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November 25, 2008 09:19AM
do any companies give u the money to do the shopping with
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November 25, 2008 11:45AM
NO! If you get one that claims to, run the other way, it is a scam. If you cannot afford to front the money for shops, do ones that do not require purchases, like banking. And better yet, banking often pays more than the retail jobs that require a small purchase as proof of visit, or worse, a humungous purchase with same day return.

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November 25, 2008 01:48PM
Dee is obviously figuring you are being offered or have been sent a check, generally between about $2700 and $4900 from a company that looks/sounds legitimate but you never signed up with or requested specific jobs. This is the standard scam that is going around. They want you to do a few jobs for them, several sound reasonable and then one or more are to wire transfer money to a third party. Sounds great but the problem is that the check is bogus and will not be determined to be bogus until it is presented on the account on which it is written and either that bank or the account owner will determine it is a forgery.

In the normal course of things a legitimate mystery shopping job pays a fee of between $5 and $20, with some more complex jobs paying more. Generally you will wait 4-8 weeks after doing and reporting a job to receive payment for your work. Many jobs require you spend $1-5 so that you have a receipt to submit to prove you were at the right place at the right time, for which most of the time you are reimbursed. In my years of shopping I have never gotten money up front for a shop except when I was sent a gift card to use on a specific shop that was testing cashier response to a gift card.
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November 27, 2008 03:25AM
One company I do bank shops for will Fed Ex checks to me to cash in the bank. These are small amounts and they deduct the amount from my shopper fee.
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December 01, 2008 01:32PM
Just this pass week I had a kid at my work claim he had a away to help me:
long story short, despite my warning he got caught up in cashing those very large checks...its a darn shame.
dee
cedar city ut.
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