Phew! I was waiting for someone to shame you for leaving a 12% tip lol. Sounds like a great deal.
@BarefootBliss wrote:
oops typo - we each paid $18
you can still see my point lol
@ShopperGirly wrote:
FYI- There is a note at the top of the guidelines stating that SNAP/EBT cannot be used for payment. The shop will be invaild.
Not only has that always been the policy for the same MSC's Five Guys shops, but they make the phone rep state it verbally whenever a scheduler calls and assigns one.
All of these new Sonic shops near me got taken at no fee. To each their own. I
@thunderdeacon wrote:
I have been having this issue, and it has been happening to me since the most recent update that I had for my Samsung device. I'm also having occasional issues uploading photos on shop metrics. In that case, it doesn't upload the photo and it logs me out of my report.
And I'm on an iPhone, so it doesn't seem like this has anything to do with the operating system.
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For the past six months or so I've had an ongoing issue uploading photos in Sassie from my phone. It starts to upload and then says the photo is 100% uploaded, but then instead of going back to the survey nothing happens. This will happen across multiple MSC Sassie sites and then a few hours later resolve itself, but it happens pretty often. This has been discussed here before but I can't figure
Someone above claims they looked at people's receipts and saw an $11,000 balance.
I can't speak to what someone else saw, but some context: The average monthly benefits are $190. I think we all know exactly how far that goes these days.
I don't generally post this reminder in General Chat because of the "anything goes" nature of the conversation, but if someone is not making a positive contribution you can always click on their user name and then click "toggle user visibility" which blocks their posts from showing up.
Although many of the other shops this MSC does get posted towards the end of the month, I've never figured out the pattern for BJs. They seem to just pop up from time to time. Usually it's a bar shop or a dining room shop but not both.
Two comments:
1. Many restaurants and other small businesses are responding to the cutoff with fundraisers. One local restaurant group which I shop just about every month is donation a portion of gift card sales to a local food recovery program. I plan on picking one up.
2. It was heartening to see that the some of the plaintiffs in one of the court cases ordering the benefits to be restore
I managed to score two this month -- yay! But I've noticed at least in my area they're no longer serving their delicious chocolate chip cookies which were baked fresh in the store. Now it's a wrapped cookie from an outside provider. They still have the baklava, cheesecake, etc
Newsome is going to get a massive boost out of Prop 50 which will pass overwhelmingly. That being said, the Democratic nominee is going to be the one that Southern Black women vote for in the primary, as has been the case for the past few cycles, regardless of whatever other conspiracy theories may claim when pointing to the eventual nominee.
It is interesting to think that Newsome, Whitmer,
Sometimes there is a large sticker on the glass which blocks some of the slicer or prep area view. I just take the best photo I can and then mention the sticker in the "problem disclosure" section of the report. I haven't had any issues with those shops being approved.
For years I was signed up but did no shops because none of them seemed worthwhile. This year they've picked up a number of really great clients in my area. One has the highest reimbursement I've ever seen for the particular industry, one has a good fee, and two others are just solid locally owned businesses which I enjoy shopping. And there are still also lots of shops which I would never want to
When I read that sentence I thought you were saying I was brave for staying at an Extended Stay America! Haha!
@big_sky_thunder wrote:
You are brave in my book.
Although these shops have been up all year I haven't seen any reports about them. I did one last month as I needed a place to stay while on a trip where I was spending very little time in the room and would not have been able to do a full-service hotel shop with meals (not that there were any in the city I was visiting). They are with the Canadian MSC that used to have a few airline clients.
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Since there is very little on here about this MSC I thought I'd post about my first time shopping for them. They have a client which is an Asian eatery which I believe originated in the UK and is generally found in large and tourist-friendly urban areas. They used to be shopped by the UK-based HGEM/MysteryDining.net. (As an aside, I was recently visiting an area in the UK where HGEM has shops and
CG is back -- now the scenario is to go to the bar or make a lounge reservation and get some burgers and wine with a $75 reimbursement. I'm not personally interested but 80% of these around here have been snatched up so clearly plenty of folks would like to do this shop.
I've done them for two different MSCs in the past 30 days: Their longstanding MSC and the Five Guys MSC. Both were focused around timings, not promotional banners. In general they seem to rotate shopping locations so it might be a while before your local IHOP comes up.
Thank you Paniconmon! I got into mystery shopping after I found this forum and I'm grateful for the advice I've gotten about how to shop and what pitfalls to avoid. Many of the users who were active then are no longer on the forum, so I'm happy if I can now make my own positive contribution. I think the vast majority of users are happy to share what they've learned without veering into political
Sorry to hear that Purplepugs. Coyle does not have weekend shopper support. Did the guidelines allow you to just order a drink at the crowded bar and stand with it? That's what I would have done. In my experience any bar integrity observation except for food service can be made while standing at a bar, and I've managed to also do the food service part when a couch or ledge made it possible or I w
I applaud this statement. I would applaud a lot louder (and consider becoming a member) if the MSPA issued a similar statement about Elite CSX or other non-paying MSCs. We always hear that "the MSPA can't do anything about unethical companies if the MSC isn't a member," but now we see that they have no qualms about lashing out at a non-member shopper.
The first round of GP shops was "apply and be assigned" but the second round was the usual self-assign for this MSC.
I agree about the steak photo advice. One photo per steak should be fine as soon and take it as soon as you can, but if you have to cut it that's OK. I did explain to the server that I wanted to take a photo of the bottles of wine so I could remember what I tried. Based on thei
How is the survey/fee/reimbursement looking Tiffany? I never minded the old multiple timings from the old MSC but it was the subject of many complaints on here.
I haven't seen them here yet. I hope it is the whole chain and not a regional franchisee as it would be fun to do it again and the MSC is known for especially easy survey forms.