I appreciate any help from those who have done these shops. I'm trying to find out if you get full pay in the case that the business does not charch a fee for using Visa and you walk out with no purchase. Still waiting on the scheduler's response and trying to make a route here. Thanks guys.

If they do not charge anything, you are not supposed to make a purchase.
Just take pictures of the storefront and any signage and you're good to go!
I have been paid in this instance.

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Full pay? All the scheduler said was that "you get partial payment for any shop you don't have to do the full shop"... I understand if they don't take Visa at all it's $2, but I'm asking her about this no fee scenario which I expect is most common. These locations are 1-2 hours away- I need confirmation of payment details. Thanks for your response.

Any hints on where to find.

Yes, full payment for the no charge.
I have one I'm planning to drive to next weekend when I'm going to be closer.
Those bonuses are getting sweet

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@audrialyn30 wrote:

Any hints on where to find.

Random businesses.
They are insta shops in presto

Thanks so much for clarifying for me. Happy shopping.

I just picked up a number of these at end-of-round for $50 and $65 — was totally worth it — slotted them in between my usual grocery store route and added a quick (and I mean quick) $300+ to my weekend.

That said — did they only schedule them in the app this time? Pre-pandemic these were done on the regular platform over a couple years — there were a few specific locations — but most of them were “pick any store that charges a surcharge” — it was $8-$20 depending on the time of the month plus you had another 8 for a purchase, which you made regardless. I *cleaned up* on these… I hit every convenience store I could hit that I knew had some sort of minimum purchase or surcharge (which is most of the mom and pops) — even with the overpriced convenience prices I bought a lot of canned food and sauces I would otherwise buy at the grocery store and made many hundreds since there were so many and they were “pick a location”.

This time around it seems they put them in the app, only had specific locations, and now you don’t make a purchase unless there is a surcharge, and only then if it’s for Visa Debit — which is funny because if they accept Visa they automatically accept Visa Debit — and Visa is ran as credit (running it as “debit” runs it over Interlink or Accel or whatever the debit network is on the back of your card) — that said the purchase reimbursement was $12 instead of 8 — but only if you made the purchase because the surcharge was for “Visa Debit”.

But yes — the end of month high paying bonuses were nice… I just really hate the app.

I asked about those shops when they first started and they told me that I had to have a Visa credit card and I don't have any credit cards. I was told that a Visa debit card didn't qualify. So i never did any of them.

I have a Visa card that I only use for mystery shopping and so far I have picked up a couple of hundred from paying it off every month. As long as the spouse does not get ahold of it.

@Morledzep wrote:

I asked about those shops when they first started and they told me that I had to have a Visa credit card and I don't have any credit cards. I was told that a Visa debit card didn't qualify. So i never did any of them.

This is a first time I've seen the Visa debit card mystery shops, before that I only saw Visa credit card shops and that was always in the app.

Before Visa debit was in the app, was it the sassie system or their other system?

I got a visa debit card about 5 years ago specifically for these shops. Unfortunately this round they did not have any in my close area and when I finally found some about a 45 minute drive away with no free parking (that is about 8-10 miles where I live) they were all at restaurants where the least expensive menu item was $12 or more. They were all sit down type places where you could not just order a cup of coffee from the counter. I did not notice in the rules that these could be done without a purchase and by the time this thread started with that news they were gone.