Tonight's crazy offer (product pickup)

Buy 80 items. They won't all be available in one store, maybe 5 per store. Drive all over getting them at 15-20 stores.
Each one costs about $30. (80 x $30 = $2400).
Package and ship in different boxes, five I believe, to five different foreign countries, by Friday.
Pay is just over $150 for this whole fiasco.

I have done this plenty of times over the years. Heck, I have the owner's Fed Ex login info to ship things.
Somebody must be completely clueless. Who would even do this? It's easily 3 full days of work, plus driving and packaging and shipping. They're good for the money. No worries there, but seriously???

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You have done this shop plenty of times? Why?

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@SoCalMama wrote:

Buy 80 items. They won't all be available in one store, maybe 5 per store. Drive all over getting them at 15-20 stores.
Each one costs about $30. (80 x $30 = $2400).
Package and ship in different boxes, five I believe, to five different foreign countries, by Friday.
Pay is just over $150 for this whole fiasco.

I have done this plenty of times over the years. Heck, I have the owner's Fed Ex login info to ship things.
Somebody must be completely clueless. Who would even do this? It's easily 3 full days of work, plus driving and packaging and shipping. They're good for the money. No worries there, but seriously???

This sounds more like a shipping mule scam. I guess I don't get it why you would have to buy all these things, ship them to a foreign country, out of your own pocket.... It sounds risky and shady to me but another poster said they have done this shop...

@HonnyBrown wrote:

You have done this shop plenty of times? Why?

I have done this type of shop many times. It usually pays about $500. I've done bigger projects that pay closer to $3000 for the whole thing.

It sounds interesting for the right pay but I agree if the offer showed up in my inbox I'd think it was a scam. However having been an expat pre-Amazon.com. I would have paid a pretty penny to have someone to go shopping for me back home.

I would need more than $150 and even at $500 it would have to be a company that has proven to ME that they pay as expected, eother wise I'm out the $2400 + shopper fee.

Really people. Really? Why would anybody do this unless one was paid immediately? For some reason I just thought of the film "Midnight Express". Ha ha & ha.

You should really start referring to this as a shopping assignment and not a "shop"...as in mystery shop. They are simply acquiring product for an overseas client. The majority of skills required are in packing and shipping.

@SteveSoCal wrote:

You should really start referring to this as a shopping assignment and not a "shop"...as in mystery shop. They are simply acquiring product for an overseas client. The majority of skills required are in packing and shipping.

The worst part of it is finding all of the items fast enough to ship by Friday.
It’s legitimate. The fee was just absurd.

Finding this thread tonight is too funny.

I got offered a product pick up which involves going to one store 3.5 miles from my house to purchase 8 items then ship them to the MSC office in the continental U.S. The scheduler felt obliged to tell me up front between product and shipping it could run close to $150. The pay is $140 which would be direct deposited into my account on November 30.

The same fee to jump through all those hoops? Not bloody likely.

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I've done something similar for Mintel, though not to five different countries. If it's a company with whom you've built a good relationship, it can be well worth it. The pay you're describing is not even close. Mintel pays *by the object* you purchase.

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I do these monthly. They direct deposit estimated amount for products cost before you shop. Mine involves going to 1-2 stores, purchasing some 2 liters/cases of soda. Filling out the report. Then shipping back some of the product(only 1-2 cans of per case plus the bottles). I print out shipping labels, so no shipping costs for me, I get mileage but I can do this while I am out on other errands. They send me boxes and labels, etc. Mine is always a small shipmment of maybe 4 cans and 2 bottles of soda. There is some calculation they use to determine pay based on what you bought and how many stores. With mileage I think it ends up being $30-40 or so each month that I make (this includes mileage). I don't mind it.

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