Mystery shoppers love getting paid. There’s no denying how great it feels to get emails from PayPal saying you have received funds from a provider, or opening up your mailbox to find several checks waiting for you. Unfortunately, some mystery shopping providers are just plain slow in paying for your hard work and valuable time. [...]
Hot Tips To Save Your Hide During Site Visits
Mystery shopping is a fun job in part because there is always some new aspect of the job to enjoy. Assignment requirements between various jobs are fairly similar in many cases, but with new job site locations and new people to interact with at each location, mystery shopping is anything but [...]
Add Some Pizzazz To Your Mystery Shopping Assignments
At the beginning of your career as a mystery shopping, you likely thought mystery shopping was an incredibly exciting job. Each assignment seemed different, and you never had to be stuck behind a desk all day. Even long-time mystery shoppers will agree that the variety in assignments is part of what keeps them working in [...]
Should Mystery Shoppers Be Insulted By Low Paying Assignments?
Absolutely! We as mystery shoppers are professionals, and need our hard work and our valuable time compensated in a just manner. There is nothing to feel but insulted and angry when assignments are posted on the job boards for $3 and $5 assignments. These assignments, even if completed within [...]
Why You Should Give Lower Paying Assignments A Second Look
Many mystery shoppers have fallen into the habit of writing off assignments posted on the job boards with a quick look of the assignment pay. If the payment is below a predetermined amount of money in the mystery shopper’s mind, such as $5 or $10, the mystery shopper continues to scroll down the job boards [...]