Is Mystery Shopping Dead What You Said

Hi All,


Interesting feedback from mystery shoppers on last post's issue of whether or not you thought mystery shopping was dead. One mystery shopper provided some great feedback as a comment to the last blog post (or if you missed the last blog post, heaven forbid) check it out here:

http://www.mysteryshoppercoach.com/bloggerfiles/2008/07/is-mystery-shopping-dead.html

Other mystery shoppers wrote back to me with a variety of thoughts, and with one or two exceptions where those mystery shoppers lived in less populous areas so work was not as high volume, or they just didn't really use proper techniques to get a steady flow of mystery shopping work, the overwhelming majority felt mystery shopping was doing just fine, thank you very much!

Here's a couple of other comments from your fellow mystery shoppers:

"Mystery shopping is not dead from gas prices, but gas prices may be the straw that broke the camels back. The bidding wars and competition may be the real reason mystery shopping is dying. Start-up companies low bid for accounts and then can't even pay shoppers an honest amount. Companies that utilize mystery shopping need to realize that you get what you pay for. So, if you pay someone $8 to do a shop that takes them an hour or more in actual time and additional resources, they are likely to get a very poor quality shopper. I personally do not do any jobs that pay under $15 per job/hour."

"In scheduling out of area mystery shops I have to have 1-2 mystery shopping jobs jobs to make it worth the trip, then I'm not pressured to add anything else endangering my main goals and turning a potentially good day into a nightmare. "

"Mystery shopping is not dead. Most of on receipt surveys are taken by customers only when something happened, usually bad, or a manager specifically asks you to call and make you answers all positive in exchange for upgrading your fries to extra large at no charge."

Have a great day and happy shopping !

Taking the mystery out of professional mystery shopping--Melanie Jordan http://www.mysteryshoppercoach.com/


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