Monday, December 19, 2005

Shop'n Chek

Shop'n Chek
Overall Rating: A-

  • Number of jobs/clients: Very high
  • Type of jobs: Varied, including restaurant and retail
  • Rate of pay: Average to below average
  • Speed and method of payment: Direct deposit or check, 3 - 7 weeks (20th of following month)
  • Bonuses offered?: Yes (Chek Advantage Day)
Advantages:

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.

SNC's pay is usually the industry standard, but they do offer Chek Advantage days, where shops can be available for far more -- even more than double the original fee. Make sure you sign up with SNC, and check back often in order to grab shops you're interested in.

Disadvantages:

Due to its popularity, inexperienced or uncertified shoppers may have difficulty getting shops at first. 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).

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is a very useful site -- congratulations.

I didn't have any trouble getting started with Shop 'n Check; they were one of my first companies.

Shop 'n Check does send out e-mail notifications of shops, although it's just a general "You've Got Shops." Also, their pay schedule is very regular: not just "3 to 7 weeks," but they pay on the 11th of the month following your shop. If you have direct deposit, the money is in your account by that date. If you get a mailed check, it goes out that day.

8:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have had nothing but good things to say about shopnchek. They are reliable and enjoyable shops. I do not like the way you can get dropped from a shop request if you answer one question wrong. and you dont even know what it was!

12:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have had very good results from Shop n check I am always able to find something in my area and receive my checks without delay. Also they have a very good response time to questions you e-mail them.

4:40 PM  

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