Can anyone share the maximum amount made in ONE SINGLE shop?
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I think we've all pretty well established that those big jobs are few and far between. It appears that we have pretty much covered this subject.
It would be nice to have one good-paying assignment a month a month. I'm talking about, say, $200 each time.
I enjoy the health and medical assignments. They are easy for me and I get very good scores on them. The pay is ok, and I get reimbursed if the assignment is for expensive medical tests. I wish I could get them more often. The companies I'm signed with usually have six-month rotations.
I used to do the plasma center assignments. The pay from them is immediate and the pay from the MSP is pretty good. Surprisingly, if you are overweight, you can give more plasma and you are paid by volume. The only drawback was that sometimes they'd get behind on their work and I'd be in there quite a while. I had to know which day of the week and which time of day were better to show up. I certainly didn't schedule anything else the same day that couldn't be moved around on my schedule. The plasma centers also have a program where they will inject you with a vaccination, which they pay you for, then pay you extra for this special blood. The vaccinations are frequent. When I was learning about it, I thought a person had to have the disease first. When I found out what it really was about, I questioned the advisability of the frequent vaccinations. The explanation was that the antibody level lowers over time and they want to keep it high. The lists of things they can do with "donated" (paid) plasma is huge. Some people have the opinion that they are superior for donating blood when others get paid for plasma. The plasma is very valuable. I never did participate in the Special Programs part. I wish I'd found out about it much earlier. I "donated" a lot in my youth. I quit that time because my husband was afraid I was wrecking my health. I did it this time for the same reason, money, but I only did it once a month because that's when the assignment came along. It's amazing to me how many ways it's possible to make money. The problem is that there is a money ceiling that most of the population reaches that I've bumped against several times, and it is never high enough.
I also participate in clinical trials. I have a half-day doctor's appt. tomorrow at a medical research center. I get free appts. and target meds (except this time it will be double blind) and I get paid. I have several medical research center phone numbers on my cell phone. This clinic is very efficient, so I have very little waiting between tests or interviews.
I do merchandising but I don't believe I've had any bonused assignment. I have had C-store audits that were bonused because they were in small towns.
It appears to me that those people who do bonused mystery shopping routes have the best deal in our trade. I'm taking on another job in the fall, so I won't be able to do those except on some Saturdays and the occasional holiday. I don't have a desire to do the overnight kind and I don't own the laptop that would make me efficient at it, anyway.
It would be nice to have one good-paying assignment a month a month. I'm talking about, say, $200 each time.
I enjoy the health and medical assignments. They are easy for me and I get very good scores on them. The pay is ok, and I get reimbursed if the assignment is for expensive medical tests. I wish I could get them more often. The companies I'm signed with usually have six-month rotations.
I used to do the plasma center assignments. The pay from them is immediate and the pay from the MSP is pretty good. Surprisingly, if you are overweight, you can give more plasma and you are paid by volume. The only drawback was that sometimes they'd get behind on their work and I'd be in there quite a while. I had to know which day of the week and which time of day were better to show up. I certainly didn't schedule anything else the same day that couldn't be moved around on my schedule. The plasma centers also have a program where they will inject you with a vaccination, which they pay you for, then pay you extra for this special blood. The vaccinations are frequent. When I was learning about it, I thought a person had to have the disease first. When I found out what it really was about, I questioned the advisability of the frequent vaccinations. The explanation was that the antibody level lowers over time and they want to keep it high. The lists of things they can do with "donated" (paid) plasma is huge. Some people have the opinion that they are superior for donating blood when others get paid for plasma. The plasma is very valuable. I never did participate in the Special Programs part. I wish I'd found out about it much earlier. I "donated" a lot in my youth. I quit that time because my husband was afraid I was wrecking my health. I did it this time for the same reason, money, but I only did it once a month because that's when the assignment came along. It's amazing to me how many ways it's possible to make money. The problem is that there is a money ceiling that most of the population reaches that I've bumped against several times, and it is never high enough.
I also participate in clinical trials. I have a half-day doctor's appt. tomorrow at a medical research center. I get free appts. and target meds (except this time it will be double blind) and I get paid. I have several medical research center phone numbers on my cell phone. This clinic is very efficient, so I have very little waiting between tests or interviews.
I do merchandising but I don't believe I've had any bonused assignment. I have had C-store audits that were bonused because they were in small towns.
