If you have a full time job that is not MS'ing, how many shops do you do per week?
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I wait and do only one to two per week... Mostly hotels that pay between $75 to $150.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2014 03:27PM by LindaM.
I wait and do only one to two per week... Mostly hotels that pay between $75 to $150.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2014 03:27PM by LindaM.
I work full time and have a family, so I usually fit in about 3 to 8 shops per week. I can do more, but work-life balance needs to be maintained!
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Mike T
Looking for shops in Western Canada
"Life is good because the alternative is forever "
Mike T
Looking for shops in Western Canada
"Life is good because the alternative is forever "
I have some flexibility since I own my own tutoring business, but I do work full-time. I am not on the road for tutoring, it is in an actual office or I likely could increase my shops a bit more. Anyhow, I currently average about 15 shops per week. For what it is worth, I only have one child left at home and he is 15 so I don't have a great deal of family responsibilities.
I work 8-5 and we don't have kids yet, so I am able to fit in as much as I want. I generally do about 3-7 on a Saturday and then a few random ones through the week. I guess I average about 7-9 per week taking into account busy weeks, slow weeks, vacation weeks, etc. But this week, for example, there wasn't anything on the boards I was particularly interested in and we had a busy social week so I have only three this week. Last week I did 14. It changes constantly!
I pick off the local ones as they come up while running other errands (doing a FF at lunch today when I go in to the post office and feed store). I do a route in other towns about three or four days a month. Each route usually takes several hours over several days just to plan and map it. So figure six or eight days a month involved with routes, and a few hours a month for local stuff.
That doesn't count the hours I spend reading and/or deleting about 50-100 emails a day. That's how I usually find the bigger shops to build my routes around. Once I have them, I search all 120 job boards for the companies I'm signed up with looking for crumbs to fill in around them to make the route. Once I find the crumbs, I ask the MSCs for the crumbs for bonuses. It's a long process trying to get enough bonuses to justify the drive.
All this is done around other work, looking for work, accounting for the work I do, helping with my aging father, and caring for 15 various animals. So . . . not a full time job, but definitely a lot going on all the time. Thankfully no kids to worry about; the critters are enough.
I pretty much average 30+ shops a month for normal months (without vacations or other interruptions).
That doesn't count the hours I spend reading and/or deleting about 50-100 emails a day. That's how I usually find the bigger shops to build my routes around. Once I have them, I search all 120 job boards for the companies I'm signed up with looking for crumbs to fill in around them to make the route. Once I find the crumbs, I ask the MSCs for the crumbs for bonuses. It's a long process trying to get enough bonuses to justify the drive.
All this is done around other work, looking for work, accounting for the work I do, helping with my aging father, and caring for 15 various animals. So . . . not a full time job, but definitely a lot going on all the time. Thankfully no kids to worry about; the critters are enough.
I pretty much average 30+ shops a month for normal months (without vacations or other interruptions).
Time to build a bigger bridge.
It really varies. The past few months I was averaging 10 shops a week, but I'm taking a break because I'm really feeling ragged. Oh, and I also take my kids to swimming, gymnastics and piano Monday through Friday so I'm constantly on the go. This week I only have one shop and I'm loving the break.
I have been averaging about 10 to 12 a month, mainly banking, fine dining, parking garages, and hotels, with a little retail thrown in.
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I work full time. My jobs vary greatly depending on my schedule. Locally? i.e. within 2-4 miles, I will take if they are retail or a food item and my schedule permits. Weekends? I usually get a fine dining or casual dining shop; I enjoy the time out with my family. I will fit in retail jobs that are in the area that are reasonable. Not great paying; $15-$30 but they're perks for my daughters. Some weekends, my kids and I plan a great day out with food, retail and more food.
I will do the bank shops if they are close by and love the ones that pay great. The great paying ones are far and few in between, but love it when I pick up a $50 one (rarely); they're mostly $15-20 and then I have to wait for rotation.
I will do the bank shops if they are close by and love the ones that pay great. The great paying ones are far and few in between, but love it when I pick up a $50 one (rarely); they're mostly $15-20 and then I have to wait for rotation.
