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June 21, 2016 06:36PM
I hope you all are having a great day, we are in the middle of a heat wave and I have a shop to do! I have a question...do any of you avoid doing an easy shop because the report is tedious or the editors are too picky? I have an opportunity to do a shop, my schedule is kind of slow (end of the month) but that report is narrative heavy and the editors always have questions even when the answer is in the report! I know that the decision is up to me but heck I just wanted to know what you all think.

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June 21, 2016 06:46PM
Welcome to the forum! The measure of ease of a shop must include not only pre-shop activities, but the shop, the report, the historical behavior of the editors and the adherence to the pay schedule of the MSC. I.e. there are a lot of 'moving pieces' to a job. Over the years I have done enough shops for enough companies to get a gut feeling about whether that $20 'easy' shop is worthwhile or just another ringer. I also know that if that ringer shop gets up to about $35 it will become worthwhile or still be a ringer. What advantage is there to a $100 shop if you have to chase payment for months past when it should have been paid?

So in answer to your question, there are shops and companies I will not perform because somewhere in the process they require too much of my time for the payment offered. And then there are the shops I accept and kick myself for having done so because I KNEW how much time it was going to take and still fell for it.
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June 21, 2016 07:07PM
I would possibly do it if I'm having a really slow day. I wouldn't do it if I have other stuff going on, but if I said I'd do it, yes, I'll do it. I remember last week taking the freeway (with all our fires), coming home, saying, I'm frigging not taking this freeway again, this job didn't pay enough. My problem wouldn't be the report, but driving the freeway. Hope this helps, of course, it's your decision.

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June 21, 2016 07:13PM
Welcome? I've been here for over 3 years lol!

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June 21, 2016 08:17PM
I do apologize. I had just been reading a new shopper post, got interrupted and thought you were the new shopper asking the question.
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June 21, 2016 11:23PM
I laughed about the welcome too, 1100 posts laterwinking smiley

As to your question, there is one shop in particular where the report expectations are way too much and after many 10s the editors have started being even pickier than ever. Rather than say never again, it will take a much higher fee to justify the BS. I have done the shop once since making that decision and it was or 4X the base rate.

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June 22, 2016 01:41AM
No worries Flash it is absolutely all good Thank you for your response.

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June 22, 2016 01:58AM
@LisaSTL wrote:

I laughed about the welcome too, 1100 posts laterwinking smiley

As to your question, there is one shop in particular where the report expectations are way too much and after many 10s the editors have started being even pickier than ever. Rather than say never again, it will take a much higher fee to justify the BS. I have done the shop once since making that decision and it was or 4X the base rate.


That sounds fair Lisa!

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