My pet peeve in mystery shopping is when a scheduler calls me and asks me to do a shop, usually a deadline shop...And I tell them I can't do it because
1) There's no time in my schedule.
2) I'm not headed in that direction.
3) I don't do that type of shop.
Never fails, the scheduler then says, "What would it take to get it on your schedule for tomorrow or even today?" Followed by, "Well, when could you do it?"
And suddenly, you, the shopper becomes the bad guy because you don't want to do the shop and tell the scheduler again, that you don't want to do it. And then the scheduler pushes to get the shop assigned. The scheduler, though, is never the bad person for pushing or trying to entrap a shopper to do a shop for them.
I find more and more, it's just simpler to say, "No," and just hang up... Though that doesn't deter some schedulers who will then call you back on your cell, then your home phone, then again on your cell, thinking that if they could just get their claws into you one more time, they could convince you to do something you don't want to do.
And all this while you earn something around minimum wage.
So what would it take for you to accept a shop one hour from your home when your schedule is full? Certainly, I am not the only shopper that faces this dilemma regularly. so how do you deal with it?