Donna,
I agree with dspeakes; "10 foot pole" category, as in the words of stilllearning. I would not touch these shops with a 10 foot pole. I detest GfK's "closed shop" fee policy. It's not a shopper's concern whether the company pays you a full fee for a closed shop on these shops. You require someone to wait 40 minutes, so technically the shop is not "closed". The store is open, so you need to pay a shopper the full fee
AND bonus. A closed shop is when the store is out of business.
I used to love working for GfK and would have had zero gripes until I had an agreement with a scheduler to complete two shops at $50 each; she scheduled them at $25 each, so I said something and without even contacting me back, she cancelled the shops.
I don't take kindly into a scheduler going back on an agreement and furthermore, I find it disrespectful when a company tries to use "strong-arm" tactics to force a shopper into doing a shop cheaper.
GfK keeps getting cheaper and cheaper about things; that's why I take less shops from them.
dspeakes Wrote:
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> Donna, I've been biting my hands all day not to
> email you about some audits that you are
> desperately trying to get done by tomorrow. I've
> had six or eight emails and the bonus has slowly
> gone up from $30 to $45. Normally I would have
> been tempted to try to get that Flagstaff shop
> done for you but after reading about this
> experience I decided "no way" would I risk driving
> 200 miles to end up with $3 if something outside
> my control kept me from getting the shop done.
>
> Not paying shoppers for the work they did (waiting
> the required 40 minutes) is not right. If you
> want us to get your shops done for you, we need to
> know that when we get in our cars and drive to
> some out of the way place for a bonused shop, do
> everything we were required to do, but can't do
> the shop because of a situation at the store, that
> we are not going to end up with only $3 for our
> trouble. I don't even do phone shops for $3.
>
> It doesn't help us to know that the client is
> stiffing you too; the client isn't the one who
> begged and bribed us to do these shops.
>
> It's not our fault if the contract you negotiated
> with the client isn't fair to the shopper. It
> *is* our fault if we put ourselves in the position
> of trusting someone who promises what they can't
> deliver.
>
> OP's story has had a chilling effect on my
> willingness to work for GfK, unless I happen to be
> driving past the site anyway. You've got stuff
> I'd love to do, and I'm willing to drive to do it.
> But I'd be a fool to trust that I'd get paid
> after what happened to OP -- not once but twice.
Arguing with fools is like playing chess with a pigeon...
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
Not scheduling for ANY company.