GFK?

Has anyone heard of (or worked with) GFK? I did not see their name on list of shopping companies. I tried looking for a previous discussion about them (using the Search tool) and I did not find anything that way either.

Any comments would be helpful.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2012 03:49AM by sojo917.
I have worked and still work with GFK. They are a great company and will have you do a background check and a UA to do most of their shops. Their shops are mostly audits that take 2 days split into 5 hours each. They do pay around 130 to 190 to complete those shops.
What is a UA? They offer quite a few jobs which do not require a background check and are consistently low-paying. Those jobs are easy and the reports would be if they would make improvements to their system.

Actually the fees for the audit vary by location and have been reduced in many. Usually it is the $110 to $130 range unless you are getting a rare bonus. For that they expect 9 to 12 hours on-site and since promised improvements to their website have gone by the wayside reports take 2 plus hours. It is also not possible to spread that out since reports will time out after as little as 20 minutes and then require the auditor to go back page by page in a report that is hundreds of pages long.

Contact is also rather hit and miss. On occasion I was actually able to reach someone in a timely manner, but more often than not it would be several days before I could reach anyone by phone or e-mail. However, they were fairly consistent with payment terms with very few errors.

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You need to remove the name of the client from your post. It's against forum guidelines and your IC agreement. I don't know if they monitor this board so much, but they do monitor other forums.

Actually in my post it said you must have had a job with bonus which you have confirmed. They do not generally pay $190. Originally the pay was $130 and after 3 years it was adjusted. For some stores it went up and for many of them it fell.

Are you saying they have fixed the website and it no longer times out if someone leaves their computer for 20 minutes? Does the form now allow you to pick up where you left off without paging through? Have the corrected the tedious and time-consuming spell check of every page?

Obviously if those changes were made it is a good thing. Otherwise, it is one of the worst websites for reporting. Many companies with much shorter reports allow the opportunity to save your work and return to where you left off quickly and easily and/or to skip around a report.

Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
Thank you so much for your comments! ...and I also found more discussions from the "More Discussions About GFK Mystery Shopping" link.

This forum is great. It is so wonderful to be able to share information and experiences. I don't know what I have been doing without it for the past 2 years.
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