@OceanGirl wrote:

Since I began mystery shopping, I've learned a lot about how many different kinds of professionals get shopped---people from bankers to healthcare providers to funeral home workers and pet groomers. Does anybody know of any companies which audit lawyers or charities? I think those kinds of audits would be really interesting.

Perhaps not the same as what you are referring to, but I know that TrendSource has a wide variety of announced audits of all kinds (usually for credit report providers). Three that come to mind are:
1) a property management company
2) a used car dealer
3) a lawyer
Scheduling is a challenge sometimes because you have to match your schedule and the subject's, but the subject wants the audit done because it allows them to keep access to the reports. The actual audits are pretty easy and pay $17-21 in my area for 10 minutes on the phone and 30 minutes or so on location.

Also, I found TrendSource's schedulers to be pretty easy to work with, which is a nice plus.

Hi OceanGirl,

I do not know if this answers your question but I have mystery shopped a lawyers office. It was recently with Confero, Inc. It was a phone shop. What was being mystery shopped was the intake process and not the actual lawyer. I agree with the other people who state that they can be audited professionally only by other lawyers or qualified people (maybe people with law degrees who are not lawyers).

There is a mystery shopping company called Faith Perceptions where you can mystery shop a given church. They only specialize in this. While I have not done a shop they do list the requirements. They have a churched type and unchurched type. The churched type is when you have went to a service in any church 6 times during a year (I think). While you do have to remain for the service what I think they are looking for is what other people described such as Handicapped accessibility, the friendliness of accepting new members and other such criteria. These shops are about $45. I have no idea of the complexity of the report required.

There is another company I cannot remember but they have a project where you mystery shop for a non profit animal shelter of some type. It is in a geographically small area. They are doing this on a donated basis. Although the mystery shopper is paid for the shop.

I edited this because I left out that Customer Experience Experts does mystery shopping with a charity in Pennsylvania. They accept used goods such as clothes and small appliances. I do the phone shops sometimes. Although they also have in person ones for the same charity. This charity collects goods and resells them as secondhand goods. They then donate to one of three charities of your choice.

Hope this helps. Have a good weekend.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/01/2016 04:55AM by sandrapdunne.