$200 clothing purchase with NO return? Sweet!!
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I agree, Hoju. That one would not be worth iit to me.
IDK I might. If they don't reimburse shipping, that would have me scratching my head, but I still might if I could pick up a scenario A USPS shop. 
There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
Cash outlay of $200 at least, for a $40 fee? Knowing some high-end shops, $200 is not enough for the cheapest jacket. If I really need 'that' jacket I might, but I don't, right now. So, good luck to you, MSC on your attempt to help your client generate more revenue. No Sale!
@risinghorizon wrote:
Cash outlay of $200 at least, for a $40 fee? Knowing some high-end shops, $200 is not enough for the cheapest jacket. If I really need 'that' jacket I might, but I don't, right now. So, good luck to you, MSC on your attempt to help your client generate more revenue. No Sale!
But even if you needed that jacket, you wouldn't be able to keep it. After purchasing it, you would have to ship it to the client, who would reimburse you 7-10 days after they received it. So the $40 fee includes the purchase, the "well written descriptive report done by an experienced shopper," and packing and shipping the purchase. I probably would not do a purchase/return for $40 and a purchase/required shipping to the client is more work than a purchase/return.
At least with the return your money goes right back on your card. With this, you need to wait to get your $200 back.
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I have actually done similar shops to these, however they were video so paid significantly more.
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@SteveSoCal wrote:
Shipping it back IS a return!
Right?? It's a slow, overcomplicated return where you have to wait a while to get your money back. Yay!
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I am seeing shops that offer $35 for purchasing $200 of specific sheets. ( at department store on its way out of business)
that you must ship back and wait for reimbursement.
The shop would make sense if they allowed to keep the sheets.
that you must ship back and wait for reimbursement.
The shop would make sense if they allowed to keep the sheets.
I would probably do it for the $40 if it also reimbursed for the box, the shipping fee, and any required insurance fee. Otherwise you could easily use up 25 - 50% of your $40 shipping it back. If it is a large or bulky item, the Scenario A USPS shop would not be enough to cover the shipping charge. Also, to count on getting a Scenario A at the same time could be dicey. Better to hope to get paid for the trip to somewhere (even Staples these days) to ship it back, but not count on it. Oh - and it needs to be an MSC which I trust.
Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008
They reimburse the shipping costs. Uusually it is only the outlets that you have to mail it to the headquarters. For other locations they tuck a $20 fee to make a return visit.
No way.
Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.
If they want to know what something looks like, why don't they walk in the store themselves and (look/buy it) instead of having the shopper do it and then the shopper has shipping/shipping costs?
I get this "visual" of a room filled with boxes that shoppers have mailed to them. ....Then what?
Ship them back to the store and sell them?
Someone's got a few screws short of a tool box at this company
I get this "visual" of a room filled with boxes that shoppers have mailed to them. ....Then what?
Ship them back to the store and sell them?
Someone's got a few screws short of a tool box at this company
NDavisNowell said it best. A simple NO WAY.
the best shops years ago were for Pearle Vision for eye glasses.
You got to keep one of the glasses up to 200 in value for yourself
plus the shop fee. They took the other one to check it.
You got to keep one of the glasses up to 200 in value for yourself
plus the shop fee. They took the other one to check it.
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I did exactly ONE purchase return. I have never done another.
I would not want to leave myself at the mercy of the editior who work for the company. Too much on the cash outlay.
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@treydawgmt wrote:
I did exactly ONE purchase return. I have never done another.
I am not a fan of P&R's
Oh, missed the shipping back part. Then, no way would I even consider that shop even if with a bonus. That's a lot of nonsense. You can get paid more than that doing a wealth scenario or high-end shop without a huge cash outlay.
While the "come on" for this shop may be irritatingly deceptive, I have a different take on the shop that would lead me to take it, so long as the report was simple.
