Your Highest Paid Shop
I'm tied at the top, two different $100 shops. A car shop, like OP, and luxury jewelry store shop. If I count reimbursements for things I actually benefitted from, there was also a beauty service that reimbursed the full $100 spent and paid $50 (total of $150). I've been shopping for about 8 months.
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$175 for a loan application where I was in the office no more than 25 minutes. The MSC needed a shopper with a credit score of 800+ and willing to accept a hard pull.
I saw a Lamborghini shop in my area offering $250.
Best I ever got was $75 per apartment shop. I was able to three in one day so it was a decent four hours of work.
Best I ever got was $75 per apartment shop. I was able to three in one day so it was a decent four hours of work.
I was paid $200 for a fast food shop. And for a bank shop the same day. But it seems to me the Fast food was cancelled as I was enroute to that town. The location had water problems and had to close
A long time ago. That company has zero work for me for the last few years. ¯?\?_?(???)?_?/?¯
A long time ago. That company has zero work for me for the last few years. ¯?\?_?(???)?_?/?¯
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My highest was $200 for a gas station audit. I didn't even own a safety vest, but when my application was accepted and I was assigned the shop, I went out and bought one.
I was on a ski vacation in the middle of nowhere Colorado and saw a bank shop with a huge bonus. I think it was $300 for a 15 minute visit. It was within walking distance so I did it after a day on the mountains. I thought it was too good to be true and finally believed it when it hit my bank account.
$600 for a gas station shop.
Shopping Western NY, Northeast and Central PA, and parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Have car will travel anywhere if the monies right.
I got $400 for a remote Lowe's shop years ago. The base pay for that shop was $12 I believe.
Hi! I just got $100 for a Rolex shop! It was pretty easy, too. The hardest part was pretending that I am someone who would wear a Rolex (I’m more of a Swatch person). 
I got $300, many tears ago, for a detailed HELOC shop where I actually closed on the HELOC and then canceled during the "safe cancel" period. I also got great satisfaction because I knew (due to long experience in real estate transaction) during the shop that my reports were showing several MAJOR violations of law on the part of the lender. NOTE: the client was NOT a lender, it was an entity ferreting out illegal loan practices. Within 12 months I was reading about the legal actions to shut than lender DOWN.
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Years ago, the MSC that was first assigned the Kroger program had an extremely hard time filling the remote locations that nobody wanted to go to. Regardless one of the terms of the contract that the MSC signed stated that every single store needed to be shopped. They called me up in desperation because they knew I loved last minute assignments. The location was located in a remote part of Montana and I was living in LA at the time. Not only was I paid $200 for my shop fee, but the MSC paid for the last minute flight tickets, rental car with gas, hotel room and even gave me a $40 food allowance per day. I think all told it cost the MSC over $1K just for me to complete that one visit.
I am going on 6 months now as well and I managed to get one Kia at $140. The other two Kias were $110. I have seen many of the banking stuff at some high fees but I can't mess around with my credit right now so I have to steer clear of anything banking or credit related.
My highest fee for a single shop was $300, not including travel bonus, for an overnight resort shop that I shopped regularly until I got Covid. Highest fee for a shop that took only a couple hours total was $200 for a local luxury car shop.
I recently had two 20 minute Home Depot shops for $100 and $150. I'm sure over the years I've had some other goodies, but can't remember. Such a rare happening!
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I remember doing Acura shops pre-covid and getting $100-$150 per time. That was before the "M" company was taken over by the "i" company.
I have done some financial shops where the pay was $500 for opening at $5K trading account with a major broker. Would be nice to do 1 of these ever day Monday - Friday :-)
I have done some financial shops where the pay was $500 for opening at $5K trading account with a major broker. Would be nice to do 1 of these ever day Monday - Friday :-)
$1074 for a job 5 hours drive each way. I told them I had to have $50 per hour and since I couldnt get there early enough to return home same day, hotel and food. They were desperate enough to say OK.
Back when MF had gas stations and fast food, was not unusual for me to make $1100-1200 in a day for 3-7 remote locations,
Back when MF had gas stations and fast food, was not unusual for me to make $1100-1200 in a day for 3-7 remote locations,
The car shops have been the highest ($250 for a luxury dealer)
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My highests are a pittance compared to some of y'all, but I've gotten $100 a pop for a couple of senior living centers, apartments and a financial services seminar (which I believe also reimbursed mileage).
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This was a few weeks ago but I received a reimbursement for a luxury facial (client was a high-end skincare manufacturer) - they reimbursed the entire cost of the service which was $778. I was sweating bullets until I received the payment, lol. That was insane! This was reimbursement only, no fee, but thought it was a really crazy and interesting assignment. I could not BELIEVE the price of the service but was excited to earn those points on my credit card.
I think, it was a while ago, $300 for a Sunoco station way down south.
Multiple purchase and returns at a very-close-to-my-house retail chain $300.00
$120 for a four pump blue station. (not with the current MSC that does them)
And there were four of them with 30 or so miles. Worth the $70 hotel stay.
And there were four of them with 30 or so miles. Worth the $70 hotel stay.
$500 for an online savings account opening with a zillion screenshots and a followup survey. Easy and I could not believe it when I was paid.
I'm about to do a large route over the coming month that will bring me my biggest mystery shopping pay ever, plus reimbursements, but each individual shop on the route would rank as well-paying yet not super high. It's a high-volume route. I'm not going to post any numbers until after I've completed all of them, but suffice it to say I'm pretty excited about it.
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@shopnyc wrote:
I'm about to do a large route over the coming month that will bring me my biggest mystery shopping pay ever, plus reimbursements, but each individual shop on the route would rank as well-paying yet not super high. It's a high-volume route. I'm not going to post any numbers until after I've completed all of them, but suffice it to say I'm pretty excited about it.
Hope it all goes well!
I have done personal lending shops where I took out a personal loan at a finance company for $1000. The shop fee was $500 and the mystery shopping company reimbursed for the loan and fees and I received the loan proceeds, so in total, I made $1500. I had to keep the loan open for three months.
I am trying to understand the arithmetic. I am going to assume that the fees (application, interest, etc, amounted to $275. In that case, you received $1000 from the loan company and had to send them $1275. The MSC paid you a $500 shop fee, reimbursed the $1000 loan, and paid the finance company fee of $275 (in my example), so they sent you $1775.
You received $1775 from the MSC. You had to send the finance company $1275. Your net proceeds seem to be $500 (which is substantial, of course). You said that you made $1500. I think you made $500. Please help me understand.
You received $1775 from the MSC. You had to send the finance company $1275. Your net proceeds seem to be $500 (which is substantial, of course). You said that you made $1500. I think you made $500. Please help me understand.
@Catmom wrote:
I have done personal lending shops where I took out a personal loan at a finance company for $1000. The shop fee was $500 and the mystery shopping company reimbursed for the loan and fees and I received the loan proceeds, so in total, I made $1500. I had to keep the loan open for three months.
Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008
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