Hello everyone. I just started doing mystery shopping in Tucson AZ. Does anyone know which companies are good to work for? Thanks

Welcome to the Board!

Just start reading. Good and not so good companies are discussed here...

We each have our own list of "good to work for companies", and for the most part it is as varied as the shoppers. This is something you need to grow on your own. Start reading, keep applying applying applying, check jobslinger.com, and do the shops that you can get that interest you. That way you will find your list of whom is good for YOU to work for.

Hi Matt,
I used to shop full time in Phoenix, there were always lots of available shops in the Tucson area. Some of my favorite companies that always had work in my area are:
Sinclair Customer Metrics
BestMark
Jancyn
Intellishop
Service Intelligence
Satisfaction Services
Market Force
Trendsource
GFK
Beyond Hello
About Face
Maritz
BMA

This is just a few. Just sign up and keep on the lookout! Good luck and feel free to ask any ?'s.

KatyInCO Wrote:
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> Hi Matt,
> I used to shop full time in Phoenix, there were
> always lots of available shops in the Tucson area.
> Some of my favorite companies that always had work
> in my area are:
> Sinclair Customer Metrics
> BestMark
> Jancyn
> Intellishop
> Service Intelligence
> Satisfaction Services
> Market Force
> Trendsource
> GFK
> Beyond Hello
> About Face
> Maritz
> BMA
>
> This is just a few. Just sign up and keep on the
> lookout! Good luck and feel free to ask any ?'s.


KatyinCo,

I am sure you posted this list with the best of intentions. Please consider, though, that there are shoppers in that area who have worked hard to find their sources, and grow their money trees, and you have just handed someone a money tree that came from someone else's backyard. Had it been mine, I would be mad. It is not mine, but the next person who comes here asking might be from my area, and a well-meaning OP may do the same thing. This job always entails continual research. It is part of the job. Why should someone get handed a bunch of companies? Those companies are on the list here, many post on sources like Violation or Jobslinger. Let the newb read and reasearch and grow their own tree.

Wow Dee, some of us don't have a problem with sharing. I am one that doesn't mind at all. Good thing this is a free country and we can do things even if others disapprove.
“ One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. ” One of my favorite Proverbs!!

Not new to shopping, new to the forum. I agree with KatyInCO-You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want (zig Ziglar said that and it is so true.)

The more I help people. The more I find people appreciate it. One hand washes the other. The rotations and number of times a shop is done in a given location makes a lot of work, the MSP's will not let one shopper do it all.

Yay for you both. It is always nice to fish in someone else's backyard. I have shared my experiences here for several years. I am not new here. I believe what I do, and if you read the forum thoroughly, you will see I am not alone in this belief.

I am a very new shopper but I agree with Dee and the sharing of MSC names. I came here and read every little bit I could. If a company had a lot of positive commentary I'd go sign up.

For the first month, each night after work I'd spend another couple of hours online searching for shopping jobs. Now that I finally have a decent list of companies that seem to have plenty of opportunities for me, I'd be mighty peeved for someone to come along in my area and pass out the info I've worked so hard to gather for myself.

I DO share a lot of things, but why would I give away my earning potential?? That just doesn't make sense at all.

Of course, different opinions are what makes life interesting and this forum fun to read.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2010 10:23PM by JudeFM.

KatyinCo and ShopNflop, please set an example of sharing for everyone on the forum. To show us your commitment to sharing, please post the city in which YOU shop and list for us the 10 MSCs for which you perform the largest number of shops OR make the largest profit from per month. That would truly be sharing at its best. I'm sure you could look back through your receipts and quickly list for us your biggest money-makers.

HI Everyone

Just wanted to say hi, I've been reading through in informative forum for awhile and figured I might as well register and start participating


thanks for joining us

Welcome Julia, but please drop the links in your siggy as they are considered spam. Thanks!

AustinMom Wrote:
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> KatyinCo and ShopNflop, please set an example of
> sharing for everyone on the forum. To show us
> your commitment to sharing, please post the city
> in which YOU shop and list for us the 10 MSCs for
> which you perform the largest number of shops OR
> make the largest profit from per month. That
> would truly be sharing at its best. I'm sure you
> could look back through your receipts and quickly
> list for us your biggest money-makers.

