Mystery shopping thread 26 *please read the op first**please no client names or fees

missymouse

Help I've stuffed up. Thought I could go to the venue tonight but the visit was a daytime one. I've emailed but no one available to speak to to explain.

If I go tonight I assume they won't pay me, I can go tomorrow.

Tolteca87

GFK did pay today. MF money showing in the bank for tomorrow.

MysteryMe

missymouse wrote: »

Help I've stuffed up. Thought I could go to the venue tonight but the visit was a daytime one. I've emailed but no one available to speak to to explain.

If I go tonight I assume they won't pay me, I can go tomorrow.

Try and speak to someone tomorrow and hopefully it can be reassigned. Don't bother doing it tonight if it is outside the time range.

missymouse

I have sent an email and will ring tomorrow. Was looking forward to it.

MysteryMe

If it's an MF job you should be able to change the visit date yourself.

Miss_Terry_Shopper

Just for the record, and for the sake of balance.....

I have done scores of assignments from AA and have found them to be one of the better companies. They pay promptly, and the staff are helpful.

Some of the comments posted on here sound like sour grapes and, in the light of my own experience, I will take them with a pinch of salt.

I also have concerns that some people are happy to accept assignments when they are clearly not happy with the way the brief has been written. As independent contractors, the onus is on us to reject assignments that we are not happy with.

Why take the jobs on if the brief is unrealistic?

ISWMLE

Miss_Terry_Shopper wrote: »

Just for the record, and for the sake of balance.....

I have done scores of assignments from AA and have found them to be one of the better companies. They pay promptly, and the staff are helpful.

Some of the comments posted on here sound like sour grapes and, in the light of my own experience, I will take them with a pinch of salt.

I also have concerns that some people are happy to accept assignments when they are clearly not happy with the way the brief has been written. As independent contractors, the onus is on us to reject assignments that we are not happy with.

Why take the jobs on if the brief is unrealistic?

There is a lot wrong with your post, and I will explain why that is.

1) I too had done scores of assignments for this company and thought they were one of the better companies and I got paid promptly too for the work I did and had no rejections for spurious reasons I had not identified myself. But I understand that there are many who have. Are you saying they are not being honest?

2) Some of the comments on here are simply poster expressing their valid views regarding their experiences of this company. Valid because they can't all be liars or wrong in what they say happened to them. As for sour grapes. This is an incorrect application of the term. No one, even those who have suffered at the hands of this company, has ever resented those who have done OK with them. We are simply expressing that we have not at some time or another. In my case, very recently, after years of good relations with them.
Perhaps your 'pinch of salt' will turn sour too when this company shafts you. After all, if it happened to me - one of their premier video shoppers - it can happen to just about anyone, including you.

As for the brief. I am tired of shoppers throwing back in our faces: you don't have to accept the job....blah, blah...This is a huge red herring. If all companies wrote inadequate briefs that can't be followed or are unrealistic then the entire industry would sink without trace. What I said, in respect of my experiences, is that the briefs - with hindsight of that experience -may well have been deliberately constructed to elicit failure so that shoppers information could still be usable whilst the company refused to pay us. This is not the same as a badly composed brief that can be discussed and overcome - something I did many times with this company, which I now believe prompted their treatment of me.

I do wish you would read posts carefully.

Big_Graeme

ISWMLE wrote: »

There is a lot wrong with your post, and I will explain why that is.

Whoa, every shopper has different experiences with each company, none are wrong, just different.

ISWMLE wrote: »

As for the brief. I am tired of shoppers throwing back in our faces: you don't have to accept the job....blah, blah...This is a huge red herring.

No, really its not. No one forces you to do any job, we all make judgement calls on the briefs and fees and make our minds up if they are ones we can do for the price. We are not here to educate MSC's, many of whom have the brief dictated to them by the client and go against recommendations, just don't work for that company.

There is plenty of information here about different companies and people are always more than willing to offer an opinion but it is down to the self employed shopper if they take the work or not.

ISWMLE wrote: »

I do wish you would read posts carefully.

Ah nice attitude, I'm right, you are wrong, your posting style reminds me of someone...

Babycakes

Can anyone recommend a company that needs people to do Fast Food Chicken or Posh Chicken assignments and home-delivery pizza?

Gyp no longer seems to do these.

mrbanjo

Babycakes wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a company that needs people to do Fast Food Chicken or Posh Chicken assignments and home-delivery pizza?

Gyp no longer seems to do these.

Frontline Focus do nice pizzas