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

newmoneysaver_2

jakita wrote: »

Hi, just a quick question, I'd like to get the opportunity to choose a few more jobs as they seem to be pretty thin on the ground - is it worth uploading my picture to R.E, will it make any difference?

I have my picture loaded onto RE but I don't think it makes any difference to the jobs I get offered.

newmoneysaver_2

kingkongkirk wrote: »

What a wonderful informative thread. Best i've ever seen on any subject anywhere. :money: Spent ages looking at it last night and thought i'd better join.

How does the petrol station, mystery shopping work? And which companies are the best ones to find these kind of jobs?

Is it you fill the car right up with petrol, (no matter what the total) and they dont pay you a fee? or do you fill it up a fiver' worth and then they give you a fee.?
Any tips will be thoroughly appreciated.

With the petrol jobs you will have to put in X amount of fuel (as given in the briefing notes.) Some jobs will pays for that X amount of petrol, some will only pay Y amount, which is lower. There is also no fee with these jobs, just the reimbursement.

MrPayless

My son is an experienced Mystery Shopper - he's been doing it for years.

His company have refused to pay him for a meal (£40) at some american food chain.

The service they received was awful and he conveyed this in his report. He was then told that because his wife ordered food but asked the restuarant to omit certain ingredients, the assignment was invalid even though it didnt say you couldnt do this in the brief. He is appealling on the basis that the brief said order a meal for 2 - it didnt say you cannot say "can I have a pizza without mushrooms etc" or something similar.

He feels that because the report he gave was negative and the restaurant have thrown their toys out of their pram - they are using this to withold payement.

Any advice would be appreciated as its £40 he cant afford to lose!

hayley11

I've a quick question about gapbuster, I have an assignment tomorrow and I've downloaded the form but all the words cross over each other and I can't read it properly

I've opened it with firefox, internet explorer, adobe pdf, word, nothing works! I'm so sure i've sorted this out before though (i've only had on assignment a while ago and it was cancelled)

Please if anybody could help i'd be so grateful.

Thanks, Hayley

Becles

TractorGirl327 wrote: »

I also quite like doing the Phone shops, especially if I'm doing other jobs in that area on the same day. I've done them so often I know what I'm doing and can get it all done in about 15 mins, £6 for quarter of an hours work isnt that bad.

I don't think of just the time spent in the shop. I would add on the time to make notes after the shop, the travelling time, the time writing up the report and submitting it, and the time it takes to submit the recommendation sheet they give you. Then I would take my expenses off such as petrol, parking fees and printing costs. It's not as attractive a job when I look at it like that.

We all think differently though, and you probably think I'm really anal now for thinking all that :rotfl:

josie

MrPayless wrote: »

My son is an experienced Mystery Shopper - he's been doing it for years.

His company have refused to pay him for a meal (£40) at some american food chain.

The service they received was awful and he conveyed this in his report. He was then told that because his wife ordered food but asked the restuarant to omit certain ingredients, the assignment was invalid even though it didnt say you couldnt do this in the brief. He is appealling on the basis that the brief said order a meal for 2 - it didnt say you cannot say "can I have a pizza without mushrooms etc" or something similar.

He feels that because the report he gave was negative and the restaurant have thrown their toys out of their pram - they are using this to withold payement.

Any advice would be appreciated as its £40 he cant afford to lose!

One thing that springs to mind with you mentioning pizza - she didn't order pineapple did she? Because for some strange reason that none of us has fathomed - you're not allowed to order pineapple on it. If she did you definitely won't get paid, because they specifically say no pineapple.

manutd99

hayley11 wrote: »

I've a quick question about gapbuster, I have an assignment tomorrow and I've downloaded the form but all the words cross over each other and I can't read it properly

I've opened it with firefox, internet explorer, adobe pdf, word, nothing works! I'm so sure i've sorted this out before though (i've only had on assignment a while ago and it was cancelled)

Please if anybody could help i'd be so grateful.

Thanks, Hayley

Go to page setup and decrease all borders to zero. So top, bottom, right and left to zero. It then will increase it to the minimum cm needed for each border.

The only problem you will have is the top and bottom - it will probably still overlap but will be much better than before as you right and left should be ok. If you think top and bottom is overlapping too much or doesnt look right - increase your top (cm) and bottom (cm) and check on print preview and keep on doing until it suits you. It wont be 100% perfect but you will still be able to read most of it.

bear1

hi, could someone tell me the address to get into the shopper sign in page for Gapbuster.
Thanks

tigergold

bear1 wrote: »

hi, could someone tell me the address to get into the shopper sign in page for Gapbuster.
Thanks

https://www.xec.gapbuster.com/Login.aspx?culture=en-us
:money:

tigergold

newmoneysaver wrote: »

With the petrol jobs you will have to put in X amount of fuel (as given in the briefing notes.) Some jobs will pays for that X amount of petrol, some will only pay Y amount, which is lower. There is also no fee with these jobs, just the reimbursement.

There are about 50 petrol jobs on gap, reimbursement only (no fee)