Mystery Shopper or Secret Shopper Opportunities
While I am certainly going to tell you about
the opportunities for mystery shoppers in
UK and
around the world, to get paid to
surf, or get paid to review
golf courses, movies and many other products and services offered to Secret Shoppers, I
will start this
page in a way that
would probably horrify internet
marketing gurus.
Some companies
offering
the sort of mystery shopping which get you to write reviews, are
fly-by-night companies, who are running fee charging scams. If they
offer a "free service" the chances are that they could be trying to get
your email address for spamming, or worse, ID theft..
The Mystery
Shopping Providers Association (MPSA), a globally respected
professional body, refuses to accept as members, mystery shopping
companies who charge a fee to join them as a mystery shopper.
I think
they are probably right to do so, too. Now, I bet that surprised you.
The
point is that all of the companies I am promoting here (see all the links below)
are NOT mystery
shopping companies.
They are in many ways, like me, service
providers,
whose service is to broker between you, the independent contractor, aka
the shopper, and the many hundreds of large companies with their own
market research departments, and independent market research companies,
many
of whom may well be MSPA members.
As My Shopping
Jobs (see below)
comments:
"We are simply a 'middle man' to help hook people up with the
companies in our database."
The
demand for people to be mystery shoppers has grown massively in the
past decade or so, as responsible, consumer oriented companies have
realised that the only factor that separates them from their
competitors is the strength of their customer service.
To
keep that
customer service at the highest level, requires regular and systematic
monitoring, and one of several monitoring tools used, is that of
Mystery Shopping. This has meant that the companies who undertake the
mystery shopping assignments for clients could no longer rely solely on
traditional ways of recruiting people to undertake the "shopping", and
needed the very valuable services of the middle-man or broker
companies, like those being promoted here.
How do I know with
certainty that the companies below are 100% genuine? Well the
short
answer is I don't, but my many years of business tells me that, for
example, My Shopping Jobs has been in business for over six years,
therefore they are highly unlikely to have managed this through scamming the
people who have paid them a fee.
I hope that the
above has given you the confidence to read on. If not, I
invite you to
write to me at mikeATmakingdollars4u.com (usual email format) and I promise to get
back to you with the reassurance you need.
Fair enough?
OK, let's now take a look at what is involved in writing reviews for
which you will get paid. Most, by the way, will pay something
like $10-$40 per hour, easily enough to recoup your outlay
on the membership fees, pretty quickly.
You could be a short time away from being able to write
reviews to make money on:
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♦ Websites
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Golf courses
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Amusement parks
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Travel packages
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Movies
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Offers you've
completed
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Shopping
at
grocery stores
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♦ Clothes
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Cosmetics
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Household goods
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Kids toys
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Electrical gadgets
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Shop and dine (you
may have seen on our dedicated page)
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Secret Shopping Center
are particularly strong on shopping and dining, and you can
earn up to $40 an hour reviewing movies, and up to $30 an hour shopping at
grocery stores and providing reviews. They also
have a program for reviewing golf courses and amusement parks.
Their
membership joining fee is illustrated at $39.97, and they do have a 45
day, 100% money back guarantee. They are rated #1 in the
Mystery Shopping Category by Top Site Review, who remember have tested
out this money back guarantee on all the companies they recommend.
They
have a very good "Getting Started" Guide for new members, which give
some great tips and advice for the new mystery shopper.
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The second Affiliate is a return to one you will have
seen at my Shopping and Dining page. My
Shopping Jobs is very highly rated by Top Site Review, who
comments that they are "easily one of our top picks".
In addition to shopping and dining opportunities, My Shopping Jobs also
offers other paid opportunities, such as taking free golf lessons and
getting paid for your review of the lessons and the golf course; get
paid to go to the movies; get paid to visit amusement parks and quite a
number of other offers. My Shopping Jobs, which has been in
business since 2002, has a 60 days 100% money back guarantee, and
charges a one-off fee of $24.95 to join.
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The third Affiliate is Shopping Jobs Here, and the
major reason I've included them is they have a couple of more unusual
opportunities, including seeking those who want to get paid to go on
cruises, or to travel world-wide, or even to go to a spa!
They are currently charging a one-time fee of $24.95 and make a point
of saying in their "common questions" that if you are ever charged by
one of the companies SJH have refered to you, they will be immediately
withdrawn from their directory list .
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