aggiejim72 Wrote:
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> I don't spend much time reading emails from MSCs
> or calculating if a shop is profitiable. What I do
> is I don't shop during the first week of the
> month. The remaining three weeks of the month I
> look for the bonuses being offerred. I'll take
> most jobs at $25. Then I build a route around that
> shop. On days I'm working I'm always looking for
> the bonus shops that appear usually by the 3rd
> week of the month. Usually I can pick the bonus
> shops up before other shoppers because I am online
> early a.m. and late p.m. During week 3 and 4 I'll
> do the fast food shops for the MSC that pays on
> the 10th, so I get reimbursed faster. Some of that
> MSCs shops have simple reports and by doing them
> so often I can be done in an hour from shop to
> finish. Come to the conclusion that right now
> video shopping is right for me because their is a
> shortage of video shoppers and only a few MSCs so
> they have to pay more. So it makes sense to build
> routes around $30+ video shops or other bonused
> shops.
The word "hour" appears in your post exactly one time and not in the context of a rate "per" hour. There was absolutely no reason why anyone with any grasp of the English language would think you were referring to $30 per hour. Please get the chip off your shoulder. These are highly experienced video shoppers who were questioning that $30+ figure. I myself won't even do local audio shops for less than $30, let alone a route video shop for that price.
Nobody's being passive-aggressive here. "Incredulous" would be more like it. Don't blame them for your own lack of clarity in your post. A "Sorry, I meant $30+ per hour not per shop" would have been a better response.
As for OP's long-forgotten question, I will accept a single remote shop if the fee at least covers my gas plus $15 per hour for the shop. Then I build other shops onto the route to try to yield at least 40 cents per mile plus $15 per hour for the time I will spend on the road door to door, plus doing the reports (for most routes I'm looking at a 14 hour day from departure until finishing the reports and usually 250-350 miles). I make sure my gas is covered by the first shop I accept so that I don't end up out of pocket if for some reason I just can't get any other shops on the route. At least I won't have to flake, even if I don't end up with my desired per-hour return. So far I've never had to do a route with only one shop where my mileage and total time wasn't covered by the single shop fee.