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Spend $35 and drive 100 miles each way for drug screening. Drive 110 miles each way and work 10 hours for $95 and a cheesy "bonus". Two week turnaround sounds pretty good and there are four more "audits" during that two weeks, total of one E-mail daily, at least, for instructions or clarifications of same. No response. Now you have gas credit card bills and motel bills and meals bills but no pay. You will get a generic "Sorry. We cannot use your reports." but you will not get paid.

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Let's take the whole driving 200 miles for a drug test and 220 miles for a $95 audit out of the equation. What exactly happened that the audit wasn't accepted? You aren't being really clear right now.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/2015 12:30AM by MDavisnowell.

I'm trying to figure out why anyone would drive 220 miles for $95 in the first place. Especially after paying $35 and another 200 mile drive just to get approved to do the shop. Is this the one where if you do two shops they reimburse for the drug test? Who's reimbursing for the travel costs? And you had to stay overnight too?

Sounds like you were pretty much screwed before you started. Is there something I'm not getting here?

Time to build a bigger bridge.

Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/29/2015 11:56PM by MDavisnowell.

How very frustrating for you Cricket. However, there are some valuable lessons to be learned here. The first is to ask yourself if it's really worth it to travel all that way for that kind of compensation? I think you will find that experienced mystery shoppers wouldn't do it. The other is that sometimes it's a good idea when there are a bunch of assignments to take just one to start with and see how it goes. Wait until it gets accepted and then go ahead and take as many as you want. That way you know if there's a problem before you're too heavily invested in it. If it's a new shop to me generally I will only take one and let it play through before going after more. Do you know why your shops weren't accepted?

Anyway, commiserations, you must be really frustrated.

I am sorry Cricket.... that is all I can say. Why not try and write, or re-write a letter stating that it is immoral for them not to pay you. At least get that off your chest by writing to them.

I had a company that did not want to pay me, due, to the fact that I could not edit the report in time as it was a holiday/vacation season. It was a $36.00 job. After my letter of pleading and complaint, they did surprisingly pay me. I knew it was a good report and they still were going to use it regardless.

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