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

hsa_3

superliss wrote: »

what have they done now? You do know payment will be 'late' again this month.

Surely it would make more sense to officially change the payment date?

I had a very bad payment experience with Bare for my first job for them and it took a lot of chasing and they kept saying they did not have my bank details (untrue). Eventually I got an email asking me to do an urgent job and I said - not until you pay me - and to be fair they did at last do so. But they seem to take a good month to pay generally now we are back on speaking terms.

hsa_3

MysteryMe wrote: »

I think they all pretty much got snapped up straight away.

Yeah - I was at home when the email came in and put in for a postal one - the first ones I applied for came up "that job is already taken" so i refreshed the screen and they were going down faster than you could blink, two minutes later only phone ones were left. I didn't have fast enough fingers to get more than 1. Did anyone?

Sunny_spell

skivenov wrote: »

It's the end of the month, I'm stressed and grumpy, bet half of you lot are too. What three things have boiled your !!!! the most this week in the MSing world?

I'm going with:

People who don't answer emails/phones when you've taken the time to answer their question in full, but still need information from them.
People who can't drive.
Sassie.

Generally this month has been good for me. Sassie can be a pain, and I get annoyed when people cannot park their cars properly.
I take it your bike is still in one piece?

Big_Graeme

skivenov wrote: »

It's the end of the month, I'm stressed and grumpy, bet half of you lot are too. What three things have boiled your !!!! the most this week in the MSing world?

I'm going with:

People who don't answer emails/phones when you've taken the time to answer their question in full, but still need information from them.
People who can't drive.
Sassie.

Allocators who invite applications for jobs three weeks ago, allocate the day before the job goes live and whinge when you say you don't have room in the diary to do them, the first week of the month is busy, book early or lose out.

Allocators why keep badgering you about low fee jobs that are super urgent, but no urgent enough to pay a premium and/or travel costs.

Proof readers who when give the following -

No name badge worn, female, 5'7", early twenties, long brown hair tied up in ponytail and no glasses.

- ask how tall was the member of staff...

MysteryMe

hsa wrote: »

Yeah - I was at home when the email came in and put in for a postal one - the first ones I applied for came up "that job is already taken" so i refreshed the screen and they were going down faster than you could blink, two minutes later only phone ones were left. I didn't have fast enough fingers to get more than 1. Did anyone?

Same thing happened to me, the ones I wanted to do all went so ended up with nowt.

Larac

I see ESA have dumped more questionnaires yesterday into my box on possible future projects. I keep filling these in and never get a response so not sure why I bother. Did anyone get contacted on the Telco providers project?

skivenov

Sunny_spell wrote: »

Generally this month has been good for me. Sassie can be a pain, and I get annoyed when people cannot park their cars properly.
I take it your bike is still in one piece?

It is, mainly because I'm doing long range shops, so I'm not using it. The vans acquired a small crack on the back bumper, but I don't really care about it, theirs looked much, much worse when I'd finished pulling the towbar out of it.

Sunny_spell

skivenov wrote: »

It is, mainly because I'm doing long range shops, so I'm not using it. The vans acquired a small crack on the back bumper, but I don't really care about it, theirs looked much, much worse when I'd finished pulling the towbar out of it.

I bet they won't be driving too fast or too close next time they are on the road!

Holland12

Hello everyone,

I am new to mystery shopping and trying to find my feet in making a profit from this.

Has anyone ever done a nursery job with ESA? I have mostly done retail with RM so far and these look a lot more complex but there are some on my doorstep which is tempting. I was wondering how much of a headache they are likely to be for someone with almost 0 experience.

Thanks for any help you can give .

Holland12

Wow, that newbie alert is interesting.