Are the MS companies linked?

I was wondering....do they talk to each other? I am not quite sure how this all works.

What, exactly, is SASSIE? Is it a parent company and all the others operate under it?

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SASSIE is a platform that some companies use for their job boards, etc. I have heard that companies do talk with each other, for instance, one scheduler may schedule for more than one company. Some shoppers have related experiences about that.

Kim

They do talk. My first contact from Bare was an unsolicited e-mail. The subject line read, "You come highly recommended". I also recall something from Beyond Hello saying that they share their database with other Sassie companies and they hoped I would sign up for ... There was a pretty long list included.

For years I have also been getting a lot of companies asking me to sign on. Some say they got my name from MSPA. But, lately most of them don't. I'm sure it's the schedulers and editors and project managers I have worked with. I'm thinking they must have forums where they discuss their jobs and talk about us.

"All we want are the facts." Sgt. Joe Friday

I believe they know each other and have conversations.

Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.

The video companies talk to one another a lot!

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

Do they talk to each other? YEP!

My main work since I started last March has been one company. I found other shops and I'm finally being recommended by schedulers to other schedulers.

Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning; the devil shudders...And yells OH #%*+! SHE'S AWAKE!

Also some schedulers work for more than one company so if they know you from x-company, then they will send you emails from y-company too...

Silver certified (since 2009) and willing to do shops all around the greater Chicago, NW Indiana, and Southern Wisconsin areas (including airports!.

But wouldn't it count against them if they talked to one another? I mean, if company A said shopper1 was an amazing shopper - wouldn't that be competition for company B? Or, is it only in the negative.

"Have you ever heard of shopper6?" "oh, yeah - always flakes...."

They definitely talk and swap notes. Many ICAs indicate and warn against such.

My personal experience is; if your scheduler likes you...that's a great thing.

Schedulers definitely talk with each other.

They do say you're a pain and don't give satisfying results. They will also say you're a pain, but do the job right.

Do your work right and you'll be honky dory.

Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning; the devil shudders...And yells OH #%*+! SHE'S AWAKE!

I don't think there's any "competition" issue regarding one MSC telling another MSC that "so and so" is a good, reliable shopper. If both have shops in the same area, it increase the chance of both of them meeting their deadlines if they can get "so and so" to go to a shop for each of them in the same trip. It would lessen the need for them to pay bonuses by making it easier for shoppers to make a profitable route.

where they would need to be careful in their chatting is revealing to each other the clients each serves. But saying, "I've got a shop in Prescott that I'm having trouble filling, do you know a shopper in that area who might be able to do it for me?" is a win-win for everyone involved.

Time to build a bigger bridge.

I recently assigned to a shop by a Sassie company, that has another mystery shopping company as the Company: XXX at the top of the survey.

Does anybody know if I am shopping Company: XXX, or if the Sassie company is contracted by Company: XXX?

If anybody has the answer, please reply! It's driving me crazy wondering if I am being disloyal, or what it is...

Without knowing the company names it is tough to tell.

Sassie is a reporting platform many companies use.

Some companies have changed their names, but in different parts of the website you still see reference to the old name.

Sometimes it is a merger or buyout.

It is possible one company is a scheduling company.

Occasionally, I have seen one company subcontract with another when they can not get enough shoppers for a project.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/15/2014 02:39AM by Shelly.

Try and schedule a shop with a MSC that uses Sassie and then try to do the same shop before the time in between shops has passed and see what happens. Oh my I, am sorry you can't do that car shop because my records indicate that you shopped that dealership two weeks ago. What the heck are you talking about I just signed up with you. Well, we show that you shopped that dealer with XYZ MSC and now you want to shop it again.

Or, they say that you just had your oil changed and you need 3000 miles or 3 months at least between shops. Uh, excuse me, but I have three vehicles to change the oil in. One of them isn't driven that much, maybe 300 miles a month. One gets driven about 300 miles a week. The last one is my work car and I drive anywhere from 100 miles a day to 500 miles a day depending on where I have to go. The most that I have driven in the last couple of years was round trip from Tulsa, OK to Austin, TX and the back to Tulsa. Leave in the morning and get back the next morning.

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