Revealed cellphone shops?

Has anyone done these yet? I see them on my job board and it says limit one, but I have no clue what the details are. Would be nice to know what's involved.

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If it's the ones I'm thinking of, they were pretty easy. You went into a place selling prepaid cell phones and asked the manager specific questions about their relationship with the particular carrier in question. I did one the other night which took about 10 minutes on site and around 20 minutes of reporting.

The ones I have seen require going to Walmart and talking to the manager of the cell phone department? Really? When was the last time you have seen a Manager of the cell phone department? And why should they talk to you if you do find one? Why should any Walmart employee talk to you, even assuming that they know the answers to any of your questions? When I have done mystery shops at Walmart, generally all they seem to want or know how to do is to run my credit (which I refuse to let them do and then they lose interest in me and walk away).

Do you have a letter of Authorization from Walmart telling them to talk to you?

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I have one of these shops scheduled for Thursday. There is a Letter of Authorization that you can flash.

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I'm 0 for 2 on these. Perhaps more than one MSC is doing them, because I have no letter, and went back twice. Phone center manager unavailable every time.

It sounds like it would be easy, if you catch the one person in the store you can talk to. (No second in commands here.)

I've done several of these over the past year (Walmart). The managers always cooperate. Just did one this evening. The others are a mixed bag. Either they do not want to do the survey or they talk about everything they don;t like. In either case it takes way too long.

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I did one of these last year and it is on my "ten foot pole" list. When I revealed, he got very angry and almost got physical. I calmed him down and he answered a few questions and then got angry again. He started yelling at me in another language and I just ran out. I walked 4 blocks out of my way to get to my car and waited around the corner in a snow storm because they were standing outside watching me. I was paid for the shop but I will never do one again.

When I did my shop the manager wasn't in, and the associate working said he couldn't answer questions. It took less than five minutes in store. Filling out report took another five minutes.

Today I noticed a boatload of these still on the board, now offering $25. I could make a 'route of five or six, but wonder what the actual time to do the interview would be.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt

These (at least the ones I think are being discussed, and not the WalMart ones) are well bonused in my area right now, and I'm going to apply for one. I think there might be two, and if so, I'm going to try and grab both. In this case, I'd rather do revealed, since these locations aren't anywhere I'd ever really shop for or buy a phone!

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I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.

I have done several of these and have not had any problem with any of them. Maybe the people in Kentucky are just nicer!! Really, very easy and not problems at all.

I signed up for one of these but, I think it is $15 a piece with a bonus.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/23/2015 12:30AM by breestjon.

My experience with these has been T E R R I B L E. These businesses are sometimes in a corner of a local convenience store/bodega and in many cases there is not an associate present and an assessment cannot be made. They may be "out to lunch" or gone for a few hours or ???. You will then be paid $3 for your time/trouble/effort. The instructions/guidelines say to "call first" but sometimes the phone rings and rings and rings with no machine giving the hours, etc. or it may be a voice mail in another language. Some of the assignments which you have already accepted lack a phone number in which to call. That happened to me and I just went to the location without calling because no phone number was listed on the assignment. The location never had a cellphone-type business at that address (the present business had been there for a number of years). I documented all of this, took a pic of the address and was refused payment of any kind of a fee because I did not call first. How can you call if there is no phone number?

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