Maybe this thread will help schedulers realize they're doing things wrong. I got so sick of seeing dozens of the same exact shop (different location) emails being sent out by Tara Romaine from ICCDS that I just set her as spam. Consolidate, for Gods sake! Other people do it!
Who needs to change the way their email us?

Team. Top. Gun.

Darius Jackson (and his other account, Darius L. Jackson) from RSG, Jen Gladding from Summit, Maggie Newman from Interactions Marketing, Kathy Griffin from Bare International, Peggy Hinshaw from Ann Michaels, ACE Mystery Shopping, and About Face (so sick of At Home Tree Service emails).

Am about to set Stericycle as SPAM. I've tolerated everything else from everyone else so far.

CORI big time. I have lost count of how many I receive in a day. And they don't change..."please contact for possible bonus."

The phone messages that mention a shop but don't mention a fee will never, ever, ever get a return call. And the ones that are even LESS likely are the ones that call and say, "We have shops in your area. Call us to schedule..."

Some schedulers are terribly inefficient.

I won't do that. I just delete them.

Julie at Customer Service Experts.

I made it very clear in my profile that I don't fly and live 2 hours away from an airport. Please stop sending me - 6-8 times a day - email asking me to do badged shops at airports. Especially airports on the other side of the country. I've set my profile to 'no email' and still get these all day long.

Now you automatically go to my Spam folder. Rest in peace.

I agree improvements could be made in the way these emails are sent, but I won't turn them off. I need to keep up with what's happening whether I'm taking those shops or not. I've already learned we can count on change. I don't want to be out to lunch when it happens.

Agreed. I learn so much from emails that on the surface don't pertain to me at all.

Jenna Lemi, Intelli-shop, new, rude scheduler !

I emailed them back saying my zip code is xxxxx, please send only shops within 15 miles of xxxxx.
They know this yet they keep sending tons of emails.

They also send out catching Subject Line, wasting our time opening it up only to find out the requirements, such as sex, age, having an iPhone, or drive a Chevy, etc, etc. Why don't they post this on their Subject line. They are wasting our time reading the email. Sometimes, you do not see these up front requirement until 2 or 3 clicks later, wasting 5 minutes/

You should tell us how you really feel ShopperFun.

Intelli-shop emails are deactivated for me. I check their board toward the end of the month if I want to do shops.

ShopperFun99 Wrote:
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> Jenna Lemi, Intelli-shop, new, rude scheduler !

I use Gmail and when you see the same scheduler with a number in round brackets, it's the same exact email they keep sending.

For example, in my spam right now it says; darius.jackson (13)

That was just his total today... I don't care, this scheduler has probably taken the crown of "Most Annoying Scheduler Ever", which is a very competitive award for schedulers. Same email over and over- Financial Services



MDavisnowell Wrote:
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> I agree improvements could be made in the way
> these emails are sent, but I won't turn them off.
> I need to keep up with what's happening whether
> I'm taking those shops or not. I've already
> learned we can count on change. I don't want to
> be out to lunch when it happens.

I don't send them to spam,because they could get their account closed down if too many classify as that. I filter them. Saves them, and me.

I have no problem deleting - it's quick. I also have been selective in choosing and applying to MSC's so my inbox is not on overload.

I don't send any to Spam. I just delete them. That being said, Here are the schedulers that have annoyed me today: Darius Jackson (6 in 2 hours) and Jennifer at Customer Service Experts (3 in 13 minutes).

Since I have ADD, I am so easily distracted that I just delete the excess emails and they no longer bother me.

I agree with most of you. Change needs to happen quickly. NSS calls me several time per day with delivery assignments which are not within the location's delivery area. Three calls within the last 24 hours. When the assignment requires a phone call, wait for delivery, 30-45 minutes minimum, even with the small bonus does not make it worth my time. Can't image why they "like" me so much! lol

I get a kick out of the age requirement ones. The one from today comes to mind. It was for shoppers aged between 20-30 and 40 -50 years old. Apparently they just mass email everyone and don't or can't figure out how to work off our profile information to create a demographically or age based email list.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/30/2014 06:14AM by ishoparound.

Delwilliams Wrote:
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> I don't send them to spam,because they could get
> their account closed down if too many classify as
> that. I filter them. Saves them, and me.


Thank you!
It's hard enough to get invite emails to go through these days w/o having shoppers mark us as spam.

Shoppers have no idea how we have to scrutinize what's put in an email's body, subject line, and phrasing in order to keep it from bouncing back in the first place. You want all the details in the subject line? Instant spam red flag for almost all ISPs.

If you don't want email invites from your MSPs, go into your profile settings and set it for no emails.

