Do you feel as though your email inbox is under siege with dozen or even hundreds of daily emails from mystery shopping companies? Ready to declare email bankruptcy and start over again with a new email address? Wait! You don’t have to take drastic measures. Here are a few tips you can use to get your mystery shopping email under control.
When you first started mystery shopping, you may have felt a little excited every time an email from a mystery shopping company showed up in your inbox. But after shopping for a while, and signing up with dozens of companies, the number of emails can be overwhelming. If you are a new shopper who is not yet at that point, this article is for you, too. Pay special attention to the section at the end about setting up email systems. These tips will keep you from becoming an email victim!
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Typical mystery shoppers are signed up with dozens of mystery shopping companies, and our inboxes may be flooded with hundreds or thousands of emails about open mystery shops every month. If a company sends you a bunch of offers and you never accept one, will they blacklist you and stop offering shops?
The question of who checks up on the mystery shoppers gets asked a lot. It would be extremely unlikely that a company would send two shoppers in to a business at the same time so that one could check on the other (or the reports could be compared), but there are techniques that mystery shopping companies use to check the accuracy of reports or determine if the shopper may not be doing a thorough job.
This is a guest post from C. McDaniel of 
Each time you apply to a mystery shopping company, you fill out a shopper profile. The profile includes your contact information, demographic information about you (e.g., birthdate, gender, marital status, etc.) as well as specific things the mystery shopping company needs to match you to client requirements. These questions might include the ages of your children, if you own a digital camera or voice recorder, if you wear glasses, etc. Of course, MSPA member companies will want to know your MSPA certification status.
Question from a mystery shopper:
A simple definition of karma is that what you put out comes back to you. If you do good things, you receive good things in return. And if you do bad things, you can expect negative consequences.
You always do your best as a mystery shopper…until that one day. Maybe you didn’t get an important bit of information for the shop, or you went on the wrong day, or at the wrong time or to the wrong place. Or you completely forgot to do the shop.