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I agree.. Ipsos is an unethical company, IMHO.

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The bizarre issue is that the shipping client sells mailing envelopes and packaging in all kinds of colors and patterns BUT we're supposed to send our stuff in drab, plain amish-style packaging. I say FEH to the whole thing and will leave my share of these shops for someone else to grab.

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@winemaker wrote:

I agree.. Ipsos is an unethical company, IMHO.

I just started working for this MSC. I work for several different MSCs and I haven't been shorted money. For the first time in at least 1,000 shops, I got half pay because I was unable to complete the shop as they wanted. I drove 25 miles to help them out with what seemed to be a deadline shop (double the pay). I got in the shop and there was only one associate and the wait time was going to be at least an hour. They state in the guidelines to wait 15 minutes. I waited more than 30 and it was very apparent it was going to be an hour or more wait as there were three customers in line and they were doing complicated switch overs. I left.

I've done other shops for other MSCs that still paid in full because I waited a very long time and intended on completing the shop, but circumstances were beyond my control. I find the fact that I was basically screwed annoying, appalling, and it seems pretty much like kicking sand in the shopper's face. It's sad because I want to do the postal shops because I sell a lot online, but I don't have much faith in the MSC and it seems like your pay is on the line much more than with other MSCs.... Thus, why would I want to do a DIM weight shop that costs at least $40 up front when they might not pay me in the end?

Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/20/2016 05:48AM by Evalu8this.

Maybe someone should start a discussion in the ms company area for people to list their unpaid shops from this company, it seems like we all have at least one or two. I won't do any more of the phone brand shops.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/20/2016 01:36PM by wwin.

Ya, I had one. The shop even disappeared from my log and they said I never did it! Even Accounts payable saw no record of it. It was exceedingly strange and there was nothing I could do that would not cost me more than it was worth. (I briefly considered going back to the shop ((it was a revealed one)) and making the mgr. sign a statement, but he had been a jerk anyway and had refused the audit).

@Evalu8this wrote:

. It's sad because I want to do the postal shops because I sell a lot online, but I don't have much faith in the MSC and it seems like your pay is on the line much more than with other MSCs.... Thus, why would I want to do a DIM weight shop that costs at least $40 up front when they might not pay me in the end?

Some of us have done 100's of mailing shops without issue. If you follow the directions, it is black and white.

Saving a PDF file of every job as you submit it provides proof that the job existed, that you filled out the report, and that you submitted it. Some Sassie reports allow you to create a PDF file after submission. Windows 10 includes a really nice PDF program that acts as a printer. I have been using Cute PDF for years on pre-Windows 10 systems.

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

I have done 160 mailing shops at the main client already this year. Plus more at contract shippers and even more at authorized shippers. I have not had a single one rejected. Less than 1% result in a question because of something out of the norm.

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

While I've done hundreds of these and have so far been paid for all of them. I'm not as comfortable saying if you follow the directions it's black and white. My encounters doing other shops with this MSC and things like the situation that started this thread leaves me feeling a little less certain. I watch anxiously every time I do these jobs and don't pick up the dim weight ones out of caution.

I can't get the proper combination of login, password and URL for IPSOS and it's mobi audit.
I tried everything I can think of.
Can someone help me out with this?

https:// ipsosus. shopmetrics. com

(I added spaces so that the forum would not hyperlink. Just ignore those)

Can't help you with the username and password, though.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/22/2016 01:45AM by meghan9262.

Right, thank you.

So, I tried my email address because that's what I use to login on their website as well as the password I use to login and it does not work to set up a profile on the MobiAudit.

So, I used the login i.d. that it shows on my account, you know how they use the first initial of your first name and part of my last name because it's so long. That didn't work either.

I'll keep trying.

Ok, I found the problem. Once I entered my user name, password and the ipsos....

I had to click on the SAVE button, which happens to be a picture of an old floppy disk. geesh.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/22/2016 03:18AM by spicy1.

@RotorRat wrote:

Turn your cereal boxes inside out and tape them shut and use to ship with - totally plain and I've never had one refused.

Are those cereal boxes less than 12 x 12 x 12? Seems like my cereal boxes are bigger than 12 inches.

I ship cake mixes, brownies, or corn bread... which already come in a box....
but I do agree..... and I will start looking for those $1 boxes of cereal, which will probably be the right size. Good idea.

@Ms.Baker wrote:

@RotorRat wrote:

Turn your cereal boxes inside out and tape them shut and use to ship with - totally plain and I've never had one refused.

Are those cereal boxes less than 12 x 12 x 12? Seems like my cereal boxes are bigger than 12 inches.

I ship cake mixes, brownies, or corn bread... which already come in a box....
but I do agree..... and I will start looking for those $1 boxes of cereal, which will probably be the right size. Good idea.

One of the cereal box sides can be 12 inches but I highly doubt all three sides are 12 inches, because that would be huge and also a cube, and I have never seen a cube shaped cereal box. I personally don't have any cereal boxes around to measure, but I would hazard a guess it is around 12X10X3 equals a volume of 360. 12X12X12=1728. You can have any combination of numbers as long as they end up less than 1728. For example, I use bubble mailers that are 14X10X1(one of the sides is more than 12), but the overall volume is 140, much less than 1728, so I'm good. Sometimes the clerk measures it as 14X11X2, but it's still okay because that volume is 308, still way under 1728.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2016 04:28PM by a-scho.

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