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    Business ProfileforMercantile Systems, Inc.

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    Customer Reviews

    1/5stars

    Average of 2 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    2 complaints closed in last 3 years

    1 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Overview

    This company offers Mystery shopping and data research.

    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    9040 Brentwood Blvd Ste A, Brentwood, CA 94513-2250
    BBB File Opened:
    7/3/2002
    Years in Business:
    70
    Business Started:
    1/1/1954
    Business Started Locally:
    1/1/1954
    Business Incorporated:
    3/28/2006
    Licensing Information:
    This business is in an industry that may require professional licensing, bonding or registration. BBB encourages you to check with the appropriate agency to be certain any requirements are currently being met.
    Type of Entity:
    Corporation
    Number of Employees:
    15
    Alternate Business Name
    • Mercantile Systems & Surveys
    Business Management
    • Mr. Dan Cosgrove, CEO
    Contact Information

    Principal

    • Mr. Dan Cosgrove, CEO

    Customer Contact

    • Mr. Dan Cosgrove, CEO
    Additional Contact Information

    Fax Numbers

    • (925) 679-2699
      Primary Fax

    Phone Numbers

    Email Addresses

    Customer Complaints

    2 Customer Complaints

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    Most Recent Customer Complaint

    04/25/2023

    Complaint Type:
    Order Issues
    Status:
    Resolved
    Recieved a text to my phone after submitting an application over linkedin for a position as a mystery shopper. Received information that checks would be sent ahead to cover expenses and salary, $300 per assignment. Was advised to send personal information to an email address including name, address, etc. Email address does not match any listed emails for the "company". Calling the advertised number on the website leads to a different company entirely.
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    Customer Reviews

    2 Customer Reviews

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    Most Recent Customer Review

    Jessica E

    1 star

    06/07/2022

    I have been working in customer service over 20 years with experience in various venue types, from restaurants to retail, pharmacies and photo shops, massage and healing practices, and even had been managing my own business, was up and running successfully for more than 5 years before I shut down temporarily during COVID restrictions. In all of my time working as a shopper, I have had MAYBE 5 reports rejected for mistakes "not following guidelines", and have nearly always been given one opportunity to fix any errors - some companies work with you until the report is usable, because they want everyone to be successful. This company denied one if my shops without giving me reason why, and is refusing to pay me for any of the reports I submitted that were previously approved, as well as denying me access to all of my own work. A DAY AFTER I TOLD THEM I WAS GOING TO REPORT THEM TO BBB, HE CALLED ME UP SCREAMING IN MY EAR calling me names and all but cussing, that I was a terrible shopper who is uneducated and inattentive, that I should just give up shopping and go back to doing whatever I used to do because i I'll never get hired as a shopper ever again after he files his complaints about me. He promised me he would ensure that I never get another opportunity to work as a mystery shopper. Now he is blatantly lying about me in commentary and shopper ratings that is preventing me from gaining access to new opportunities with other commands. They are attempting to *** me because when one of their employees verbally abused me over the phone and is trying to lie, saying I recorded the call after I told him I had another person listening to his abuse after putting him on speaker phone so I would have witnesses.Two days later, he finally wrote down a brief explanation for the rejection, but I still have not received a written explanation as to what I ACTUALLY DID WRONG, because what he said I did, I DID NOT DO. So again, this guy is lying about me and messing with my life b

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