And for those of you that decide to continue marking our emails as spam instead of hitting delete, I sincerely hope there's a $100 shop with a $100 bonus that's located 10 minutes from your house sitting in your spam folder right now...that you will never, ever know about.

ok...I'm done with my end of month vent.

I'll admit to publicly complaining about a scheduler and/or MSC who just doesn't seem to get it. When it became an issue with a couple of companies I used the easy option of turning off email notifications for a while. Otherwise the difficulty of putting a check mark next to 5 or 20 emails and choosing delete seems to escape me.

Inside Evaluators Wrote:
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>
> And for those of you that decide to continue
> marking our emails as spam instead of hitting
> delete, I sincerely hope there's a $100 shop with
> a $100 bonus that's located 10 minutes from your
> house sitting in your spam folder right now...that
> you will never, ever know about.
>
> ok...I'm done with my end of month vent.


How professional.

It's possible that you don't see how awful some of these people are because (at least for me) you aren't one of the companies that is guilty of spamming.
It takes a long time for me to commit to sending a scheduler to spam. They really have to show a track record of email abuse. I get one email every 3 or 4 days from your company. We're talking about schedulers that send 10-15 emails EACH DAY about the same shop. It's seriously spam, no less.

Also, (and this also doesn't pertain to you) I REALLY don't care about how much you NEEEEEED MY HEEELLLPPP!!! If that is in the subject line and there isn't a dollar figure that will prove to me that you're so desperate that you're about to lose your account; DELETE!



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Amen Hoju!

And to Joan Gingras,

I don't care how much you scrutinize over emails, when you send an email about one shop where the information has not changed and nothing has been added to the shop money-wise... and you send it multiple times in the same day, that is SPAM!

With an attitude like you apparently have toward shoppers, I'm glad I have never done a shop for Inside Evaluators. An attitude like that proves that the company has little to no regard for how a shopper feels or what they think.

Hoju Wrote:
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> Inside Evaluators Wrote:
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> -----
>
> >
> > And for those of you that decide to continue
> > marking our emails as spam instead of hitting
> > delete, I sincerely hope there's a $100 shop
> with
> > a $100 bonus that's located 10 minutes from
> your
> > house sitting in your spam folder right
> now...that
> > you will never, ever know about.
> >
> > ok...I'm done with my end of month vent.
>
>
> How professional.
>
> It's possible that you don't see how awful some of
> these people are because (at least for me) you
> aren't one of the companies that is guilty of
> spamming.
> It takes a long time for me to commit to sending a
> scheduler to spam. They really have to show a
> track record of email abuse. I get one email every
> 3 or 4 days from your company. We're talking about
> schedulers that send 10-15 emails EACH DAY about
> the same shop. It's seriously spam, no less.
>
> Also, (and this also doesn't pertain to you) I
> REALLY don't care about how much you NEEEEEED MY
> HEEELLLPPP!!! If that is in the subject line and
> there isn't a dollar figure that will prove to me
> that you're so desperate that you're about to lose
> your account; DELETE!

Oh, believe me, we value and appreciate our shoppers.

But shoppers need to realize that when a scheduler is trying to fill shops, they may be working with several different databases which may or may not be cross reference for duplicate email addresses. They may be using their MSP's database and a variety of personal databases that may be filtered by city, distance from the city the shop is in, etc., etc.

If I'm trying to fill a shop in Los Angeles, I may start with the zip code the location is in, then move on to a 10 mile radius, then a 20 mile radius, then Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties. These are all separate databases.

Bottom line is this...if you're getting more emails than you want, either hit delete, unsubscribe to that MSP's emails, or deactivate your account with that MSP.

But please don't put schedulers' emailing capabilities at risk by marking their emails as spam.

Joan, I understand your plight. I also don't understand why a shopper would mark a scheduler's email as spam. Like you said, hit delete or set your account with the MSC to no email. However, I personally found your statement that you hoped people who marked schedulers' email as spam had $100 bonuses sitting in their spam that they never saw to be horribly unprofessional and insulting.

I just saw this as sarcasm and found it kind of funny. If you think about it what she said is true. By automatically sending it to spam the shopper may be missing out on a good opportunity. I hate when schedulers send multiple emails. I also get emails for shops on the other side of the country. I never send any of them to spam. Deleting just takes a few seconds and guarantees that I won't miss anything I might want to take.

bgriffin Wrote:
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> However, I
> personally found your statement that you hoped
> people who marked schedulers' email as spam had
> $100 bonuses sitting in their spam that they never
> saw to be horribly unprofessional and insulting.

I found it to be petty and in poor taste. Guess we just look at things differently. Had another shopper said it, I would have found it funny, that a scheduler said it is something totally different.

Nothing wrong with the schedular's little rant. She was just letting us know that a schedular's world is not all peachy keen either. Kinda interesting about the various databases.