Here goes: I leave home with a shipping box, scissors, label, and packing tape. I perform the shop, plop the coat into the box in my car and, on my way home, or to the next shop, stop at a predetermined shipping location and ship said package. When I get home I file the report. No two separate trips from home; $40 added to the day's route; I'm happy.
Here goes: I leave home with a shipping box, scissors, label, and packing tape. I perform the shop, plop the coat into the box in my car and, on my way home, or to the next shop, stop at a predetermined shipping location and ship said package. When I get home I file the report. No two separate trips from home; $40 added to the day's route; I'm happy.
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Wales, that would work but you could improve your plan by shipping it back on a PO shop. That would make sense to me except I would be concerned about the cash outlay on the shop as to whether I would definitely get it back. So, I guess I'm still "no way". But good plan. Just shows that sometimes we can make something work if we take a second look.
Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.
I wait a lot longer for more $$$$ back on some hotel shops.
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
@SteveSoCal wrote:
Shipping it back IS a return!
There are all sorts of ways this can go wrong. We are currently dealing with a non-shop cell phone return under warranty because the phone went funky. We were emailed the RMA shipping label. We can see where it was signed for at the loading dock when it got to its destination and yet nobody seems to be able to find the phone. They 'can't' replace or refund for it because a loaner phone was shipped out and they can't receive back the loaner phone because the repaired defective phone has not been shipped out. At least they are acknowledging that it was signed for on their loading dock but are telling us we shipped it to the wrong location. Kinda hard to do when they provide the RMA shipping label in pdf form and it is for the address that received the phone and signed for it. Since this has been ongoing for about 10 weeks . . . No thank you, I won't be likely to let $200 of product out of my hands for a shop. They wouldn't be sending me a loaner jacket under warranty to be wearing until they credited me for the one I mailed in.
Yes, but do those hotel shops only offer $40 in pay and allow you to keep nothing in return?
Almost all hotel shops that I do offer housing for at least a night, and some sort of food and/or beverage, plus other perks. The only thing you take away for your time traveling to this shop, reporting it and shipping the merch back is $40. You can potentially get $200 of credit on a awards credit card, but I would rather put the work in on a $200 dinner that I get to enjoy if I'm going to do that!
Almost all hotel shops that I do offer housing for at least a night, and some sort of food and/or beverage, plus other perks. The only thing you take away for your time traveling to this shop, reporting it and shipping the merch back is $40. You can potentially get $200 of credit on a awards credit card, but I would rather put the work in on a $200 dinner that I get to enjoy if I'm going to do that!
HA. I guess this MSC is reputable, so no one has seemed to worry, but this sounds to me like another good way a scammer could make money. My visualization was someone grabbing jackets out of boxes to a waiting truck, which was then delivering them to street corners where they would be sold for $150.....
I don't know about your shop, but I had to take hubby to a very high end shop to look for clothes. guidelines only said that we had to spend $200. did not say anything had to be returned. good thing. those suits started at $2,000 for the jacket only. hubby ended up buying a $200 bottle of cologne. it was the cheapest thing in the store.
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@walesmaven wrote:
While the "come on" for this shop may be irritatingly deceptive, I have a different take on the shop that would lead me to take it, so long as the report was simple.
Here goes: I leave home with a shipping box, scissors, label, and packing tape. I perform the shop, plop the coat into the box in my car and, on my way home, or to the next shop, stop at a predetermined shipping location and ship said package. When I get home I file the report. No two separate trips from home; $40 added to the day's route; I'm happy.
And/or: stop by a PO beforehand and pick up a free large Priority box. No need for scissors or tape if you have a free mailing label. Couldn't do this on Scenario A, of course, but if there's shipping reimbursement, IDM. On a Scenario B shop, they could try to convince you that the free Priority box would be a better deal than ReadyPost (happened to me). I know where the kiosks and shortest PO lines are, so that wouldn't be an issue for me.
What would deter me from this shop is the time v. payout on the purchase part of it. I've waited a loooong time for some pay and reimbursements. I guess each one of us has their "no way" MSCs.
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