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Have you seen the mystery shopper that is all over social media posting her actual shops?

January 18, 2025 12:28AM
@shopperbob wrote:

SA posts-- ......nobody who is making any type of real money......

Bob requests--Concerning the following, may I have a clarification: Real, as an adjective is what amount? Do you mean IS MAKING literally, as only in the present or figuratively, also referencing HAS MADE?

Let me put it this way, Bob - if someone is running around doing $30 shops when they have six figures in their bank account from their main job - something is seriously wrong with that picture. I don't believe it, and I call BS on it. It is my right to do.

People who enjoy putting others down to raise their ego make arguments that are irrelevant and are not provable. We have a couple of psych patients on here that seem to think people give a damn about how much money they make. Nobody cares. How crazy does one have to be that they would send someone they don't know their real identity to prove how much money they make? That is beyond crazy. If I had investments in that company, I would pull my money, because that "executive" does not have sound judgement and bases their decisions off emotion.
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January 18, 2025 12:40AM
I know shoppers (and forum members) who make more than me...and I would think I currently make "real" money by most people's standards.

I certainly don't need to MS. It's just something left over from a time when I didn't have as much money, and has become part of my lifestyle. And the less I shop, the more I tend to complain and partake in this forum.

Those of us who have done this for a while have gone through many stages of live, and income levels. I still cannot imagine paying some of the prices I do for the things I evaluate, even if I can afford it! I will definitely be more into MS once I am retired and no longer making that "real" money. For now, I do enough to stay in the game...

Edited because we cross posted...

@ServiceAward wrote:

Let me put it this way, Bob - if someone is running around doing $30 shops when they have six figures in their bank account from their main job - something is seriously wrong with that picture.

SA...that is not specific enough. It's a partial picture. Most of my shops pay over $30, but I would still take a $30 shop with a $5k travel reimbursement. Every dollar once you hit that 6-figure come looks more like $1.50 you have to earn. As I posted elsewhere, my 1099 for MSing this year is quite small.

If I can offset $20-50k of travel & dining each year and take the income I would normally set aside for that, then place it in an IRA, I am that much closer to retirement.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2025 12:47AM by SteveSoCal.
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January 18, 2025 12:43AM
@SteveSoCal very well stated.
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January 18, 2025 01:06AM
She claims that she has private arrangements with some of her clients - that she is working for them directly, rather than through a MSC, and that she has their permission to post the videos.
@gigishopper wrote:

She posted a shop today at Cracker Barrell. Has anyone else shopped at Cracker Barrell recently? I feel like they would be posted at other locations and not just her town in SC. It seems like there are a lot of shops in the Columbia SC area that must only be shopped by the top level secret companies that she has exclusive privvy to.
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January 18, 2025 01:07AM
There are a lot in the very sparsely populated states now that are up to $65.
@Datagirl wrote:

Yes, there is a location here that is $55 because it is in no mans land. There was one for $30 that I tried to get but didn't and I was really mad about it. I hope it was a disaster. LOL Mean I know. But those are rare. I really feel she looks at the job boards and sees what is available and then makes it up as she goes for content. I don't think she is actually completing any reports for any MSC at all.




@Cassiespark wrote:

Good to know. They have never been higher than $25 here.

@mjt9598 wrote:

Hard-to-fill locations are currently paying $55.
@Cassiespark wrote:

She posted a Ty project last week, where she just waltzed in and said she was there to "work with the Beanie Babies". No checkin, no check for backstock, she described to her followers that she was just there to make them look pretty. . She made a point to say she was being paid $30 for the project, which they have never paid. Its all so ridiculous, really.

@gigishopper wrote:

I do follow her on FB now for my own amusement. She is so nasty to anyone who comments on her posts with a challenging question or a general inquiry. I think her own customers are getting frustrated. The math so far is not "mathing" on how she makes 50K year. Im anxiously awaiting some videos on some high paying shops.
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January 18, 2025 01:26AM
@mjt9598 wrote:

She claims that she has private arrangements with some of her clients - that she is working for them directly, rather than through a MSC, and that she has their permission to post the videos.
@gigishopper wrote:

She posted a shop today at Cracker Barrell. Has anyone else shopped at Cracker Barrell recently? I feel like they would be posted at other locations and not just her town in SC. It seems like there are a lot of shops in the Columbia SC area that must only be shopped by the top level secret companies that she has exclusive privvy to.
There are better odds of me being sworn in as President than that being true.
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January 18, 2025 03:05AM
SA posts--Let me put it this way, Bob - if someone is running around doing $30 shops when they have six figures in their bank account from their main job - something is seriously wrong with that picture. I don't believe it, and I call BS on it. It is my right to do.

Bob agrees--It is your right to call BS and not believe. Myself, being 82, I do not have a main job. Since that criteria was added, the matter no longer pertains to me. If, though, a shopper decided to concentrate their work in my category 2, LEISURE, it seems reasonable to me a six figure main job person could exist. Especially, if they completed $500 meals for which they desired reimbursement.
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January 18, 2025 03:24AM
Six figures is really not that much - $100k is six figures....or are we talking the $999k six figure? What if the 6 figures was obtained by entrepreneurship and working several different jobs including mystery shop. Seems so vauge.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2025 03:44AM by JSuing.
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