Very bad experience with this company.
Very bad experience with this company.One payment not done. No explanations, no mail response, no consideration for my complain. 1 late payment (1 month later).
Jasminder Jas
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BARE International
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www.bareinternational.comMember since Mar 2026
BARE International is an online company. Based on 37 reviews on TrustPlane, it has an average rating of 1.6 out of 5 stars. Last reviewed February 23, 2026.
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Title: Extremely poor payment practices – months of waiting after approved work
I worked with BARE International as a mystery shopper and completed Shop #12232091 in November 2025.The mission was completed on time, the report was fully accepted, and all requested edits were made.However, despite repeated confirmations that payment would be made by the end of January, I am now in February and still have not received any payment.What makes this situation unacceptable is that: • I had to advance my own money to complete the assignment • I relied on the communicated payment timeline • I am now under serious financial pressure, including bank penalties • Communication has been slow, vague, and inconsistent (“end of the month”, “please wait”, etc.) • No bank transfer proof has been provided despite multiple requestsFor a company that claims to be professional and global, this payment handling is deeply disappointing.Doing the work is demanding, expenses are real, but when it comes to paying evaluators, the company takes its time with little consideration for the consequences on freelancers.I would strongly advise other mystery shoppers to be extremely cautious and never invest money they cannot afford to wait months to recover
Guefa Fabrice
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Their Chinese company keeps making…
Their Chinese company keeps making excuses to not pay for the secret shoppers. There are lots of people posting their complaints online.
Priscilla Lam
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Avoid at all costs
As others have pointed out, ABSOLUTELY sketchy and untrustworthy company. Absolutely avoid getting involved. They give briefings full of misinformation and only pay if they approve of the work - which is obviously problematic when their briefings are packed with misinformation. This is a sub-professional scam operation.
Emil
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Warning: Petty, Rude, and Non-Reimbursing. UK Shoppers Beware
Careful of this company if you are in the UK because it will be hard to sue them through the small claims court as they are based overseas.Their staff are rude, dismissive, threatening, and petty. They do not reimburse mandatory expenses, they twist instructions retrospectively, to claim "scenario breaches" to avoid reimbursing mandatory expenses. They also make threats about "serious legal consequences" to scare mystery shoppers. I accepted an audit task that required a phone call and mandatory printing. The brief never said printing costs were non-reimbursable. The instructions stated NOT to do a walk-in if the agent refused the audit. I called the agent, who confirmed the shop was a construction site and no audit could be conducted. A walk in was impossible so I did not attempt one. I then grabbed the geolocation code from outside and reported that the shop was shut.They told me I would be paid only the phone call fee of €3.50. When I politely asked about the printing cost their staff told me I should not be paid anything at all. They claimed taking a geolocation code on a public road constitutes a walk in and it was a "scenario breach".No normal reasonable person would consider standing on a street outside a construction site to get a geolocation code to be a walk in. A walk is more than that, it requires entering the shop and engaging with staff. This shop had no entrance and no staff.They dragged this out for weeks. They wrote dismissive emails stating I "purposefully puts himself in this situation, we cannot bail them out", even though I am a female. When I finally became fed up of their behaviour and told them that I would be showing their emails to their client, they said my actions will have "seriously legal consequences". Please note, their threat is not enforceable in the UK as the UK law protects the sharing of factual information.Please note all of this fighting is over £5, for mandatory printing!!!If you are in the UK please rethink before working with them. They are petty, defensive, and don't know what is meant by a walk in or they fully know but are willing to pretend they dont know to avoid reimbursing mandatory costs.
RG
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Do not work for this company
completed an assignment strictly following the written instructions provided by the company. The steps were simple and clear, and I carried them out exactly as directed.After submitting my shop, I was told I should have done the opposite of what their guide required, and the assignment was declined. This left me out of pocket for the transaction cost with no payment for my time.It is unreasonable to give clear guidance, have shoppers follow it, and then reject the work afterward. If instructions are provided, they should be honored. Consistency and fairness are essential in this industry, and unfortunately, my experience did not reflect that.I dont recommend working for this company
Jill
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Never get paid. Absolute waste of time, money, energy
I have 2 payments (of 26$) pending since 2008 (!).Communication is rare, incomplete, and dishonest.Today, I continue to receive “shops” where I am asked to pretend to send my money to a “friend” who is traveling and to request a refund after 30 minutes (15 shops in total).You'd have to be a complete idiot to agree to do anything like this for people who still owe me two payments of $26 from 2008 and a payment of $15 that hasn't been paid since March 2024! I have kept screenshots of my reviewer account showing the amounts owed. It's an enormous waste of time and energy. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!! You've been warned.
Empire Digital
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Total scam
Total scam. First they act desperate, begging you to do their crappy one-off tasks for basically nothing. Then when you're done, surprise: either they vanish and drag out your payment for months, or they flat-out refuse to pay, claiming your work "wasn’t good enough." Avoid at all costs.
themaster games
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Passed the deadline for payment
Passed the deadline for payment, when I got in touch no one returned my emails.
