International mystery shopping companies?

I am going on a trip to Europe for 2 weeks this summer and would LOVE to do some mystery shopping while I'm there, even if it's just in the airports. I'm signed up with Bare International already, but what other companies should I sign up with to hopefully pick up a few shops? Obviously tourist-friendly shops would be best but I'm open to anything. I'll be visiting London, Paris, Zurich, Florence and Rome.

Thanks in advance!

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Shops in Europe are so underpaid that it is a pure joke. Shoppers are also used to write long, long narratives for the same piecemeal rate. Usually many of them work in marketing companies. The only shops that worth to do are if you were going to an island or an obscure tourist place and shop a luxury shop for the corporate office, then you can get BIG bonuses. You are going to mainstream tourist areas so there are many local shoppers. Also, usually the reports have to be written in the local language, not in English. And free internet it is not as widely available as in the USA.

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> Also, usually the reports have to be written in
> the local language, not in English. And free
> internet it is not as widely available as in the
> USA.

Actually all the BARE ones I've seen require the interaction to be in the local language, but the report in English.

I was not referring to Bare, but did you check all the shops, the ons that are not for a US/UK corporation? Look at the shops for France and you will see that some have to be written in French or Dutch. Retaileyes also had them in the local language, as well as international service check. The Spanish company that has the corporate lux accounts for Hayek's husband in the USA, the reports are done in the local language and if you notice when we log on their website under the US ms name, the foreign locals have the reports in French. The best shops are something like the LV at the Caribbean Islands, or McDs at a remote area/island (they are shopped by a different ms company than the one here), the Starbucks near the wall at China, the Exxon gas stations at the Greek islands, etc. They pay enough to pay for a hotel night there and the ticket from the mainland.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/2012 12:07AM by KateH.

What interesting info.

The only ones I've looked are ones in Norway, since it's the only place I can perform a shop in the local language

If anyone knows of companies that shop Norway (other than Bare), let me know

There's Coyle. Far as I know all shops are reported in English, and nothing in any of the job descriptions I've read specified conducting the shop in any other language. But most of their overseas shops are in the Far East, not in Europe, and they're the sort of resort where you'd expect the concierge to be fluent in 27 languages anyway.

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