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

DevilsAdvocate1

mimi1234 wrote: »

If you want to spend God knows how long in a European furniture shop or do a king sized report for a loan shark shop and then get paid a pittance, you go ahead and enjoy. To each their own eh?

If you think GFK are best payers, you obviously don't know of many other mystery shopping companies.

Anyhow.....how is everyone? Anyone else had a killer September? I've just had non stop calls from agencies offering me more and more. Last September was just like this and all. Hope everyone else has been making a killing.

I've had a great September but October is looking very bleak. Hope I get offered some more soon. Wish I could get in with some more video mystery shopping companies.

Big_Graeme

DevilsAdvocate1 wrote: »

I've had a great September but October is looking very bleak. Hope I get offered some more soon. Wish I could get in with some more video mystery shopping companies.

You mean you haven't got your allocation of 20 phone shops for TNS?

JohnnyG

mimi1234 wrote: »

Anyone else had a killer September? I've just had non stop calls from agencies offering me more and more. Last September was just like this and all. Hope everyone else has been making a killing.

September has been my best month so far, hit my target after 10 days but, as DevilsAdvocate1 says, my October is also looking a bit bleak at the mo .

Tolteca87

Do you have a number of jobs target or a money one?

JohnnyG

Tolteca87 wrote: »

Do you have a number of jobs target or a money one?

I have a money target.

DevilsAdvocate1

Tolteca87 wrote: »

Do you have a number of jobs target or a money one?

I have a money target.

ms_night_ryder

September has been great, deffo better than last year, October so looks o.k will halfway to my target with what I have so far.

Let's hope the Christmas merch jobs kick in soon!

Wizzbang

mimi1234 wrote: »

If you want to spend God knows how long in a European furniture shop or do a king sized report for a loan shark shop and then get paid a pittance, you go ahead and enjoy. To each their own eh?

If you think GFK are best payers, you obviously don't know of many other mystery shopping companies.

Anyhow.....how is everyone? Anyone else had a killer September? I've just had non stop calls from agencies offering me more and more. Last September was just like this and all. Hope everyone else has been making a killing.

I'm signed up with all the players in the field. I don't think that most of them pay well because you quite often have to buy stuff out of the fee, or the item you buy is your 'pay'.

Still, I've never seen a Euro furniture shop or a loan shark shop on GFK. I obviously live in a better area for work. They pay more than ESA for bank jobs and auditing. You won't catch me doing IMS jobs that pay half their fees for the same thing. I'd also rather do a simple bank or PO job for GFK and be in and out in 10 mins max, than spend 30-60 mins doing a phone shop for certain other MSCs.

It must be all about the work. With GFK I can also sit at home and send an email, taking all of 2 minutes and get paid more than half of what most other MSCs pay for a job where I'd have to leave the house and have mileage to take out of that too! You've obviously been taking the wrong jobs. I always scrutinise the brief first with any company, to see if it's worth my while. I have another professional jobs, so I charge for my time at the same rate and if it doesn't stack up, I don't take the work.

Chomeur

MysteryMe wrote: »

Shame about the TNS client going. Not interested in cars so doubt I'll be doing much for them in future.

Was this the supermarket chain? I guess so since I haven't seen any visits for it since June.

Also I'm a bit sick of getting emails daily from TNS for mobile phone stores - thinking of terminating my involvement with them.

PinkWing

Has anyone had issues with RA crashing on their iPad (or any other device)? It keeps happening to me, but only on that website....:/