Mystery Shopping Scams

The idea of mystery shopping jobs is becoming very popular with people looking for part time work with flexible hours. Mystery shopping jobs offer good pay, short hours, and a fun, interesting work environment. Most mystery shoppers only work 1-2 hours per job, and can accept or reject a job with just a day's notice. The work usually consists of visiting a store, making predetermined purchases, and evaluating the customer service. Of course there are variations, such as going to a restaurant or hotel, and evaluating the food, cleanliness, and overall attitude of the staff. In any case, the mystery shopper will fill out a report after their work is done, and turn it in to receive their pay.

Sounds like a fun, legitimate job, right? Well unfortunately, if you want to participate, you are likely to find hundreds of fraudulent websites claiming to help you get daily work. But in most cases, these websites have one intent - making you pay to become a member of their website just so they can supposedly tell you where to go on the internet to find real mystery shopping jobs. But all they actually do is provide you with a list of useless links to companies that no longer exist, or more companies that want you to pay more money to join their website as well!

These websites will charge you a $20-$50 fee for access to their directory of mystery shopping job sources. In reality, 99% of these websites offer you nothing more than the following:

1. Outdated mystery shopping resources with non-working links, phone numbers, & email addresses.

2. No customer service or help in finding jobs.

3. No refunds if you are unsatisfied - Most of these fly-by-night mystery shopping websites won't even respond to your refund requests, and once their website gets shut down due to complaints, they start another one under a different name.

4. Poorly designed sites with confusing navigation systems and information, and non-working pages.

As a watchdog for work at home scams, we have thoroughly reviewed hundreds of mystery shopping websites, talking to their owners, reviewing their member's areas, and speaking to many of their clients & workers. Based on our research, as of Feb 2008, we can only recommend the following mystery shopping websites out of the hundreds we've looked at, as they have proven to be legitimate sources for daily work. These companies all require a one time fee of $20-$50, and they charge this fee because they actually have dedicated representatives to help you find work on a daily basis.

Each of the sites we recommend offer a 100% money-back guarantee for up to 45 days. And we have verified that these companies live up to this guarantee. Click our link in the author or resource box to see our reviews at Skeptic-Reviews dot com.

After joining one of the sites, you can expect to be offered up to 10 mystery shopping job offers per day. You then have the option to accept or reject each one. Most mystery shopping jobs pay $25-$50/hour, but most jobs DO NOT last more than 2-4 hours. Therefore, you are typically going to earn $50-$200 per job, plus maybe a few free items from the store, or a free meal. But if you can line up more than 1 job per day, you can make well over $400 per day, for easy, fun work. Its all up to you, and how much you want to work. Click our link in the author or resource box to see our reviews at Skeptic-Reviews dot com.

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Josh is a critic for Skeptic-Reviews.com and additional reviews can be found by visiting our website. Click Here For More Information on Becoming A Mystery Shopper and Read Our Full Reviews!

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