I keep on getting these emails from ReportCard.com about being a Secret
shopper. Does anyone in here do this and does it work ? I could use some
extra cash but I am kinda leary.
Does it work and is it as easy as they say ? Also, they say you COULD get
$1000 gift card, what does this require ? I guess I am still old fashion and
believe you can't get something for nothing.

What the scoop ?
Thanks,
Iowa883

COULD get

thats all you need to know...

randy

"Iowa883" wrote in message
...
I keep on getting these emails from ReportCard.com about being a Secret
shopper. Does anyone in here do this and does it work ? I could use some
extra cash but I am kinda leary.
Does it work and is it as easy as they say ? Also, they say you COULD get
$1000 gift card, what does this require ? I guess I am still old fashion
and
believe you can't get something for nothing.

What the scoop ?
Thanks,
Iowa883

Last time I looked into it, the marketing company wanted me to pay them on
how to get hooked up. Yeah like that was going to happen

they make you sigh a secret agreement
so nobody can answer you straight up.

the card is probably what you spend and report on
real goods/items, you'll be required to turn back in before you get paid
with a food gift card

"Iowa883" wrote in message
...
I keep on getting these emails from ReportCard.com about being a Secret
shopper. Does anyone in here do this and does it work ? I could use some
extra cash but I am kinda leary.
Does it work and is it as easy as they say ? Also, they say you COULD get
$1000 gift card, what does this require ? I guess I am still old fashion
and
believe you can't get something for nothing.

What the scoop ?
Thanks,
Iowa883

In article , "Iowa883"
wrote:

- I keep on getting these emails from ReportCard.com about being a Secret
- shopper. Does anyone in here do this and does it work ? I could use some
- extra cash but I am kinda leary.
- Does it work and is it as easy as they say ? Also, they say you COULD get
- $1000 gift card, what does this require ? I guess I am still old fashion and
- believe you can't get something for nothing.
-
- What the scoop ?
- Thanks,
- Iowa883

There are real "secret shoppers" out there. One of the news shows
recently did a segment on one of them. (I think it was Dateline.)
Also, when I worked at Wal-Mart we would frequently get these
performance reports. One day I asked where they came from and the
answer was "secret shoppers."

I've been curious about it, too, but I suppose I'm too skeptical to
trust anyone who solicits me via e-mail or the web.

Go ahead and look into it, but beware of anyone who asks for money
up front. If they're legitimate, they shouldn't be doing that. (IMHO)
--
8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail)
~~~~~~
"I reserve the absolute right to be smarter
today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson

http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/
***Revelation 22:12*** ICQ: 349878998
http://www.intergnat.com/malebashing/

"Suzie-Q" wrote in message
...
In article , "Iowa883"
wrote:

- I keep on getting these emails from ReportCard.com about being a Secret
- shopper. Does anyone in here do this and does it work ? I could use
some
- extra cash but I am kinda leary.
- Does it work and is it as easy as they say ? Also, they say you COULD
get
- $1000 gift card, what does this require ? I guess I am still old
fashion and
- believe you can't get something for nothing.
-
- What the scoop ?
- Thanks,
- Iowa883

There are real "secret shoppers" out there. One of the news shows
recently did a segment on one of them. (I think it was Dateline.)
Also, when I worked at Wal-Mart we would frequently get these
performance reports. One day I asked where they came from and the
answer was "secret shoppers."

I've been curious about it, too, but I suppose I'm too skeptical to
trust anyone who solicits me via e-mail or the web.

Go ahead and look into it, but beware of anyone who asks for money
up front. If they're legitimate, they shouldn't be doing that. (IMHO)
--
8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail)
~~~~~~
"I reserve the absolute right to be smarter
today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson

http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/
***Revelation 22:12*** ICQ: 349878998
http://www.intergnat.com/malebashing/

There are legitimate outfits that place secret shoppers. You get less than
minimum wage for most assignments, maybe a free lunch at a restaurant for
doing the required assignment. In addition to the gas you burn, wear and
tear on your vehicle, and the fact that you spent a half day dicking around
for a $10 lunch, it comes out you make squat.

....
I guess I am still old fashion and
| believe you can't get something for nothing.
....

If you believe that, then ... why the post? You already know the
answer.

Pop

ANY spam offering ANYTHING of any VALUE is a CROCK!

If you didn't ask for the mail, don't know who sent it, and know
of no reason for anyone to have sent it to you, then it is
spam!!!!!!!!!!!! Spammers lie. Spammers lie. Spammers hide.
Spammers fraud. Spammers cannot be found if'/when it comes time
to find them. Anything else you didn't understand? The same
goes for anyone who sends you anything!
It sounds as though you are the type who would open an
attachment to an email just to see what it was. Then be confused
when all of a sudden your operating system and files are gone,
and someone is using your credit cards and getting new credit
cards in your name. Right?

Never ever so much as respond to a spammer's "remove" address.
Unless you like getting lots of spam that is.



