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Hello All....

I am a newbie to mystery shopping. I've actually spent many years running successful small businesses, some of which were subject to mystery shoppers so I'm still sort of chuckling at myself for exploring this.

Bottom line, I may be winding down my business life in some time, and I am looking for a way to make a "few bucks" and kill some time and learn something. A cursory calculation shows that I can so this with "shopping", taking into account things like gas, supplies, etc.

Basically here to soak up information at first - and then as I get into it certainly I will contribute real observations. As of now I'm solely signed up for "intelli-shop" -- - BUT it's been 8 days and my Social Security verification is still showing "pending" so therefore I"ve not done a shop. Hope everyone is doing well out there.

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Welcome to the forum! Most of us are signed up with many different MSCs, some with 100 or more. While you are waiting for IS, why not sign up with other companies? I recommend Marketforce and IPSOS as good starter companies.

Thank you Jas, I will start looking at those. Is it customary for Social Security verification to take over a week? I thought an employer can do that in a day or two.

Also...general question. A cursory search shows complaints about slow payment or no payment from a myriad of companies. Can anyone attest to a company that pays as agreed if work is done?

@BabyBooey19
Nearly every company listed on this site (a link to the list is at the bottom of this page) pays reliably and on time in accordance with their own policies. The large majority of complaints tend to come from folks who either did something incorrectly or who did not understand the specific company's payment processes and/or schedules. That said, sometimes MSC's do make mistakes - as they are run by humans. The vast majority of them are honest and remedy those mistakes quickly.

There is only one company that I avoid completely: Red Quanta. I've never shopped with them, but the stories (from folks I trust) I have heard about them lead me to not want to let them have my SS#.

I do approach Cirrus Marketing Intelligence with caution. They are very slow payers (slowest in the industry, perhaps?) and have "forgotten" to pay me about 50% of the time. Still, when I have called and inquired, they have always paid me within a day (usually a few hours) of my call. So, I continue to work with them - Though only sparingly and when the bonuses are high.

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@JASFLALMT wrote:

Welcome to the forum! Most of us are signed up with many different MSCs, some with 100 or more. While you are waiting for IS, why not sign up with other companies? I recommend Marketforce and IPSOS as good starter companies.

Welcome! I like to hog all the work

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