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March 28, 2014 03:14AM
Hello! I travel extensively in the midwest for hotel shops but now I have to go to the east coast for some business regularly. Do I just email the schedulers and ask if they have hotels available? I know I MS does but that requires "acceptance". The one that has self assign doesn't have any in the area i am going to. Any advice?
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March 28, 2014 03:32AM
If you have a working relationship with the scheduler by all means email him/her. It may be that you just are not being allowed to see shops in other areas with that company.
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March 29, 2014 08:02PM
Did email a couple. No luck yet:-(
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March 31, 2014 03:43PM
When you travel for business, don't you get hotel and daily stipends? If you do MSC shops in addition, are you charging your other real job for it? Double dipping?
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March 31, 2014 03:59PM
That would seem like the way to do it.

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March 31, 2014 08:49PM
ShopperFun99 Wrote:
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> When you travel for business, don't you get hotel
> and daily stipends? If you do MSC shops in
> addition, are you charging your other real job for
> it? Double dipping?


Yes, it is double dipping and acceptable as long as the evaluation is done properly.

Willing to travel, Alberta, Canada
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March 31, 2014 09:53PM
It's perfectly fine to double-dip on this if you ask me. The person is putting in real work to get the hotel reimbursed. While your company won't find out, I would be wary of the Tax Man. I wouldn't advise someone to claim this on taxes as a business expense or an unreimbursed employee expenses.

The caveat is that when 1099s come out, sometims the MSC will show everything as "pay" and not reimbursement.
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March 31, 2014 11:25PM
The company I worked for is well aware of my Mystery Shopping. As for the taxes, it is straight forward. It is an income with no expenses.

Willing to travel, Alberta, Canada
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April 02, 2014 05:05PM
On a smaller scale, it's like doing a Parking Garage shop, then charging another MSC for parking on their shop. Do you do that?
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April 02, 2014 05:13PM
If travel expenses are being paid per diem and not as reimbursed expenses it is not double dipping, it is stretching the travel dollars.

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