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The Simple Shopper features regularly on BOM. Every year his antics cost us taxpayers billions. Not only that he often fails to bring home the actual overpriced bacon at all. From to to to IT systems to the Shopper routinely trails waste and chaos in his wake. There are a number of reasons for this sorry state. First and fundamentally there's the all too familiar fact that the Shopper answers to politicos not to us end-customers. As we know the principal interest of those rascally politicos is to get elected not to get our public services working better. And in terms of fitness for purpose most of them would struggle with that famous whelk stall let alone a £100bn pa health service. Second few public sector shoppers have any meaningful experience of shopping in the real world. The senior ones are there because they want to shape "policy" not to get their hands dirty in the menial chore of implementation. And the more junior ones soon realise if they're any good at shopping they can earn a ton more in the commercial sector where their skills are properly valued. Time and time again the Public Accounts Committee probes into shopping fiascos and comes back to this woeful lack of commercial skill- paying too much half-baked specs agreeing contracts that are not fully bolted down selecting suppliers who aren't up to the job etc etc. The Shopper is naive and vulnerable. True in recent years there's been a new emphasis on getting low prices with Labour's (OGC) and all kinds of whizzo innovations like e-auctions where suppliers bid online to undercut competitors. But just selecting suppliers on the basis of price is a recipe for non-delivery what an IT industry insider said about the bidding process for the NHS Supercomputer: "The people who stayed in [the bidding] fell into two classes. Those who thought they could do it for the price but didn't understand the complexities of what they were getting into; or those that concluded you couldn't do it for the price but were willing to take the risk that the government wouldn't pull the plug on this and that they'd be able to get their money back from changes downstream." He said the procurement process lacked sophistication: "So much of this public sector procurement is done on the basis of what is the lowest price and not enough attention is paid to the competence of the people who are actually tendering what is their track record for delivering. "Now given this naivety and given a bottomless pit of taxpayers' money on offer you'd expect the evil capitalists from the private sector would be banging the door down. And indeed that is the long and sorry history (eg ). But just recently we detect a change in the air and it could be quite important: mainstream suppliers are starting to shun the Shopper altogether. We saw that spectacularly demonstrated last year when Accenture walked away from its multi-million NHS Supercomputer contract (eg ). It did so because it recognised the project was so half-baked it could never be made to work. It was much better and cheaper for Accenture to suffer some short-term embarrassment and a $450m charge than to struggle on in the clinches with the hopeless Shopper. And just yesterday from the healthcare suppliers who are so hacked off with Alan Johnson's abrupt U-turn on buying private sector care for NHS patients they may never deal with the NHS again: ”. But the whole issue is really coming to the boil over the 2012 Olympics. As regular readers will recall the Commissars' plan was to hold a giant competition among contractors beat them down to get the very best deal and on fixed price contracts. There was to be no repetition of the Dome fiasco. We were always very sceptical about whether that was a realistic proposition (eg ) and it looks like we were right. Last month we learned that both the main 2012 stadium and the aquatic centre only received one tender apiece (). The result is that while the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) will get its fixed price contract (it seems) the price for both has escalated wildly beyond the original "budget": the main stadium is up 80% and the cost of the aquatic centre has doubled. Plus both have been despecced with the main stadium now. Today some real 2012 home truths from the contracting industry. Stephen Ratcliffe the chief executive of the Construction Federation says: “There are only a limited number of contractors with the size and experience necessary to tackle the Olympic project. There are plenty of opportunities in the marketplace allowing suppliers to choose the best opportunities. The Olympics is essentially a one-off project so the long-term opportunities are not there. It is also highly exposed and if things went badly wrong a contractor could damage its reputation