It appears to me that those people who do bonused mystery shopping routes have the best deal in our trade. I'm taking on another job in the fall, so I won't be able to do those except on some Saturdays and the occasional holiday. I don't have a desire to do the overnight kind and I don't own the laptop that would make me efficient at it, anyway.
jmeyers655 Wrote:
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> I'll be setting up 2 standees (cardboard
> displays) in a movie theater. That's $25/standee
> if I have to build it. $15 if I don't.
Have you ever done a standee for a theater before? We just did one tonite that took 3 HOURS and 3 people!! (For the movie, *The Mummy*). It was a complicated one, I guess!
f you've not ever done one, let me advise you....bring along some help!
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> I'll be setting up 2 standees (cardboard
> displays) in a movie theater. That's $25/standee
> if I have to build it. $15 if I don't.
Have you ever done a standee for a theater before? We just did one tonite that took 3 HOURS and 3 people!! (For the movie, *The Mummy*). It was a complicated one, I guess!
f you've not ever done one, let me advise you....bring along some help!
Sandra Sue, I did the plasma ones until I hit the cut off age at 60. Because so many folks are grossed out by blood or plasma donation they are hard to fill jobs so usually were $50 per month and then $20 average at the center. But indeed there were times I was there for 5 hours because the center staff verges on rudeness to their clientele. I tried it with appointments and without appointments and still sat in their waiting area, with all the charm of a bus station and Jerry Springer blaring from the TV, for interminable amounts of time. Place was always packed with not too clean bodies and signs on the wall prohibiting foul language. Real class act [NOT].
Over the years that I did those they never got the water fountain fixed and only two or three times was there any coffee in the thermos pump pots. I usually packed a lunch and took along a couple of soft drinks in my purse. Towards the end they established a take a number type system so if you were 35 away you could go do something else and come back in an hour or two and still be only 8-10 numbers away from being called.
Over the years that I did those they never got the water fountain fixed and only two or three times was there any coffee in the thermos pump pots. I usually packed a lunch and took along a couple of soft drinks in my purse. Towards the end they established a take a number type system so if you were 35 away you could go do something else and come back in an hour or two and still be only 8-10 numbers away from being called.
With minor differences, Flash, you pretty much describe my plasma center. It is good to take a good book for the waiting room, but on the couch that's difficult and they won't even let you close your eyes, as if they can't tell when someone is passed out.
I didn't know there was a cut-off age.
I didn't know there was a cut-off age.
I'm afraid to try a standee project, wabbitmom, for the very reason you describe. Also, I have to be careful that I am not promoting social values within the movie with which I do not agree. I do take movie assignments occasionally, but I've found that the long time I have to stay there, even after midnight, is counterproductive. I've heard of "teams" that go to a big theater--even met someone who does it--but I don't know anyone who would do that. I still don't know how they make more money as a team doing all the night's assignments versus one person doing one. They say they get to see different movies that way. If I don't get to go to the big city for that kind of project, I'm at a theater where the staff ask about my life history before I've left, and know where I live, too, because I'm in there before the customers and they keep a conversation going. There isn't as much for them to do.
Hi Everyone,
Im A Newbie. The most I made was Mystery shopping for a Harley shop.
But I want to Make the Big Money
Im A Newbie. The most I made was Mystery shopping for a Harley shop.
But I want to Make the Big Money
Had a fabulous shop yesterday!! As I mentioned on this thread earlier, my scheduler set me up with an $80 prepaid visa (with virtually no restrictions) to use at a store I shop in frequently. The company calls it a "fun shop"...and it WAS! I got a new scan/fax/printer for using in my m.s. business. How many questions on the survey? 5!!! They mostly wanted to know if their cashier promoted the store's credit card to me at checkout. Wouldn't we love to have at least one cream puff job like that every month?
That's the famous Bestmark Fun Shop. How many little shops did you have to do to get it?
Does your scheduler's name start with a C or a U?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/28/2008 06:37AM by sneakers.
Does your scheduler's name start with a C or a U?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/28/2008 06:37AM by sneakers.
I like Best Mark too they offer bonus or add bonus to many of my shops. Every shop I have done for them since I have started mystery shopping they have added a bonus.
Think maybe I might get one of those prepaid Visa Cards? Sounds like a blast!!!
