Hi Joseph,

You can search for shops on the Available Shops page - you can search by city, state or zip code. To expand the search, you can set the distance filter to 50 or 100 miles, which will show you shops in a wider area.

Hi Carine,

Nevada State Law requires that all mystery shopping be performed by employees of licensed and bonded, Nevada-based Private Investigations firms - and Independent Contractors are not permitted to perform such work. There are very few Nevada-based firms doing this work and QSI is the largest. If you are interested in doing Mystery Shopping while in Nevada, please contact QSI and see what is involved. iSecretShop is a software company and is licensed to numerous MSPs all over the US and the world, but does not offer or control assignments, and always complies with all laws and regulations governing the industry.

Hi Sandra, and welcome!

You can find some useful tips on the following thread:

https://www.secretshopforum.com/thread/1/2/94/pro-tips-for-those-who-want-to-be-the-best-shoppers#post528

That is so terrible!

Welcome! Please feel free to ask if you have any questions!

You might find the following thread useful for some tips on figuring out a potential scam:

https://www.secretshopforum.com/thread/3/6/333/warning-scam#post1900

I hope it helps!

That's the best thing to do!

It's in the MSPs interest to have as many active shoppers available as possible, so there may have been other reasons for the ban - have you asked them about it?

Donna,

Usually, shops get posted 5 to 10 days before their planned "period" begins. There are shops that run on weekly, monthly, quarterly, or custom periods.

So, for example, shops for May would get posted around April 23rd, allowing shoppers time to pick them up before the period begins. For weekly shops, this time is usually shorter (3-4 days before the start of the week), and for some harder to schedule shops, it can be longer.

However, due to the current Covid-19 situation, there has been a decline in the number of available shops throughout the industry - the MSPs have put lots of their projects on hold temporarily, so nobody can really tell at this point when new shops/projects will be posted. We'll just have to wait and see how this plays out.

Martin_Canada @ Apr 9, 2020 1:42:49 AM

Kind of pointless to find new companies. I'm sure there will be a bunch of consolidation of mystery shopping companies when this pandemic is done. :-(

That is very possible - and not just for this industry, but many others as well.