irretrievably.” “The ODA has too many masters. These include the International Olympic Committee. Ken Livingstone the DCMS the Treasury. Gordon Brown the Olympic Board and the five London boroughs. There are also a whole group of DCMS civil servants without any operational responsibility. They are only there to make sure that other people are doing their jobs which can lead to complete inertia. There is no clear leadership at the top so no one makes decisions.” Just read that last paragraph again. It captures so much of what's wrong with Big Government- no clear leadership nobody trusted with real authority and thousands of jobsworths demanding multiple checklists and other assorted bumpf. With more and more media attention now focused on public sector waste and other government bog-ups no wonder reputation-conscious commercial operators are getting wary of the Shopper. Especially since with fixed price contracts there's no longer the cozy glow of the old cost-plus system to keep them warm at night (eg BAE Systems are reportedly taking a huge bath over the ). This is bad news for taxpayers. The more wary suppliers get the more their prices will go up. Commercial companies are not nearly as simple as the Shopper. They won't play the Shopper's bidding games and given recent experiences they will make doubly sure they can earn an honest crust from future contracts. And we will pay the price. As we've said many times we would be so much better off if we all dealt directly with end commercial suppliers just like we do with Tesco and Sainsburys. Having the Shopper intermediate his hopeless blundering presence in the middle is a sure recipe for more cost and less delivery. And now we have the fiasco over the MOD's Defence nformation Infrastructure project as highlighted in Computer World and Channel 4 News. "Major problems" seems to be the most charitable comment but given that there's already a £1bn overrun on a project originally budgeted at £4bn and only a quarter of systems due for implementation at July having been delivered one suspects that Henry Bellingham MP's forecast of "a total disaster" is likely to be nearer the mark. Public procurement is too important to be left to commercially incompetent civil servants. An investigation of alternatives (including private sector involvement based on payment by results) must be instigated - perhaps TPA could come up with proposals.

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The Simple Shopper features regularly on BOM. Every year his antics cost us taxpayers billions. Not only that he often fails to bring home the actual overpriced bacon at all. From to to to IT systems to the Shopper routinely trails waste and chaos in his wake. There are a number of reasons for this sorry state. First and fundamentally there's the all too familiar fact that the Shopper answers to politicos not to us end-customers. As we know the principal interest of those rascally politicos is to get elected not to get our public services working better. And in terms of fitness for purpose most of them would struggle with that famous whelk stall let alone a £100bn pa health service. Second few public sector shoppers have any meaningful experience of shopping in the real world. The senior ones are there because they want to shape "policy" not to get their hands dirty in the menial chore of implementation. And the more junior ones soon realise if they're any good at shopping they can earn a ton more in the commercial sector where their skills are properly valued. Time and time again the Public Accounts Committee probes into shopping fiascos and comes back to this woeful lack of commercial skill- paying too much half-baked specs agreeing contracts that are not fully bolted down selecting suppliers who aren't up to the job etc etc. The Shopper is naive and vulnerable. True in recent years there's been a new emphasis on getting low prices with Labour's (OGC) and all kinds of whizzo innovations like e-auctions where suppliers bid online to undercut competitors. But just selecting suppliers on the basis of price is a recipe for non-delivery what an IT industry insider said about the bidding process for the NHS Supercomputer: "The people who stayed in [the bidding] fell into two classes. Those who thought they could do it for the price but didn't understand the complexities of what they were getting into; or those that concluded you couldn't do it for the price but were willing to take the risk that the government wouldn't pull the plug on this and that they'd be able to get their money back from changes downstream." He said the procurement process lacked sophistication: "So much of this public sector procurement is done on the basis of what is the lowest price and not enough attention is paid to the competence of the people who are