@azncollege wrote:
I did an adult store shop once. It was super awkward asking the employee for sex toy recommendations. It was worth it though. The scheduler was desperate and heavily bonused it. Also have done merchandising for adult stores too. That one's not as bad.
@MFJohnston wrote:
None. I never HAVE to do any shop. As an IC, I only do the work I want to do.
That said, attempting to bribe a guy into letting me illegally wire money was interesting.... As was posing as somebody trying to open a bank account that would receive large international deposits from certain questionable countries.
@awestover89 wrote:
Just curious, what all odd/strange/unique shops have you completed?
I think my strangest mystery shop was to get a urinalysis drug test completed. I had paperwork claiming that I was a newly hired truck driver and needed a drug test for the Department of Transportation. The report wanted to check for all the pieces that the DOT requires for a drug test to be valid (temperature sensor on the collection cup, specific instructions provided, if the employee initialed the specimen cup within a specific time frame, etc)
Anybody else have any unique MS stories?
@azncollege wrote:
I did an adult store shop once. It was super awkward asking the employee for sex toy recommendations. It was worth it though. The scheduler was desperate and heavily bonused it. Also have done merchandising for adult stores too. That one's not as bad.
@MsJudi wrote:
Checking toilet flush holes with a hand-held mirror...and climbing on a step ladder, that the shopper carried with them, to check the air freshener thingy. I won't admit to doing it, though I might have 12 years ago or so.
@globalinhabitant wrote:
Local cannabis dispensaries in my area often do shops involving photographing various bongs, pipes, etc. Sometimes I also get to buy weed and lighters.
@ceasesmith wrote:
I don't know about strange, but this one was definitely awkward: on a tax shop, with a fake SS number and fake W-2 provided by the client, when I handed over the w-2, the preparer just about jumped out of his chair. The business on the fake W-2 was in the same parking lot! "I've never seen you there," he said. "Oh, I'm pretty well hidden in the back office." "Hmmm," he continued, "this doesn't look like the W-2s for the other employees." He got up, went into the back office, and came back with a sheaf of filed taxes. "Yours looks totally different, and doesn't have the same EIN as these do."
Gulp.
"Oh, I just probably work in a different division than those other employees."
(Scheduler's response to this: Omigod, you're GOOD!)
Awkward, awkward, AWKWARD!!!
@quovatis wrote:
haha What MSC has adult stores? I've never seen those.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
I've done some decent adult stores that carried pretty lingerie and sex toys, but not the kind of adult stores that are located near truck stops (that I am reasonably sure don't carry lingerie--unless truckers like to cross dress?).
@shopperbob wrote:
Back in the prior decade, a security company decided to "test the waters" of mystery shopping and sent me to hand marked bills to a missionary priest; as the story went, he was suspected of scamming donations. It paid $40, with a report that was very easy.
I did this one a few times. Unfortunately, the associate left me alone with the urine cup (unsealed) and I had to report that. As I recalled it was about 15-22 seconds left alone, but long enough for someone to tamper with the specimen cup..The client wants to know if they followed the rules but in this case, they did not.@awestover89 wrote:
Just curious, what all odd/strange/unique shops have you completed?
I think my strangest mystery shop was to get a urinalysis drug test completed. I had paperwork claiming that I was a newly hired truck driver and needed a drug test for the Department of Transportation. The report wanted to check for all the pieces that the DOT requires for a drug test to be valid (temperature sensor on the collection cup, specific instructions provided, if the employee initialed the specimen cup within a specific time frame, etc)
Anybody else have any unique MS stories?