Comments on: Practical Tips for New Shoppers from a Mystery Shopping Scheduler

By: Sam-I-Am

Sam-I-Am — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:44:54 +0000

In response to Shelia, and other shoppers,
Do not pay for any website selling this info. Jacob Jans gave us this exact 77 companies list just the other day — for FREE. You do not have to pay to mystery shop, or get names of companies to sign up for, unless you just want to – like on shadowshopper.com or something, but the info is out there for free, you just need to know where to look for it.

I suggest to subscribe to Jacob Jans site here, so you can stay updated on the latest Mystery Shopping News, Reviews, etc. Other great places to look are the official Mystery Shopping web site http://www.mysteryshop.org, http://www.volition.com and http://www.jobslinger.com.
Good luck & happy shopping!

By: Shelia

Shelia — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:54:50 +0000

Remember different companies have VERY different pay timeframes. Check your Ind. Contract agreement with the company and simply send follow up email, if you’re certain they have not paid you via PayPal or whatever timeframe they stated. Also, I utilize Yahoo’s calendar to schedule myself of the various projects I accept because it will email reminders to you.

If you’re shopping for multiple agencies/companies, another suggestion is to make yourself a checklist. IF you have Spreadsheet software on your PC, create yourself a sheet something like the following headings:

Company Name, Assgined date, Shop Due (deadline), Job#, How paid, When due?, Retailer (Customer), Street/Town, Amount spent, Amount reimburseable?, Date received, Amount Received, Reported (date/Time), Confirmation # Phone#, Fax#, My shopper#, Their webURL, Contact’s name/email

I just found a “77 company registration website” for only $7.77, don’t YET know the 77 companies but it was definitely worth the $8 for my time to expand my opportunities. You might want a separate email strictly for this many companies. shepear@sbcglobal.net

By: Jinnie Holifield

Jinnie Holifield — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:09:25 +0000

I would like to hear the reply to Elaine’s question. What should she do if she hasn’t heard from a company that she shopped for???

By: EG

EG — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:39:27 +0000

Hi Jacob. I did a resturant shop for Mystery MG Guests. I ate at the resturant on the shop date and answered the online questionair immediatly after the shop as per assigned. My question is this “I have not heard any response or email from them so do I try to contact them or do they just not have any other shops, or how am I suppose to know if they did not like my response to thier questioaire?” Thank You Elaine