As mystery shoppers, we don’t often have much to complain about. We work from home, set our own work hours, and enjoy the luxury of picking and choosing the assignments we want to spend our time on. Yet if there is one complaint so many mystery shoppers have, it is when our providers cross the line and make demands on us that are just unreasonable or even unethical at times….
What’s Holding Up Your Mystery Shopping Paycheck?
If there is one thing that mystery shoppers complain about more than anything else, it is how slow their providers are to pay them for their services. If you are a mystery shopper yourself, you know that sometimes it can be weeks and even months before you get paid for an assignment. This can create a bookkeeping headache on your part as you try to keep tabs on payments for…
When Your Provider Doesn’t Respond To You
As a mystery shopper, you can weeks and even many months at times without ever needing to contact your provider. Yet there are times that arise when you need to reach out to them and get a response back about something specific. This may be an urgent question that you have about an assignment with a pending due date. It may be about your pay (or lack thereof) on an…
What You Need to Know About Mystery Shopper Ratings
Mystery shoppers spend a lot of time and effort focusing on their mystery shopper ratings that providers issue. While not every provider has a rating system, many of them do. These ratings are a source of stress and anxiety for mystery shoppers, and any minor adjustment downward is enough to unsettle many people who work in this field and put their best effort out on each and every assignment. So…
Do You Trust Your Mystery Shopping Providers?
As a mystery shopper, you may not think about trust too much in the day to day operations of your job. You hop on the job boards and select a few assignments to work on, head out the door to work on your assignments for that day, and come back home to complete your reports online. Most of the time you likely feel like you are flying solo in this…
A Closer Look at the Relationship Between Mystery Shoppers and Providers
In most jobs you work in, there is a lot of focus and attention on the important of business relationships with clients, customers, and others. In the mystery shopping world, the main business relationships you will be involved in are those with your providers. Many mystery shoppers don’t put much thought into these relationships, but in the long run, this apathetic view towards your providers can really hurt your earning…
What to Do When A Mystery Shopping Provider Won’t Pay You
There are a handful of mystery shoppers who are working in this field to help create a better consumer experience for others, but for the most part, mystery shoppers are working in this job to enjoy the convenience of a flexible work schedule and extra money in our pockets, too. But what happens when you have done the work on an assignment and your provider won’t pay you? Here are…
Working With Your Providers: When Editing Requests Cross the Line
There are three kinds of mystery shopping providers that you can work with. The first accepts your report as the ultimate truth of your observations on-site and rarely asks for revisions. Often, they will correct a typo here and there on your behalf. The second type of provider will make some significant changes to your report, and often this can change the meaning or intent of your writing. This is…
3 Tips To Help You Get Your Mystery Shopping Paycheck Faster
After you have completed a mystery shopping assignment, there is just one thing that you want – to get paid fast! In the fast-paced world we live in today, it seems almost laughable to many mystery shoppers that it takes so long to get paid on many assignments. If you spend any time on the mystery shopping online communities, you will find that slow payment is among the top issues…