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I'm scheduled to do one of these tomorrow. It's the one that requires the purchase of a lottery ticket and a convenient store item. On the job board it said it was a convenient store mystery shop.

When I read the guidelines I realized it also involves the gas station. Photos are required for all no answers concerning the exterior. This could involve multiple photos of items such as out of order hoses, pot holes, litter, signage, etc. Also, if the paper towels at the pumps appear to be empty, you have to reach your hand in the dispenser to verify this. Oh, and you can't buy gas for your purchase, so why would you be wandering around the pumps taking pictures? Then you have to check the dumpster which I'm pretty sure is behind the building.

The only saving grace is that I am almost certain that the location I chose doesn't have a gas station. However, there are lots of these available in my area and most do have gas stations. I would have liked to pick up a few more, but after reading the guidelines, I don't know.

If anyone has done one of these, how on earth did you remain unrevealed? Thanks in advance for any advice!

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I do them all the time. They are actually very easy. The most photos I have ever taken is two, I think. Usually it will be a lack of soap in the bathroom or trash accumulated in the lot. Don't panic and may you win the lottery, I never do!

Yes, they are pretty easy.

A lot of people park by the pumps and then run into the store to grab an item. That is a good excuse to be by the pumps, if you have to take a photo do it on your way out so you don't tip them off before going in. I like these shops but I have started doing the in stock audits and that disqualifies me for the mystery shops because then they know who you are.

Thanks RobG, Phoebe70, and yawarakai. It turned out the location was a convenient store only. I'll remember your suggestions yawarakai when I do one of the gas station ones. RobG, that was the first lottery ticket I ever bought.

I do the in-stock audits and food audits for them. The 6 locations I do on regular route only 1 has pumps. The mystery shops for them seemed easy thou I have never done one.

Shopping Western NY, Northeast and Central PA, and parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Have car will travel anywhere if the monies right.

Does anyone know if you get to keep the ticket if you win one of these? I am doing a different shop for a different company and wondered if we can keep winnings. Thank you!

I assume so but ask the msp.

Shopping Western NY, Northeast and Central PA, and parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Have car will travel anywhere if the monies right.

I think so. I purchase scratch-off tickets for some gas station audits which don't specify a food purchase. (Some do.)

I buy the $2 tickets and have won from $2-$100... I got to keep the winnings.

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jjoh0921 Wrote:
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> Does anyone know if you get to keep the ticket if
> you win one of these? I am doing a different shop
> for a different company and wondered if we can
> keep winnings. Thank you!

Of course you do. I would never tell the MSC that I actually won on the ticket I bought for the shop. I am surprised that the shop requires you to buy a lottery ticket in the first place. All of the gas station shops/convenience store shops that I do specifically state that your required in-store purchase can not be any of the following items:

(1) Alcohol
(2) Tobacco products
(3) Lottery tickets

The only shops that I know of that allow you buy (1) or (2) are the age compliance shops for either product.

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Hey, sorry to go off subject for a minute, but I just noticed that there is a $15 mobile mission on iPoll at Kangaroo and Circle K stations.

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Plan the work. Work the plan.

There are certain shops that require you to buy a lottery ticket. I've never seen any, but people have talked about them here.

Time to build a bigger bridge.

I did just one, I won $10 from the lottery ticket, called myself $6 ahead and put the money in my pocket even though the clerk kept nagging me to buy more tickets.

Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain

tanmanlovespool Wrote:
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> jjoh0921 Wrote:
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> Of course you do. I would never tell the MSC that
> I actually won on the ticket I bought for the
> shop. I am surprised that the shop requires you to
> buy a lottery ticket in the first place.

They use the ticket as proof of visit since you don't ask for a receipt.

So, if you win, you can't turn in the winning lottery ticket because then you don't have the requived POV?

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

I believe the shopper sends a copy of the ticket, not the ticket itself.

Time to build a bigger bridge.

So you have to make a copy before you turn in the ticket for you prize. And most MSCs require that you keep receipts (or whatever else) for 2 to 3 months (sometimes more) in case they need to have you send them in.

Moot point for me anyway. At least in this area, instructions always forbid buying lottery tickets, cigarettes, and liquor. Must be some sort of law. In fact shops in Pennsylvania State Liquor stores (commisioned by the Liquor Control Board) can not by law reimburse for the required purchase, and instead can only offer a flat fee with no reimbursement. Same with liquor stores in Delaware and New Jersey.

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

Around here the lottery ticket you have to buy isn't a scratch-off. I have time to go home, scan the ticket, do the report then return and get my huge winnings after the numbers were announced in the media. My husband is the one who told me I won $10.

Depending on the company who's doing that particular shop (there are more than one) the instructions may say that any money won has to be turned over to the MS company. If I won millions I'd just tell them to keep their $6 shop fee and piddly reimbursement.

Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain

I have SO many tickets to check!

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