I have a 45 mile commute (round trip) to my job and average 3-4 jobs during the week and 4-6 on weekends. I try to give myself at least one night off a week, but that doesn't always work out. I'm starting to get some bonus offers and personalized emails which makes it much easier to hit my monthly goal. I'm definitely trying to work smarter, not harder! I've been shopping for almost 2 years, but only dabbled the first year (before I found this forum.)
2-4, usually on the weekends. I almost exclusively do restaurant shops and fit all my MSes into my daily commute (which, since I live in New York, isn't super hard).
To the OP. If you live in NY or California or maybe even any state try Informa Research Services. They have some bank phone shops that pay $25 each and you can do 4 a month. That's your extra $100 right there.
Shopping Western NY, Northeast and Central PA, and parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Have car will travel anywhere if the monies right.
I work full-time and will do up to maybe 10 a week and then will do maybe none the following week. My income including reimbursements is around $200-$300 month. The reimbursements are almost always things I wanted or needed like groceries and restaurants. This total does not include hotels and fine dining, that is often several hundred a month when I do them. Mostly restaurants, grocery stores, and things I can do on my way home. Plus some fine dining and hotels on some weekends.
BuffaloNY101- This Syracuse girl thanks you for the info!
I work full time and have been lucky enough to find some shops close enough to work that I can do them over lunch. Then I can do the report on a break and not have to take time in the evening to do it. I probably average 3-4 shops a week.
Sometimes I'll do more, I've done 7-10 in a week, but then I usually take a week or two with a lighter load to give myself a break so that I'm not constantly running around. It all depends on what you're comfortable with.
Sometimes I'll do more, I've done 7-10 in a week, but then I usually take a week or two with a lighter load to give myself a break so that I'm not constantly running around. It all depends on what you're comfortable with.
I am working on my book more than full time, so now I am shopping with a full time "other" job. I did 30 in the first 18 days this month, so that would calculate to about 50 per month if I keep up that rate.
Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.
I think I used to do about 5 per week. However, since a major life project finally got finished a few weeks ago, my # of shops per week has decreased tremendously (I used to pick up shops that were between my house and the area of the project; I won't do it now that I no longer go into that area). I think I now do about 1-2 a week. I also no longer have patience with picking up most shops below $20, except for groceries (although I did recently do one cell phone shop for $15 because I knew it was a really easy shop to do for $15). Finishing the project freed up a huge financial burden so I'm no longer really interested in doing shops that don't pay very much (and, frankly, I've been pretty blessed lately in picking up a few shops that pay well -- did a $100 purchase/return phone shop the other day; am doing a $75 bank shop next week). The majority of the shops I do lately are only $15 grocery shops because, hey, I need to buy groceries anyway so I might as well get paid for it. I've also been sticking with low fee plus reimbursement shops since they're usually for some type of entertainment, like sit-down restaurants or seeing a movie (so I get to go out with my husband on someone else's dime).
I also work full time and average 2-6 shops per week. There aren't a lot of companies with shops in my area so I do a lot of pizza, postal and small random shops. I love the grocery shops but if you don't happen to see them right away, they are gone. I do some fast food now and then but I really don't want to eat the food since I am fighting to lose weight. If I go in and get a meal--darn it--I want to eat it. I rarely see shops over $15. I wish I knew how to find higher paying shops.
I work full-time, commute, and have a lot of other obligations after work, so I look at a dollar amount rather than a certain number of shops. My goal is $500 - 600 per month including reimbursements I actually wanted/needed (groceries, gas). I have a few standing shops I do each month and the rest I pick up as I go.
I have a paid lunch hour, so if I can do a shop and finish the report over my break I feel like I've had a bonus day
I also work 2 weekends a month so I have days off during the week to shop, which helps me beat the after work and weekend shopping crowds.
I have a paid lunch hour, so if I can do a shop and finish the report over my break I feel like I've had a bonus day
I also work 2 weekends a month so I have days off during the week to shop, which helps me beat the after work and weekend shopping crowds.
Thought I'd tell you my plans this weekend. I have 3 jobs lined up. One retail and two dining. That's a good pace for me.
Great info all - I do a couple of low paid shops per month since my teen loves FF and the Sonic, Arby's and Panda Express shops are so easy. Really need to step it up, I'm going to set a goal of $400 in September and see how I do!
I work one full-time job and also a part-time job. I really vary in the amount of shops that I do in any given month. Some months, I can find 8 shops to do in one day on the weekend and some months, I have only 1 shop per weekend. It depends alot on what is available in my area. I won't go far on my one day off to do shops.
