I saw an ad:

Market Concept Surveys.
​Market research surveys offers a highly effective method of understanding your customer's interactions with the public-facing side of your business or organization. Sometimes, excellent marketing and a well-designed store layout can be let down by a lack of knowledge amongst staff or a poor attitude on the shop floor for instance.

We use this project to understand and compare the level of product or service knowledge amongst staff, review sales skills, see how complaints are handled and escalated, test the procedures for carrying out a refund or exchange and a wide array of other potential transactions between customers and front line staff.

PART-TIME JOB APPLICATION
MARKET RESEARCH/SURVEY / ONLINE MARKET RESEARCH SURVEY.

We require part time representatives to send on assignments to specific nearby stores or online stores to make some purchases and in the process evaluate the quality of the store's customer service delivery, condition of specific products in the store or observe any difficulty or malfunction in online stores. Some of the assignments may also be on online stores.

We will be providing funding for every assignment, payment will be via electronic payment or drawn on checks/money orders and posted to you at least 24hrs before an assignment.

You will be paid a Monthly Salary of USD $1,500 and also a bonus/commission of USD $350 on every assignment given to you. You may receive up to two (2) assignments in a week as the case may be.

A feedback form for every assignment will be emailed to you by our officers. The details on the questionnaire includes: Name of attendee, product purchased and also quality of customer service at the store.

This vacancy contract is part time and will not require much of your time as assignments can be carried out at your free time in the day.

Ummm. It's not an MSC. It's obviously a scam. The biggest tell...."posted to you at least 24hrs before an assignment."

Yes, the old fake checks/money orders scam.

We will be providing funding for every assignment, payment will be via electronic payment or drawn on checks/money orders and posted to you at least 24hrs before an assignment.

SCAM!!!!!!!

Dreadful writing...unrealistic pay...checks/money orders in advance...oh my.

Who said, "sucker born every minute"?

I'm sure there will be people who fall for this.

Run as fast as you can it looks like a big scam

@hbbigdaddy wrote:

Who said, "sucker born every minute"?

I'm sure there will be people who fall for this.

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I have had three legitimate MSCs provide advances. But, with each I have had long standing relations and the advances were for unusually large required out-of-pockets. The only outfits providing "advances" to those whom they do not have well established relationships with are banks (which require collateral) and loan sharks (whose collateral requirement is generally one's health).

This was advertised on Nextdoor.com

As the others have said, this is definitely a scam.

@Tonytj wrote:

This was advertised on Nextdoor.com

And anyone can post to Nextdoor.com, so it's not reputable. My Nextdoor just had someone post that there's more adds than neighbors on the site.

It sounds like you want to go ahead and try it, but don't come crying back here (I think others would agree with me here) when you've been warned it's a scam.

The fact that they refer to USD is a dead giveaway. Of course they pay in USD. That is typically used by Asian scammers. Everyone in the US knows you are paid in USD

No legit company pays $350 per generic MS assignment, and except in Nevada (which requires licenses, etc), companies do not hire mystery shoppers as part-time employees.

Scam.

dspindler New Participant 9y New
The fact that they refer to USD is a dead giveaway. Of course they pay in USD. That is typically used by Asian scammers. Everyone in the US knows you are paid in USD

US Mysteryshopping companies list USD. Maybe they know I'm in Canada?