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

cupboardie

yes some of these code words are very cryptic! It's the green supermarket chain that slaps their bums in their adverts - "that's xxxx price!!!"

Big_Graeme

Cybi-Ping wrote: »

Apparently there's a Scottish brief and a different English brief

There are two clients, one with venues both north and south of the boarder plus a client wholly based in Scotland, the profiles are completely different for each of the three sectors.

Larac

Wizzbang wrote: »

I still haven't worked out what anyone's on about with a 'slapper assignment!'

You weren't the only one, it was only when I eventually picked one up, that the penny clicked. I tend to pre-record TV and FF over the adverts...

Wizzbang

I completed a toy store visit for RA recently. They've just paid me half of the fee I was expecting. This was a purchase and return scenario and they have always been the same fee which was reasonable. I've logged into their website, but they've dropped the fee on there too! I am certain it wasn't that low when I signed up for this visit. Can anyone help? This is certainly the last work I'm ever doing for them- I mean this fee is worse than a pittance!!!!! I am disgusted.

Gamereat

Well this is going to be interesting. 18 Year old student trying to get a mortgage without having any payslips from anyone but MS company's which I can't show. How the hell is this going to work.

Larac

Gamereat wrote: »

Well this is going to be interesting. 18 Year old student trying to get a mortgage without having any payslips from anyone but MS company's which I can't show. How the hell is this going to work.

Not this is my business - but should you pick up this assignment? Normally the banks/insurance assignments have quite strict criteria and usually you have to be earning above X and not a student and be credit checked. If you don't match the criteria in the brief and do the assignment there is a risk you won't get paid.

Gamereat

Larac wrote: »

Not this is my business - but should you pick up this assignment? Normally the banks/insurance assignments have quite strict criteria and usually you have to be earning above X and not a student and be credit checked. If you don't match the criteria in the brief and do the assignment there is a risk you won't get paid.

I said that when they phoned me asked about and told me just to say I got a big inheritance.

Big_Graeme

Gamereat wrote: »

I said that when they phoned me asked about and told me just to say I got a big inheritance.

What they mean is you are cheap and all the other shoppers they have spoken to wouldn't touch this with a barge pole for the fee offered. Sorry had to be said.

MysteryMe

Depends on how detailed the scenario is going to be but anything other than a brief overview and you will come unstuck IMO.


It's not just a case of slapping down a sizable deposit due to an inheritance. You still need to be able to have credible income to show that you can afford the monthly mortgage repayments.


If it was an investment scenario then fair enough but what they have told you is not going to get over the monthly repayment issue and if your income from the inheritance is hundreds a pounds a month and enough to cover a monthly mortgage then why wouldn't you be buying outright?


I would put your concerns in writing and get them to offer up their solution in writing so that if it goes tits up it is down to them and not you.

MysteryMe

Big_Graeme wrote: »

What they mean is you are cheap and all the other shoppers they have spoken to wouldn't touch this with a barge pole for the fee offered. Sorry had to be said.

Some of the financial projects offer a very good fee. Depends who the MSC is, ESA and you are probably right. Elsewhere possibly not.