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Take a Free Lunch
and Get Paid for it!
Mystery
Shopping
Dear Friend,
According to conventional wisdom "There's no such thing as a free lunch".
That's generally true BUT...
There is a way to really have a free lunch and
also to get paid for it! This is so awesome that people can
hardly believe it! They are skeptical at first - as you may be -
but they are so glad after they give it a try.
Most of us don't know it but we can earn money for many of the activities
we do everyday: eating in restaurants, shopping in stores, enjoying a
movie at your local theater or playing golf!
In the U.S. over 700,000 people are paid
every day for such "jobs". It is called
Mystery Shopping.
Secret shopper jobs give us the opportunity to earn an extra income just
for shopping and filling out a questionnaire. You can work part time or
full time and decide on what assignments you want to take. Shoppers
are paid $10-$50 per hour just for having fun!
The Wall Street Journal has recently
featured an article on earning huge money with mystery shopping
assignments. It explains how Jennifer Voitle, a
mystery shopper living in Baldwin - N.Y., makes about $7000 per months
from her various assignments. We bring here an excerpt of
this article:
"Jennifer Voitle has mastered the
Freebie Economy. A former investment-bank employee who was laid off two
years ago, Ms. Voitle has found a new career in the arcane world of
dining deals, gift certificates and "mystery shopping," where companies
pay her to test their products and services.
She gets paid to shop, eat at restaurants, drink at bars, travel and
even play golf. Last month, she made nearly
$7,000 from her various freebie adventures.
By the end of the year, she could be making
more than she did in investment banking, not counting her steady supply
of handouts.
She gets free gas, free groceries and free
clothes. When her car breaks down, she gets paid to have it
repaired. She can make $75 for test-driving a
Land Rover, $20 for drinking at a bar and $25 for playing arcade games
(she keeps any winnings). Golfing is her latest passion, and
in addition to playing on courses around the country free of charge, she
gets free food and drinks and gifts from the pro shop.
Weekend trips to Hawaii and Mexico? "I don't pay for anything except
occasional meals," she says. She does much of her work on a free
hand-held computer.
"My friends tell me I should just get a job," says Ms. Voitle, who is
slim and blond and gives her age as "somewhere over 30." But, she says,
"most full-time jobs out there don't make economic sense."
Ms. Voitle never planned on becoming a freeloader. A trained engineer
and financial expert, with four advanced degrees and a gift for numbers
theory, Ms. Voitle worked for years as a
number-cruncher for Detroit's auto factories. Her real dream was to make
it big on Wall Street. In 2000, she got her break when Lazard LLC, the
storied investment bank, hired her to analyze fixed-income derivatives
in the firm's asset-management business.
Single, with a salary of more than $100,000, Ms. Voitle bought a house
in leafy Baldwin, N.Y., complete with a pool and gym. She spent weekends
golfing, traveling or playing with her cats -- Continental and
Northwest. In the fall of 2001, she was laid off. With thousands of
other investment-bank workers losing their jobs, Ms. Voitle couldn't
find any financial work. Last summer, her unemployment checks ran out
and both her electricity and phone were shut off.
"I woke up one morning and said, "That's it. I have to start looking for
money, wherever I can find it," she says.
Trolling the Internet, she discovered an ad for mystery shopping.
"I thought, 'this looks too good to be true,' "
she says. Mystery shoppers get paid to sample a company's service or
products and write a report on their experience. For companies, mystery
shopping is popular way of checking on quality. For Ms. Voitle, it was a
quick source of cash and freebies.
Her first assignment was a Pathmark grocery
store, where she received free groceries and $10 for a quick report.
She worked her way up to gas stations, clothing stores and restaurants.
She quickly discovered that the best-paying mystery shopping jobs were
for upscale businesses like banks and high-end car dealers.
She earns $75 for test-driving a Land Rover,
compared with about $30 for a Ford.
Volume is critical. On any given day, she will mystery shop gas
stations, grocery stores, golf courses, clothing stores, casinos,
hotels, insurance companies and restaurants. She even gets paid to shop
for apartments and interview for jobs. She can make as much as $50 for
applying for a job at a major company, and reporting back on the
performance of the people who do the hiring.
..."I couldn't believe there were all these
opportunities out there," says Gordon Stewart, a friend of Ms. Voitle's
who works in finance. "She's discovered this whole other economy."
Source: Wall Street Journal
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Wow, can you believe that Jennifer makes up to $7,000 just for shopping
and completing simple questionnaires? Do you think you can do it too?
You might not make $7,000 a month like Jennifer, but even if you only
made $1,000 or $2,000, wouldn't it help a lot?
Mystery shoppers are needed all the time and
there are jobs all over the US, Canada, Australia and UK.
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All the best!
Sam Parker -- Editor
Get Paid Coach Newsletter
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Sam Parker is the editor of the 'Get Paid Coach' newsletter and a
managing partner at Maximum Paid Surveys, a premium database of paid
surveys and mystery shopping jobs. Maximum Paid Surveys brings superior
value to registered members by delivering the most professional resource
of paid opportunities on the Internet.
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