One of the biggest complaints mystery shoppers have about the job is that the money just isn’t worth the effort and time involved. Oftentimes, assignments seem to pay close to minimum wage, making it more lucrative to work at another typical part-time job. If you’re stuck in the rut of working assignments in the $5-15 range, and on assignments that take over an hour or two to complete for this low pay, take a step back and look at the situation. There may be something you’re missing!
Not All Assignments Are Equal. Before you get discouraged at working for what seems like peanuts as a mystery shopper, take a moment and consider how you select assignments. New mystery shoppers, and even some seasoned mystery shoppers, are so eager to work on assignments that they will request any and every assignment. Not all assignments are equal, and some require much more work for far less compensation than others. If you aren’t in the habit of spending time analyzing and reviewing assignments before you request them, this could be costing you time and money!
Stuck In A Rut. On the flip side, you may have found a few assignments that you enjoyed doing the first time or two, and now have found yourself stuck in a mystery shopping rut. It’s good to have a few “staple” assignments that you work on regularly every few months or so on a rotation. But likewise, if you don’t branch out and try something new, you will find your paycheck stagnating. You won’t know if you can get more pay for less time and effort on other assignments until you’ve tried. So make an effort to try some new assignments on a regular basis to continuously seek out better assignments.
What Other Mystery Shoppers Are Doing. Some mystery shoppers have had a lot of success with certain types of assignments. Ranking high among these are audit assignments. Some of these assignments include just walking into a waiting room and making a quick observation, pharmacy audits, observing stores as opening and closing hours, and more. Just as with other types of assignments, audits can vary quite a bit in terms of how easy the money is. If you haven’t looked at audits lately, spend some time looking at how much easy money you can make from these assignments.
Other “easy money” assignments include college tours, overnight hotel visits, and certain retail and restaurant assignments. These “easy money” mystery shopping assignments are not always easy to find, but they are worth your time and efforts in looking for as they can reap big financial rewards for you.
Mystery shopping doesn’t have to be a drag on your schedule, barely putting pennies into your pocketbook each month. While not every assignment you work on will be “easy money”, completing a few of these more lucrative assignments regularly will make you more satisfied with your job as a mystery shopper.
This was a good article and very approriate for me. I do believe that I need some support and this article gave me that. As MS is not new diverifying may be what is needed in prder to get more lucrative assignments.
When I tried to sign up for mystery shopping I got a lost of messages, but no real chances to do an assignment. I must have misunderstoof how to sign up.
What gets me is how they will offer an assignment that will take at least 30 to 40 minutes in the store and then a long detailed report for $5.00!! They are always looking for people to do these jobs because nobody wants to work for free. Why don’t they raise the pay so that it is fair? Then they will find someone to do the job!! From my experience, MS in not easy money, you have to work, and keep good records and be very precise and organized. It’s not easy money!! But it can be fun and you can earn some money doing it. Don’t wait for jobs to come to you, you have to search and definitely read the job details before taking the job.
The main topic here in the article says it all you have to pay attention to details. Maven has said on one or more occasions that you don’t have to pay to sign up for assignments and I have made an excess of at least two thousand dollars in a little over two years devoting my time ,gas and effort on assignments they are definitely out there. A lot of the time you have to go to the Mystery shopping boards to get some leads as far as where the MS sites are if you listen in to what other veteran mystery shoppers say about companies that they have worked for you might get a good idea of who is legit and then too the ones that may prove to be problematic, I did and that’s how I started to trim away the companies that didn’t want to pay you for your hard work. Seriously there usually will be a lot of complaints about schedulers and companies that don’t pay fair and play fair when ti comes to paying there shoppers. Just take a little time and effort and I assure you it will pay off that’s how I started and I have no complaints there are literally hundreds of companies out there looking for shoppers and you don’t have to pay a dime to get started.
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shoppers uk £40 sterling before seeing your website I have been given pages of stuf to read &untedl da feel daunted by the amount of reading..