The mystery shopping thread - part 4

cookinmummy

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

I have a question about TNS and wonder if anyone can help? I already do online surveys for them and earn Nectar points as a reward. I'm a bit worried about signing up with them for Mystery Shopping because I have this nagging feeling that when they ask (at the start of these online surveys) if you are employed in insurance, marketing etc etc etc, I have a feeling one of the jobs might be Mystery Shopper. Which would then exclude me from taking the survey, I think. Does anyone know?

I do their surveys and I always check 'none of these' to the professions listed.

Scaredy_Cat_3

But surely they would know if you were also registered with them for MS assignments?

moi

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

Becles, thanks! I'm not registered with Storecheckers - never heard of them. I'm a bit wary of giving my details to just anyone so I only registered with the companies listed in the opening post of this thread. Would you recommend Storecheckers, then?

have a read a few pages back: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=12137851#post12137851

cookinmummy

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

But surely they would know if you were also registered with them for MS assignments?

TNS have lots of panels, surveys, and the ms-ing sites. I am on a couple of panels, the surveys and the ms-ing and have never had any probs. I think they each have their own databases.

Scaredy_Cat_3

Thanks for the info, I'll try to register with Store Checkers. That's where I was going wrong - I was searching for SHOP Checkers!!! So, since I found this other one by accident, does anyone know if Shopncheck is ok?

Hollypear

Oh dear one of those days for me. You all know what I am like now. Everything happens to moi.

1st up did a credit card thingy in a catalogue shop and no one was there. Got home now to find it should have been 1 - 4 pm. Damn.

Then did 3 banks...the one where you have to say this or that happened so they remember you. There am I jumping out of my car and the heavens opened yet there was a completely blue sky. So I rush into this bank, glasses all running with rain and tripped on the carpet. They came and helped me ( yes I think they will remember me) and out of my mouth as usual comes gobldegook. "Oh blimey it is raining cats and buckets" My tongue just got mixed up with cats and dogs and raining buckets.

Then did the train ticket job. £102 for a ticket from Glasgow to Leicester return. Now our train station man knows me by now doing these and he is like "Oh darling you cant go running about in England now they all have guns down there. Make sure you take a personal alarm and have your mobile ready with 999 all ready to dial" "And don't you be talking to any strangers on that train and don't take lifts from anyone"

Now am a nervous wreck trying to get hold of the MS company to make sure they will pay up for the ticket. It is a lot of money to lay out. But yer man at the station he really made my day. He had me in stitches.

Timmne

Leicester's a very nice place I'll have you know!

ellie9ellie

OK - here we go. I've just done two pharmacy jobs. Now tell me if I am way off key here but the tablets that I was recommended to buy as part of this job were £3.00 over the reimbursement fee. Now I know I live in Wales and the prescriptions are free but I was doing two of these jobs today and if I had gone for the ones I was originally offered I would have been £6.00 out of pocket. Who in this financial climate buys something they don't want - I thought we were were supposed to be saving money!! In the end I made my excuses and bought another box that was cheaper. And to top it off the second one I went to the Pharmacist was on lunch and I had to go and sit in the car for 30mins waiting for her to come back!! Anyone else doing these jobs?!

princess_leia_3

ellie9ellie wrote: »

OK - here we go. I've just done two pharmacy jobs. Now tell me if I am way off key here but the tablets that I was recommended to buy as part of this job were £3.00 over the reimbursement fee. Now I know I live in Wales and the prescriptions are free but I was doing two of these jobs today and if I had gone for the ones I was originally offered I would have been £6.00 out of pocket. Who in this financial climate buys something they don't want - I thought we were were supposed to be saving money!! In the end I made my excuses and bought another box that was cheaper. And to top it off the second one I went to the Pharmacist was on lunch and I had to go and sit in the car for 30mins waiting for her to come back!! Anyone else doing these jobs?!

Not me - I know what the pharmacists are like round here, either lovely but busy/lunch or a complete ****! As for the costs, I didn't realise they would be so dear, I would have done the same and just said I think I will go for the cheapest thanks! Just hope RE think thats OK too :rolleyes:

SJW

What are the audits like for Assossia. Are they worth doing for the fee?
Is it a time consuming job??