My advice is to talk with Kathy at Instant Replays. Also, EPMS has very few video shoppers who have their own equipment and they pay an extra $10 if you have equipment. Most companies pay extra for using your own equipment. You will earn the price of the equioment just in equipment bonuses, not in fees, within 2 months, maybe less if you hustle. Be sure to sign up with EPMS (which has its own job board and is not part of VSN. plus the "big seven" that run the Video Shopper Network. Instant Replays has a job board, and most post jobs on VSN. Once you are established as reliable with a company, call them a couple of times a month to see what they may have for you.
I LOVE video shopping. Just be sure to construct good scenarios and aliases. It's poor scenarios, not equipment being seen, that cause not shop failures due to the shopper getting identified. When you spend from one to two hours with a target, you need to remember who you are and which email address and follow-up phone number you are using for that shop, and the ages of the kids you claimed to have, etc.!!!!
Do a search on these forums and at volition.com, which has an extensive set of video threads to read, and on VSN, and immerse yourself in the collective wisdom of the top shoppers.
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.