actually tendering what is their track record for delivering. "Now given this naivety and given a bottomless pit of taxpayers' money on offer you'd expect the evil capitalists from the private sector would be banging the door down. And indeed that is the long and sorry history (eg ). But just recently we detect a change in the air and it could be quite important: mainstream suppliers are starting to shun the Shopper altogether. We saw that spectacularly demonstrated last year when Accenture walked away from its multi-million NHS Supercomputer contract (eg ). It did so because it recognised the project was so half-baked it could never be made to work. It was much better and cheaper for Accenture to suffer some short-term embarrassment and a $450m charge than to struggle on in the clinches with the hopeless Shopper. And just yesterday from the healthcare suppliers who are so hacked off with Alan Johnson's abrupt U-turn on buying private sector care for NHS patients they may never deal with the NHS again: ”. But the whole issue is really coming to the boil over the 2012 Olympics. As regular readers will recall the Commissars' plan was to hold a giant competition among contractors beat them down to get the very best deal and on fixed price contracts. There was to be no repetition of the Dome fiasco. We were always very sceptical about whether that was a realistic proposition (eg ) and it looks like we were right. Last month we learned that both the main 2012 stadium and the aquatic centre only received one tender apiece (). The result is that while the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) will get its fixed price contract (it seems) the price for both has escalated wildly beyond the original "budget": the main stadium is up 80% and the cost of the aquatic centre has doubled. Plus both have been despecced with the main stadium now. Today some real 2012 home truths from the contracting industry. Stephen Ratcliffe the chief executive of the Construction Federation says: “There are only a limited number of contractors with the size and experience necessary to tackle the Olympic project. There are plenty of opportunities in the marketplace allowing suppliers to choose the best opportunities. The Olympics is essentially a one-off project so the long-term opportunities are not there. It is also highly exposed and if things went badly wrong a contractor could damage its reputation irretrievably.” “The ODA has too many masters. These include the International Olympic Committee. Ken Livingstone the DCMS the Treasury. Gordon Brown the Olympic Board and the five London boroughs. There are also a whole group of DCMS civil servants without any operational responsibility. They are only there to make sure that other people are doing their jobs which can lead to complete inertia. There is no clear leadership at the top so no one makes decisions.” Just read that last paragraph again. It captures so much of what's wrong with Big Government- no clear leadership nobody trusted with real authority and thousands of jobsworths demanding multiple checklists and other assorted bumpf. With more and more media attention now focused on public sector waste and other government bog-ups no wonder reputation-conscious commercial operators are getting wary of the Shopper. Especially since with fixed price contracts there's no longer the cozy glow of the old cost-plus system to keep them warm at night (eg BAE Systems are reportedly taking a huge bath over the ). This is bad news for taxpayers. The more wary suppliers get the more their prices will go up. Commercial companies are not nearly as simple as the Shopper. They won't play the Shopper's bidding games and given recent experiences they will make doubly sure they can earn an honest crust from future contracts. And we will pay the price. As we've said many times we would be so much better off if we all dealt directly with end commercial suppliers just like we do with Tesco and Sainsburys. Having the Shopper intermediate his hopeless blundering presence in the middle is a sure recipe for more cost and less delivery. And now we have the fiasco over the MOD's Defence nformation Infrastructure project as highlighted in Computer World and Channel 4 News. "Major problems" seems to be the most charitable comment but given that there's already a £1bn overrun on a project originally budgeted at £4bn and only a quarter of systems due for implementation at July having been delivered one suspects that Henry Bellingham MP's forecast of "a total disaster" is likely to be nearer the mark. Public procurement is too important to be left to commercially incompetent civil servants. An investigation of alternatives (including private sector involvement based on payment by results) must be instigated - perhaps TPA could come up with proposals.

