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July 26, 2006 06:47PM
I recently was offered an assignment to visit a gravestone maker... has anyone else been offered such strange assignments? How did you deal with them?
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July 26, 2006 06:54PM
I'm new to mystery shopping and haven't gotten any such offers.

What did the gravestone maker want you to do?????
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July 26, 2006 07:04PM
Well, it was the usual rigamarole -- check out the store and customer service. But the catch was, I had to pretend that my husband had recently died!
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July 29, 2006 06:19AM
I just hate it when the scenario wants you to outright lie. They could be more creative or let us be. I wouldn't have taken that job unless the money was good. That's one thing about this, we don't have to take jobs.
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July 29, 2006 08:51AM
Hi Marie,
I live in the St. Louis area, & I have never been ask to go to a grave site, but the one job that I did do was to a Senior Villa & I also had to pretend that I was looking into the Villa's as a place to live & wanted to look the facility over & verify how clean it was, how polite the staff was, & the lady that I talk to was so nice that I really felt guilty, as she even had me come at a time when they were having lunch & she was intorducing me to all of these older ladies & men, (like I'm a kid (i'm 69) so I had all of these nice old ladies & men saying how they were looking forward to me becoming a resident Y living there. It was a very beautiful place & I would live there in a heartbeat is I could afford. But that is impossible.
Jane
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July 29, 2006 03:26PM
No I have never heard of that before, must have sounded scary. But if you need some good contacts just let me know oacia5804@yahoo.com
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July 31, 2006 04:22PM
It was a bit odd -- so I turned it down. I'm a newlywed so I didn't think I'd be convincing in shopping for a gravestone for my new husband and it just seemed like plain old bad luck!
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September 04, 2006 07:21AM
did you really have to use your husband it would have been better if you could have used someone who had actually died like look up a name in the obit and pretend to be related or something. the whole scenario thing is about play acting.
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September 25, 2006 03:09AM
Wow never experienced that one. I know exactly what you mean about just not fitting the scenario. Sometimes lying will just trip you up and then ya look like a fool. Better to take a job that you can relate to in your life rather than making up lies I think some people can see right through it. If they would just allow us to make up a scenario fitting I think it would be a better shop. KWIM.
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