How frequently does ACL pay a bonus for shops in metropolitan areas?

I've never seen an ACL shop posted with a bonus. Does it happen? Perhaps just in small towns without many shoppers? If they do pay bonuses, do they just throw the shopper a small bone, a pittance? Are the bonuses offered via the phone or via an email sent out to specific shoppers rather than posting the bonus on their website?

Create an Account or Log In

Membership is free. Simply choose your username, type in your email address, and choose a password. You immediately get full access to the forum.

More About Payment

The largest bonus I can recall seeing posted was $5. This was for a suburb of a large metro area. I can't say whether there are other ways bonuses are offered. The times I have been texted, I was not interested and did not follow up with it.

It all depends on when a shop is close due. The scheduler may offer a $5 bonus to a reliable shopper so the shop get done by their due dates but I wouldn't hold my breath to depend on a bonus towards the end of the month. It's all in the matter of timing. Some shoppers makes out great on bonuses for other MSC. For me, if the timing was right, I would accept some bonused fees if I did not have anything scheduled for that specific date.

There is a shop about 20 miles from me that gets up to $7 bonus frequently. It often starts out with a $5 bonus, even shortly after it's posted. Other shops for the same restaurant don't get bonused, so I'm assuming this location is just hard to fill.

I was offered a $20 bonus for a restaurant shop tonight with ACL. I am in a metropolitan area and the restaurant was about 30 miles away in a smaller town.

As far as I can tell, the word "Bonus" is on the top of ACLs list of words that should not be used by their staff. As hard as they may beg for a job to be filled, they also do not appear to want to commit to giving any special future preferences. When a new month starts, heros become zeros.

My posts are solely based on my opinions and for my entertainment, contact a professional if you need real advice.

When you get in debt you become a slave. - Andrew Jackson

If I do a shop for them, it's usually a restaurant shop and it's because I love the food at that particular location. I have seen their hotel shops, reimbursement only, and will not do because I only work for fees for hotel shops. I never count on a bonus from them and in over ten years of shopping for them I can only recall a few for $5 and never more. I live in a smaller city with about 250,000 people. They aren't short on shoppers in my area. However, I have been fortunate to be offered some of their promo shops, which generally reimburse very well.

The highest bonus I've seen is $8. That's for a shop in the heart of a mid-size metropolitan area.

It depends the due date, how badly they need that contract to be done and your relationship with the scheduler. I negotiate couple shops when I can and request a bonus to finish them early. It may not work all the time but you wont lose anything. Plus its a free meal at the end - I find their surveys easy to complete with less comeback from the editor.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/17/2017 03:36PM by istbil.

I do their no fee gas station shops. I always ask for a bonus, and I always receive it. It's not much, but I'm not working for gas.

Always ask for a bonus.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

In my market there are often bonuses of certain locations of their pizza shop. I am not near the most frequently bonused location but my 2 locations do get bonused at least 2 or 3 x per month. The bonus is not necessarily at the end of the month but at the end of that period's rotation which could be almost any week.

I routinely get offers of an extra $5, $10 and sometmes $15 bonuses either by email, text or occasionally phone calls. I've negotiated a $25 bonus on a phone call once Figured they were desperate.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard Feynman-- letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230

Around here only on the pizza shops and that is all the time.

I saw a $60 Bonus fee on a Promo shop one time. Usually the bonus is $5 to $10.

Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.

Click here to login

How frequently does ACL pay a bonus for shops in metropolitan areas?

Create an Account or Log In

Official List of Mystery Shopping Companies

Mystery Shopper Magazine