And another one in Curacao which is now a country, but which used to be part of The Netherlands Antilles. I have also found a Green Bank and as Yellow Bank, but no one seems to have opened a Red Bank. Maybe the accountants would have an issue with that one.

Might think they have Communist backing... I'd be worried too, LOL.

If a newbie [or anyone for that matter], were to ask, "Which MSC shops the arches," or "Which MSC shops the blue bank?" how would you answer that question? And I'm using "Blue Bank" as an euphemism for the name, which is the same intent as the title of this thread. If you can honestly say that you would reply something along the lines of MSC "X" shops the arches, or the blue bank is shopped by MSCs "A" and "Z", then fine...but I think most of us would agree that is violating the spirit, if not the letter, of our ICAs.

I wouldn't give an answer at all, as I think it's lazy to ask.

Seems to me there was an article in the magazine early on where all our "code names" (Blue Bank, Hedgehog, etc) were freely translated. I objected to it at the time to Jacob but the article was not pulled down.

Seems to me there's a lot of grumbling about a color being referenced, and yet somehow it's been okay to name one of the clients.

If a client has been named in the same thread as the company that shops them, please be responsible and hit the "Report" at the bottom of the post. While our moderators may be criticized, they do perform their job to keep the forum safe and Lord knows I would not want to read every single post every single day!!!! I have this odd thing called 'a life'.

Bird -

I agree. I just edited my post to remove the name of RSG's client. There are many other posts in this thread with the name of the client in them, not to mention the very title of the thread itself.

It's not just this thread, but others. I've participated and named them too, but it seemed to be okay. I thought it was an exception to the rule since others did it freely as well... but apparently there are no exceptions if we are now citing almost violations.

Yikes, sorry about the thread title. I had seen that bank referenced [on this forum] as such so many times, I truly thought it was OK. I stand corrected.

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BBird, I don't know what an "almost violation" is. Like almost human, or almost famous? Either it is or it isn't.

Shop2, hedgehog is code for Sonic. I believe that within this thread I can safely divulge that.

I'm guessing it is when you violate something in "spirit". I looked that up, as I wasn't sure, and I guess it means "non-physically." Hope that clears it up for you, because it sure doesn't for me.

Makes you wonder, if you apply this reasoning to other things, why we even have the attempted murder charge... I mean, it's almost murder, murder in spirit, why not just charge them with murder?

Okay, this question is about a VERY LARGE bank where, if all things go as planned, you will, at the time of the report, scan or photograph six pieces of literature, and submit the pictures.

The question is: does Maritz want or need you to name the pictures, or are the names that your camera used to code the photos all right, as long as the right pictures go in the right slots?

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I'm with Ishmael, I've never seen a benefit to renaming photos. Waste
of my time. If I want my camera will automatically separate
photos into separate folders at the push of button so then each
location is automatically separate anyway.

myst4au Wrote:
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> Are these the cell phone shops which RSG has been
> raising the fee on because very few people are
> willing to have their credit scores impacted?
> Almost none of them have been picked up in the
> Philadelphia metropoitan area and the price is up
> to $35 this morning. This has been the subject of
> discussion in another thread. As I pointed out
> there, whenever I do a shop for the hyphenated
> cell phone company, they always want to check my
> credit so that they can tell whether to let me pay
> off the cost of the cell phone. Despite the
> assurances that this is a "light" credit check, no
> one (including me) is willing to accept that. Not
> is anyone convinced that the cell phone company
> paying for this shop (whichever it is) can really
> expunge the initial credit check from your credit
> records at the various credit reporting agencies.
>
> This is NOT the same cell phone shop which Maritz
> is doing directly for the hyphenated company.

I'm wondering how high they will have to go to get anyone to take these shops? I'm also glad I'm not the only one who has no interest at all in this shop as I don't care to have my credit score impacted period. Playing out a scenario and acting a part I have no problem with, along with other behaviors needed to be successful with mystery shopping but a shop impacting my credit score? NO WAY!

