I am a person with bipolar disorder and during a period of very high functioning low grade hypomania, I was a mystery shopper. My sponsor in OA had been doing it forever and she taught me how to get in. It’s easy. If you want to know, email me at bipolarbrainiacSFL@Hotmail.com and I’ll go over it with you. I did it for a year and then had a rough experience with the completion of four lengthy reports I had to do over and over due to computer problems on their end. It stopped being fun. I had also done a few Dior Cosmetic counter shops where I was paid 80 bucks to buy something and keep track of their customer service. One thing led to another and I ended up in a Dior beauty class and I bought 700.00 of cosmetics. That kind of behavior could not go on. I went into debt.  One thing though, five years later and their beautiful five color eye shadow palettes are still in my bathroom, being used and I love them. They are 50 bucks apiece. Crazy, huh?

The expensive Dior face creams that promise youthful results are like 400 a jar. Crazy. Yet the mystery shopping made me want to buy them. I didn’t of course.

My next mystery shopping blog deals with restaurant shops. You get paid to go to these high end restaurants and pay attention to the hosts and servers. They pay enough so you can take a friend. In fact, they want you to take a friend.