I did an apartment shop for $50. It was 2 miles from my house and one of those no one qualified to do besides me. :-)
Now I have completed the video shop certification so I'm expecting to get some great shops soon.
No way am I going to submit myself to "research" no matter what they pay. My health is good and I want it to stay that way. LOL!!!
Think maybe I might get one of those prepaid Visa Cards? Sounds like a blast!!!
I did an apartment shop for $50. It was 2 miles from my house and one of those no one qualified to do besides me. :-)
Now I have completed the video shop certification so I'm expecting to get some great shops soon.
No way am I going to submit myself to "research" no matter what they pay. My health is good and I want it to stay that way. LOL!!!
sneakers Wrote:
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> That's the famous Bestmark Fun Shop. How many
> little shops did you have to do to get it?
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> Does your scheduler's name start with a C or a U?
Oh, 4-6, I can't remember. But, I bundled them because they list a lot of electronics shops and our stores are close together here. As someone else has said, once you get the rhthym of the report writing, they go MUCH faster. At least 2 of the shops were video game age compliance - I have a teen age son who does these with me. Pays the same as anything, but so simple, and maybe 5 questions on the survey, with very little detail.
Scheduler's name starts with "A".
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> That's the famous Bestmark Fun Shop. How many
> little shops did you have to do to get it?
>
> Does your scheduler's name start with a C or a U?
Oh, 4-6, I can't remember. But, I bundled them because they list a lot of electronics shops and our stores are close together here. As someone else has said, once you get the rhthym of the report writing, they go MUCH faster. At least 2 of the shops were video game age compliance - I have a teen age son who does these with me. Pays the same as anything, but so simple, and maybe 5 questions on the survey, with very little detail.
Scheduler's name starts with "A".
Billienicolosi,
I think you are referring to clinical trials. There is a misconception in the public. The trials have classifications. By the time they get to the general public, all of the animal experimentation and experiments within the prison population have been done. They are just trying things such as "is this really working" or "does it react differently in women's bodies and teenager's bodies besides men's bodies" and "do we have enough people trying it that we can put our name behind it". Everyone's body reacts differently. My husband has excess iron in his blood and has to give blood to lower it. He cannot take a vitamin pill that has any iron in it or he will get sick. My mother has an adverse reaction to sleeping pills. Clinical trials are for medications that just haven't been released to the public yet.
Sandra
I think you are referring to clinical trials. There is a misconception in the public. The trials have classifications. By the time they get to the general public, all of the animal experimentation and experiments within the prison population have been done. They are just trying things such as "is this really working" or "does it react differently in women's bodies and teenager's bodies besides men's bodies" and "do we have enough people trying it that we can put our name behind it". Everyone's body reacts differently. My husband has excess iron in his blood and has to give blood to lower it. He cannot take a vitamin pill that has any iron in it or he will get sick. My mother has an adverse reaction to sleeping pills. Clinical trials are for medications that just haven't been released to the public yet.
Sandra
I know about clinical trails and medicine trials I'm a retired RN. :-)
And NO WAY, JOSE!! I worked my entire career with the Federal Government and saw trails every day. Many times there is a "deadly" reaction. I've seen it happen and do NOT plan on taking such a chance.
I'm like your husband and have too much iron in my blood..hemochromotosis is the name of the disease. I too give a pint of blood once a month but it's not for comsumption for the public. My doc is an oncologist and he uses my blood (spun down) for plasma or blood protein for his cancer patients.
And NO WAY, JOSE!! I worked my entire career with the Federal Government and saw trails every day. Many times there is a "deadly" reaction. I've seen it happen and do NOT plan on taking such a chance.
I'm like your husband and have too much iron in my blood..hemochromotosis is the name of the disease. I too give a pint of blood once a month but it's not for comsumption for the public. My doc is an oncologist and he uses my blood (spun down) for plasma or blood protein for his cancer patients.
Ok, just wanted to be sure.
It's interesting what your doctor is doing.
I know that any bureaucracy, such as the federal government, makes mistakes. Some of my clinical trial companies are very organized, and some have internal problems. When my son participated in one, I noticed that the doctor was aware of some situations he shouldn't be. I reminded him that the study was double-blind. He looked sheepish, and said, "Yes, well. . . ." I'm aware that abuses happen, and I'm sure that some studies have the hand of the pharmaceutical company in too far.
It's interesting what your doctor is doing.
