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Re: What do you think of jobs with $0 pay but high reimbursement? - Yesterday

I think they're great. They keep my competition occupied while I get paid elsewhere. I don't do anything without a fee of at least $10.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Is this appropriate feedback from an evaluator? - 4 days ago

A lot of this is an over the top reaction by the editor, but since you are just beginning to get rolling with shopping, do know that the MSC's will take it very seriously about not having someone with you if they explicitly say not too. The end client/location can dispute the entire report if they want a solo shopper on that basis alone. Judging by what is posted, I am under the impression that i
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Strategy for Maximizing Your Shops - 10 days ago

This will take time, but learn your market. Know where in your area you can wait for bonuses, or where it's base or nothing.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Gas Station Inspection Pushback - 14 days ago

Extremely rare to never. Every now and then you might get a clerk who makes you wait a little to call their boss. As far as flat out rejections, I've had three in 11 years.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Gas Station Inspection Pushback - 14 days ago

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by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Do you do shops on Easter Sunday? - 15 days ago

@CoolMusic wrote: All in all, I had a fabulous holiday that has its roots in Paganism. You? Great! I enjoyed my first day off from this since March 22.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Do you do shops on Easter Sunday? - 16 days ago

@mjt9598 wrote: Not everyone celebrates holidays, especially Christian holidays. Correct. But I don't know who celebrates and who doesn't. Just like I don't know who's celebrating the first day of Ramadan, or Diwali, but being mindful of when those holidays are is something I may keep in mind if I'm at an establishment that may be staffed by someone who celebrates them.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Do you do shops on Easter Sunday? - 16 days ago

@prince wrote: @CoolMusic. I am not at my best if I have to work on a holiday because I want to be with my family. Some may be just as happy to work on a holiday as on another day, but many don't get the choice Pretty much this. They may also have family that traveled to their location for the day that they want to see. They accept that they work, but they may be getting more text messages t
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Do you do shops on Easter Sunday? - 18 days ago

No, it's a personal blackout day that I don't agree with shopping people on. You're not going to see store employees at their best.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: XOM Site Experience: Site Exp._Qtly Q22026 - 22 days ago

@Ilaron wrote: @KA047 wrote: @Ilaron wrote: @ArkLaMissshopping wrote: I've completed these jobs so many times now that I can take the test with my eyes closed and pass it. Even when it's not covered in the instructions, I already know it. I am not sure if that's good or bad...lol. These are my favorite jobs! Are they worth the $12 pay? As a standalone, no. As a cluster of eight in a ten mile
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: XOM Site Experience: Site Exp._Qtly Q22026 - 22 days ago

@Ilaron wrote: @ArkLaMissshopping wrote: I've completed these jobs so many times now that I can take the test with my eyes closed and pass it. Even when it's not covered in the instructions, I already know it. I am not sure if that's good or bad...lol. These are my favorite jobs! Are they worth the $12 pay? As a standalone, no. As a cluster of eight in a ten mile radius that I can whip out i
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Killing It - 25 days ago

I've never had as good of a March as I having this month. I feel like I am picking up a lot of pieces of nicely bonused quarterly shops that just stayed on the boards due to how freezing cold this winter was. I avoided them too, but now I'm not sure my competition ever really went back to look to see if they were still lingering as the weather gets a little better. (40's being "better"). I
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Why do companies pay for mystery shops and do nothing with the results? - 5 weeks ago

The company can't force employees at the station level to wear name tags. On a larger scale with gas stations, I've had owners in the past acknowledge to me that the cost of fixing something is not worth whatever the improvement in the score will be, so they accept a certain component is marked off.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Five Guys = milestone & observations, different or same as yours? - 2 months ago

I haven't done Five Guys in a while, but when I did, there was a dramatic difference between the Five Guys near my hometown (which are either perfect or had only minor issues), and the Five Guys locations in another market I often shop in about 100 miles away, which were mediocre at best. At one of those locations on one shop, I was answering "no" to questions I could never have imagined I woul
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Five Guys - do you leave home to shop them? - 3 months ago

If I was really craving it (which I really don't anymore), or if I was on a route and there was one near the hotel I was staying at, I would, mainly for the meal. Otherwise.... no.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Valero shops - 3 months ago

Probably coming soon. If I recall right the last two periods they were a little slow to add them, as in about a week or two after when you would think they would be added.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Shopper Shell Game?? - 4 months ago

On #1, expecting that I would be dead this month in terms of work while having a two week, shop-free Christmas vacation planned (that begins on Monday, btw), I did scoop up a bunch of monthlies at base. Don't usually, but whatever. I think this was a gameplan of others, too, across other areas I may go to (but didn't) also saw their monthly batch go very quickly. #2 I suspect is one of those
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Question everyone about the S MMP 2025 reveal audits on Presto - 4 months ago

@mystery2me wrote: It is because of the fuel receipt. You have to upload it twice when it doesn't doesn't print. You can ignore that message and submit with no problems. Or take two pictures of it.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Gas station "audits" in a rural area/small town - 5 months ago

Indeed, just do the shop. The mystery shop portion is only a fraction of the visit. Recognizing you won't all of the sudden take down all of the expired signage, clean the canopy, etc etc. On other types of shops where the transaction with the employee IS the shop, then I will say to limit repeat visits if you think you are recognized. On gas station audits, there's so much more going on with
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Presto Map Issues - No Blue PIs - 5 months ago

Just tried on Firefox, and had no issue.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: With prices up...what do you do to stay under the $1 reimbursement? - 6 months ago

I buy stuff I would buy anyway. So, spending $1.39 is no big deal. I'd have to spend more than 39 cents for the item elsewhere. I will go for those 69-cent peanuts though, at times.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: New MSC for Red Button Shops? - 6 months ago

I was thinking of the office supply place, since they often use a red "easy" button.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Valero certification quiz....what's up with it? - 7 months ago

I wonder what the over/under will be for the amount of shops that will get sent back to me because I didn't report something as excessively dirty, that was say.... 20-40% percent dirty.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Most Discussed Shops? - 8 months ago

Five Guys, for some reason. Then gas stations, followed by that Ty shop.
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Exxon sticker removal - 8 months ago

Finally got lucky today with having a station that I did the regular shop at, to also have the sticker shop available when there were no stickers on the pumps. About time!
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Club Citgo - 8 months ago

@mystery2me wrote: Same with the special project. Use your credit card for a $1 reimbursement. That's absolutely ridiculous for the special project. Not very intelligent of a reimbursement!
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Okay who all has shopped the wrong location? - 8 months ago

Inspected the wrong gas station in my first couple months of doing it. GPS did say "you have reached your destination", so I didn't think anything of it. The whole thing was weird right from the start when the clerk told me, "already? we just re-opened last week," but I was too new to doing these to think anything of that. Completed the shop, and when I was taking pictures of the receipts, I
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion

Re: Troubling AI Shop Wanting IDs - 9 months ago

All that for the amazing fee of $5? Out of curiosity, how much is the shop fee?
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Company Discussion

Re: Ipsos website is down - 9 months ago

Yes, my browser (three different ones tried) is saying something about "too many redirections".
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Company Discussion

Re: Exxon sticker removal - 9 months ago

Ironically, while I was at a red light today, I looked over at the station right beside me and saw someone must've done this shop there already. But I saw those white dots, and thought, "yeah, they're not gonna accept that". Guess I was wrong! lol
by KA047 - Mystery Shopping Discussion
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