I am not going to name the company (odds are more than one does this), but I want to get it off my chest in a sense.

Now they have client A, project A, great. They then send out 3-5 e-mails about it with various locations instead of one e-mail with all the locations for client A project A.

Am I the only one who finds this annoying?

No you are not.

Reply to each email with "no". See how they like it.

I don't get pissed off, but I do get annoyed, and it is usually new schedulers who do this. I have emailed them and explained how some of us shoppers already get 100s of emails per day and find this irritating. It usually stops within a few days after that, but if you don't tell them they don't know. There have been times where I got over 10 emails in one day about the same shop in different cities from a new scheduler. Ugh.

It bugs me to no end.....I am fast approaching using the sam practivce I use on juk mail in my mailbox...toss before looking...and that probably isn't a good thing!

That bothers me as well, but not nearly s much as getting 3 - 5 emails a day from different schedulers for the same job that they can't get anyone to shop. They should probably figure out that there is a reason nobody is signing up for that shop, and maybe try to fix whatever makes it undesirable. The two most common reasons people I know wont take a job are low pay and way to much work, with both problems often together in the same job.

I suppose congratulations are in order for low bidding to get the client, but the MSC that thinks I will put in hours of exacting and sometimes tedious work meeting more and more audit requirements each month for less money than if I had taken a part time job for minimum wage, when both time spent in store and time spent at home finishing my input are combined, this MSC is only setting themselves up to disappoint that client in the end.

Yeah, I am looking at you GfK, but they aren't the only one because Ath Power is actually worse. I cannot believe they still bother to ask people to audit gas stations for 7 dollars and no reimbursement when the very same audits used to pay 12 and give a reimbursement for both a small gas purchase and the item bought inside the store. Have fun with the jobs sitting on your board until some "PLENTY" takes them and then you get what you pay for in the form of poor work.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/30/2016 12:22AM by JerryBrian.

Jerry,
Kerns was far worse with gas stations in my area.

We were paid, $2, and were told to spend $10 on gas. Who seriously spend $10 on gas unless the station has a super high price, and given the work involved $2 is an insult. They got so bad e-mailing me, I told the scheduler to delete my profile so even god himself couldn't resurrect it, being the idiot he was he couldn't get those instructions right.

I understand MSC have to bid low to get contracts, but as I warned a client who was calling me every day asking for my help. You get what you paid for, and while I am willing to bite the finical bullet once in a while to help a client out, when you come to me all the time asking for help, well I won't work for you, period.

@JerryBrian wrote:

Yeah, I am looking at you GfK, but they aren't the only one because Ath Power is actually worse. I cannot believe they still bother to ask people to audit gas stations for 7 dollars and no reimbursement when the very same audits used to pay 12 and give a reimbursement for both a small gas purchase and the item bought inside the store. Have fun with the jobs sitting on your board until some "PLENTY" takes them and then you get what you pay for in the form of poor work.

@JerryBrian wrote:

Yeah, I am looking at you GfK, but they aren't the only one because Ath Power is actually worse. I cannot believe they still bother to ask people to audit gas stations for 7 dollars and no reimbursement when the very same audits used to pay 12 and give a reimbursement for both a small gas purchase and the item bought inside the store. Have fun with the jobs sitting on your board until some "PLENTY" takes them and then you get what you pay for in the form of poor work.

I just looked at this today (the $7 gas station audit). Granted, the required pictures are few, so if there are no problems, you might be in and out. But, if there are problems, you could be there a while taking pictures. My personal feeling is, for that low of a fee, it should either be an audit -- quick in and out, or a mystery shop, not both.

It's gotten so bad from this unnamed company that Gmail Is automatically marking it as spam.

@christinereed wrote:

I just looked at this today (the $7 gas station audit). Granted, the required pictures are few, so if there are no problems, you might be in and out. But, if there are problems, you could be there a while taking pictures. My personal feeling is, for that low of a fee, it should either be an audit -- quick in and out, or a mystery shop, not both.

The MSC is encouraging shoppers to "not find" problems by this method of making extra work when reporting negative observations. Shoot, I could mark the survey all thumbs up and geoverify from the location for 7 bucks, but that's not mystery shopping in my opinion. That is almost certainly what they get in the way of many completed shops though, because who is going to do double or more the work in order to give an accurate evaluation when the pay is the same? Somebody who values their work at higher than seven dollars, that is who! You get what you pay for...