I know that any bureaucracy, such as the federal government, makes mistakes. Some of my clinical trial companies are very organized, and some have internal problems. When my son participated in one, I noticed that the doctor was aware of some situations he shouldn't be. I reminded him that the study was double-blind. He looked sheepish, and said, "Yes, well. . . ." I'm aware that abuses happen, and I'm sure that some studies have the hand of the pharmaceutical company in too far.
Overall I am with billienicolosi on the clinical trials. I have been with two studies and was impressed by the amount and quality of medical care/coverage/monitoring I got. They were post menopausal studies and of course you have no idea whether you are the test group or control group and if test group at what level of dosage. There was a super RN that I saw on a regular basis and we both concluded I was probably in the control group (by random) because there were no changes in anything during the 2 years of the trial. But she was available 24/7 by phone if I had ANYTHING unusual and she gave me a list of the side effects that seemed to be related to the medication under study. I am not pressing my luck by going into further studies though I get a call every few months.
My understanding was that prisoners were no longer allowed to be used in test trials for pay (like the non inmate public) or gain time or even as volunteers.
My understanding was that prisoners were no longer allowed to be used in test trials for pay (like the non inmate public) or gain time or even as volunteers.
I thought the same about prisoners. I thought they quit their studies on prisoners a long time ago. I remember they were doing cancer studies on them and when a number of prisoners died they stopped them.
I worked in a section of the Federal Government where all drugs were tested on live patients before they could be sold in the drug stores. Many were FDA approved but the side effects kept them from ever hitting the market.
If a medicine didn't pass muster in the department I worked it was deleted from the Formulary.
I worked in a section of the Federal Government where all drugs were tested on live patients before they could be sold in the drug stores. Many were FDA approved but the side effects kept them from ever hitting the market.
If a medicine didn't pass muster in the department I worked it was deleted from the Formulary.
The protocols at this point are subjected to close ethical scrutiny, so I am comfortable that there is due diligence before anything is ever tested in people. I don't know to what extent, if any, trial med protocols are modified when an "incurable and otherwise terminal" situation is involved. I do remember the public outrage when the medication made from ground apricot pits (a lethal material if I recall correctly) that was touted for cancer retardation or remission could not even be experimentally tested with the terminal in this country. There were folks spending gobs of money to take loved ones to Mexico to try the stuff and the results were, as predicted by the FDA, lethal.
Well you could luck up and just get the placebo. But I would NOT take that chance..they couldn't pay me enough to take chances with my health after I've seen what I have with drug testing. Those I saw the drug had already been tested and FDA approved but further testing is required before it's "general population" use.
There are some drugs on the market today I know have been removed from the Government Drug Formulary because they have "sudden death" issues. My doc offers me one of these and I say "NO WAY"!!
They are only allowed on the market because of Drug Lobbying.
I'm really careful what I put in my mouth and swallow!!!
There are some drugs on the market today I know have been removed from the Government Drug Formulary because they have "sudden death" issues. My doc offers me one of these and I say "NO WAY"!!
They are only allowed on the market because of Drug Lobbying.
I'm really careful what I put in my mouth and swallow!!!
Agreed. And I don't get thrilled with the notion of your XYZ is a little off, lets try this for a few months and see if it helps. I figure natural human differences are likely to have things 'a little off' average from time to time but that the body has an incredible ability to readjust itself for a good balance. I remember all too well taking TUMS because they were such a "great source of calcium". I spent two weeks of gastric misery "withdrawing" from them because my body had become accustomed to them and was overproducing gastric juices to compensate.
Lots of folks get "addicted" to simple things. Like Afrin nasal spray. It's called "rebound" when you use something until your body over compensates for the use, like you and your TUMS. There are so many drugs even over the counter drugs that are so dangerous to your natural system they destroy the entire "flora and balance" then your body has to compensate. And it will compensate.
I've done the same things with some simple everyday medications. I got addicted to Afrin nasal spray..had to have my Afrin or my sinus were packing their bags big time. Carryed Afrin every where I went..wouldn't leave home wihtout my Afrin.
Took me months to break the habit and when ever my doc recommends a nasal spray??? I tell him if that's all he has to offer..Forget about it!!
Then there's the anithistamines. Antihistamines are good for short time use but take them frequently and you end up with histamine headached..they feel like migranes.
And so many antihistamines enteract with anitbiotics and can cause sudden death.