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The Simple Shopper features regularly on BOM. Every year his antics cost us taxpayers billions. Not only that he often fails to bring home the actual overpriced bacon at all. From to to to IT systems to the Shopper routinely trails waste and chaos in his wake. There are a number of reasons for this sorry state. First and fundamentally there's the all too familiar fact that the Shopper answers to politicos not to us end-customers. As we know the principal interest of those rascally politicos is to get elected not to get our public services working better. And in terms of fitness for purpose most of them would struggle with that famous whelk stall let alone a £100bn pa health service. Second few public sector shoppers have any meaningful experience of shopping in the real world. The senior ones are there because they want to shape "policy" not to get their hands dirty in the menial chore of implementation. And the more junior ones soon realise if they're any good at shopping they can earn a ton more in the commercial sector where their skills are properly valued. Time and time again the Public Accounts Committee probes into shopping fiascos and comes back to this woeful lack of commercial skill- paying too much half-baked specs agreeing contracts that are not fully bolted down selecting suppliers who aren't up to the job etc etc. The Shopper is naive and vulnerable. True in recent years there's been a new emphasis on getting low prices with Labour's (OGC) and all kinds of whizzo innovations like e-auctions where suppliers bid online to undercut competitors. But just selecting suppliers on the basis of price is a recipe for non-delivery what an IT industry insider said about the bidding process for the NHS Supercomputer: "The people who stayed in [the bidding] fell into two classes. Those who thought they could do it for the price but didn't understand the complexities of what they were getting into; or those that concluded you couldn't do it for the price but were willing to take the risk that the government wouldn't pull the plug on this and that they'd be able to get their money back from changes downstream." He said the procurement process lacked sophistication: "So much of this public sector procurement is done on the basis of what is the lowest price and not enough attention is paid to the competence of the people who are actually tendering what is their track record for delivering. "Now given this naivety and given a bottomless pit of taxpayers' money on offer you'd expect the evil capitalists from the private sector would be banging the door down. And indeed that is the long and sorry history (eg ). But just recently we detect a change in the air and it could be quite important: mainstream suppliers are starting to shun the Shopper altogether. We saw that spectacularly demonstrated last year when Accenture walked away from its multi-million NHS Supercomputer contract (eg ). It did so because it recognised the project was so half-baked it could never be made to work. It was much better and cheaper for Accenture to suffer some short-term embarrassment and a $450m charge than to struggle on in the clinches with the hopeless Shopper. And just yesterday from the healthcare suppliers who are so hacked off with Alan Johnson's abrupt U-turn on buying private sector care for NHS patients they may never deal with the NHS again: ”. But the whole issue is really coming to the boil over the 2012 Olympics. As regular readers will recall the Commissars' plan was to hold a giant competition among contractors beat them down to get the very best deal and on fixed price contracts. There was to be no repetition of the Dome fiasco. We were always very sceptical about whether that was a realistic proposition (eg ) and it looks like we were right. Last month we learned that both the main 2012 stadium and the aquatic centre only received one tender apiece (). The result is that while the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) will get its fixed price contract (it seems) the price for both has escalated wildly beyond the original "budget": the main stadium is up 80% and the cost of the aquatic centre has doubled. Plus both have been despecced with the main stadium now. Today some real 2012 home truths from the contracting industry. Stephen Ratcliffe the chief executive of the Construction Federation says: “There are only a limited number of contractors with the size and experience necessary to tackle the Olympic project. There are plenty of opportunities in the marketplace allowing suppliers to choose the best opportunities. The Olympics is essentially a one-off project so the long-term opportunities are not there. It is also highly exposed and if things went badly wrong a contractor could damage its reputation irretrievably.” “The ODA has too many masters. These include the International Olympic Committee. Ken Livingstone the DCMS the Treasury. Gordon Brown the Olympic Board and the five London boroughs. There are also a whole group of DCMS civil servants without any operational responsibility. They are only there to make sure that other people are doing their jobs which can lead to complete inertia. There is no clear leadership at the top so no one makes decisions.” Just read that last paragraph again. It captures so much of what's wrong with Big Government- no clear leadership nobody trusted with real authority and thousands of jobsworths demanding multiple checklists and other assorted bumpf. With more and more media attention now focused on public sector waste and other government bog-ups no wonder reputation-conscious commercial operators are getting wary of the Shopper. Especially since with fixed price contracts there's no longer the cozy glow of the old cost-plus system to keep them warm at night (eg BAE Systems are reportedly taking a huge bath over the ). This is bad news for taxpayers. The more wary suppliers get the more their prices will go up. Commercial companies are not nearly as simple as the Shopper. They won't play the Shopper's bidding games and given recent experiences they will make doubly sure they can earn an honest crust from future contracts. And we will pay the price. As we've said many times we would be so much better off if we all dealt directly with end commercial suppliers just like we do with Tesco and Sainsburys. Having the Shopper intermediate his hopeless blundering presence in the middle is a sure recipe for more cost and less delivery. And now we have the fiasco over the MOD's Defence nformation Infrastructure project as highlighted in Computer World and Channel 4 News. "Major problems" seems to be the most charitable comment but given that there's already a £1bn overrun on a project originally budgeted at £4bn and only a quarter of systems due for implementation at July having been delivered one suspects that Henry Bellingham MP's forecast of "a total disaster" is likely to be nearer the mark. Public procurement is too important to be left to commercially incompetent civil servants. An investigation of alternatives (including private sector involvement based on payment by results) must be instigated - perhaps TPA could come up with proposals.

