Well, you probably can join the core of shoppers since all it takes is saying, late in month A, that you would like "x" shops in month B. Please PM me and I can arrange it, assuming that you are who I think you are! There is still time to ask for September shops!
I like to get my parking shops first, and, since I have the whole month to schedule them as I please, then build those other shops around them. To me, that is way more efficinet than finding other shops, accepting them, and hoping to find matching parking shops.
There are no plans to open a shop board for self-assignment. The clients LOVE that shoppers gain so much experience with catching subtle attendant behavior that can indicate a red flag for cash integrity. That just does not come without some practice. And, once a shopper has learned to spot these, looking for them becomes addictive, like a treasure hunt. So, many of us are a long, long way from getting bored! In addition, there are also more complex and much better paid "advanced" shops, chances to travel to locations where there are shops that start near $70 (I grab a hotel shop in NYC and make a very profitable route of up to 5 such shops per day around that, even without any travel bonuses! But, I am lazy; ambitious shoppers often do 8-10 of those in a long day. And the NYC reports are very, very short.), even more complex and better paid "special order shops" and very lucrative complete facility audits. (An audit like you have never seen in retail, believe me!)
Becasue this MSC was founded by and is run by folks with tons of parking industry experience (and who continue to shop every month) any shopper who wishes to contemplate the more complex and advanced assignments need only ask to ride along with a coach to learn many of the secrets needed to detect the subtle ways in which 20-40 percent of the fees collected in cash never reach the till across the entire industry. There are also plans afoot to produce a training video...showing video of what to look for when we "follow the money." A new shopper (otherwise experienced, but new to this sort of shopp) just did 15 video shops in one city for a brand new cient. Fourteen of the 15 showed proof of cash diversion to the point where the management company went into total shock and then signed a big contract for heavy shopping activity at all of their locations, every month. (Video equipment provided by the MSC and much easier to use than the button cams, which are not suited to capturing what we need to see.) And btw, the video shops pay at least 1.5 times as much as the non-video ones. Base fees vary by locality, and are well above industry standard in all locations that I am aware of.
Gotta run! Hotel valet shops in DC await and the month is nearly over!
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/27/2016 11:56AM by walesmaven.