There are no big money makers in Mystery shopping. I cover Bergen, Hudson, Middlesex,, Monmouth, Somerset, Morris, Union, Essex and Passaic Counties. in New Jersey.

I think a few shoppers on the forum have discovered the "secret" to make money. Each evaluator/Shopper or whatever the company calls you, have different values. If you are valuable to them, you will be used and paid., but never what you are worth.
My "top ten" may be completely wrong for you because you may not want to do the shops I do. I will not take a camera that costs a couple a hundred dollars and take shots of gas station toilet bowls for $4. Use the wrist band when taking shots, it makes the shots sharper and lessens the possibility you will drop and break your camera.

You can use "WHITE SMOKE" a grammar program to improve your reports. You have to watch it, White Smoke makes errors. Editors like my reports since I started using "White Smoke"

JobSlinger.com and Volition.com do not remove the shops that are stale, (have been assigned to other shoppers) you can waste a lot of time applying to stale shops. If the shops are "old" (watch the post dates) and are still listed, it means shoppers had experience and will not waste their time. I call those shops "Stink Inc". My "stink Inc" jobs might be something you love like banks and cell phone shops that think everyone who walks through their doors is a Mystery shopper.

Profit is made from piggy backing jobs. Each job individually is not worth the time and miles, but do four or five together, and you get a nice piece of change and maybe lunch out of the deal.

Hi again everyone,
I shop for quite a few companies here in CO, and enjoy a great relationship with all of them.
Some companies seem to have more shops in this part of the country than others. I will gladly share any of those, too. Why am I getting beat up so bad for sharing with my peers? Surely you don't think you have "exclusive" rights to the shops in your area do you? If you do, you are surely wrong. Most jobs require rotation, and in my humble opinion, the more the merrier. I try to maintain my "competitive edge" by being a diligent, reliable, & professional in all jobs I do, regardless if they pay 6 dollars or 60 dollars. I love this work, and really think that sharing the companies I do jobs for is not a punishable crime. Just my 2 cents. Thanks all, and happy shopping!!

No punishment from me to be doled out. Mystery shopping is a to each his/her own business. Welcome to the forum, KatyInCO.

KatyInCO Wrote:
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> Hi again everyone,
> I shop for quite a few companies here in CO, and
> enjoy a great relationship with all of them.
> Some companies seem to have more shops in this
> part of the country than others. I will gladly
> share any of those, too. Why am I getting beat up
> so bad for sharing with my peers? Surely you don't
> think you have "exclusive" rights to the shops in
> your area do you? If you do, you are surely wrong.
> Most jobs require rotation, and in my humble
> opinion, the more the merrier. I try to maintain
> my "competitive edge" by being a diligent,
> reliable, & professional in all jobs I do,
> regardless if they pay 6 dollars or 60 dollars. I
> love this work, and really think that sharing the
> companies I do jobs for is not a punishable crime.
> Just my 2 cents. Thanks all, and happy shopping!!


No one is beating you up for wanting to share jobs in your area with other shoppers in your area. If that's what you truly want to do. If you want to list the town where YOU shop and the shops YOU do most frequently so other shoppers in YOUR OWN TOWN can share them with you, I think it's fine and I think some of the other shoppers in your town might love that. But you haven't listed companies in your own town. That's what we are talking about. A lot of sharing goes on here, but as far as applying with companies and researching the best ones in your area, we have each done that and we are comfortable with those companies - and we are always looking for new ones. The time spent doing that represents your investment in your business. While shoppers can benefit from the forum's lists and the detailed information about how to shop, each shopper should be prepared to make his own investment in terms of time doing his own research and applying with companies. Many jobs in my area come out every 30 days and have a 30 day rotation, so I can do the same jobs every month. While I am more than willing to compete with other shoppers in my area who discover the companies for which I work and apply for the shops, I am NOT willing to list the companies I do most of my work with, thereby handing over some of my jobs to someone else without them even having to research. This would cut the shops I do and the money I make. I share quite a bit, but not my list of monthly jobs. I think dee's point in her response to you was that it is NOT YOUR OWN AREA in which you shared jobs.