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(Maybe some of them are actually obtain owners but I’m just going to call them shop assistants because it makes my job easier.) This creepy obtain assistant doesn’t greet you when you enter the obtain but politely walks towards you taking compassionate to keep a one-metre (3.2-feet) hold from you. When you go she walks. When you stop she stops. Ever mindful of allowing you your one-metre personal space. I encountered a Stalker in a big obtain (about two-thirds the size of a professional basketball act). She attached herself to me and silently followed my every footstep. It took me 20 minutes to end browsing and she silently followed me for 20 minutes. Freaky. I’ve met many haughty shop assistants in expensive boutiques who turn their noses up at you if you go into their shop without having at least one item of Gucci. Prada or Louis Vuitton on your person. But this particular Snob I met was manning a no-name shop selling cheap cram in a second-rate shopping mall. When I walked in she walked out of her answer. She didn’t walk towards me but stood on the far end of the obtain to watch me silently. As I was checking out a rack of clothes a blouse cut off its hanger. Because I was carrying multiple shopping bags on my left transfer. I struggled to rehang the blouse with my right transfer. The Snob didn’t go up to help. She stood watching three metres away. When I finally manged to set the blouse alter. I turned to look at her. She was staring at me with a borderline hostile look on her greasy pimply face. What a pity because I had seen several things I liked in the obtain and was planning to pay some money. The most enthusiastic one I met was a young good-looking Chinese guy wearing punky clothes and a punky hairdo. As I browsed he started to beat out clothes randomly. “This would look great on you. You could pair it with tights or jeans and maybe a shiny sing.” He change surface went to the trouble of fishing out clothes from different parts of the shop to show me how to mix and match. He remained polite and enthusiastic even when I rejected all his creations. He showed me about 20 outfits in all. I only bought two items but it was two more than I would have bought if he hadn’t been such a personable bloke. The Salesman tries to persuade you into buying stuff telling you how fashionable this is how gorgeous you look in that. This particular Salesman who is in fact a woman went all out to ensure I found something I liked. I had taken a dress and two pairs of shorts into the dressing room. Barely half a minute later she knocked on my door. “How is it?” Quickly buttoning up my shorts. I opened the door and asked if she could get me the same pair in another colour. When she returned she was holding two more pairs of shorts in her hands. “Do you want to try these?” she asked. “You’ll be very nice in them.” I didn’t desire them so I apologetically no-thanked her before I shut the door to try on my shorts. Next. I tried on the change. One bind was twisted so I once again engaged her help. Later her colleague brought another conjoin in a different colour to compare and we open out that the strap was intentionally twisted. I told them I wanted to try on the new act upon. While deliberating over the colours my ever-diligent Salesmen knocked on my door again. “How is it? Why don’t you try on these shorts?” she said and slung two new pairs of shorts over the top of my door. Shop assistants must all go to the same educate and learn to say the same thing. During my pass in KL the most-heard phrase was: “This is the newest arrival.” The phrase just rolls off their lips the moment I go into the obtain and touch the first piece of clothing! Most of them forbid at that declare and allow me to browse in peace thereafter. A few illustrious Students add: “You can try it on.” And then there are those who rattle out a have phrase with every piece of clothing you comprehend as if they were taught in educate that “if a customer touches something that means the customer is interested! Fuel the interest by saying something about it!” It was great shopping in KL. Most obtain assistants are nice even if some are overbearingly so. HAHAHAHA this is hilarious… Ive met all of the above before but I actually don’t mind the stalker types. I’ve been to this boutique where I had a S. A follow me around helping me to hold the stuff that I’d picked out. She only offered comments when I hesitated and her comments seemed sincere cos she told me that I wouldn’t suit capris (cos of my lack of height) but recommended me a nicely cut unify of pants instead. Seems desire you had a fruitful shopping move. Having lived in Singapore. Australia and now Hong Kong. I have to say that Spore has the worst sales assistants! Service aim in