The mystery shopping thread - part 4

ellie9ellie

cookinmummy wrote: »

Did everyone get the gap e-mail about the site being down this weekend?

I have three to do on Saturday so I'm away to print them off now - before the rush tomorrow evening. :cool:

I've got one on Saturday and one on Sunday - guess what I'll be doing after 8pm on Saturday night!! Got a burger job tomorrow as well. If it's anything like the last one I must say I'm looking forward to it - as soon as I asked for a receipt the staff couldn't do enough for me and kept asking me if I was OK or if I needed anything. Are you allowed to mention pushy staff??!! What does everyone else do at burger jobs if they think they've been sussed? I even did as someone else mentioned and took a sudouku book and my Barclaycard bill to look at and one lady still kept coming up to me with leaflets, asking how my burger was etc. I just kept smiling and saying thank you!!

catwoman150

Do OC just do telephone surveys or do they do lots of mystery shops as well?

southernbelle

princess_leia wrote: »

Some of the calls can be done in the evening and alot of jobs are only available sat & sun so you should get a few!

That's good, thanks!:money:

Hope I get some!

eileen_forward

Hi I am new to MS. I am with GFK and retail eyes they are the only two companies that I know about. retail eyes don't seem to have much work here in the east can anyone reccommend any other companies? Many thanks

cookinmummy

eileen_forward wrote: »

Hi I am new to MS. I am with GFK and retail eyes they are the only two companies that I know about. retail eyes don't seem to have much work here in the east can anyone reccommend any other companies? Many thanks

Hi Eileen,

Welcome to the forum. If you look at timmne's great sticky post (the first post of this thread) there is a list of ms companys - if you just click on the name it will take you to their site. HTH

ellie9ellie

eileen_forward wrote: »

Hi I am new to MS. I am with GFK and retail eyes they are the only two companies that I know about. retail eyes don't seem to have much work here in the east can anyone reccommend any other companies? Many thanks

Hi and welcome. On page 21 is a list of all the MS companies we use http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=57920. If you want to know who I'm with send me a PM and I'll let you know. Good luck.

eileen_forward

Thanks to you both I will get registered on some other too. I enjoy doing the tasks. I am a bit concerened because so far I have not found any bad service!!

ellie9ellie

eileen_forward wrote: »

Thanks to you both I will get registered on some other too. I enjoy doing the tasks. I am a bit concerened because so far I have not found any bad service!!

Oh believe me - you will - give it time!!!;)

bobthego

I've just submitted my first RE assignment - what a palava!
now hopefully , I'll no longer be a probationer!

Sarah_Joanne

ellie9ellie wrote: »

I've got one on Saturday and one on Sunday - guess what I'll be doing after 8pm on Saturday night!! Got a burger job tomorrow as well. If it's anything like the last one I must say I'm looking forward to it - as soon as I asked for a receipt the staff couldn't do enough for me and kept asking me if I was OK or if I needed anything. Are you allowed to mention pushy staff??!! What does everyone else do at burger jobs if they think they've been sussed? I even did as someone else mentioned and took a sudouku book and my Barclaycard bill to look at and one lady still kept coming up to me with leaflets, asking how my burger was etc. I just kept smiling and saying thank you!!

On my last burger job I almost felt as though I was being harassed by staff, asking me three times if my meal was ok was just overkill. I mentioned this in the report. I said for something that coul dhave made the visit more enjoyable was to be left to eat my dinner in peace. I haven't had a queried and it was a few weeks ago now. Also one of the staff came to the upstairs seating area (where I went to hopefully get away from "the show") then at the top of the stairs bellowed to a colleague to "GET SWEEPING!" I also put this in the report as I felt it was wholly inappropriate to be speaking to each other in this was, made me feel embarrassed and uncomfortable. in truth I knew why she shouted it, it was fo rmy benefit as the MSer to see someone sweeping up, but I thought I would use it to make the point that they really needed to be a bit more subtle!