January 24, 2009

• Mystery Shopper Needed

  Do you apply for the job?
  The fact it is not a get rich quick scheme is the first thing that you should know about a legitimate mystery shopper job. There is no way to gain wealth from being a mystery shopper. Retirement is not possible from what is earned by being a mystery shopper.
  What is [...]

January 20, 2009

• Why shouldn’t you be a mystery shopper?

  Everyone would love to be paid to go shopping and out to dinner at various restaurants.
  In many ways it can be the great job it sounds like.
  If you are a mystery shopper that is; people actually get paid to shop or dine and report the experience. Mystery shopper jobs actually exist.
  Remember the proverb if it [...]

January 16, 2009

• Beware: Mystery Shopper Scam

  All that glistens is not gold.
  A quote from Shakespeare is what that is. Was he ever asked to be a mystery shopper? It is unlikely, but he did manage to nail the topic of the mystery shopper scam completely.
  It is true there are actual mystery shoppers, people that work for retail outlets and go to [...]

January 12, 2009

• You are wondering about mystery shopping companies.

  It is simple.
  A firm that specializes in providing various businesses with secret shoppers or mystery shoppers is a mystery shopping company.
  What is the reason for mystery shoppers? It is to learn things that management never sees. Take the district manager of a chain of convenience stores. They visit the stores on regularly scheduled visits. The [...]

January 8, 2009

• Mystery Shopper Services: Tell Me More

  Mystery shopper would be the job that had the potential to sound like a scam if there ever was one. The sound of it makes you think of sneaking into stores unseen with a trench coat like the CIA to get information and leaving unseen.
  Except for the trench coat this is pretty much what is [...]

January 4, 2009

• So tell me more about secret shopper services

  Now if there was one job that ever sounded like some sort of shifty, fly by night operation, it would have to be mystery shopper. Don’t you imagine someone in a trench coat and fedora sneaking into a store, taking notes and slipping out before anyone was the wiser?
  In truth, that is pretty much how [...]

December 28, 2008

• So what is a secret shopper company?

  It’s not really a secret at all!
  A secret (or mystery as they are also known) shopping company is a company which offers a service to restaurants and retailers, among others by providing secret shoppers.
  Why? Secret shoppers are able to give management a perspective on their company which they can never see for themselves - how [...]

December 21, 2008

• Help wanted: Mystery Shopper

  Should you apply for this job?
  You should know before you call that number or send in your resume that being a mystery shopper is not going to make you rich. You will not be retiring at 35 and cruising the seas in your yacht on what you make as a mystery shopper, but if you [...]

December 18, 2008

• The mystery shopper scam

  “All that glitters is not gold”
  Now Shakespeare was probably never a mystery shopper, but he has some sage advice there about the ‘mystery shopper scam’.
  There is of course such a thing as a mystery shopper, people whose job it is to go to stores and shop while evaluating their shopping experience on behalf of retail [...]