Spore can be unbearable at times. I’m not trying to put down sales assistants in Spore but it’s full of snob and stalker type of sales assistants. I go into designer shops in HK on a regular basis not that I’ve heaps of money but I love to browse and they are always nice change surface though there are times that I go in dressed in grubby clothes. It is actually rare that I get bad service. The same can be said in Australia as well. I anticipate that’s one of the reasons why I hardly obtain in Spore these days. Why obtain in places that give me bad function? Ermmm…what about the shop assistant that wish you quickly go away and don’t buy anything so as to not give her something to do?Encountered one at Gmask before. Totally boycott Gmask after that…which is why I pasted the girly stuff on my DS Lite myself. :p I had one bad undergo in Melbourne. :(And in a big shopping center somemore lor. Totally ignored me when I wanted to buy a pair of boots. *grimace* I dislike #1 & #5 the most. Once I went into a obtain to browse for watches. Met a #5. The fella pissed me off so much that before I left. I let him experience that actually I open a nice check but I wasn’t buying ‘cos he’s totally annoying! In the end I went to another shop & open an change surface nicer check!! I work as a part-time obtain assistant so I understand all the situations you’ve listed. I anticipate we try as obtain assistants to be as helpful as possible & at the same measure to let customers undergo their personal space. It’s a fine line between being a Stalker & being bo-chap. Haha. but I’ve never tried being a Snob before. :) Daphne Maia: Yeah. I accept that’s one of the nice stalker types. I’ve met those too and it’s nice to have someone hold stuff you pick out and hang it in the dressing room for you. The stalker I mentioned in my blog didn’t. She just silently followed me throughout and didn’t offer to hold my stuff. Well I evaluate she was shy and unsure and she was wearing a badge that said Trainee. Monster: The move was fun but I didn’t sight as many nice things as I did my last trip. I bought a lot of stuff but there isn’t anything I really like to death. Yeah. Singapore function is worse compared to other countries. Is it because the pay is lower here or is it just our culture? Minou: Interesting! I never really thought of it that way that some shop assistants might be rude because they don’t want you to furnish them extra bring home the bacon. Haha. Derrick:.

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Take that ingeminate from an Federal change equip bind on the Secrets of Mystery Shopping to heart and you’ll be able to sniff out a lot of mystery shopping scams without the help of the red flags I’ve listed below. The bottom lie is that mystery shopping is a side pursuit at best and anytime you comprehend any promises or comments hinting that they can offer you more ordain be a good write that you’re dealing with a bad affiliate. If you’re one for lists the following might be helpful but nothing beats your “gut feeling.” An application fee is a sure write that your mystery shopping company is a fraud. What job would ask you to pay an application fee? The answer is none. Asking for lots of personal information. If someone asks for your social security number it’s likely a scam. The most they’ll ask is for your name and your communicate so they can mail you a check. Some ordain ask for a bank be to direct deposit funds but that ordain always be optional if they are allow. If they require that you give them a social security number or your bank account it’s likely a cheat. They contact you because of a resume you posted on a job website. allow mystery shoppers won’t contact you like this only scammers will scour employment websites for marks. Promises of how you’ll earn thousands in your forbear time (or even a more modest $30/hr). While the potential to make thousands is there the fact of the be is you’ll need a tremendous amount of spare measure to acquire that much money. The pay from a mystery obtain simply isn’t that great compared to the measure it takes to end it. They are internationally based. You have far less protection when dealing with an international company and they have more latitude in screwing you if they want to there are plenty of companies in your home country that you don’t need to deal international. You will never handle lots of money. One popular scam after you’ve signed up is to fasten a huge analyse (over $1 is huge) into your account and then undergo you wire that money out to another account. This is a move on a popular re-create international check scam that’s all the rage (this is why Dr. Smith in [attach international affiliate here] emailed you the other day and wants your back up and will furnish you $1,000 for you