As mystery shoppers, we don’t often have much to complain about. We work from home, set our own work hours, and enjoy the luxury of picking and choosing the assignments we want to spend our time on. Yet if there is one complaint so many mystery shoppers have, it is when our providers cross the [...]
What’s Holding Up Your Mystery Shopping Paycheck?
If there is one thing that mystery shoppers complain about more than anything else, it is how slow their providers are to pay them for their services. If you are a mystery shopper yourself, you know that sometimes it can be weeks and even months before you get paid for an assignment. This can create [...]
When Your Provider Doesn’t Respond To You
As a mystery shopper, you can weeks and even many months at times without ever needing to contact your provider. Yet there are times that arise when you need to reach out to them and get a response back about something specific. This may be an urgent question that you have about an assignment with [...]
What You Need to Know About Mystery Shopper Ratings
Mystery shoppers spend a lot of time and effort focusing on their mystery shopper ratings that providers issue. While not every provider has a rating system, many of them do. These ratings are a source of stress and anxiety for mystery shoppers, and any minor adjustment downward is enough to unsettle many people who work [...]
Do You Trust Your Mystery Shopping Providers?
As a mystery shopper, you may not think about trust too much in the day to day operations of your job. You hop on the job boards and select a few assignments to work on, head out the door to work on your assignments for that day, and come back home to complete your reports [...]