I haven't started shopping for pay as yet only on a couple of practice shopping assignments that were submitted and approved. I contacted a mystery shopping advertisement in a local newspaper. It was a 30 day trial mystery shopping opportunity for $1.95 ,after that you get charged $8.95 a month.I called and was able to get the trial time extended. Now that I know that there are free mystery shopping sites or at least companies/sites that only charge one time fees in order to gain access to such information,I'm trying to learn as much as I can about mystery shopping so that I will do the best job that I can for the least amount of money.