video mystery shops

video mystery shops

I have been doing mystery shops for 3 1/2 months now. I wanted to know how to
find the video mystery shops that pay at least $100.-$500. I had read that they exist. I just do not know if it is true or not. I have spent a lot of time looking for those websites and I cannot find anything other than advertising about buying a book on how to do these types of shops.

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I have never seen or heard of video shops that pay that much--generally the high paying ones I have seen are around $70--but these are not shops I care to do. My understanding is that if they don't need to provide you with equipment, the fees are higher than if they provide the equipment.

If you do a Search of the forum on Video Shops, a shopper put up a list of companies a month or so ago that you should be able to find requesting all references to video shops in the past 90 days.

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Artist,
The $500 fees that you quote are high, even for video shops. Short videos for apartments or simple retail start as low as $40-55, although many are much higher. Longer format scenarios for new homes and assisted living may be offered at fees as low as $60-70, and may run well above $100 per shop.

Most companies pay more per shop for shoppers who own their own video equipment. Shoppers tend to put together road trips of several video shops and get travel reimbursements for fuel, tolls, modest hotels and meals.

Video shoppers with excellent track records sometimes get offered a bonus for critical shops or for doing the first "test shop" when an MSC wants to impress a new prospective client.

A few MSCs are trying to do video shops on the cheap, but the most experienced video shoppers aren't biting. The difference in the quality of the video and audio that they get from inexperienced or poorly trained and motivated shoppers and what is considered high end video product is like night and day!

See specific threads on video MSCs on this and other furums for great pointers from experienced shoppers.

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

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Artist,
Also, the mpression that you have of high video fees may come from the stories of video shoppers using the travel opportunities to pick up other shops in the destination or along the way. Thus, I may use the trip to pick-up a hotel shop, a lunch shop and a couple of banks to raise the total.

If anyone offers you a $500 video shop, place both hands on your wallet and run away.

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

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I have seen them from $35-$70. I have never seen them higher than that. $500 sounds like one of those "too good to be true" type deals.

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Topaz,

The higher fees are usually offered directly to video shoppers who have a proven track record of many, many shops for the same MSC. However, we are now seeing some posted to video job boards at around $100.

Lots of shoppers wash out of video shopping when they find out how exacting the standards are.

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

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Artist,

MSCs get paid $200 - $500 for video shopping assignments. People who want to sell books and get-rich-quick schemes relating to mystery shopping are quoting those fees, given out at one time by Michael Bare, Bare International/Video Eyes, in an interview.

It is certainly possible to earn fees of $500 + a day once you have built up your business, but you have to be a careful planner and router, love driving, and be willing to embrace stress!

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LadyBugg,

I was unaware that the source of that figure was Mike Bare. That is very ironic, because, since the demise of Video Eyes (after it was absorbed into Bare International), the Bare video shops (of which there are now very few, indeed) offer some of the worst shopper fees in the industry. Most of the video shoppers that I know will not accept those fees!

Also, Bare has gone from the Video Eyes days, when it had the most video-shopping active staff in the industry (and one of the very best video trainers!), to being one of only 2 video providers whose principals do not do (and have never done) any video shopping themselves. Maybe that's why they do not value the work we do as highly as the companies where the principals have done a ton of videos.

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

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Who is the second one??

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Service Trac. But, people are beginning to avoid them for even better reasons!

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

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Bare usually always has a few video shops on their board. The pay isn't as high as some other companies, but they offer training and you can "get your feet wet" with them. Also I believe EPMS has video shops, although I have yet to see them in my area.

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poofoo,
Lots of folks won't work for EPMS. They treat their shoppers like dirt and also have released shopper info the some irate targets who then contacted the shoppers directly. See threads on this company on several boards for details. I deactivated myself from their list so long ago that I didn't even think to mention them.

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

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The average I hear for video mystery shopping is $40-70. But I'm new at getting started with other companies. I've been working for one company, Impact Marketing, for about 6 years now but they have been recruiting a lot of new shoppers lately so I'm looking to expand. If anyone else is looking for a great video mystery shopping company to work with, I recommend them! www.impact-mrkt.com

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How much does the equipment cost to do a video shop?

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poofoo80 Wrote:
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> Bare usually always has a few video shops on their
> board. The pay isn't as high as some other
> companies, but they offer training and you can
> "get your feet wet" with them. Also I believe
> EPMS has video shops, although I have yet to see
> them in my area.

I have never seen video posted on their (Bare Apollo) board. The ones I did for them came through an independent scheduler.

Not my circus - Not my monkeys @(*.*)@

~Polish Proverb~

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cubbie, that's because it was posted in 2009. If Bare still has them at all they are few and far between.

fifty 1, the average cost of a complete rig is around $700 or so.

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I schedule video mystery shops and we have loaner equipment. I need Georgia Shoppers and Florida Shoppers, with or without their own equipment (those with get a higher pay). Contact me "Gina" at ghernandez@scmcontact.com

I also need a video shopper in High Point, NC. with or without equipment. I'll be posting my jobs on the board in just a bit under the title of "Video Shops/Auto Dealership(s)"

SCMGina

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I love Gina and her shops! She is super nice and really good at communication.

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~Polish Proverb~

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