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I always take extra pictures and load them onto my PC so that I can select the best ones. I name them to make it easier for me to find them. I keep extra ones since I have learned that some MSCs come back and ask if I have a different view. This is especially important when I do audits with lots of photographs. Renaming them is fast and makes it much easier when I have to find them to attach to reports. I agree with Shop2Live, but everyone has to find a system which works for them.

I too take a whole lot of photos because 'digital film' is so cheap. I upload them all into a file for that shop on my computer and then review with Photoshop, brightening or darkening as may be needed to best show what I am trying to show. The adjusted photo is then named what it is 'Front Window' or 'West End' or 'Signage' if it is one I plan to use. Renaming them also changes the date and time of the file so when I am putting together my report I can sort the file by date and have all the photos I plan to use rise to the top of the stack.

I have never renamed a single picture. They are all date stamped (the file has the date, I don't display the date on the photo unless required), and in the case of the MSC in question, the shop ID number is on each photo. If I ever need to find one again I can look by the date I did it, and then scan through them to find the shop ID I need.

I do not edit the photos. I make sure they are in focus and the correct resolution when I take them.

I have never had a photo rejected, with the exception of maybe three receipt pictures that were a little blurry so I re-photographed the receipt that I still had because I do not throw out my shop documents.

dspeakes - how do you get the shop ID number on each photo without renaming it? I have two fairly sophisticated point and shoot digital cameras, and neither of them allows me to input text to either "print" on the photo or become part of the file name.

I create a folder, name the folder by the assignment ID, and then drag and drop the photos in. They automatically rename themselves as "ID 1234567-1" "ID 1234567-2" etc.

myst4au Wrote:
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> dspeakes - how do you get the shop ID number on
> each photo without renaming it? I have two fairly
> sophisticated point and shoot digital cameras, and
> neither of them allows me to input text to either
> "print" on the photo or become part of the file
> name.

I don't know how dspeakes does it, but I recently started doing it as part of the resizing process. I use Irfanview, which will easily resize every photograph in a folder, and will automatically rename as it goes. So, everything ends up resized to the magical 640x480, and renamed to 001 68386035, 002 68386035, etc. Then, I have been re-renaming the ones that I plan to use. But, I'm trying to work out the most efficient system, especially because I'm trying to mentor a family member who breezes through the actual shopping part, but struggles with the computer & reports side of things.

A trick I found on my old HP... Select all of your photos until they're highlighted, click "Get Info" or "Name File"... Type the Assignment ID, example: 1234567. It will name the first one 1234567, but the following ones will be 1234567-2, 1234567-3, etc... since it won't let them have the same file name.

The bank shops in question require you to *write* the shop ID on the documents *before* you photograph them. I don't name the photos; my camera does and I leave them the way it named them. All I do is upload them straight from my camera's SD card to the shop report.

Gotcha.

I save all of my photos/guidelines/forms/receipts to a folder in an external hard drive. They're organized by year-folder, then month-folder, then MSC-folder, then Assignment ID-folder.

As soon as they're dragged into their Assignment ID-folder, they automatically rename. That's just the way I've set it up.

It'd be kinda hard to pull off writing the shop ID on the thing before photographing it, when you're doing gas station shops and taking pictures of pumps.

No, I was talking specifically about the bank shops with all the brochures we have to photograph.

But I have never put the shop ID into the name of the photo even for the gas station shops. Of course, I haven't done any of those for a very long time, so if that's a new requirement, then I would suggest shoppers follow it.

Market Force also asks that we "rename" the files with the shop ID but I think they say something like "so you don't mix them up" but I don't mix them up because of how I do my reports. I work with one report and one set of photos at a time. I've never mixed anything up.

I got a funny mental picture of you writing your shop ID on the pump handles before taking the pictures, that's all.

LOL. That's what a carry a sharpie for.....