Comments on: Responses to the $5 Assignment Boycott from Mystery Shopping Companies…

By: AL

AL — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:08:29 +0000

Yea Paul your right. I know the company well, they called me once when i was out working and they gave me the shop over the phone and told me how much it pays so I said ok. When I got home and was printing instructions, I found that you had to buy a pair of shoes than return them but you dont get yout money back just a store credit for another pair, so I cancled the shop, they lowered my rating to a one so I cant get anymore shops for them. What they dont know is that lowering my rating was the best thing that happened to me , i cant get no more shops for them AMEN

By: JT

JT — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:43:16 +0000

Greedy companies if they can pay more then $5 in 2 weeks after waiting especially for the damn Gas station shops that they make you go thru training, pass a damn quiz and then want 5 or 6 pictures and have 30 questions and NO save feature along the way! Only to submit the shop and have the whole thng wipe clear of answers or have some bitch in the editing department say you didnt do it right and they are not going to pay! I say Bullshit to that and the under 10 dollar shops!! and then you get another company as to where you were doing a really good job for them, You have a computer problem (we actually had a tornado) and so you dont get the shop submitted by their 11pm deadline and they take away your status. so you have to go back thru them “wait 2 weeks” for a shop to be approved only to find out they gave it to another shopper that just signed up and had dominated the board with their family members but you try and tell the scheduler the facts. and they dont care.
Honestly, I know one gal that digned up everyone in her family and SHE does the shop every time, so there goes the $5 shops because she wants the $
this must stop and there must be a way!!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:06:00 +0000

I am retired and have been approached to do mystery shopping. Is there any school to learn the proper way to conduct such an assignment? If I should choose to do this I believe that I owe the one who is paying a professional opinion based on the performance that they expect from the business being targeted. They may be more willing to pay extra for a person who they know is more qualified to give a proper evaluation. Let the solicitor know who has been properly trained for thier particular assignment.

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:02:25 +0000

I have been a shopper for about 9 months, and I’m learning all the time. I consider myself a professional and certainly a grown-up. To think that I will consider accepting a $5.00 shop is ridiculous. Throughout my learning process, I have accepted jobs which I thought paid fairly well, but the end-result is that I’ve probably made less than $5.00 an hour counting time spent doing the shop and writing the report. Lesson learned? I will never do that shop again. Even though gas is very expensive, remember that as independent contractors, we can write $0.58 per mile off our taxes. That helps a lot!