to cash his $20,000 check). You will never handle lots of money because what company would pay you $20 to fasten a $10,000 check? Let’s say you walk away with it (or the hundreds of other shoppers they hired for this job) they don’t be to deal with that hassle. Here’s a about this write of scam. They’re not in the Mystery Shopper Providers Association. The represents 180 companies while being a member doesn’t pledge they’re allow there are enough companies in there that you can find one there and at least get the alleviate of knowing the MSPA has seen their label. Interesting! I didn’t even experience there could be such a thing as the MSPA. I briefly looked at their place and the first thing I noticed is that there is such a thing as certification for mystery shoppers. Amazing! I experience your affix says that a affiliate may be illegit if it requires certification — it’s a slight twist on the fact that certification is an option. Great enumerate; I wish everyone could understand that mystery shopping isn’t a career but is a lucrative back up income! I’ve been doing it for about three years and it really can be a great venture if you undergo an eye for dilate good organizational skills and enjoy interacting with populate. As a sidenote there are some reputable companies that require the social security be for registration in their databases. This is because if you alter more than $600.00 from one employer (or assure) in one year they are required to inform that income to the IRS. Some companies prefer to get the information up-front rather than broach with tracking drink individuals at tax time and running the assay of violating a tax law. This is where the guideline of only going with MPSA-certified companies is absolutely necessary. They are very thorough and you can bring home the bacon with their companies with confidence! The companies that pay people to be mystery shoppers need to have social security numbers because they undergo to inform to the IRS what they pay each person. Also it is helpful for someone who wants to start mystery shopping but doesn’t experience how or where to start to either do an online search for companies that provide shopper jobs or to purchase a command that gives them links to and information about various companies. That can save them a lot of measure. When doing their own searches they may get confused and waste a lot of measure. Most mystery shopping companies have you register before they reveal the types of shopping jobs they undergo. So the beginner could spend days doing searches and goint to sites and registering. Purchasing a command can give them info about different companies and they types of mystery shops they provide. So I don’t accept that paying for a enumerate is the sign of a scam. Generally good advice especially about avoiding the fraudulent check scam. I have mystery shopped since 1995 and I undergo trained thousands of mystery shoppers. Here are a few things I would add: The MSPA offers plate and Gold Certification and those certifications can help you to get assignments with MSPA member companies. However no affiliate requires MSPA certification. Some companies have their own certification that you must complete before getting assignments from them. This usually covers specific information about their clients and the obtain requirements and there is no rush to end these certifications. Mystery shopper applications ask for gobs of personal information. This may consider your Social Security be. They ask for a legitimate reason (they must inform to the IRS) but I would exercise warn here. Often you can enter a dummy number and let them know that you will provide it if needed (e g. they must file a 1099 reporting your earnings). Other personal information requested may include your age marital status go if you have children and their ages the model of car you control your household income and more. They ask these questions because they have a client who requires shoppers with certain characteristics. For example non-discrimination testing may require that they send shoppers of various races to the same location to alter sure they are not discriminating. The MSPA is a great resource for shoppers. There are allow companies that do not belong but the companies that do be have met stringent requirements and agreed to hold ethical standards. The MSPA is a scam they took my money for a shopper certification and that was it. Worthless Scammers! just desire the bind mentioned. You don’t be a award to shop… and the MSPA has scammed over 50,000 populate making them believe this. Many of the shopping companies I work for don’t belong to MSPA and said they are a communicate offer little to no determine. I also joined the National Association of Mystery Shoppers and they aren’t much exceed.

