Consistent and Available Shops -- Seeking Help from my Fellow MS'ers

In my years as a mystery shopper, no other company has given me consistent work like MF. On any given day/hour they have shops available on their site (some more desirable than others) that are up for grabs. I'm looking to broaden my net and am trying to find other such companies with consistent and available shops, can anyone recommend any MSC's like this? I've tried several different MSC's here and there, but the work availability rate just doesn't compare with MF. Hope you all have some great ideas.

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I don't think there's a right answer to this question. MSC have different clients in different areas. Sometimes, the companies I'm signed up with don't have work in my area but when I check my parents zip code they do.

I would recommend building a good rapport with said MSC because I've noticed that I get calls and emails from schedulers when I didn't previously. I'd also reach out to schedulers and let them know you're interesting in doing xyz shop and ask if they'll consider you for the next rotation. I have a nice relationship with one scheduler that has assigned six shops to me when the limit was 2 per rotation. I was also given a $5 bonus on each shop.

Depends on your location, varies from state to state.

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Also, what kinds of shops do you prefer.

When I was between contracts last year, I did shops that did not require me to spend money. I had very good success with Technology Store Shopper, Trend Source, EPMS, Remington, Sinclaire, ath, Harland Clarke, Intelli-Shop and Pinnacle.

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I don't care if a company always has shops in my area. For me it is preferable to get companies with high paying work even if it is hit and miss. If you are just trying to limit your time hunting for assignments, make sure the email notification is turned on for each company. It is less time consuming than going to individual company job boards each day. When you first start getting emails from a company it takes a little longer because you will probably be opening each one. After a short time you will learn which emails to just delete without opening or to wait until the word bonus appears in the subject line.

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Here is an idea that you did not mention in your question. You might consider merchandising jobs in addition to mystery shops. These may be steady, sporadic, or routed. Recurring projects might keep you busy when you are not mystery shopping. Does your area have many locations that utilize merchandisers?

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By merchandising, do you mean the gigs where I price check 100+ items and get paid something like $.20/item? I've seen a few jobs like that come across my email but I'm not interested. This past month I've dived into the Sassie shopping system and really diversified my shop portfolio. Farket Morce's jobs are just to low in pay to want to do anymore.

I think shop-et-all meant actual merchandising shops that require to reset particular products, not where you price check certain items. That's auditing shops.When you asked for MSC that had consistent shops, it depends on your type of preference shops and shopping area. Some require that you become an actual employee like interactions marketing. They used to have a grocery store shop that had monthly assignments but the client decided not to renew their contract. They also do a club warehouse shop on a monthly basis.

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