This is a great site if you like getting paid to eat and shop! It has a whole bunch of names famous for fast foods. You can also use GapBuster worldwide, especially great if you travel or live elsewhere other than the UK!
This GapBuster deal is really a win-win for us. Putting into consideration all the bogus deals on the ‘Net, it’s especially invigorating to come across deals like this. Now if they can get this same setup running on big entertainment establishments like casinos and online poker spots, they could really be giving birth to a new trend.
Who falls under GapBuster for mystery shopping?
- McDonald’s
- PizzaHut
- KFC
- Shell
- BP
- Budgens
- Londis
- Carphone Warehouse
- ELC
- Spar
- PC World
- The Link
- Staples
- Spar
- The UK Postoffice
- Co-op
Ok, so they are not all fast food places, but you do have some of the best fast food places like McDonald’s, KFC & Pizza Hut! And you get paid for all the work you do!
The payment can vary from one task to the other. You are paid a shopper? fee and a fee to cover your purchase.? Here are a couple of examples of how they pay:-
- McDonalds general assignment – ? £3.20 for the meal & £4.00 for the survey
- Early Learning Centre – £5.00 for the product purchased & £5.00 for the survey
They also do premium assignments. This pays even better. An example of this? is that? you can get £20.00 for a McDonald’s premium assignment.
Payment is made by direct debit straight to your bank account. Payment is fortnightly on the 15th & 30th of the month after you complete the survey. It is always great to be paid in under a month for work you do.
Obviously, as with everything, there is a downside. GapBusters have a few too. However they are quite simple and worth sticking by as the benefits are good. These are GapBusters downsides:-
- You need to stick strictly within the guidelines
- They have loads of tests and they keep giving you update tests before you can do any work
- There are rules to follow such as you cannot do a certain place more than 3 times in a month. You must read the the terms on each assignment
- The work can be a bit sporadic if you live in a remote area, but if you are prepared to travel (say the next town) this is irrelevant
- You need to search for assignments but you do get emails advising you of work, and occasionally telephone calls too. The nice bit is that you can also search for work all over the uk, great if you happen to be going to another town for the weekend! (or day even)
But those minor downsides aside, its definately worth doing, especially as it helps improve customer service.
And don’t forget… you do get paid to Shop! Isn’t that why you are reading this page?
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GAPBuster are a terrible company to work for.
I was asked to do a job for them last week at the local Starbucks. I made a special trip (15 mile round trip) to find the place closed and locked up. I reported this to GAPBuster as soon as I got home.
To date (9 days later) I am still waiting for ANY kind of personal response from them. My concern is that I won’t be paid for the visit, especially as the next day I had a “Your results are overdue – job cancelled” automated email from them.
They always pile on the pressure when they want something from you, but it is very different when it is the other way around.
The title organisation is the one used by Telstra to test the efficiency of its sales staff in promoting and selling Bigpond, Home Phone and Mobile Product.
The payment generally given by Gapbusters for this work is $10.00 for a single product inquiry and up to $15.00 for a multi-product inquiry. To receive payment gapbuster “XE’s” or Contractors are required to spend at least 20 minutes on each required visit in store and complete a web based questionnaire.
In this questionnaire some scope is provided for informative comment but often answers have to be selected from a predetermined list of options which are unsatisfactory in the majority of instances, but an answer from the predetermined list has to be provided otherwise response will not be accepted. This I believe devalues the content of reports that Telstra relies on from Gapbusters to better direct its sales effort.
Further to this there is something fundamentally wrong with an organisation that sells product to improve customer sales and relationships, when it treats its own contractors (XE’s) with disdain and contempt. Their internal complaint handling process is as follows (unpublished of course) – in the first instance ignore issues raised, if forced to respond respond off topic, if complaint continues threaten removal from their data base, remove from data base. You would have to agree this is not fine outstanding example of good customer relations and in my opinion raises serious question about the organisation itself given the product/services it sells.
One would assume company such as GAPbusters that sells product, promoting good customer handling procedures and relations, would naturally follow best practice in internal and external client relations. I assure you that Gapbusters do not, and from personal experience do not compare favourably with other companies that operate in the mystery shopping arena .
Yes, I am a disgruntled Ex-contractor. I go to this extreme because when I tried to hold them to the same standards that they have their XE’s report on target organisations there only response was to follow the process indicated above. This is especially disreputable because of the product it sells.
Do with this information as you wish, but I do hope That GAPbusters suffer some consequence from it. Please broadcast the information as you see fit.
I lived in Saudia Arabia in Jeddah , I am intrested to start mystery shopping work ,How to i start and I am more intrested to KFC and Pizza Hut , Plz Guide me.
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