Make $100 to go shopping and report on my experience?  You bet I’m interested!

Mystery Shopper

What They Say

Here is how it is supposed to work:

• A market research company (“MRC”) performs business survey services to their clients – usually large corporations – to analyze their customer experiences.
• MRC uses select freelance individuals as mystery shoppers to perform “secret shopping” activities.
• Mystery shoppers fill out the surveys so the MRCs can report the results to their clients.
• MRC pays the shoppers for their services.

Sounds good, right?  Real good.

You know what they say about if it sounds too good to be true…  But what if it is legit? – I could be passing up good money that I could really use.  How can you tell and how do you decide?  Here is how I dealt with it…

(Note, what started out as intentions to be a short article has turned out to be quite a bit more involved.  I hope it will be helpful to you).

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