Maximising income - Mystery Shopping? Surveys? (Part Three)

wensie

jobbingmusician wrote: »

Ooooooo - thanks for the tip (which of course TNS have never told me).

I've lost count of the number of times I've asked them when they are going to make their site Firefox friendly.....:mad:

It only works for me if I am already in the pay claim. The page before doesn't work. :rolleyes:

josie

Has anyone done jobs for Amber Arch before? I've just done my first one for a shoe shop and you have to post the shoes back to them. They ask you to complete and invoice for your expenses, but can I claim the postage for posting the shoes?

I reckon this will be about a couple of quid, at least. Could be usual story of paying to park, which I had to, as at an outlet store, so nowhere else to park, and driving about 12 miles round trip and all for £10, so probably making a fiver in the end. I'd rather keep the shoes, as they're quite nice!

Hollypear

josie wrote: »

Has anyone done jobs for Amber Arch before? I've just done my first one for a shoe shop and you have to post the shoes back to them. They ask you to complete and invoice for your expenses, but can I claim the postage for posting the shoes?

I reckon this will be about a couple of quid, at least. Could be usual story of paying to park, which I had to, as at an outlet store, so nowhere else to park, and driving about 12 miles round trip and all for £10, so probably making a fiver in the end. I'd rather keep the shoes, as they're quite nice!

Josie did it say in the briefing notes the fee included the postage. You would think in the fee they would have said ( including postage) so I reckon they should pay the postage. Or sent you a freepost address.Maybe you could ring them and ask.

josie

Hollypear wrote: »

Josie did it say in the briefing notes the fee included the postage. You would think in the fee they would have said ( including postage) so I reckon they should pay the postage. Or sent you a freepost address.Maybe you could ring them and ask.

The briefing notes are a bit strange, just a couple of lines about it's important to notice how many lights are out and what the SA's were wearing. It doesn't mention postage - have emailed my report and asked them, so will wait and see.

Thanks hollypear.

josie

Is it just me or do Gap only post cr*ppy petrol jobs on their site and keep the good ones in busy places, back for incentives for people who do nasty fast food places?

Can't remember the last time I had a petrol one on the motorway or anything - all these ones look in the middle of nowhere. Either that or they were posted much earlier today and a lot of them have gone? They were showing 80 jobs available at 9pm?

wensie

Holly, please be careful with naming clients and fees. Confidentiality agreements and such. You might want to edit the chicken's place name and the fee for the pub visit.

josie

Hollypear wrote: »

Josie I have only just been accepted by Gap. Still trying to figure it out. All these MS sites are totally different. Do you have to do every training thing on it as say Codexa are not in Scotland. How do you do a search as it refers to emailing assignments to you so can you just search and grab one. And for each category say KFC do you have to pick the 10 areas for each category. Hope that makes sense...my brain is worn out with the massive RE report.

I don't know where I'd be without you lot on this forum. You are all treasures.:beer:

Just do the training on the places you want to shop. I know I don't want to visit burger places, so haven't done the training on them. I tend to search by client and then look for places that I know are local, but yes, the max is 10 at a time per client. So, yes, I think you're doing it right.

Someone did post a while ago about how to add all the places you would shop into the web address to get around the max of ten, which I did, but then there are still the inconsistent way they have of naming places - like High St, instead of Xtown or whatever, so there's a potential of missing them, doing it that way.

Gap rarely email you assignments and when they do, they are for the ones they can't shift, so don't rely on their emails as you may do for firms like GfK.

Bizarrely, they email me every other month with 2 locations of convenience stores, which never show up when I search for that convenience store, so not sure how/why that happens

Hollypear

wensie wrote: »

Holly, please be careful with naming clients and fees. Confidentiality agreements and such. You might want to edit the chicken's place name and the fee for the pub visit.

Sorry Wensie I wasn't thinking straight. I couldn't get it to delete the fee amount so just deleted the post. Thanks I appreciate that. Was stupid of me.

Hollypear

josie wrote: »

Just do the training on the places you want to shop. I know I don't want to visit burger places, so haven't done the training on them. I tend to search by client and then look for places that I know are local, but yes, the max is 10 at a time per client. So, yes, I think you're doing it right.

Someone did post a while ago about how to add all the places you would shop into the web address to get around the max of ten, which I did, but then there are still the inconsistent way they have of naming places - like High St, instead of Xtown or whatever, so there's a potential of missing them, doing it that way.

Gap rarely email you assignments and when they do, they are for the ones they can't shift, so don't rely on their emails as you may do for firms like GfK.

Bizarrely, they email me every other month with 2 locations of convenience stores, which never show up when I search for that convenience store, so not sure how/why that happens

I thought the places list was hilarious. I am reading it thinking every town in Britain has a high street. Yet there is a big town near me called Cumbernauld and another Paisley yet they don't come up on the list.

One of the funniest I ever saw came up on GfK. You know how they put on your available list places in your area. One came up on mine for Stornoway. Now its about a 100 mile drive then 4 hours on a ferry.!!!:rotfl:Plus it is only a little island where everyone know everyone else so don't know how they could get a MS'er there.
BTW There was an article in the paper last week saying Scotland are pioneering MS'ing in Care homes. ???Do I pap my elderly mum in one for a week and see how they treat her. Strange one that.Can't imagine how they are going to operate that. It's for that daft Scottish parliament. Another of their crazy ideas.

CSandL

josie wrote: »

Bizarrely, they email me every other month with 2 locations of convenience stores, which never show up when I search for that convenience store, so not sure how/why that happens

LOL, me too, Josie :rotfl: :rotfl: