@Squaggy11 wrote:
Please stand behind me in this matter, Measure Consumer Perspectives pays $12 for[client name deleted] with photos, Best Mark pays $14, no photos. I have called MCP on this gouging and have received no reply. If you see such non-competitive practices, I hope you will call the company on it. Have no fear. Don't be abused.
@roflwofl wrote:
squaggy, you sound like a new mystery shopper with no experience. I urge you to spend some time reading here on the forum so you can learn what mystery shopping is and how it works. I think you are way off base with your post and with "calling the company on gouging." I'd be surprised if you receive a reply. And I'd be surprised if you aren't deactivated by the company.
@SteveSoCal wrote:
@roflwofl wrote:
squaggy, you sound like a new mystery shopper with no experience. I urge you to spend some time reading here on the forum so you can learn what mystery shopping is and how it works. I think you are way off base with your post and with "calling the company on gouging." I'd be surprised if you receive a reply. And I'd be surprised if you aren't deactivated by the company.
roflwofl, as someone who was so recently offended by me telling another new poster that speaking harshly about a MSC for their clearly posted requirements was out of line, this response seems somewhat hypocritical. If anyone bothered to look at the previous posts by squaggy, they include a polite introduction that does speak to squaggy's MSing experience.
No matter what the syntax used was, the point that squaggy made was indeed helpful for anyone that may be a MCP shopper and not actively checking for assignments with Bestmark. squaggy, please be careful about posting the client and MSC name in the same thread in the future, but do stick around continue to point out issues like this when you see them. I offer my support in the same manner as saacman5033...
@roflwofl wrote:
If you truly want to help others on the forum, stick to the type of shopping you do, the companies you work with, and what you have first hand knowledge of.
@walesmaven wrote:
Mary,
Just for the record, it is not just shoppers who don't want company owners or schedulers to post here who have had serious objections to Sentry and to its owners' posts. Some of the most serious negatives have been posted by posters who welcome other MSC owners and schedulers since many of the owners and schedulers are making very positive contributions. I am sure that you would not want readers to think that you are equating differences with Sentry/Dave with a general hostility towards owners and/or schedulers.
@LisaSTL wrote:
I would like to make one thing perfectly clear. There is a difference between an owner/scheduler/editor or any other employee of a MSC either defending their company or making a contribution to this forum. It is an entirely different matter when an owner makes every effort to identify an anonymous member and/or does anything else here which smacks of censorship, such as suggesting a thread might be deleted. This is not Volition. Every effort is made to be sure more than one side of a story is told. Unfounded rants are given about as much consideration as they deserve, virtually none. Other companies are lambasted, other companies are defended. No one company should be given any consideration over another.
Let's also look at the bottom line here. The forum is for contractors to discuss MSCs. The only influence we may or may not have is whether someone decides to sign on as a shopper. We are not influencing potential clients. Unless Sentry can prove they have a dearth of shoppers which is impacting their ability to do business and can prove it is a direct result of this forum, why is such a big, stinking deal made of every perceived slight?
@SteveSoCal wrote:
I think that we are also getting away from the point that the negative attitude toward Dave's particular MSCs has been supported with more than one proven fabrication, and that those fabricated details have been vehemently defended with little or no concern for the truth being told.
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@LisaSTL wrote:
A quick look at the fifteen most discussed companies on this forum will show anyone that Sentry ranks at the bottom of the list. Anyone who spends any time here has to admit many of those ranking higher have much more negative feedback and much less vehement defenders. When was the last time you saw anyone, let alone two anyones, rabidly defending Intellishop or EPMS or Gapbuster or Market Force? And how about GFK? Lately they have the ignominy of dozens of threads complaining about damn near everything they do. I think we can get off the Sentry pity party now.
@bestofbothworlds wrote:
Dave, I know you feel under attack, but your defensive stance is quite off-putting.