Shop 'n' Chek
Overall Rating: A-
Number of Jobs: High
Number of Individual Clients: High
Type of jobs: Retail, varied
Rate of Pay: Slightly below average
Speed of Pay: 3-7 Weeks
Method of Pay: Check or direct deposit
Bonuses available? Yes
More Resources:
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Pros:
Shop'n Chek is one of the most popular and largest mystery shopping sites.
They're well known for being reliable payers, and their staff is helpful and
responds quickly to concerns.
SNC also has a great website available to its shoppers. For available shops in
your area, you'll be able to decline to remove items from your shops list so
it's easy to tell if something is new. For example, you could decline just one
instance of a shop (for example, you're not available that day) or remove that
client's shops from your list in that campaign permanently if you choose.
Bonuses are available (look for "Changed Fee!" or similar language). Shop forms are very simple and require limited narrative.
Cons:
E-mail notification of shops is only sent once per week, rather than as jobs are
actually posted, so you need to check back often in order to grab any but the
least popular.
Each shop has a series of qualifications as well as a briefing test in order to
sign up, and be careful -- if you don't qualify for a shop, you can't change
your answers, and won't be able to take the shop until the next campaign (up to
a few months).