Purchase and Return Assignments

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What do you think of jobs with $0 pay but high reimbursement?

I am doing my first job for a new mystery shopping company today (my 6th mystery shopping company overall) after registering with them in January, about 3 months ago. Before now, they either rejected every application or else had jobs that were too far away from me or otherwise I... Continue Reading

Scout Insights

Website: https://scoutinsights.com.au/ I haven't done a shop for them yet, but I am doing my first one today. Wish me luck! I signed up with them 3 months ago but I was either rejected for jobs or else they weren't suitable. Finally, last week they approved my first one! Only to... Continue Reading

Service Integrity

Website: https://serviceintegrity.com.au/ I have only just started working for this company, though I signed up around 3 months ago, reason being because they kept rejecting me for jobs. I signed up for maybe 40 different shops but the approver never approved them, and the shop times came and went with... Continue Reading

Personally Recommended

Website: https://www.personallyrecommended.com.au/ This was my first mystery shopping place, which I joined about 6 or 7 months back. While I did help my wife with some mystery shopping a few years ago, and basically had to do the whole thing, this was my first place I did by myself. At the time,... Continue Reading

Realise Online (also known as The Realise Group and TRG)

Website: https://therealisegroup.com.au/ This place is a horror show. Do not join. Pay is horrid. You typically get $12 for jobs with no compensation and a measly $8 if there is a compensation component - and then they don't compensate the whole lot. They often say it's a $10 minimum purchase but the... Continue Reading

Comparing different mystery shopping companies

Hi. I'm in Australia and I've been doing mystery shopping for 6 months now. I have now done mystery shopping for 5 companies, with 28 jobs at 20 different companies in that time. I am about to do work for a 6th company for the first time on Monday. I... Continue Reading

Was I right to quit?

Hi. I started doing mystery shopping about 6 months ago because I couldn't do my normal job due to breaking my leg, which has never really healed. The first place I joined was okay, but their pay was only $17 to $19, their website to do the reviews kept messing up,... Continue Reading

Note to self:Check your receipts, keep your pictures on a hard drive

I took a bonused gas staion audit that was about 200 miles from where I live. I managed to grab a bunch of them so the pay out was more than enough to motivate me. It went well, one audit got kicked back to me but I was able to... Continue Reading

Video equipment

Hi can anyone recommend the best covert video equipment to purchase and where for the best price. Thank you... Continue Reading

Buffalo Wild Wings- Beverage requirement

The guidelines for these shops say that for over 21 they prefer an alcoholic drink purchase. Has anyone here over 21 done this shop and not purchased alcohol? Just checking before I decide to try one of the shops.... Continue Reading

Buffalo Wild Wings- Beverage requirement

The guidelines for these shops say that for over 21 they prefer an alcoholic drink purchase. Has anyone here over 21 done this shop and not purchased alcohol? Just checking before I decide to try one of the shops.... Continue Reading

The Implications of a Returned Shop

As I sit here stewing over the latest BP shop returned to me for "clarification" and additional photos needed, I have begun to wonder how those returned shops affect the shopper. I wonder if there is a "tipping point" of returned shops by the editor. Meaning, is there some point... Continue Reading

Medicare Advantage OTC card hack-ette

During enrollment, when they have all of the seminars everywhere, agents tend to tout the OTC card and the ability to buy food with it. As anyone who has fallen for that - like me - knows, rare are the people who can use the card for groceries. There are... Continue Reading

Tobacco price compliance shops at Cumby

I do these once a month when they are heavily bonused. The shop is cake, just buy 2 packs of a specific list of tobacco or nicotine products. Here's the rub: I literally spend 90 minutes trying to make the math work, even having AI chat help me but even... Continue Reading

Figuring your hourly wage

I compute my hourly wage door to door, leaving my house until I return. I figure what my jobs pay less gas. Everyone uses a car to get to work so I don't worry too much about maintenance costs or depreciation. I do get free oil changes for jobs so that... Continue Reading

A difficult situation photography and dark audits

I had a particular dark audit that ended up in a big loss because it being so far away and having to go back for a different reason already, and then had the shop returned. I encountered a MID that was completely unlit except for the LED prices. Additionally, there... Continue Reading

BP/Amoco Shops

I note this morning that there are now BP/Amoco shops being offered on the "Magic App". Of course, for this latest round, the shopper must take the little quiz. No problem there, that's normal. But, the guidelines are once again, huge. So, someone correct me, I cannot find the reimbursed amount of fuel... Continue Reading

Salesman called to say he knew I was the shopper

What do you think of this? I did a car dealer shop. It was accepted and all. But then the salesperson called me back to first say he knew I was the shopper and to thank me for a good shop (um i just report what I observe... Continue Reading

lighting audit overreach

In my local area, there is an Exxon station that ran out of gasoline. There were black bags on all of the gasoline pumps, but no signs anywhere saying that they were out of gasoline. I read the guidelines, there is something about the lights being off... Continue Reading

What do the "downstocking" job involve?

I am seeing some downstocking jobs posted that do indeed pay more than a standard mystery shop. However, I am not quite sure what this involves. I am interested in trying one to understand. But, I have the feeling this may involve significantly more time and energy... Continue Reading

Recent Mentions of Purchase and Return Assignments

Edited to add: My shop was in person for both purchase and return. (Source). November 26, 2025

I don't do purchase/return shops, either. (Source). November 26, 2025

I typically do not do purchase/return shops (unless highly bonused). (Source). November 25, 2025

Has anyone completed one of the high paying cell phone purchase and return shops for them recently? (Source). September 27, 2025

I agree wholeheartedly that people should try MSCs and individual clients for themselves, but we need a big astrix beside that advice excluding Cirrus and those terrible purchase and return phone shops. (Source). August 30, 2025

The phone purchase and return shops I'm seeing are showing a $700 reimbursement along with shop pay. (Source). August 19, 2025

" That is why it would take $1000 for me to accept a cell purchase and return. (Source). August 19, 2025

Word of warning: Don't get mixed up in one of those cell phone purchase and return jobs, they WILL bite you in the hiney. (Source). August 19, 2025

Word of warning: Don't get mixed up in one of those cell phone purchase and return jobs, they WILL bite you in the hiney. (Source). August 18, 2025

Morled opines--Don't get mixed up in one of those cell phone purchase and return jobs. (Source). August 18, 2025