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/solideogloria slinks away embarrased/
sorry.., I saw their ratings description page and it said that "1" was "unacceptable." I guess that means a COMBINED score of 1 is unacceptable.
Whew!
sorry.., I saw their ratings description page and it said that "1" was "unacceptable." I guess that means a COMBINED score of 1 is unacceptable.
Whew!
laughing. I think I had that reaction the first time, too.
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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
Yes,their 'scoring system' is odd so don't get bent out of shape by it. You can have received nothing but 5s from them and still not have a 5 as your overall score. Enough to make you crazy if you let it.
Flash Wrote:
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> Yes,their 'scoring system' is odd so don't get
> bent out of shape by it. You can have received
> nothing but 5s from them and still not have a 5 as
> your overall score. Enough to make you crazy if
> you let it.
I could be wrong (and that might not always be the case) but I think that happens if you reschedule or cancel a shop.
I have all 5's for my reports. A couple months ago, I got a little over zealous accepting phone shops and accidentally accepted a shop I could not complete and had to cancel it. My rating went down to a 4.9 for a short while, but it went back up to 5 after a few weeks of 5 shops.
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> Yes,their 'scoring system' is odd so don't get
> bent out of shape by it. You can have received
> nothing but 5s from them and still not have a 5 as
> your overall score. Enough to make you crazy if
> you let it.
I could be wrong (and that might not always be the case) but I think that happens if you reschedule or cancel a shop.
I have all 5's for my reports. A couple months ago, I got a little over zealous accepting phone shops and accidentally accepted a shop I could not complete and had to cancel it. My rating went down to a 4.9 for a short while, but it went back up to 5 after a few weeks of 5 shops.
What the heck? Every shop I've done for them the last two-plus years has been a 5. I've only cancelled one shop. My rating is 4.7.
Okay, I'm not going to let it make me crazy. I'm already too close.
Okay, I'm not going to let it make me crazy. I'm already too close.
It may be. I am not sure, but it seems to me like my score has actually gone down with them over the long period of time since I last I accepted a job from them. There are eager beavers here who grab everything as soon as it posts regardless of price so obviously CORI will keep posting at $4 and consider lowering that to $3.75 or $3.50 to see if they still get such rapid response.
Flash Wrote:
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>There are eager beavers here who grab
> everything as soon as it posts regardless of price
> so obviously CORI will keep posting at $4 and
> consider lowering that to $3.75 or $3.50 to see if
> they still get such rapid response.
$4? Wow, I haven't seen one that low on there. Well, I have seen $5 there.
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>There are eager beavers here who grab
> everything as soon as it posts regardless of price
> so obviously CORI will keep posting at $4 and
> consider lowering that to $3.75 or $3.50 to see if
> they still get such rapid response.
$4? Wow, I haven't seen one that low on there. Well, I have seen $5 there.
Gas is $4 fee plus 'up to' $1 gas plus 'up to' $1 inside purchase if I recall correctly. These used to get bonused on up to $12 or $13 which almost made them a $15 benefit shop, but even the remote shops that used to get up $18 to $20 fee get snagged here in the first 24 hours they are on the board.
Oh ok, that's what I never saw the $4 shop. I've done a few of those, but only once they were raised. I don't think they have many shoppers from my area and they usually raise a lot of the fees quickly.
If you have few shoppers and are not in a terribly remote area you should have a much range of opportunities than many of us. Because unemployment around here is running 10%+ and the next county over at 14%+ there are a whole lot of folks scrambling here for anything, lawful or unlawful, to make a buck.
Unemployment is really high in my area too (in my state, my county is considered the 2nd poorest county). But in this area, not many people are actively looking for any sort of extra income. It sounds really bad of me to say, but many here refuse to do anything to earn more money, especially something like mystery shopping where you have to find the companies to sign up with and search the sites for available shops.
I also don't like this company's rating system. I have done HUNDREDS of shops for them, mainly when I was first starting out and trying to build up a reputation. My auditor rating took forever to get up to 5. Then I had an issue one day, wasn't able to complete like 4 gas shops, and my rating plummeted down to like 2.5. I e-mailed schedulers about this to reschedule and they basically said, "Sorry. Someone else already is going to do these." I asked if they could fix my rating and they brought it up to 3. Whooooooptie do. I will say though, my rating is still low, I can't self assign, and yet they call me whenever they are desperate to have someone reliable complete a last minute shop.
I haven't done more than a handful of shops for them in the past year. I may start doing the gas ones again in the winter when no one else around here wants to go out in the snow and the commissions are above at least $8.00. I find them really easy but $4.00 is a joke.
I haven't done more than a handful of shops for them in the past year. I may start doing the gas ones again in the winter when no one else around here wants to go out in the snow and the commissions are above at least $8.00. I find them really easy but $4.00 is a joke.