Jaafer ElJumaily
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Late but corrected issues
Major payment issues--they stopped paying.I have done shops for BARE for many years, probably close to 100 shops, never with any issues. However, starting in mid May, 2025, while the company claims I was paid, the payments never showed in my paypal account. All the shops were approved, and online show a date paid. The money never reached me.They DO NOT return phone calls. The only email I received told me to check with paypal. Paypal can only tell me I didn't get the money. I am out the payment for my last 4 shops (luckily, they are small and I will be fine).I have reached one person who responded to an email, and I was told, she put in a "ticket" to the payment dept. No additional information. Yet they keep calling asking me to do more shops. The schedulers say they have no access to payment records and can not help.Until I hear from them and get the issue resolved, I am DONE with this company.After 3 weeks, things are progressing and the issue has been resolved. The sad thing, it could have been found and corrected much sooner.
Carol
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Don’t fall for their QUICK PAY scheme
Was contacted on a Wednesday the 28th of May at 7pm asking if I could help out and perform a 2 hour long shop that night before midnight and this shop is an hour away and they would “quick pay” me and would be paid by Monday, Monday came and no payment, I emailed the project scheduler at noon on Monday to verify that I was getting paid that day and got no reply later Monday evening I was told that they were sick and that they would fix it in the morning, morning came and was told there was a miscommunication on their end and I would be paid by Thursday well today is Thursday and still no payment so I email again and get asked if I followed step by step instructions to claim my quick pay? Ummm no one said I had to “claim”it so I went through my emails my spam my trash all my inboxes and there was not a single message from the project manager to claim my quick pay so they send me another email today with the instructions to claim it and it won’t let me claim it, now I have to wait another day so they can reset it so now I am looking at NEXT Wednesday before I will supposedly be paid on this so called “Quick Pay”
josh barritt
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I´m working for more than 15 years in…
I´m working for more than 15 years in audits and mistery shopper , mainly in automotive area.I know Bare international since than, and I can say that since they have a portuguese manager , its the worst of 6 or 7 companies that I work.The jobs they post , its only a fassade , only the ones her friends dont want you can do. all the others you never get.
lourenco formacao
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Stalkers
I have only done one shop for Bare so far. But ever since signing up, I have received strange threatening emails from various strangers demanding bitcoin or stating I owe money. They use my address and phone and state they know where I live etc. The same type of email came as a confirmation of the shop I completed. I am convinced this "company" is bogus and needs to be investigated. I have not been paid for the shop I did and actually Bare never inquired how my payments should be sent. BEWARE OF THIS COMPANY !! I will be contacting the BBB.
cheryl klemp
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They might pay you, they might not
They were great for a while. Then they decided to decline two of my shops claiming I did not follow the guidelines. Nowhere in my narrative did I indicate that I do what they claimed. I emailed them to explain this They refused to even acknowledge emails. These were shops I did 2 days before Christmas that I had to travel quite a ways to do.You are rolling the dice with them.
Anon Anon
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this company is a scam i did many jobs…
this company is a scam i did many jobs no payment ever they are scammers i never got paid they owe me money i cant get paid u work no payments no way of contacting them.
BELLA ON THE PATH WITH JESUS
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Unproffessional
I did several assignments with them and it was going ok and I had an average 9 score. But once, my assignment was rejected for no clear reason, and when I sent emails to complain, the president of the company tells me "Don't contact my employees"!What a shameful way to treat people who work for them.
Maryam Magdy
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Very Unprofessional Agency
Very Unprofessional Agency. Generally their work is just working masses and no quality. Written language is on a level of uneducated personell and without considering what they are sending - that leads to trouble.The tested company cancelled my appointment and the contact person sent me a suggestion I fulfilled and sent in.Few days later she called me raging and without considering her confirmation. She came with claims about things that weren't discussed and I was apparently to blame that this test didn't work out. I have never experienced such an arrogant attitude as from Mrs. Liehrs and will not cooperate further with this company.
Freyr Líndal
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Not too bad
Currently having a good experience. I've been paid on time. I'm able to communicate well with agents who are managing the mystery shops/jobs. Shame they have many negative reviews.
Laura C
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Dishonest and unclear.
Dishonest and unclear.I don’t believe there are other words to describe this platform. In any case, I’d advise against working for them. I became suspicious when they never asked for a payment method. Despite that, I completed one task but never received any payment. Then I completed two more, for which they contested certain details they never specified, which resulted in them not approving the work.
luigi massa
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I did several purchase shipment shops
I did several purchase shipment shops. I am yet too be paid. There is an exorbitant amount of 3 surveys for each assignment for $15 dollars. They rarely respond to emails but require a response in 12 hours. It is not a scam but you WILL be decieved into doing double the work that is justifiable for the pay. Plus requires an advanced computer knowledge for screenshot that many could struggle with despite that I missed multiple items and was in a depressing loop of returned surveys. Anyone with a brain will not do these shops they suck, take at least 2 months to pay and require so much work you could get more money panhandling on a busy sidewalk.
Miss
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According to TrustPlane, BARE International has a 1.6/5 rating based on 37 verified reviews as of April 2026. Source: trustplane.app/company/www-bareinternational-com