@MFJohnston wrote:
4. Casinos: For 60 minutes onsite, I often get paid $30 and get reimbursed for a meal. Plus, I get to keep my winnings. If you learn how to play Blackjack well, you'll walk out the door with $50-$200 in your pocket almost half the time. Otherwise, you get reimbursed for your losses.
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@jlovesnyc wrote:
One caveat needed here: you must have no other responsibilities in life except Mystery shopping.
@lbtweety47 wrote:
I shop in the Phoenix area - zillions of apartments and not one of them has taken me less than 45 minutes on-site. Just the tour alone us usually 20-30 minutes long. Not sure how this shopper does these in 15-20 minutes. Additionally, one MS company has such a redundant report that it alone takes an hour. Just how do you do $60 apartment shops in under 15-20 onsite and same for report?
@dkreines wrote:
Sorry to have to ask, but what is JIB? Doesn’t ring a bell with anything around me, but maybe I’m just dense!
@lbtweety47 wrote:
So you are saying they do not offer to give you a tour - ever?
@bgriffin wrote:
But that is entirely dependent on your shopping radius. If you shop in Copper Harbor, MI and only shop in a 20 mile radius well no it's not gonna be helpful. If you shop the entirety of South Florida absolutely.
@bgriffin wrote:
I'm going to guess, and I certainly could be wrong, that you have a "regular" full time job and MS is a side income. Most members of my family are or were people who are self employed and bill by the hour. People who are familiar with that business model understand that $60 an hour doesn't mean if you work 2000 hours a year you'll pay taxes on $120,000. That's an employee mindset where they get a dollar amount per hour and that's the end of it. It's a difference in mindset and one of the things I was talking about in my earlier post in this thread. To be really successful in this business you have to switch your entire viewpoint from employee to self employed.
@1cent wrote:
Dunno why you think that. I was simply agreeing that there is ambiguity in describing your pay as an hourly amount. It’s as reasonable to take it one way as another. A person who gets a certain hourly rate is not “making” the amount before expenses. That would be to exaggerate, at least in my understanding of things. It’s just nuance.
@Shop-et-al wrote:
I park on a side street and complete two little reports just in time for a 9 AM store opening. Highly caffeinated, I zoom through all parts of that shop, use another nearby side street for reporting on this race, and return home at exactly 8:42 AM.
I do not video shop or make anywhere near $60 an hour mystery shopping. The closest I came was an investment shop for $125 which I thought was great until I had to speak with the first person a long time who introduced me to two others that I had to also chat with. All this was after a 15 minute wait before the interview. Then when I got to the exit I realized no one had actually stamped my validation although they did take it to validate so embarrassingly I had to back out of a queue of cars as did the 3 cars behind me and drive back within the business park. Then over an hour to do the report after the 20 minute drive home.
But I think this is one of the most professional threads I have read with a lot of great advice. I am impressed by all of you who have contributed with such well thought out posts. The one I got the most out of for my personal shopping life is the above one however where Shop et al was actually able to turn back the clock and finish her 9 AM shop and get home by 8:42 AM. Wow that would really up my hourly net.
@sandyf wrote:
@Shop-et-al wrote:
I park on a side street and complete two little reports just in time for a 9 AM store opening. Highly caffeinated, I zoom through all parts of that shop, use another nearby side street for reporting on this race, and return home at exactly 8:42 AM.....
Typo alert. Typo alert.
Back to your regularly scheduled thread....
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu
@myst4au wrote:
I am continually amazed by the auto shop that pays $20 (sometimes with a $5 bonus) and insists that it will take only 15 - 20 minutes on site. Are you kidding? Has anyone ever managed to complete a new car shop in 20 minutes and have it accepted? "Test test drive not required" - sure, but if one is offered, take it. 20 minutes on site is absurd.
@myst4au wrote:
I am continually amazed by the auto shop that pays $20 (sometimes with a $5 bonus) and insists that it will take only 15 - 20 minutes on site. Are you kidding? Has anyone ever managed to complete a new car shop in 20 minutes and have it accepted? "Test test drive not required" - sure, but if one is offered, take it. 20 minutes on site is absurd.