I am new too. My name is Jessica and I started mystery shopping at the end of June - so I have been at it a month now. As suggested, I signed up with several companies. I have been paid for one shop so far and the shops I did in July (about 6) I should get paid for mid-August. Not bad! Some of the shops I could not say no to - a $30 shop at the airport ($10 reimbursement) and another shop for $18 (no purchase needed) at a shop in midtown Manhattan, when I had to pick up my sister at the airport anyway. Sometimes, the paperwork can be daunting - I am trying to master the whole timing thing, which I do on my cell phone stopwatch, hopefully not obvious. But the reward should come on payday

I have to say, reading this forum is very motivating.