Their ease is why it makes them a great starting point for newbie shoppers. They are not out much cash if the shop is rejected, it gives them the experience of using their camera in a shop situation and it gets them off to a good start in observing restrooms, name tags, recording times, collecting receipts etc. I have a friend who is fighting through reporting the shops at present. She normally does merchandising and decided to add gas shops to her repertoire. What she is learning with all this is about her camera and the camera/computer interfaces. Her CoRI scheduler is being very patient trying to walk her through the photo uploads even though the shops are now several days 'past due' because she did not have the skills to get the photos to upload. Once a newbie figures out this stuff, they have passed a major hurdle--and where better to do that than on a 'throw away' shop?
9/10 Great job, thank you! Nicely written! Your report was well written and required little or no editing!
Guess to get a "10" with this company I'll need to bend over AND bring my own lube.
Guess to get a "10" with this company I'll need to bend over AND bring my own lube.
I currently have 380 jobs completed for CRI in just under a year, but because I had an issue with a few jobs that I had to cancel when my son was in an accident and when I moved, my rating is in the toilet. It's frustrating, because it does not include times I have done last minute shops for a scheduler, but I've learned to just not take it so seriously. Flash Wrote:
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> Yes,their 'scoring system' is odd so don't get
> bent out of shape by it. You can have received
> nothing but 5s from them and still not have a 5 as
> your overall score. Enough to make you crazy if
> you let it.
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> Yes,their 'scoring system' is odd so don't get
> bent out of shape by it. You can have received
> nothing but 5s from them and still not have a 5 as
> your overall score. Enough to make you crazy if
> you let it.
So far I am actually really enjoying working with CORI (I know, I know.. give it a week). There are not a lot of MSers in my area, so almost all of the shops get bonused. I just did a bookstore shop today that started at $8 and I was called by a scheduler to do it for $30. The first couple shops I did with them, I rushed to grab them at the opening price. Now I know that I can let them mellow a bit.
And it is nice to get paid within a reasonable amount of time.
And it is nice to get paid within a reasonable amount of time.
solideogloria Wrote:
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> So far I am actually really enjoying working with
> CORI (I know, I know.. give it a week). There are
> not a lot of MSers in my area, so almost all of
> the shops get bonused. I just did a bookstore
> shop today that started at $8 and I was called by
> a scheduler to do it for $30. The first couple
> shops I did with them, I rushed to grab them at
> the opening price. Now I know that I can let them
> mellow a bit.
>
> And it is nice to get paid within a reasonable
> amount of time.
I too enjoy shopping for CoRI. They have more jobs in my area than a lot of other companies I am with and I like getting paid weekly.
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> So far I am actually really enjoying working with
> CORI (I know, I know.. give it a week). There are
> not a lot of MSers in my area, so almost all of
> the shops get bonused. I just did a bookstore
> shop today that started at $8 and I was called by
> a scheduler to do it for $30. The first couple
> shops I did with them, I rushed to grab them at
> the opening price. Now I know that I can let them
> mellow a bit.
>
> And it is nice to get paid within a reasonable
> amount of time.
I too enjoy shopping for CoRI. They have more jobs in my area than a lot of other companies I am with and I like getting paid weekly.
solideogloria Wrote:
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> So far I am actually really enjoying working with
> CORI (I know, I know.. give it a week). There are
> not a lot of MSers in my area, so almost all of
> the shops get bonused. I just did a bookstore
> shop today that started at $8 and I was called by
> a scheduler to do it for $30. The first couple
> shops I did with them, I rushed to grab them at
> the opening price. Now I know that I can let them
> mellow a bit.
>
> And it is nice to get paid within a reasonable
> amount of time.
You are lucky, SDG. Although I don't seem to have trouble getting jobs elsewhere, here Cori seems to have TONS of shoppers, who grab up the shops at the rock bottom prices. I have only seen bonuses on shops 2 times, and for the shops they were, they still weren't worth picking up, even at $30. Here they only have the national home fixup store, the national blue light special, and a teenybopper clothing store. The only one I would even consider is the latter, and only if I needed a gift.
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> So far I am actually really enjoying working with
> CORI (I know, I know.. give it a week). There are
> not a lot of MSers in my area, so almost all of
> the shops get bonused. I just did a bookstore
> shop today that started at $8 and I was called by
> a scheduler to do it for $30. The first couple
> shops I did with them, I rushed to grab them at
> the opening price. Now I know that I can let them
> mellow a bit.
>
> And it is nice to get paid within a reasonable
> amount of time.
You are lucky, SDG. Although I don't seem to have trouble getting jobs elsewhere, here Cori seems to have TONS of shoppers, who grab up the shops at the rock bottom prices. I have only seen bonuses on shops 2 times, and for the shops they were, they still weren't worth picking up, even at $30. Here they only have the national home fixup store, the national blue light special, and a teenybopper clothing store. The only one I would even consider is the latter, and only if I needed a gift.
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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
If they have either the fixup store or blue light special in your area for $30, I would say they are well worth it. I've done several of both of those, and once you are used to what you are looking for, they are pretty easy to complete.
