The company I use reimburses you X amount of dollars for your shop, plus a payment. So let's say I do a grocery shop. The company reimburses you up to $3.00 for your purchase, and $11.00 payment to do the shop. 20 minutes in the store, then however long it takes to type your report. It's the only company I'm with now, there was one I signed up with, but they hardly ever reimburse for the shop, just a flat payment, and the payment isn't worth the gas usually. But I don't have a list. If you have lots of places near you that the company uses, you could probably do decently at it. I think I would do ok if I signed up for more shops than I do.
I am off to my first mystery shop next week and I must say all goes well untill now but with the company I'm doing the mystery shop for you need to call them after you've signed up for a mystery shop, to tell them that you really signed up So what happens... you need to call abroad (to the Netherlands for me) and make an expensive phone call, just to tell them what you already sent them online. I think that's quite ridiculous, I just hope that they'll pay me on the end of the day, else it was all for nothing.
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