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Complaint Review: Mystery Shoppers - Internet

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  • Reported By: Kearns Utah
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Mystery Shoppers What They Don't Say Until You Paid The $95.95 Mysteryshoplink.com Ripoff Internet

*Consumer Suggestion: Ripoff? Or an error?

*Consumer Comment: I worked at a mysetery shopping company

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Pay the $95.95 and here is what happens. First, you must take a test with a very high percentage of the stores you might evaluate. The test is designed to confuse you. If you fail the test you must wait 30 days before you can try again to apply and then if you pass you go on as a shopper. But not until you pass the test. The two practice quizzes and trials they give you at first are to work you up thinking, "this was easy."

But first, You must apply with almost every store as if applying for a regular job which demands personal information, your social security number and other personal information, over the Internet just to be considered by the store.

So far at least sixty percent of the referrals stated that I must wait six weeks or more before being paid for the service, (job). Others will only pay you only by reimbursement of a meal, which you have to buy not to exceed a low dollar value. Others openly state they will negotiate a settlement with you depending on the amount you spend at their stores, with no promises. Again, remember that it takes from six weeks up to ten weeks to be paid.

While others want you to buy store products and then return them the next day using the stores credit card or your credit card. If you don't have one then you must apply for one. For those of you with credit issues, you will not get the jobs.

Other job referrals clearly state that they will not pay you for your services unless the report you do is perfect to their expectations. Another words, you do a report and they do say "your grammar" is not suited for those that review the reports, then you will not get paid for your services. Mystery Shoppers is very clear up front with you on this subject. If the company doesn't like your report and they do not want to pay you then Mystery Shoppers will not pay you either. The company gets your report, they have read it and clearly it will have information on it that will be useful for them all for free.

Mystery Shoppers fails to tell it all. This isn't for most people to do but instead for those that do have the financial assets and abilities to do. My grammar checker on my computer tells me that my grammar is not one hundred percent. There for my message to you all by Mystery Shoppers protection policy for the store and the store itself of course will not pay for the report I just did. And from what I have seen so far I get no hamburger for free.

Would I have paid the dollar amount if I had known what I know now? No. I can not get my money back regardless. Be very careful about Mystery Shoppers. If you are not financially stable, if you have no credit cards or poor credit ratings do not get into this.

If you can afford to spend some money and be in a position where you can wait from six weeks or longer to be paid for your service then perhaps you could do this. But remember, if your not very good with words, your grammar, then again, this may not be what you want.

Garry
Kearns, Utah
U.S.A.

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#2 Consumer Suggestion

Ripoff? Or an error?

AUTHOR: Peter - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Saturday, June 10, 2006

What sounds funny about this situation? You want a job so you can make some money ... so you then go and PAY an exhorbitant "fee" in order to get that job? Don't you think that a "job" would involve GETTING money in exchange for work ... not PAYING money in order to get work?

The bottom line is, whenever a company requests money from you in exchange for a job, the sensible thing to do is RUN the other way! No real "job" involves paying the company money, as they are supposed to pay YOU.

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I worked at a mysetery shopping company

AUTHOR: Giselle - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Saturday, June 10, 2006

Years ago, I worked at a mystery shopping company (NOT this one). We did not charge applicants anything to apply to become a shopper. We had THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of applicants, received hundreds if not thousands of applications by mail, phone and email per week. Our revenue came from our client companies. We didn't ask for SSN#'s or anything ridiculous like that. Most applicants never received any assignments. Think about it: for example, we need 5 shoppers in the Miami area and we have a database of 25,000 to pick from. People who were lucky enough to get called and proved themselves to be reliable would get repeat assignments or the "plum assignments" like mystery shopping at restaurants. Shoppers received a check sent directly to them and checks were cut once a week. Again, no one was asked for money, personal information or to sign up for credit cards.

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