if the 'shopping' ones, but would like some lunches! i am already with Gap, but was hoping for some healthier options out there somewhere!

jobbingmusician

Retail Maxim email or text you if they have work to offer you. Just sit back with your fingers crossed!

annedunlop

For goodness sake - what do you have to do to get a MS job!!! So far I've missed A GR job, GFK jobs , then more GR jobs -Loads of Bare jobs but none in my area - and I've logged on loads of times but it just seems everytime I go off to do something, that's when the jobs come in.

princess_leia_3

annedunlop wrote: »

For goodness sake - what do you have to do to get a MS job!!! So far I've missed A GR job, GFK jobs , then more GR jobs -Loads of Bare jobs but none in my area - and I've logged on loads of times but it just seems everytime I go off to do something, that's when the jobs come in.

Ditto :mad:

Timmne

This is what happens when Martin goes and helpfully :rolleyes: mentions it in his weekly email....:mad:

redcar_2

josie wrote: »

redcar wrote: »

Hi redcar, I had a similar one today prob the same company & there were 3 people on the counter, so had to peer at their chests to find the right person (just as well I'm not a bloke, I might have been done for harrassment).

I'd been there about 5 mins, when the person who should have approached me to serve me, said right I'm finishing at 5 today & off she popped! I've just re-scheduled the job for tomorrow and hope I can catch her tomorrow. I did hear her say she was starting at 11 tomorrow and seeing as they've got a "shopping event" tomorrow night I'm hoping she'll be around tomorrow after I finish work and not be popping off at 5 again!

Did you just re-schedule? That's what I've done.

Josie sorry just to be catching you today. I phoned them that first evening and the person I spoke to rescheduled it for me. Hope yours went well today. I'm assuming (Timmne? or other tax bods) that you can claim for travel involved (on your own expenses record) even when a shop goes wrong and you have to revisit or don't get paid... see next query below?

Just noticed the message about rebranding of petrol stations on GAP and aborting visit if so. Anyone know what that means? I have one of those 'petrol' visit planned that is quite out of the way and I don't want to get there and then not be able to do it (and not get paid either). Do they mean you might get to the site and find its got signs up for y station rather than an x one as per the brief? Or am I missing something here?

Timmne

Yep - say it was a Petrol X station but has re-branded to Petrol Y - they won't have told you about it and probably won't notice themselves for number of months....

My advice is that yes you can claim the mileage - your intention was to carry out the job - if it's been rebranded then it's not your fault...

As this actually happened to me a couple of weeks ago I'd advise that you phone the petrol station up first if you're going out of your way; just check that they say the right company's name when they answer!

catwoman150

redcar wrote: »

Just noticed the message about rebranding of petrol stations on GAP and aborting visit if so. Anyone know what that means? I have one of those 'petrol' visit planned that is quite out of the way and I don't want to get there and then not be able to do it (and not get paid either). Do they mean you might get to the site and find its got signs up for y station rather than an x one as per the brief? Or am I missing something here?

That how I read the message if they only want you to assess the green petrol rather than any other petrol station. If it has changed hands then do not bother.