Aspirin is one of the most dangerous drugs ever!!!
And millions are taken every day.
Boggles the mind!! LOL!!
I've done the same things with some simple everyday medications. I got addicted to Afrin nasal spray..had to have my Afrin or my sinus were packing their bags big time. Carryed Afrin every where I went..wouldn't leave home wihtout my Afrin.
Took me months to break the habit and when ever my doc recommends a nasal spray??? I tell him if that's all he has to offer..Forget about it!!
Then there's the anithistamines. Antihistamines are good for short time use but take them frequently and you end up with histamine headached..they feel like migranes.
And so many antihistamines enteract with anitbiotics and can cause sudden death.
Aspirin is one of the most dangerous drugs ever!!!
And millions are taken every day.
Boggles the mind!! LOL!!
A doctor told me to take baby aspirin every day for my heart. I told another doctor I wasn't doing it regularly. He told me to take it, saying, "Have you ever heard of a side effect to aspirin?" I've heard of people getting rebound headaches for taking them too much, but that's more than I take.
Baby aspirine doesn't have the effect the 500mgs has. Many people take the 81's for their hearts.
An allergic reaction to Aspirin can be deadly. And funny thing is an allergic reaction to aspirin can creep up on ya and before you know what's going on your having difficulty breathing and swallowing. An Anaphylactic reaction!!
And a lot of people don't understand difficulty swallowing is a sign the Blood pressure is falling and OOPS!! They are in big trouble quickly.
An allergic reaction to Aspirin can be deadly. And funny thing is an allergic reaction to aspirin can creep up on ya and before you know what's going on your having difficulty breathing and swallowing. An Anaphylactic reaction!!
And a lot of people don't understand difficulty swallowing is a sign the Blood pressure is falling and OOPS!! They are in big trouble quickly.
Just dropped in for a visit and found this thread fascinating. I work for a group of Rheumatologists and althought most people think that's ony arthritis, they actually are specialists of the autoimmune diseases. That means where your own body attcats itself in some way for some reason. We have a large research department and do clinical trials. I enteract with the drug reps alot. It blows my mind how much the drugs cost. Some of our treatments cost up to 10,000. a treatment and they get the treatment every month or 6 weeks. But don't get me started on insurance companies!!!and health care!!!
But I do the drug screening shop everytime I become eligible.
But I do the drug screening shop everytime I become eligible.
Anaphylactic reactions are no joke for sure. My sweetie knows that bee stings will do him in. We are just really really careful. While he works around outside a lot, he stays away from my veggie and flower gardens during the day when bees and wasps are active. I do all the spraying of hornet and mud dobber nests etc. in the barn and the eaves of the house and anywhere else I see them on the assumption that there are probably enough similarities between bee venom and wasp/hornet venom that he might have problems. He is too big for me to be able to haul into the truck for a fast trip to the emergency room if he was down, even if I had lots of adrenaline flowing.
Yep but Rheumatologist are great at what they do including treating RA and Lupus.
Most people don't know how many different arthritis's there are and there are many. And most of them are immune diseases and attack major organs every chance they get.
Diabetes is another immune disease. Not often treated by a Rheumatologist but most likely should be treated by them in some manner. Best doc for Diabetes in a Endocrinologist.
I know about drug treatments and the cost.
I'm amazed the gas situation hasn't raised the price of drugs YET! Bet it will before all is said and done.
Most people don't know how many different arthritis's there are and there are many. And most of them are immune diseases and attack major organs every chance they get.
Diabetes is another immune disease. Not often treated by a Rheumatologist but most likely should be treated by them in some manner. Best doc for Diabetes in a Endocrinologist.
I know about drug treatments and the cost.
I'm amazed the gas situation hasn't raised the price of drugs YET! Bet it will before all is said and done.
Why is diabetes not often treated by a rheumatologist? I know of a diabetes doctor who is an endocrinologist, but most of the people I know who are diabetic mention an internist. Is an internist (English word) the same thing as an endocrinologist (Latin? word, though it doesn't mean internal)?
Am I the only one who thinks this thread has come unraveled? The last 16 entries have had nothing to do with "what's the maximum you've earned in a single shop?" You certainly have the right to have this discussion, so I'm not trying to be snotty, guys...just wondering if maybe one of the mods could move it to a different spot?? Thanks.
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