I work full time, but I really need extra money right now, so I've schedule a ton of shops over the next week, about $300 worth. I'm pretty much doing shops all day Saturday and Sunday this weekend, but most of them are quick and easy, including some fast food price audits, which are really easy. I also snagged a bunch of cosmetic shops, which I really like.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/01/2014 11:48PM by spartygirl121.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/01/2014 11:48PM by spartygirl121.
I work another job full-time and mystery shopping varies with other things going on in my life and my desire to work. Sometimes zero shops a week and sometimes 15 shops if you count a wrap-around week end. Perhaps it is better to say I do between 10 and 35 a month. Today, I did eight shops for about $140.
Maybe you are looking for a way to increase your income while doing less. The way to do that is to sign up for more companies to get more shops to choose from, show companies you are a good shopper to have schedulers do better by you, pay attention to bonuses and when they are likely to be available and be ready to pounce when you see the high paying shops.
Good luck.
Maybe you are looking for a way to increase your income while doing less. The way to do that is to sign up for more companies to get more shops to choose from, show companies you are a good shopper to have schedulers do better by you, pay attention to bonuses and when they are likely to be available and be ready to pounce when you see the high paying shops.
Good luck.
Happily shopping Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts and Connecticut
tlin Wrote:
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> Great info all - I do a couple of low paid shops
> per month since my teen loves FF and the Sonic,
> Arby's and Panda Express shops are so easy.
> Really need to step it up, I'm going to set a goal
> of $400 in September and see how I do!
It's August 2, why not set that goal for August instead of September?
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> Great info all - I do a couple of low paid shops
> per month since my teen loves FF and the Sonic,
> Arby's and Panda Express shops are so easy.
> Really need to step it up, I'm going to set a goal
> of $400 in September and see how I do!
It's August 2, why not set that goal for August instead of September?
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At the moment only demons come to mind
At the moment only demons come to mind
there is only 29 days left in August and 30 in September.
September has more potential.
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Yes, that $.46 a day extra makes it tougher.
There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind
At the moment only demons come to mind
But there are jobs posted on most boards for August and not September.
Happily shopping Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts and Connecticut
I work full-time. For shops that require purchase, it depends on the shops available. I've been doing a lot of vitamin store ones lately because, hey, free vitamins to stock up on, and there are tons of locations near me. Signed up for a couple retail ones because there are items I wanted to buy at those stores anyway, and why not get reimbursed for them. Did two fast food shops for the end-of-the-month bonuses they had. I do 3-4 alcohol compliance shops a month. There have been a couple really high-paying reimbursement ones I've done lately, like carpet cleaning and having my sofa reupholstered, that I couldn't pass up on, but I don't plan on them since those pop up so rarely for me. I'll do hotel ones when I have to travel, 2-3 times a month, and those are sweet because I get reimbursed twice.
For inquiry/phone/no purchase shops, I do at least 15 a month, mostly phone shops.
Honestly, it depends on the month. I stick mostly to no purchase shops when I set my goals, and add the others on as-needed.
For inquiry/phone/no purchase shops, I do at least 15 a month, mostly phone shops.
Honestly, it depends on the month. I stick mostly to no purchase shops when I set my goals, and add the others on as-needed.
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bgriffin Wrote:
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> tlin Wrote:
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> > Great info all - I do a couple of low paid
> shops
> > per month since my teen loves FF and the Sonic,
> > Arby's and Panda Express shops are so easy.
> > Really need to step it up, I'm going to set a
> goal
> > of $400 in September and see how I do!
>
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> It's August 2, why not set that goal for August
> instead of September?
Because school hasn't started yet! Too hard to have kids home, a full time job and do more MS'ing. Although I am liking the teen clothing store shops for back to school.
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> tlin Wrote:
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> > Great info all - I do a couple of low paid
> shops
> > per month since my teen loves FF and the Sonic,
> > Arby's and Panda Express shops are so easy.
> > Really need to step it up, I'm going to set a
> goal
> > of $400 in September and see how I do!
>
>
> It's August 2, why not set that goal for August
> instead of September?
Because school hasn't started yet! Too hard to have kids home, a full time job and do more MS'ing. Although I am liking the teen clothing store shops for back to school.
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