Pop


"Suzie-Q" wrote in message
...
| In article , "Iowa883"

| wrote:
|
| - I keep on getting these emails from ReportCard.com about
being a Secret
| - shopper. Does anyone in here do this and does it work ? I
could use some
| - extra cash but I am kinda leary.
| - Does it work and is it as easy as they say ? Also, they say
you COULD get
| - $1000 gift card, what does this require ? I guess I am still
old fashion and
| - believe you can't get something for nothing.
| -
| - What the scoop ?
| - Thanks,
| - Iowa883
|
| There are real "secret shoppers" out there. One of the news
shows
| recently did a segment on one of them. (I think it was
Dateline.)
| Also, when I worked at Wal-Mart we would frequently get these
| performance reports. One day I asked where they came from and
the
| answer was "secret shoppers."
|
| I've been curious about it, too, but I suppose I'm too
skeptical to
| trust anyone who solicits me via e-mail or the web.
|
| Go ahead and look into it, but beware of anyone who asks for
money
| up front. If they're legitimate, they shouldn't be doing that.
(IMHO)
| --
| 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail)
| ~~~~~~
| "I reserve the absolute right to be smarter
| today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson
|
| http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/
| ***Revelation 22:12*** ICQ: 349878998
| http://www.intergnat.com/malebashing/

In alt.home.repair on Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:20:52 -0600 "Iowa883"
posted:

I keep on getting these emails from ReportCard.com about being a Secret
shopper. Does anyone in here do this and does it work ? I could use some
extra cash but I am kinda leary.
Does it work and is it as easy as they say ? Also, they say you COULD get
$1000 gift card, what does this require ? I guess I am still old fashion and
believe you can't get something for nothing.

Mystery shoppers don't get something for nothing. They work for it.

As far as a gift card goes, you know very well that people win things
that are worth more than the effort they put into it. What does being
old-fashioned have to do with it? There is Publisher's Clearing
House; there are raffles at your kids' schools or the Elks Club; at
various times there are prizes under the caps of Coke bottles, etc.
There are loads of ways people win things with little effort on their
own part.

However there is no reason to think you will win anything from this
place. Contests that follow the current law say how many prizes are
being given, how many entrants are expected, and what the odds are of
winning. They haven't bothered to tell you any of that. Maybe by
including this in a job offer puts them outside of this law, but you
have to remember the origin of this, SPAM. Spam is dirty. You
shouldn't even touch it. It has germs.

My friend is a mystery shopper, for the last 15 years I think, maybe
20. She has a full-time job too. No matter what they say sometimes,
no one could live on what being a mystery shopper pays. (Some woman
in Arizona wrote a book recently claiming people (usually women) could
earn 50G iirc a year doing this. She's crazy or lying. 50G is 25
dollars an hour, 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. Most jobs don't
pay 25 dollars, so if they pay 10 or 15, or 12.50 you'd have to do 2
an hour all day. There may be some jobs that can be finished in a
half hour, but you could never schedule them one after another all day
long, physically arranged so that there was little travel time in
between.

Also, pay has gone down in recent years. Perhaps because unemployment
is higher, and there are plenty of people looking for these jobs.

And strangely, it is somehow harder than before to deal with these
companies since the popularity of email. Well it's not so strange
when you discuss it. It used to be they wrote people with shopping
offers, and the people called back I think (800 numbers). When they
called, they talked to a real person; they could ask questions; they
could give details, like where they would work and where they
wouldn't. Also, they are in a much bigger rush than they used to me.
It was typical to get a week or two to do an assignment 5 or 10 years
ago. Now they often want it done in 2 days. Email made such speed
conceivable, and now clients want that.***

But my friend has done some interesting things that spun off from her
mystery shopping. Once or more she was sent to liquor stores to check
the freshness date on many of the canned and bottled beers for sale.
It was cold inside the cooler. When something was recalled, she
accepted a job to either watch while the shopkeeper destroyed it, or
take it away and ship it herself back to the maker. She's done focus
groups. She's applied for jobs, to check out the personnel
departments. (She got every job she applied for.) I think she's
checked doctors' offices to see what magazines they subscribe too
(orsomething like that.) And other interesting things. But most of
it is shopping (and sometimes returning what she bought).

Some companies want the mystery shopper to note the name of the person
who waits on them. Others don't care. (I don't understand the second
group. They don't have to fire or even punish someone for not getting
everything right, but I would think it would benefit them to know who
it was. ) A lot of them want to time how long it takes a clerk to
offer to help a customer when she walks in the store. And they want
them or the casheir to say "Is there anything else I can help you
with? Thank you for shopping at Armondo's House of Junk. Would you
like to open a 'special shopper account'? Have a nice day (Or the
recent atrocity, "Have a nice rest of weekend.") I hate all that
stuff. I don't like clerks' trying to help me unless I ask for it,
and I hate all those questions by the cashiers. They should just say
4.95, and Thank you. If we have time left over, we can discuss the
Mets, or the weather, or politics.

Back to shopping, about half the stores (usually chains) that she is
hired to check out go out of business within a few months after they
hire her. Either she has very bad karma, or they don't hire mystery
shoppers until their business is near bankruptcy.

But other stores have done well. One sent her a thermometer to
measure the temperature of the coffee they sell. She doesn't drink
coffee or eat much sweets, so when I went with her, I got to have
both. (I don't drink coffee either, but someone had to drink it. )



***(Related: When I buy from ebay, I almost never care about shipping
speed. I would rather pay less and have them ship surface mail**.
But everyone ships express-mail -- two days or so. So when I bought
from a mail-order company that took 2 weeks, it seemed like forever.
**I think, just guessing, that vendors like express mail, so they can
wrap things up quickly. If a two week shipment didn't show up, by
then, the vendor wouldn't remember what it was.)

What the scoop ?

BTW, "Reportcard.com is currently upgrading its systems. We hope to be
up and running shortly. Thank you."

Thanks,
Iowa883



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