Applying for shops

I am getting frustrated with certain MSC and having to apply for shops. I tell them a date and I work my schedule around a tentative date. I do not hear anything for weeks then I am notified whether I was assigned or not just days therefore. Why can't I have the same courtesy they expect from me?

Just venting

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I hate when that happens. There are a couple of things to do that help. Deleting your application when your schedule no longer has room for the shop. Or when applying, add a note to disregard the app if it hasn't been assigned by such and such date.

I keep hearing about people deleting their application, but I've yet to see how I would do that on a site. I rarely take a shop too far in advance, just for that reason. It's too hard to say what will be happening a month from now. I wish they were all self-assign. That would make life a lot easier.

This is where penciling in the job on your calendar to show you have requested but not been awarded or putting it on your spreadsheet and highlighting it so you know you don't actually have the job, works well. If I have a request in for next Tuesday and still haven't heard back, I will free to take a job offered for that time slot and cancel my request. If I have nothing else scheduled for Tuesday by Monday night, I may well decide to do personal stuff on Tuesday and cancel my request so that I don't come home from my day's activities only to discover I was assigned at the last minute because somebody else cancelled.

The most likely reason you are 'on hold' so to speak, is because the job has been awarded to someone else and unwittingly you are being held as a 'backup' in case the awarded shopper flakes or fails to perform properly. This keeps the scheduler from needing to offer any kind of bonus for short notice. You can decide at what point you are not willing to drop everything and run do the shop. I have never told them to disregard the application after a certain date, but it is not a bad idea.

i put a deadline on my apps. Fair is fair.

Thanks.

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Most Sassie shops allow for deleting a request. Some of the other platforms do as well, I can't figure out how to cancel a TrendSource request, or a few others.

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

I applied for a job knowing that I could only do it on one particular day. This was a company that has you write a little blurb about why you want the job. I put in the blurb that I would do it on the Saturday because I was busy on Sunday.

You can cancel your application on sassie and shopmetrics. I don't think you can on prophet.

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Everyone keeps saying you can cancel on Sassie, but I still don't see how you do it, so ... how exactly do you cancel your application?

@Orrymain wrote:

Everyone keeps saying you can cancel on Sassie, but I still don't see how you do it, so ... how exactly do you cancel your application?

I believe you go to "My Apps" at the top and then you can see your pending applications. There's a link to "Delete this application" on the far right on my screen.

Shopper in California's Bay Area

Ah! Thank you! So simple and yet I never would have found it on my own. It's nice to know where it is, should I need it!

@ Orrymain and CaliGirl925
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@pampet wrote:

I applied for a job knowing that I could only do it on one particular day. This was a company that has you write a little blurb about why you want the job. I put in the blurb that I would do it on the Saturday because I was busy on Sunday.

When you log in your pending and assigned applications should show on the first page and have a cancel option as well.

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I know the heartache. Try to not let a shop hold you back from continuing to scheduling other shops.

In other words, when you have an application in for a shop, just mark it as 'pending' in your calendar and continue to schedule other shops, as you desire. Obviously, if you haven't heard back and would like a shop in a different area in its place, I'd just cancel the application for that initial shop I was waiting for and then reschedule to another date and wait again.

If I end up not getting a shop? No sweat. If it's a shop I really desired, sometimes I follow up with the scheduler / MSC contact directly and inquire about their selection process, if I'm not familiar with it.

Shopping the Greater Denver Area, Colorado Springs and in-between in Colorado. 33 year old male and willing to travel!

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