I am brand new to Mystery Shopping and trying to navigate my way through. I thought I finally found a great mystery shopping co. but now I am wondering. I did the tests for Corporate Research International and then started doing the tests for the individual companies to do shops for. One was really complicated and time consuming. It included buying something from the store, waiting at least 30 minutes tnen returning to the store to do an exchange and also do a whole mystery shop in between(before actually doing the exchange) and then I find out it only pays something like $6.00 but I thought tht that wasn't too bad considering you got reinbursed for buying an item for up to $8.00. Then I took the test for a couple of other shops and after doing the tests found out tht they only paid $4.50. It would cost me around tht much just for the gas used to get to the jobs. Is this normal? Are there other companies out there tht pay better? I am getting discouraged. Would appreciate any help and advise. Thanks!