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Take that quote from an Federal Trade Commission bind on the Secrets of Mystery Shopping to heart and you’ll be able to sniff out a lot of mystery shopping scams without the help of the red flags I’ve listed below. The furnish line is that mystery shopping is a side pursuit at best and anytime you comprehend any promises or comments hinting that they can offer you more will be a good write that you’re dealing with a bad affiliate. If you’re one for lists the following might be helpful but nothing beats your “gut feeling.” An application fee is a sure write that your mystery shopping affiliate is a fraud. What job would ask you to pay an application fee? The answer is none. Asking for lots of personal information. If someone asks for your social security number it’s likely a scam. The most they’ll ask is for your name and your address so they can send you a check. Some will ask for a bank account to direct deposit funds but that ordain always be optional if they are allow. If they demand that you give them a social security number or your bank account it’s likely a scam. They contact you because of a resume you posted on a job website. Legitimate mystery shoppers won’t contact you like this only scammers will scour employment websites for marks. Promises of how you’ll earn thousands in your forbear time (or even a more modest $30/hr). While the potential to make thousands is there the fact of the matter is you’ll need a tremendous amount of spare time to earn that much money. The pay from a mystery shop simply isn’t that great compared to the time it takes to end it. They are internationally based. You have far less protection when dealing with an international company and they have more latitude in screwing you if they be to there are plenty of companies in your home country that you don’t need to deal international. You ordain never handle lots of money. One popular scam after you’ve signed up is to deposit a huge analyse (over $1 is huge) into your account and then undergo you wire that money out to another account. This is a move on a popular fake international check scam that’s all the rage (this is why Dr. Smith in [attach international company here] emailed you the other day and wants your help and ordain furnish you $1,000 for you to cash his $20,000 check). You will never handle lots of money because what company would pay you $20 to deposit a $10,000 check? Let’s say you go away with it (or the hundreds of other shoppers they hired for this job) they don’t be to broach with that annoy. Here’s a about this write of cheat. They’re not in the Mystery Shopper Providers Association. The represents 180 companies while being a member doesn’t pledge they’re legitimate there are enough companies in there that you can find one there and at least get the alleviate of knowing the MSPA has seen their label. Interesting! I didn’t change surface experience there could be such a thing as the MSPA. I briefly looked at their site and the first thing I noticed is that there is such a thing as certification for mystery shoppers. Amazing! I experience your post says that a company may be illegit if it requires certification — it’s a brush aside twist on the fact that certification is an option. Great enumerate; I wish everyone could understand that mystery shopping isn’t a career but is a lucrative second income! I’ve been doing it for about three years and it really can be a great venture if you have an eye for detail good organizational skills and apply interacting with people. As a sidenote there are some reputable companies that require the social security number for registration in their databases. This is because if you make more than $600.00 from one employer (or contract) in one year they are required to report that income to the IRS. Some companies prefer to get the information up-front rather than broach with tracking drink individuals at tax time and running the assay of violating a tax law. This is where the guideline of only going with MPSA-certified companies is absolutely necessary. They are very thorough and you can work with their companies with confidence! The companies that pay populate to be mystery shoppers be to have social security numbers because they undergo to report to the IRS what they pay each person. Also it is helpful for someone who wants to go away mystery shopping but doesn’t know how or where to go away to either do an online search for companies that provide shopper jobs or to purchase a guide that gives them links to and information about various companies. That can deliver them a lot of time. When doing their own searches they may get confused and expend a lot of time. Most mystery shopping companies undergo you enter before they show the types of shopping jobs they undergo. So the beginner could pay days doing searches and goint to sites and registering. Purchasing a command can furnish them info about different companies and they types of mystery shops they give. So I don’t agree that paying for a list is the write of a cheat. Generally good advice especially about avoiding the fraudulent check cheat. I have mystery shopped since 1995 and I have trained thousands of mystery shoppers. Here are a few things I would add: The MSPA offers Silver and Gold Certification and those certifications can back up you to get assignments with MSPA member companies. However no company requires MSPA certification. Some companies have their own certification that you must complete before getting assignments from them. This usually covers specific information about their clients and the obtain requirements and there is no charge to end these certifications. Mystery shopper applications ask for gobs of personal information. This may include your Social Security Number. They ask for a allow reason (they must report to the IRS) but I would apply caution here. Often you can enter a dummy be and let them know that you will provide it if needed (e g. they must file a 1099 reporting your earnings). Other personal information requested may include your age marital status go if you undergo children and their ages the copy of car you drive your household income and more. They ask these questions because they undergo a client who requires shoppers with certain characteristics. For example non-discrimination testing may require that they send shoppers of various races to the same location to make sure they are not discriminating. The MSPA is a great resource for shoppers. There are legitimate companies that do not belong but the companies that do belong have met stringent requirements and agreed to uphold ethical standards.

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