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Re: Special Email for Mystery Shopping

September 15, 2009 12:45AM
I have been using my regular email for mystery shopping. However, my email account is now getting really full. I do have another email for junk and sending away from free samples.

Do you have separate email account for mystery shopping.
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September 15, 2009 12:49AM
Yes, I use a gmail account for shopping. It is free, you can sign up at gmail.com and as long as you don't use it for other things it will stay pretty much spam free. My gmail account has 7369 MB of storage and is easily searchable. In the 5 years I have had the account I have used only 7% of my allocated storage space even though I have saved around 4000 emails.
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September 15, 2009 03:26PM
I use a Yahoo account for mystery shopping and a Gmail account for personal email.
I would definitely open another account for mystery shopping but don't forget you may have to deal with your Paypal account being different than your mystery shopping account which for some companies is not acceptable.

Sliver certified in Edmonton, AB
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September 15, 2009 03:27PM
You can add as many e-addresses as you want to your paypal account. I have 5 on mine.

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September 15, 2009 03:36PM
Be very careful about using a Yahoo or AOL email address as apparently both are blocking some companies as 'spammers' before they even get to where you can select whether they are spam or not. In other words, you can authorize emails from a company to come to you, but Yahoo or AOL may be blocking them upstream so you still won't receive them.
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September 15, 2009 05:49PM
Yes. I also have a gmail account (that Flash suggested to me when I first started out). I like knowing that all my shop emails are going to one address, that I don't have to wade through spam to find jobs (well... unless you count getting "Fun Gym Shops!" for the 10 billionth time), and I can stay more anonymous. I also use the Google Calendar to schedule my shops, which I sync to my CalenGoo app on my iTouch. LOVE IT!
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September 16, 2009 03:18AM
I also use gmail, configured to Outlook and my BlackBerry, and it is attached to my PayPal account.
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October 18, 2009 03:50AM
yeah yahoo doesnt seem to distinguish well with spam... sad sad sad... im only 25 and have been using them for 12 years.... oh well... a bit of a headache but im not one to change email addresses...

shopping north west PA and south west ny
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October 18, 2009 10:15AM
cooldude,

Seriously, you should get an email address that you use only for shopping, change it to that at the companies you are registered with, and add it to your paypal account. If you use a dedicated on system email client, like I do with apple mail you can set it up to get mail from different accounts. It is very helpful to have all mail for that one topic arrive at one address dedicated to only that. Further, it will save you many headaches given that yahoo and the MSC systems many of them use do not play nicely together. Keep the one you have now for your personal mail.

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January 06, 2010 04:30AM
I have email addresses with Yahoo, GMail, Hotmail, and a web-based through my internet provider. Not all seem to be secured sites - identified by an 's' after the http, right? Are these at risk and how do I go about being safe?
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January 06, 2010 04:40AM
Along the same line, what's the vulnerability of a laptop using whatever signal it can find?
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January 06, 2010 07:54AM
thanks dee but like i said....i have to much to do with keeping up with the shops i have... another email account wouldnt help... i use the yahoo scheduler for all my shops...


with "piggybacking" on someone elses signal its fine... as long as you have your fire walls up and computer to computer connection disabled... all these settings are default and unless you changed them they should be fine

with secured and unsecured sites its not your computer that is at risk... unless you dont have firewalls enabled or up to date virus protection... it is the information that you enter in to said unsecured sites and stuff that others can see...

shopping north west PA and south west ny
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January 06, 2010 08:08AM
Yes, Cool Dude, I guess you could consider it "fine" if you aren't the one paying for it. I had to lock down my browser after someone else in my building was using my bandwidth I was paying for, and making it ever so slow to boot.

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January 14, 2010 07:33AM
This post was in response to HReid's ridiculous sniper rant. He has been deactivated and had his posts removed. As such, I deleted it.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/2010 08:30AM by dee shops.
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