Larry
Tucson,#2Consumer Comment
Fri, November 18, 2005
Employers are supposed to pay their employees. The employees are not supposed to pay their employers. Anyone who wants you to pay them so you can earn money by working for them is a scammer. It doesn't matter if it is mystery shopping, stuffing envelopes, or surfing the net. Whatever you pay one of these types is money down the drain.
Giselle
Any City,#3Consumer Comment
Thu, November 17, 2005
I worked AT a mystery shopping company years ago (not this one). We did not charge potential shoppers a fee. Our fees came from our clients themselves, i.e. the corporations and businesses that paid us to provide mystery shoppers. We had tens of thousands of applicants in our database. The odds that someone would ever be called upon to "shop" was very small. For example, when you have an order from a client to provide 5 shoppers in Chicago and you've got a pool of like thousands to choose from, well..I think you can see the odds are most people will never get an assignment. Everyday we would get hundreds of letters/applications from wannabe shoppers. I noticed working there that people seem to be under the impression they could actually earn a living from mystery shopping. I always felt bad for those people. Anyway, I'm not familiar with the company the OP wrote about. I have noticed other letters here about them. I would suggest the OP do a websearch on mystery shopping scams