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Hello all, I am recruiting Gamers for a mystery shop that will take place at a retailer that specializes in gaming across Canada. We need participants to take part in gaming activities such as war games, and paint an action figure while visiting a location. The client prides themselves on creating a memorable experience and we need you to find out if this is true. During your visit you will ask the staff members specific questions about their products and purchase materials based on their suggestive selling assistance. Observe the store appearance and evaluate the level of customer service and product knowledge you were provided with. A purchase is required, however, you will reimbursed up to $275USD (this is free gaming products). You will report back online on your experience and retain a copy of your receipt as proof of your evaluation and for reimbursement. You will be paid by check or direct deposit 30 days after successful completion of your evaluation.

Sound interesting? To participate, you must be a male age 18-40yrs and available to evaluate one or more locations in the following cities:

CANADA:
Chinook, AB
Kingsway Garden, AB
West Edmonton, AB
Victoria, BC
Halifax, NS
White Oaks Mall, ON
Bayshore, ON

UNITED STATES :
Alamo, CA
Antioch, CA
San Pedro, CA
Algonquin, IL
bertyville, IL
Downers Grove, IL
Geneva, IL
Naperville, IL
Oak Park, IL
Palatine, IL
Rockford, IL
Olney, MD
Voorhees, NJ
Cypress, TX
Houston, TX
Houston, TX
Houston, TX
Katy, TX
Bellevue, WA
Gig Harbor, WA
Kent, WA
Marysville, WA
Puyallup, WA
Tacoma, WA
Greenfield, WI
Pleasant Prairie, WI

To participate, you will need to register online with Bare International. Bare International is a leading Market Research firm that has been retained for this mystery shopping project. To participate in this project you must input reference code: 9100 to submit your online application. After registering you can expect to receive further instructions by email. Click this link to create your mystery shoppers account with Bare Int’l: http://www.bareinternational.com/en/evaluators/newevaluators/ (Don’t forget to include your reference code: 9100)

Thank-you for your interest and please email me if you have any questions.


Aicha Jaichi
Independent Recruiter
www.vipscheduling.com
info@vipscheduling.com

The links appear genuine.

All I can say is that I wish I were Canadian

Lets hope the link is genuine. Cause they got my email now.

The mighty google seems to think that it is when I searched for the name of the company (there were other sites talking about the company). The link given above also goes to the right web pages as the pages you get to if you nagivate through the site via google.

All I can say is don't open anything you buy until you have the payment through.


Edit: Although from the "VIPS" own website:

http://www.vipscheduling.com/page04.html wrote:Q: I got a check in the mail with instructions to cash it as part of a mystery shop, is this legit?

A: NO, DO NOT CASH THE CHECK! You have been targeted by a check cashing scheme and this is not a legit form of mystery shopping. Legit Mystery Shopping providers are being impersonated by scammers that are sending out fake checks claiming to offer you a cut of the check when cashed as long as you return a portion of the money received. DO NOT CASH THE CHECK! Please report this to your local authorities.

Yeah google seemed to indicate the company was legit, however I'm thinking this guy is perhaps not. I guess my initial instincts that it was too good to be true were probably accurate. I guess I'll see.

Dracos wrote:Lets hope the link is genuine. Cause they got my email now.

This is legit, I promise.


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Dracos wrote:Yeah google seemed to indicate the company was legit, however I'm thinking this guy is perhaps not. I guess my initial instincts that it was too good to be true were probably accurate. I guess I'll see.

Just to clarify, I was hired by Bare International, to find participants for this project as the demographics needed for those to qualify to participate are very specific and they don't have enough participants that qualify in their pool of evaluators. If you decide to participate you are doing so as an independent evaluator/contractor for Bare International. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Ms. Aicha Jaichi
Independent Recruiter/Scheduler
www.vipscheduling.com

On their page I don't see any legal details...
"who is" brings up the following:
Registrant:
Videoeyes LLC

Domain Name: BAREINTERNATIONAL.COM

Domain servers in listed order:
NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

shadyshadyshady

Yea, but the poster is Canadian...

...Everyone knows we can't scam. We're too damn drunk all the time to figure it out!

The last Canadian to try a scam went the Nigerian route, but instead, sent all his money to the victim. Never figured out where he went wrong.

We now have locations available in the U.S. in the following states: CA, MD,NJ, TX, WA, WI

RECRUITER wrote:Hello all, I am recruiting Gamers for a mystery shop that will take place at a retailer that specializes in gaming across Canada. We need participants to take part in gaming activities such as war games, and paint an action figure while visiting a location. The client prides themselves on creating a memorable experience and we need you to find out if this is true. During your visit you will ask the staff members specific questions about their products and purchase materials based on their suggestive selling assistance. Observe the store appearance and evaluate the level of customer service and product knowledge you were provided with. A purchase is required, however, you will reimbursed up to $250.75 USD (this is free gaming products) + $30USD mystery shopper fee. You will report back online on your experience and retain a copy of your receipt as proof of your evaluation and for reimbursement. You will be paid by check or direct deposit 30 days after successful completion of your evaluation.

Sound interesting? To participate, you must be a male age 18-40yrs and available to evaluate one or more locations in the following cities:

Montreal, QC
Calgary, AB
Edmonton, AB
Victoria, BC
West Vancouver, BC
Winnipeg, MB
Halifax, NS
Ajax, ON
London, ON
Mississauga, ON
Nepean, ON
Scarborough, ON
Toronto, ON
Vaughan, ON

States: CA, MD,NJ, TX, WA, WI

To participate, you will need to register online with Bare International. Bare International is a leading Market Research firm that has been retained for this mystery shopping project. To participate in this project you must input reference code: 9100 to submit your online application. After registering you can expect to receive further instructions by email. Click this link to create your mystery shoppers account with Bare Int’l: http://www.bareinternational.com/en/evaluators/newevaluators/ (Don’t forget to include your reference code: 9100)

Thank-you for your interest and please email me if you have any questions.


Aicha Jaichi
Independent Recruiter
www.vipscheduling.com
info@vipscheduling.com

We've got a new batch of these mystery shops available and this time Gamers ages 12-17yrs can participate as long as they have a parent accompanying them. This time around you will be paid up to $275 USD. The following locations are available for October 2011:

CANADA:
Chinook, AB
Kingsway Garden, AB
West Edmonton, AB
Victoria, BC
Halifax, NS
White Oaks Mall, ON
Bayshore, ON

UNITED STATES :
Alamo, CA
Antioch, CA
San Pedro, CA
Algonquin, IL
bertyville, IL
Downers Grove, IL
Geneva, IL
Naperville, IL
Oak Park, IL
Palatine, IL
Rockford, IL
Olney, MD
Voorhees, NJ
Cypress, TX
Houston, TX
Houston, TX
Houston, TX
Katy, TX
Bellevue, WA
Gig Harbor, WA
Kent, WA
Marysville, WA
Puyallup, WA
Tacoma, WA
Greenfield, WI
Pleasant Prairie, WI

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions@!

So did anyone do this last time around and have a good or bad experince?

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