Trendsource Mystery Shopping

Trendsource is another large mystery shopping company, with assignments all over the United States. In fact, they’re currently recruiting for grocery store mystery shopping assignments, with over 5,000 separate assignments in all different parts of the country.

Trendsource has a good reputation amongst the mystery shopping community. They pay twice a month, which is much faster than most mystery shopping companies. As one mystery shopper says “they pay like clockwork.” They’re not known for being the highest paying company, except for their business verification assignments. Be warned though, Trendsource might require you to pay for a background check before you can do a business verification.

They have a wide variety of types of mystery shopping assignments, including grocery stores, age verification audits, even “Medicare Advantage Shops.”

When you’re filling out the application for Trendsource, they have you check off the types of assignments you’re interested in. The list is quite extensive, as you can see:

• Age Verification Audits
• Health Care – telephone shops
• Business Verifications
• Merchandising
• Competitive Rates (phone)
• Mystery Shopping
• Competitive Rates (Visit)
• Phone Shopping
• Compliance Audits
• Rewards
• Customer Intercept
• Shopper Poll
• Health Care – site visits
• Web Survey

As you can see, they cover most of the different aspects of the mystery shopping world. Of course, this list doesn’t get down to the specific types of assignments, such as the grocery store assignments they’re currently recruiting for. But, as you can see, they have everything from phone assignments, to merchandising, to mystery shopping, audits, etc. And the best part, you get to choose what you’re intersted in. That what mystery shopping is all about, right? Well, that and the side income you can make with it. And the flexibility. And the fun.

If you want to self-assign jobs for Trendsource, you’ll need to do 5 assignments. Once you’ve done that, they’ll open your account up for self assign.

Trendsource is also known as MSI Services, which can lead to some confusion. Especially during the application process, when it suddenly seems like you’re signing up for “MSI” when you clicked through from Trendsource. C’Mon Trendsource, can’t you get your name straight?

Keep in mind that they’ll never send you a large check in the mail as part of a mystery shopping assignment. If you do get a large check from them, just throw it away. It is a scam, which is easy to avoid. Now that you know.

If you’re interested in signing up to become a shopper for Trendsource, then simply go to their website, and click “become an agent” at the top of the page. Or, to learn more about this company, see TrendSource on MysteryShopForum.com.