Posted on 04/12/2009 3:15:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Women’s hip boot salesman and fitter.
Another growing category is "mystery voter." Contact ACORN for details.
• Foley artist
I work as an LPN in a nursing home. I’m a foley artist...a foley catheter artist!
Mystery shopping is one of the most common fronts used by scam artists.
The scmamers promise to enroll you in their program if you pay an initial fee, they send you to a store local to you to pay with your own money, they then send you a check that is bogus or cancelled before it was sent out.
Be wary of this scam, it happens ALOT, there are more mystery shopping job scam operations than there are legitimate mystery shopping companies. I’m sure the scammed will be ramped up during this recession.
The Mystery Drinker
OMG that’s hysterical!
Mystery shopping pays as little as $5-6 per shop. To make any meaningful amount of money, a shopper needs to do dozens of shops per week, maybe even a dozen per day. Factor in the cost of gas and the fact that many shops require a purchase of some sort, it’s just not worth it.
OTOH, if you don’t really need the money, it’s a fun way to observe employees through an objective lens. Best shop I ever did: Red Door Spa! I had $200 of other people’s money to spend on a facial and sea weed wrap! Worst: pretending I had 50K to deposit and invest at a local bank. Or maybe it was the time I had to shop seven different Subways in a row on the same day. :O)
I used to receive a spam e-mail about every day offering mystery shopper jobs. I never actually opened one of them as it was an obvious scam.
Despite that, I am sure there is a real use for genuine mystery shoppers. I suspect they don’t recruit through e-mail tho.
Oh Sooo True!
Nevertheless
Another job, but one with only occasional openings, is Mystery President. You don't need a resume or school transcripts, although a fanciful narcissistic "autobiography" is helpful.
I found about, through reading “THe Obsolete Employee” this place called “ELANCE.com”
You sign up, build a profile, and then bid on projects that are posted and get paid through paypal or an escrow account.
It has all sorts of stuff and I’m targeting the writing/translation section.
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