BARE International Mystery Shopping Company Adds Mystery to Payment Terms Fairfax, Virginia

Look at the dates again please; it was about 5 months, not over a year.  In order to respond to a complaint, a company has to know it exists first.  Once it was brought to our attention we responded.

And it correlates in taking Bare Int.    taking forever to pay and  it's act together........

Bare International would like to provide additional, factual information in our rebuttal message to this consumer complaint. 

Bare International is a successful and credible business that has been a leader in the consumer research industry for the last 24 years.  Bare currently works with hundreds of prominent clients across numerous industries, exceeding over 30,000 evaluations per month around the world.

Our customer service exceeds industry standards.  Bare can be contacted by phone at 1-800-296-6699 or by email at evaluatorinquiry@bareinternational.com.  You can learn more about us and about becoming an evaluator or client at www.bareinternational.com.

Bare International pays all evaluator fees on a 30-day net cycle.  Checks are usually prepared and sent on approximately the 20th of each month and one payment is usually issued for all services rendered during the previous month.

While Bare's policy is to wait six months to reissue a lost or misplaced check at no cost to the evaluator (because this is the amount of time that must pass before an issued check becomes uncashable - our financial institution's policy), the evaluator also has the option to stop payment on the lost/misplaced check and have it reissued as soon as administratively possible.  If this option is selected, the stop payment fee (usually $25-35) is deducted from the evaluator's payment.  Professional evaluators must remember they are not Bare employees, therefore this is not the same as wages being "docked." 

Another option and one that we highly recommend to all evaluators is to opt for electronic funds transfer and have payments automatically deposited into their account of choice.  Electronic funds transfer is available at no cost to the evaluator and eliminates all concern of checks being lost in the mail.  Registered evaluators need only sign into their Bare account and access their profile to securely and safely input their account information (the process is similar to an employer's direct deposit benefit through payroll).