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I am finding out that Maritz and Market Force seem to be getting cheaper and difficult to get depending on the team or the scheduler you have to talk with. I Email Maritz with routes that have long distances (1400 miles) 24shops and put in hotels that I have to get. The say to high but it is the same price I did the route for last quarter. Market Force is the same. I have been doing a shop that is 140 mile and 2 1/2 he drive and they have been paying $75 now they say that is too much.

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@bmttinman wrote:

I am finding out that Maritz and Market Force seem to be getting cheaper and difficult to get depending on the team or the scheduler you have to talk with. I Email Maritz with routes that have long distances (1400 miles) 24shops and put in hotels that I have to get. The say to high but it is the same price I did the route for last quarter. Market Force is the same. I have been doing a shop that is 140 mile and 2 1/2 he drive and they have been paying $75 now they say that is too much.

When negotiating, always referencing your previous accepted offers for particular locations and routes. MF does a good job and doing that whenever they call. If not, I just give them a friendly note on my preferences. When they aren't able to find someone else, they call back and are usually able to meet halfway when I raise my offer for each assignment for a location.

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

I've found Martiz has gotten cheaper. They have called to ask me to shop a shop I've done previously which is a good 90 minutes each way, and they want it done usually in a few days or less time frame. I've told them I won't take less then what I got last time, and quote it. They have to go ask come back and offer me 1/8th the amount and seem floored when I say no. They must have found someone to do it cheaper though this time as I didn't get another call about it.

I have received calls recently for home improvement shops offering base pay and nothing more. If you are going to call me to offer me what I can accept myself, it is a definite no.

@Mafia_Princess wrote:

I've found Martiz has gotten cheaper. They have called to ask me to shop a shop I've done previously which is a good 90 minutes each way, and they want it done usually in a few days or less time frame. I've told them I won't take less then what I got last time, and quote it. They have to go ask come back and offer me 1/8th the amount and seem floored when I say no. They must have found someone to do it cheaper though this time as I didn't get another call about it.

I have received calls recently for home improvement shops offering base pay and nothing more. If you are going to call me to offer me what I can accept myself, it is a definite no.

You'll have to realize that situations may change, such as other locations requiring the higher bonuses vs. the location you had. They could be thinning through their project budget as well. So many factors to speculate on, when it comes to their bonus pools schedulers can play with.

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

@Tarantado wrote:

You'll have to realize that situations may change, such as other locations requiring the higher bonuses vs. the location you had. They could be thinning through their project budget as well. So many factors to speculate on, when it comes to their bonus pools schedulers can play with.

I get it. It's fine, I can choose to say no for ridiculously crappy pay. It's that they seem shocked that $15 dollars plus the shop fee isn't worth my time for 3 hours of driving, without factoring in doing the shop or entering the report. Tried to offer $25 to do another one in the opposite direction that would take 4 hours round trip driving. Thought offering them together would seal the deal.

Ha! I have had Maritz call me about two shops...300 miles away (one way). I told them I would do it for $250 the first time. They came back with $130. I told them that was not worth my time and gas and offered $200 but they decided to hold onto my name. If they call back again, it will go up to $250 again for wasting my time on phone calls. lol. That 3 and 1/2 hour drive is boring and has about $12 in tolls too.

In my opinion, you offered them a bargain at $300.Here is what I would have asked for:
600 miles @ $0.575 = $345
7 hours driving @ $20 per hour = $140
$12 tolls (assume that is inclusive for both directions)
Total = $497
The $20 per hour represents a lost opportunity cost since you could have been doing other shops, instead you were driving. This quote assumes that you could not do other shops along the way. Given that it is already probably an 8 hour day, I doubt that you would or even could do much else.

@candiwv wrote:

Ha! I have had Maritz call me about two shops...300 miles away (one way). I told them I would do it for $250 the first time. They came back with $130. I told them that was not worth my time and gas and offered $200 but they decided to hold onto my name. If they call back again, it will go up to $250 again for wasting my time on phone calls. lol. That 3 and 1/2 hour drive is boring and has about $12 in tolls too.

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

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/04/2015 02:33PM by myst4au.

I love your use of "lost opportunity cost." Spot on.

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Has anyone come up with that magic formula that they will accept? Myst4au has the right way to figure these kind of shops but I have only once did they do it. The scheduler at Maritz said to put them in a route and she could sell it easier but this has proving not to work all the time. I like these travel trips here in the west but if I am lucky I get maybe two a year for the same shops from Maritz. I think that if it is closer to the end of the quarter then you can get it.

I don't think there is a magic formula. I think they call an awful lot of people and look for the lowest number possible. They may call less at the end of the quarter, but I figure they either find someone closer or cheaper (or therefore both) when they don't call you back.

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