Posted by Blueink_TN on 5/26/10 9:21am
Msg #338298

Filling in the down time

Since quitting my dreadful 9 to 5, I am looking at other opportunities to earn $$ to complement my signing agent biz. Do any of you have experience with shadowshoppers.com? It looks legit, just wanted your thoughts... Thank's!

Reply by Frank/NC on 5/26/10 9:56am
Msg #338304

I have always been very skeptical of these type of jobs being offered and think you really have to proceed with caution. Some of these "opportunities" require you to pay something up front and that is where I would draw the line. Never pay anyone to work for them or to get "further information" about employment.

Reply by Linda Juenger on 5/26/10 10:03am
Msg #338305

I mystery shopped for about a year.   Although I liked it, the money isn't much at all. Hardly worth it. If you can get 4,5,6 shops really close together on the same day, you might make it. But, that is very hard to do.

Reply by C. Rivera Chicago Notary Services on 5/26/10 10:14am
Msg #338307

my neice does this, and after having twins, and being layed

off, she needs the money!

She loves it! I'll post the company she works for when I find out.

Reply by Michelle/AL on 5/26/10 10:24am
Msg #338312

I haven't worked with ShadowShoppers but I've done

plenty of Mystery Shopping. If you search here on NotaryRotary using "mystery" as your search word you'll see some good discussions. Go the the MSPA website and search their discussion forums for information on this company.

Reply by aanotary on 5/26/10 10:30am
Msg #338316

Mystery shopping helped me get thru 2008- psychologically as well as providing a little $. It is like signing companies, in order to make it work-you need to sign up with many of them. As was mentioned before. Do not pay to sign up with them. I originally paid 29.00 to get a list of companies and it was worth spending that money. You may want to open a separate email account for this. You will get a ton of emails ( job offers)

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 5/26/10 11:23am
Msg #338321

My experience with mystery shopping is:

maybe you get a little (very little) extra money, but mostly it could be a meal in a restaurant (which you don't really get to enjoy because you are so busy trying to remember every little detail) or a stay in a hotel.
One thing that's better is marketing research. Companies pay nice money for focus groups, taste tests, etc.

Reply by kathy/ca on 5/26/10 1:58pm
Msg #338363

Shoshana, do you have any recomemdations of sites to apply

to in this field? Thx, ~Kathy/ca