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Mystery Shopping Thread 25 *PLEASE READ THE OP FIRST**PLEASE NO CLIENT NAMES OR FEES

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  • skivenov
    skivenov Posts: 2,204 Forumite
    MysteryMe wrote: »
    I live in SE England and ESA are kindly emailing details of phone shops in Perth and Aberdeen....

    Ask them if they're paying mileage :D
    Yes it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
    Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?
  • chinora
    chinora Posts: 63 Forumite
    weeg wrote: »
    Anyhoo - have any of you done the car buying jobs? Worth it or a pain in the bahooky?
    I did one and it was easy as the only thing I would say is if your considering selling to them they give u a quote based on the price ur car is valued at on the day u go online which is then valid 4 seven days but if u don't sell the price can change.
  • scaredofdebt
    scaredofdebt Posts: 1,663 Forumite
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    chinora wrote: »
    I did one and it was easy as the only thing I would say is if your considering selling to them they give u a quote based on the price ur car is valued at on the day u go online which is then valid 4 seven days but if u don't sell the price can change.

    Read the brief!

    I've done a few for different companies and the briefs vary a lot. Some are fairly simple, others a complete pain.

    I tend to avoid the ones that require two visits, the ones where you go once are worth it. I did one recently for a well known prestige brand and the salesman let me sit in an £80k car wishing I had the money to buy one!

    :rotfl:
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  • weeg
    weeg Posts: 1,078 Forumite
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    Read the brief!

    I've done a few for different companies and the briefs vary a lot. Some are fairly simple, others a complete pain.

    I tend to avoid the ones that require two visits, the ones where you go once are worth it. I did one recently for a well known prestige brand and the salesman let me sit in an £80k car wishing I had the money to buy one!

    :rotfl:

    Different type of job. There's one on MFers at the moment where they offer to buy your car (any car) - the co with the irritating tv ads. That's what we're talking about.

    I'll book the one nearest me. Thanks for the help, guys.
  • kst101
    kst101 Posts: 812 Forumite
    Read the brief!

    I've done a few for different companies and the briefs vary a lot. Some are fairly simple, others a complete pain.

    I tend to avoid the ones that require two visits, the ones where you go once are worth it. I did one recently for a well known prestige brand and the salesman let me sit in an £80k car wishing I had the money to buy one!

    :rotfl:

    I did one where I got to drive a very nice car recently -made my boyfriend suitably jealous :rotfl:
  • weeg wrote: »
    Different type of job. There's one on MFers at the moment where they offer to buy your car (any car) - the co with the irritating tv ads. That's what we're talking about.

    I'll book the one nearest me. Thanks for the help, guys.

    I did one last month thought the fee was good for MF. Didn't take long to do the visit and complete the questionnaire.

    The visit wasn't what I was expecting the ads give the impression your going to a nice office it was shocking the place I went to.
  • sukitnsee
    sukitnsee Posts: 91 Forumite
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    I did one last month thought the fee was good for MF. Didn't take long to do the visit and complete the questionnaire.

    The visit wasn't what I was expecting the ads give the impression your going to a nice office it was shocking the place I went to.

    I too have been to one with my brother but not on a visit and the place I went was also pretty shocking. I did not realise such run down establishments still existed to be honest although I imagine that some are more pleasant.
  • Wizzbang
    Wizzbang Posts: 4,716 Forumite
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    I just tried to pick up an outdoor shop with MF. I read the brief very carefully, several times, but could not pass the accreditation. I know I wasn't inputting anything wrong. After several attempts, it just screened me out and now it's disappeared from my jobs list. Rather annoying, I'm no idiot and I genuinely don't know what I was putting wrong each time. Before anyone asks, yes I read the questions very carefully. That's the first time it's happened. Is it worth contacting the coordinator via another similar assignment?
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  • MysteryMe
    MysteryMe Posts: 3,467 Forumite
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    Yeah, contact them they are usually pretty helpful.
  • Big_Graeme
    Big_Graeme Posts: 3,220 Forumite
    Wizzbang wrote: »
    That's the first time it's happened. Is it worth contacting the coordinator via another similar assignment?

    No, I'd give them a call in the morning, they can (and do) take ages to answer. I've managed to get a few allocated when the tests have either been wrong or a question that had so many double negatives it was hard to make out the right answer.
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