Is Mystery Shopping for you?

I have never tried doing mystery shopping work yet, but I know a lot of freelancers who make good money using sites that offer this kind of online opportunity. I might try this one in the near future. Thanks for sharing information about it.

 

I also know there are a lot of scam sites that pretend to by mystery shopper systems. It is up there with drop shipping as something that is more often a scam then real if you just go by the offers online.

If someone here actually does this I would love to here how it actually works, how you make money, and how to pick a real MS service and avoid the scams. A real first person account would help a lot.

 

Yes but what has it actually been like for you? What shopping do you do, how does it work, what sort of pay rate is there?

Because the ability to share things like that, like the last trip they took and what they made from it, is how I separate authentic recommendations from people who really make their money from the back end of the company, backlink creation, or affiliate links. Or are just giving sincere but secondhand information not speaking from experience.

 

I've always wanted to become a mystery shopping and I think I would be awesome at it. The thing is, I look like a child (at most, without make up, I can look like I'm 15...and I'm 27 in real life) so people wouldn't really pay any attention to me. In fact, they may actually ignore me because I look like a kid and they wouldn't suspect anything. I think it could be awesome for me. I think I might want to try it out...see how it goes.

 

Here's a few companies that UK forum members might want to try. I've been paid by all of them at least once over the last few years.

AMBER ARCH

ABAi

BARE INTERNATIONAL

CATALYST

eDIGITAL RESEARCH

REACT

TNS

As I am a newbie, I'm unable to post links just yet. However, all these companies come up as the first result in a Google search.

I don't do mystery shops all that often, there aren't as many opportunities available in the city where I live now. As long as you are able to follow instructions and be thorough in your reviews then you can make a nice little bit of extra cash. Mystery shopping won't make you rich but every little helps on the journey to financial independence.

 

I think the real giveaway here is the appalling use of grammar. This email is littered with errors that you just wouldn't see from a professional firm. A legitimate company will not need to canvass like this at all.

 

I've considered mystery shopping but I've heard to many horror stories of stores that put up fake sites to get customers to buy goods without reimbursing them. So I've been hesitant to try it because every time I research the company I only see bad reviews. All the people I've seen recommend it don't offer pay stubs but a link to make money off referring me to be a shopper. I'm skeptical at this point that anyone has actually made money doing it.

 

I have heard of mystery shopping but mostly apps. Unfortunately, not a lot of these apps work for my country. I would still post them though for people living in the UK or the US:

• Field Agent. The good thing about this mystery shopping app is there is no payout minimum! Yay! You can get paid 3 to 12 dollars per task.
• Easy Shift. Available for both Android and IOS users. Again, there's no payout minimum for this app as well.
• Rewardable. There's a minimum payout of 5 dollars with this one. You can test apps, go to locations and do tasks within your area.
• Gigwalk. Seems like a good app for those living in the rural areas. I'm not sure about the minimum payout for this one.

Good luck!

 

I've worked for a few mystery shopping companies in the past. It worked best for me when I lived in a rural area where no one was taking jobs. If I waited, they would add bonuses to try to get the job done. I would wait and then take a day's worth of jobs near each other that had lots of bonuses (on some jobs the bonus alone was $20). I could make a couple of hundred dollars and some free fast food in the deal. It can be a lot of work and you must have an awesome memory. You are required to time this and that and the other and answer sometimes pages of specific questions (like how wide is a painted line on a pole!) and get all the information without anyone suspecting you are not a normal customer! You sometimes have to take a bunch of specific pictures, also without being noticed, then upload them within the day or at most 24 hours.

I could only do it about once a month, as that was how many and how often the jobs were offered. I live in a more populated area now and the jobs are taken as soon as they are posted. I suppose if you are online and checking constantly you could nab them, but it wasn't as profitable for me here as it was in the sticks! Most of the time they do not want you to bring anyone along with you and that is hard for me as I have a bunch of children

With all that said, be sure it is a legitimate company. You should not have to pay anything. One company actually had me as an employee and I got a normal paycheck.

 

This is always intriguing to me and I think I'd do it but too bad I don't think they do this type of job where I am or at least I don't know of any businesses doing it.