GFK's offer of $85-$95 for Electronic Store Audits, are they worth it?

Has anyone found the GFK Audits to be profitable? How much time did you spend on your last audit inside the store and also writing your report?

Have you ever had one of your GFK Audits thrown out by their quality control team costing you six or eight hours of time? They are sending emails out, maybe they changed the parameters of their shop to help shoppers make more money?

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Thank you, I tried to write on a past post which said "Topic is too old, please start another one".

I heard the shop took up to 10 hours from different people. That's 8.50 an hr before taxes. I would never touch this shop in a million years for under $200.

@.Andy2 wrote:

I heard the shop took up to 10 hours from different people. That's 8.50 an hr before taxes. I would never touch this shop in a million years for under $200.

I heard they were outrageously low with shoppers feeling like they got screwed over. Is it any wonder all their shops sit and their schedulers are constantly sending out emails fishing for Barnum's Sucker! If they failed and lost all their previous clients because experienced shoppers know their worth, how will they stay in the mystery shopping game?

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/07/2016 03:53AM by GuyFawkes.

I have done 2 of these and would not do them again. I lose a whole day of shopping to complete these audits and they are very tedious and time consuming. To your question, do the math .

jamieg, did you make at least $10-$15 per hour or the rate this store pays their skilled inventory clerks? Do not believe stories about "Our last auditor did the job in 4 or 5 hours" because those auditors do not exist. I met someone who worked on one of their very large stores and got furious after remaining ten hours. They felt ashamed but not slow because this person was fast but felt they were deceived by how much work they were told to expect.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/11/2016 09:25PM by GuyFawkes.

I have witnessed two of these audits being completed in 5 hours. They most definitely can be done by a sharp, skilled auditor. I was disappointed to find that I could not do it myself. GFK bent over backwards to help me be successful at this. I have nothing but good things to say about this MSC. People that say this audit cannot be done in the time allotted are partially correct. They can't be done by the average shopper. If you are a sharp individual, these audits may be for you. Otherwise, look for easier assignments.

@sdbens2 wrote:

I have witnessed two of these audits being completed in 5 hours. They most definitely can be done by a sharp, skilled auditor. I was disappointed to find that I could not do it myself. GFK bent over backwards to help me be successful at this. I have nothing but good things to say about this MSC. People that say this audit cannot be done in the time allotted are partially correct. They can't be done by the average shopper. If you are a sharp individual, these audits may be for you. Otherwise, look for easier assignments.

Here's the problem "sharp and skilled shoppers" are going after higher paying jobs and leaving lower skilled workers for these jobs. If a former skilled auditor has learned to make the same amount performing other shops in two hours that leaves the company with a limited labor pool(Shopper I refer to was making $300 five hours, they decided the audit gigs did not add up). If their going to attract the best they need to raise their rates higher or get use to people who don't care about quality. Have you noticed the skilled shoppers tend to dump all the low paying MSCs seeking the higher paying ones? One of the cool Schedulers gave me four phone shops at $25 per shop to see how I would do. I knocked each shop out in thirty minutes, four shops making $100 for a little over two hours. There are a lot of shoppers, after visiting one of the MSC gatherings I learned the Schedulers, Editors are pulling their hair out trying to find competent people. If you don't pay enough to retain competent shoppers, its their fault don't you think?

Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/25/2016 06:49AM by GuyFawkes.

It is partly the cheap MS companies fault, but, I have to lay some blame at the stores door too.
If you mix a sharp auditor with a store that has inexperienced / uncaring staff that has not done their jobs correctly, you can have a 10 to 12 hour day. It isn't always the auditors fault. The store can make or break any outside vendors job. I do merchandising audits every week, and, every week what should be a 10-15 minute job becomes an hour tracking down signs, product, shippers that have not been put up. Electronic devices that don't work. No one noticed that this item wasn't working and replace it with one that works? They have to turn them on every morning to check that the entire display is up and running. They didn't do their job, so mine takes 3 to 4 times longer. But, I get paid by the hour. If I didn't, I wouldn't touch many stores I now to do audits in.

I have been doing these audits for years, and personally I really like them. I used to do them for the other mystery shopping company that had them before GFK, so I do have a good amount of experience, but I get these done in 5 hours usually, 6 hours max in a really big store. I really like the people who run this program at GFK and I really wish I could get more in a month. I usually can only get 2-3 that are within an hour of my house. Even though I am really excited because I just got 8 for the month of Nov. Perfect for X-Mas money!

My first one was a hot mess, but after I got a few under my belt, I can knock them out in the minimum time. I usually can wrangle a bonus for one each month, so I take 2-3 every month.

GFK audits are STINKEROO. They GROSSLY underestimate how long the audit will take in order to rope you in. I did ONE and NEVER again. (The grocery store audits that is................don't know about the electronic store ones.)

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/10/2016 07:19AM by catlassy.

I wouldn't touch that grocery store audit with a 10 foot pole. And the electronics price audits - I did ONE and never ever again!

@sdbens2 wrote:

I have witnessed two of these audits being completed in 5 hours. They most definitely can be done by a sharp, skilled auditor. I was disappointed to find that I could not do it myself.

You spent 5 hours watching someone else do this?

Several "sharp, skilled auditors" have not been able to complete these in five hours. To suggest that those who cannot are less skilled than the few who claim to have done so is condescending -- particularly from someone who has completed a whopping 75 shops.

Now scheduling travel shops for the day after Christmas through mid-January.

@PasswordNotFound wrote:

To suggest that those who cannot are less skilled than the few who claim to have done so is condescending -- particularly from someone who has completed a whopping 75 shops.

Nice positive contribution to the forum, NOT!

Are you stalking me again? I'm flattered.

Now scheduling travel shops for the day after Christmas through mid-January.

My husband was going to take the electronics shop; however, he decided not to. I am familiar with people who have worked at the electronics company for another company and made $17 per hr. So, you do the math of how long the shop is projected to take and perhaps add another 3 hours. Then, you look at the survey and figure how long that will take. Wala!! You now can compute what you want to offer the MSC to do the shop.

Good grief!

You do the reporting on an app right there in the store as you perform the audit. So you submit it as you leave the store. I spend on average 6 hours performing the audit and when I walk out I'm done. Best part is the speedy payments. I will say that it took a good 4-5 of them before I could be fluent enough to get them done in 6 hours but now I can do one to two a week and get regular payments. I love them.

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