Confero Mystery Shopper Blog

  • Confirm Your Mystery Shop!

    January 25, 2016

    Effective January 25, 2016, when mystery shoppers request shopping assignments from Confero, an email notice is sent to the shopper when their offer to shop is accepted. The shop requires confirmation. 

     
    Confirming is easy! There are three different ways to confirm a shop:
    1. Click the link provided within the confirmation email or
    2. Copy and paste that link into your browser’s address bar or
    3. Log into your Shop Log, click on the Confirm button to the left of the shop listing. (If you have multiple shops, this may be easier to do them all at once). 
     
    Confirming your shop will 
  • We are Secure!

    January 23, 2015

    We are pleased announce we have a new level of online security for conferoinc.com website and our Sassie-based Compass mystery shopping reporting system.

  • Mystery Shopping Photography 101

    November 17, 2014

    Tips for getting the perfect shot while mystery shopping! 

  • Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid When Completing a Mystery Shop Report

    May 24, 2011

    Here at Confero, we get lots of questions from mystery shoppers asking how they can improve their shop ratings.  One easy way to improve your shop rating is to make sure you are providing a clean, concise mystery shop report every time.  Here is a list of the Top Six Mistakes to Avoid When Completing a Mystery Shop Report:

    1. Copying and pasting shop information.   Each mystery shop is unique, so each mystery shop report should be unique to each individual shop.  Our clients do not accept reports with copied or “canned”comments, as they expect each unique mystery shop/audit visit’s conversation to be reported individually. That’s what they are paying for. Copied or canned comments imply that the mystery shopper did not make the required observations or give them full attention.  For more details about this, see Cathy Stucker’s blog about all the “Dangers of Copy and Paste.”
  • Confero Consumer Protection Alert

    Confero Consumer Protection Alert – How to Spot a Mystery Shopping Scam

    May 24, 2011

    Unfortunately, scam artists have targeted unsuspecting consumers under the disguise of mystery shopping companies for several years now.  Recently, there have been a couple of news stories involving a few of these scams.  Last year, the wire transfer company, MoneyGram had to pay $18 million to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission because it was found that “MoneyGram agents helped fraudulent telemarketers and other con artists who tricked U.S. consumers into wiring more than $84 million within the United States and to Canada.”  Also, in early April of this year, a man was sentenced to six years in prison for running a $6 million job scam