Mystery shopping has been benefits, such as being able to choose your schedule and work hours, pick and choose which companies you want to work with, and more. Yet with the many benefits mystery shopping offers, it offers one fairly big drawback. This job can be very isolating, putting you in a world where your main, work-related interactions are between a scheduler who you never meet and typically will not even talk to over the phone. And typically those who you do meet on the job, the employees of the stores you visit, don’t even truly know who are.
Yet mystery shoppers are able to meet their “co-workers” through the internet. Hundreds of mystery shoppers band together on a daily basis on online mystery shopping forums, making the world of mystery shopping seem far less isolated. Here, on the online mystery shopping forum, mystery shoppers can establish relationships with other mystery shoppers to enjoy a true co-worker experience, where they can discuss issues and challenges about the job, share success and funny stories, and more with other mystery shoppers.
Get Your Questions Answered. One of the biggest ways online mystery shopping forums help mystery shoppers is by giving them a platform to get their questions answered. In a regular job where you deal face-to-face with a manager and co-workers, you may opt to ask a co-worker a question rather than your boss, and the online mystery shopping forums provide you with the ability to do the same as a mystery shopper. The online mystery shopping forums are filled with questions other mystery shoppers have about reports, how to handle sticky situations on the job, how to get paid faster, and so much more. What’s more, the answers other mystery shoppers post to these questions are loaded with helpful hints that often come from many years of experience. The online mystery shopping forums are an invaluable place to get information about the job and get your own questions answered by people who are in the same boat as you.
Mystery Shoppers Unite! The online mystery shopping forums allow mystery shoppers to join together as one unit when major issues happen. For instance, in the recent past when mystery shoppers saw that many assignments were being offered on the job boards for ridiculously low pay, they banded together to boycott these assignments. While schedulers may not even notice that these low-paying assignments were being boycotted against if mystery shoppers here and there randomly decided to pass these assignments over, when the industry workers as a whole united and these low-paying assignments were left sitting on the job boards for days and even weeks untouched, schedulers took notice.
The Personal Side of Mystery Shopping. The online mystery shopping forums provide a platform for more than simply griping about low paying assignments and getting questions answered. They also provide a very human element to the job, and give you a place where you can meet your fellow mystery shoppers as real people. Through reading the forum posts regularly and interacting with other mystery shoppers, you will come to see other forum members as real people with distinct personalities. You will read about their lives, their successes, their failures, their children, and their spouses. The online mystery shopping forum gives you an excellent way to take the isolating element of working from home out of the picture, letting you interact on a personal level with other mystery shoppers.
If you haven’t been to the online mystery shopping forums or you don’t regularly visit these websites, you are missing out on a rich experience that can add a new dimension to mystery shopping for you!
Th only complaintI have is, that I keep signing on wit companies who say they need SS, but nothing happens.I’m beginning to wonder if there is a need for SS.ShouldI keep signing on
I am ready to begin this possible position and am very anxious to begin. I have a great personality and will have no trouble with store management.
I’ve learned sooooo much from forum folks. It’s really made my mystery shopping much more profitable and fun. I’ve learned what to steer away from and what to watch for and how to wait patiently for the payments to increase. The first thing they tell you in a forum about how to mystery shop is to read, read, read, read, read and they are right, right, right!!
I wouldn’t bother with the forums. The people there have a wide range of experiences, which is good, but the best way to do any job right is to read the instructions, not discuss it with a bunch of strangers. Also, some of the advice on which companies and shop types to stay away from is way off. I would have missed out on a lot of money if I had followed some of their advice.
In the beginning, October 2009, I signed up with a company that had me providing my name and phone number to many online companies from insurance quotes to funding a college education. I submitted the information for months, but to date, June 20, 2010, I still have not been paid even though I rec’d an email indicating they have rec’d my information and I was to get paid in November 2009. Now, when I email the company no one responds, even though, they are still constantly sending me emails to sign up again. What should I do about getting paid or should I report this company online for other mystery shoppers to be aware of them?
I don’t see comments with problems like I am experiencing. The grading system is not fair. Shopper gets a 7 because the person says they wrote to much, didn’t like the sentence structure. etc. All information is correct, still a 7. The forms are redundant, some of the company forms say save every half hour when in fact it becomes every 15 minutes. Many times after a save the form starts over, when saved the next time the old form comes back. I can do the shops, but needing to spend 8 hours and more to fill out a form for eleven dollars is not smart business. I have done a lot of shops but now do very few. Only 2 people in this business have said Thank You! Only one scheduler has made an effort to tell me they cared. Thanks!
How do I find forums to join?
Information on how to find/join forums would be helpful.
Hi, a little off-topic but can anybody able to inform me if they are getting a 403 message when they arrive at this sites index page?
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How’s things, a little OT but can anybody able to tell me if they are receiving a timeout error when they first come to this sites default page?
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Wassup, I’ve got a simple question. Does anybody else observe a slight lag on this site every time they login? It normally takes a minimum 5 seconds or so for me to get the home web page.
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