I do have to thank Shadowshopper for helping me get my foot in the door. I "joined" them around 2008 and then forgot all about MS. They wanted money to tell me the names of these MS companies. NO THANKS!!! I went back, and rejoined them 10/19/2009. They STILL wanted money for the names!!! NO THANKS AGAIN!!! (I just looked. Turned out I had not logged in for over 1.5 years!) I started getting a phone call from Shelly Martin, asking if I could do a MS here in Tulsa. It was an oil change. I put her off, thinking, either it, she, or Mystery Shopping is a big scam. Maybe all 3 of them. Anyway, in December, I was planning on driving back home to New York and PA to visit family. Shelly had called every single week, almost begging me to help. And every week I would put her off, but I did become more interested again in this Mystery Shopping thing. Anyway, it turned out the Oil Change company was the very same one I have used for almost 30 years.
I told Shelly that I will do this thing ONE time, and if it was a scam, then the only thing I lost was the time to fill out the report. I was already going to take my vehicle to the very same company she wanted shopped. I did my first MS on Dec. 11, 2009. A week later I left for home. I did tell my friends about this, and they all thought I was nuts. BUT, on Jan 25, 2010, still in New York I got an EMail saying this company paid me $40.94! WOW. It might be real after all.
After I got home, I EMailed Shelly and asked her, "What else do you have? I just drove over 4000 miles, and need another oil change!"
And I never sent Shadowshopper a dollar. Shelly told me she got my name and number from them. To this day, I have never paid to get the name of a company.
Regards,
I. L. Banks
Tulsa Shoppers, you take Woodland Hills Mall and Promenade Mall. O'hh yes, you can also have the Adult "fun" stores. I will take the rest of Tulsa & Broken Arrow. Thank you! -- I.L.Banks