Hello and thanks for the interest and spirited conversation about our company. I wanted to clarify a few topics mentioned here and provide some additional information about our company that may not be common knowledge:
- When you request a shop that you are unable to self-assign in our system, our schedulers see your request right away and will review it right away you would likely be scheduled in the next 1-3 days if your dates met our requirements and there wasn't another shopper who requested it with either better dates or a higher grade in our system. Immediately after we release a new shop for the following month we will also wait up to 7 days to conduct our fast past of scheduling of all shops. So the 7th day that was reference here is the 7th day after the shop was released, not the 7th of the following month. We would never expect someone to keep a weekend open for us beyond say 1-7 days from when they put in a request. Generally speaking you can assume if you haven't heard back on a request within 7 days that you weren't scheduled, but you can manually check if a shop is still open anytime by just logging back in and searching the open shops. We do keep all requests for the entire month so that if we have a cancellation we can contact those other shoppers who requested the shop to see if they are still available based upon their earlier request.
- Many shops can be self-assigned by shoppers with experience with our company or who have MSPA certification. Some shops however are never eligible for self-assign by new shoppers or any shoppers depending upon the client. We don't generally schedule shops past the 20th until we are past the 20th of that month or when clients specifically request dates past the 20th. - The length of the report is often commensurate with the pay or reimbursement provided. We do require extensive narrative, but most shoppers find the report get's much easier to complete with additional experience and understanding of what we are looking for.
- Our shops typically involve reimbursement of expenses (for a fun time at an attraction) or free tickets because our clients what us to utilize shoppers who are or would be normal customers of a location and are genuinely interested in going there for the experience and not just going to make a buck on the shop. We generally do not provide a large profit type payment to discourage individuals aren't interested in the actual experience at the location, but instead simply looking to make money as they are not as objective and do not represent the clients target market.
- We work with many, many different types of exciting clients all across the US and Canada including different attractions and vendors who service or manager various operations at different attractions. Even if we don't have something in your area right now, chances are we will have something near you in the summer as the number of shops we offer typically doubles in the summer due to our many seasonal clients. Sometimes there will be unique requirements of a shop such as multiple food purchases or more than one parking or gift purchase. All shops include some type of reimbursement for all required expenses whether that be direct monetary reimbursement or a trade of additional free tickets (typically worth far more than the cost of the required purchases). When multiple food items must be purchased they don't all have to be consumed, just at least tasted. Please understand, clients request unique requirements for their shops to understand or focus on specific areas of their operations. The better we are able to provide them with actionable data that is critical to their operations, the happier we are and the more shops they give us and the more clients in turn we have the opportunity to partner with through referrals and industry references. This in turns allows us to offer more and more amazing and fun shopping assignments.
- We did previously have a recruiting partnership with Sentry Marketing to encourage shoppers from both companies to also sign up with the other company if they weren't already. We have no direct affiliation with Sentry Marketing, but again do encourage everyone to sign up with both Amusement Advantage and Sentry Marketing directly.
- We pride ourselves in providing prompt friendly service to all shoppers through our dedicated and extremely available project manager schedulers. You can always email the scheduler assigned to an open shop right from the job posting in our system with any questions. Please don't hesitate to follow up with a scheduler if you feel you don't hear back in a timely manner. We expect our schedulers to always respond in proper timeframes. You can also call us anytime 9am-midnight eastern time 7 days a week with urgent questions about an assignment you are currently scheduled on.
- We provide fast, flexible payment options via PayQuicker (10-17 days), PayPal (21-28 days) and checks (45-60 days). The fee's taken by PayQuicker and PayPal will vary based upon the actions you do with funds in their systems, but in general you won't be charged a fee just to transmit the money into their systems.
- Even if our shops aren't for you, we encourage you to apply in our system and earn $10-20 for each new referral you can provide to our company. Our enhanced referral program allows you to submit your referrals directly on our website and we email your referral and encourage them to apply explaining to them that you referred them and tracking the referral so you can automatically be issued a payment when they complete their first shop. We also offer those individuals interested in doing higher-volume recruiting with the opportunity to become Recruiting Partners and have access to additional tools and resources to supplement their income as a recruiter.
Hopefully I have answered a number of questions about our company, but please don't hesitate to advise if you have more questions and we look forward to working with you on an exciting shop near you soon!
Scot A. Carson
General Manager
Amusement Advantage
www.amusementadvantage.com
*REFERRAL PAY* - Refer friends, family and co-workers and earn $10-20 for their first shop!