I did the blue light special one time, and once was enough for me. The store here is messy, the associates rude, and they do not wear name tags. What should have been a short shop took an hour. Never again. It was so unenjoyable. And I don't like the other store at all, shopping for myself. I don't want to go even for $30. For $30 I can go get fauned all over at a luxury goods store at the mall for 15 minutes, and not have to worry about getting shopper names, since they always give you their name in those stores here, if not of their own volition, once you ask. :-) I think I am definitely more the get fauned over type!
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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
Well then it probably wouldn't be worth the money or time to do one. The blue light here actually isn't too bad, but I have seen some in other cities that I wouldn't want to shop either.
Yes, I have been in some nice ones, but this one is not it. :-)
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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
I took a gas station route that upped the pay to $9 each plus RB. I branched out of my comfort zone and went to Chicago. The tolls were outrageous, about $12 a day. Some were in terrible neighborhoods and a bit scary to take pictures. I had 106 shops scheduled, and had to cancel 14 of them when my car broke down. My rating dropped from 4.7 to -2.9 since the day I couldn't complete was a Friday and the scheduler didn't get my message until Monday. She adjusted my rating to 2.9 but I still cannot self assign.
The couple of large payments were nice, but not worth the hassle of hitting rush hour in Chicago with no A/C!
The couple of large payments were nice, but not worth the hassle of hitting rush hour in Chicago with no A/C!
Rush hour, one way streets and not knowing the neighborhoods would truly make shopping Chicago on an occasional basis pretty hectic. For the future you might want to consider going through and on to the northern suburbs (unless that is truly a trek). I haven't lived there in decades, but Evanston, Wilmette etc. did not have Chicago's outrageous traffic and the main drags did have a lot of stations. Even back then I would have avoided most of the South Side like the plague even though as a student I lived there for years.
Wow Chicago.. a route that big... yikes! I got offered $200 to do 4 video shops there and I wouldn't even take those because I knew just the driving would take me all day and the stress of that was just not worth it to me! Plus I don't live very close to Chicago either.
I've done the blue light special when it was bonused to $20. Of course that was in a town about an hour away from me and I had other shops there. The one in my city never goes above like $5.00. It blows my mind that people keep taking this shop at such a low rate. From what I remember, it involved a lot of names and different departments. The one that I did seemed to be lacking in employees and the employees that were in the store were not even in uniform so I could hardly pick them out. That shop is soooo not for me.
I always loved the teenybopper clothing store, even though I'm much too old to shop there. It always gets bonused in my area and I can usually get a sweatshirt to wear around the house. Of course now I have way too stinkin many of these shirts and I know I'm too old for them but what can ya do?
I've done the blue light special when it was bonused to $20. Of course that was in a town about an hour away from me and I had other shops there. The one in my city never goes above like $5.00. It blows my mind that people keep taking this shop at such a low rate. From what I remember, it involved a lot of names and different departments. The one that I did seemed to be lacking in employees and the employees that were in the store were not even in uniform so I could hardly pick them out. That shop is soooo not for me.
I always loved the teenybopper clothing store, even though I'm much too old to shop there. It always gets bonused in my area and I can usually get a sweatshirt to wear around the house. Of course now I have way too stinkin many of these shirts and I know I'm too old for them but what can ya do?
It wasn't all in the heart of Chicago, I did do some suburbs that were wonderful. For living so close I really haven't visited Chicago much and never realized how beautiful some areas are! I believe it was Lincoln Park that I just fell in love with. Drove past a greek rest. that smelled so good I had to go back and eat there! Northern suburbs were nice too. I'm finding that the older I get the more trouble I have driving on bridges over water, so crossing that skyway bridge over the Calumet was nerve shattering! Driving Lake Shore Drive around Lake Michigan was nice though.
I did approx 12 stations a day, and mapped it out fairly well (except for the one located on tri-state highway- I was so lost!). It wasn't so bad even in the scary neighborhoods while I had daylight, I just got nervous when it was really dark, or in some places where there were severasl panhandlers present. Those were the ones I dreaded taking photos at. Especially trying to find a place to park and get an 'overall store photo'. The worst that happened was a couple people offering to pump my gas for spare change, one guy selling dishrags to clean your phone screen with, and another guy selling bootleg DVD's. My boyfriend says I've got bigger ones than he does for 'going to the ghetto'.
I did approx 12 stations a day, and mapped it out fairly well (except for the one located on tri-state highway- I was so lost!). It wasn't so bad even in the scary neighborhoods while I had daylight, I just got nervous when it was really dark, or in some places where there were severasl panhandlers present. Those were the ones I dreaded taking photos at. Especially trying to find a place to park and get an 'overall store photo'. The worst that happened was a couple people offering to pump my gas for spare change, one guy selling dishrags to clean your phone screen with, and another guy selling bootleg DVD's. My boyfriend says I've got bigger ones than he does for 'going to the ghetto'.
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