Has anyone worked for this company yet? or have any opinions? Their website seems impressive.

It appears this is a Demo shop. I read all the literature the site had to offer. When I was finished it sounded lite a minumuum wage Laborer job.

You would be sent to different stores and do Demos. They seems to work a lot with Walmart's.

Instead of Walmart hiring you to do slave labor, this Marketing firm contracts with you for pennies on the dollar.

This would be good for that Postor whom was looking for Demo work.

Just passing the info on.

You do not want to work with these people. They are nasty when it comes to firing you. They promised a set number of hours and you are lucky if you get half. They turn nasty things in on you to the employment office. If you are not the flavor of the week with the lead you are given bad referrals. This company is owned by the one it does the most work for.

This company has several divisions. Some teams do straight marketing. Others do demos. The demos pay about the same as other demo companies, which is definitely not minimum wage. They work out of Walmarts and Sam's Clubs. It is very similar to the demos that Crossmark does (same cart, uniform and assignments) but apparently are in different parts of the country. Pay for the demos is every two weeks. I don't know about the other divisions' pay. These demo companies ask you to be available five days a week (Thursday through Monday, usually). Then their sales people try to get enough client assignments. Not all of the stores get all days. Demo days usually increase during holidays. The wise person would have more than one job if looking for extra hours. Almost every company says what they hope to give you. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. A merchandising company I work for says to be available 25 hours per week. Most of the time, I get half that from them. Sometimes I get resets and am scrambling to do the rest of the work by the deadline. It's just the way it happens in merchandising and demos.

I just started working for Advantage will finish up my first jobs this week and let yall know how it goes.

I worked for Advantage for several months. It was a lousy experience. The managers at Walmart are ridiculous and always side with customers, no matter what. If you are doing a greeat job for six hours and just one person tells a manager you did him wrong - they walk you to the door. Very bad business. And Walmart shoppers are the worst in Boynton Beach FL!

Since the name of Walmart has come up a number of times in this thread, let me tell you about two experiences I had.

The first was to do merchandising every two weeks for a particular company's summer cosmetics and sun-screen products. I was to go to the back room, get the big boxes that had come from Company X and that contained what I was to put on the shelf, and put the contents on the shelf. About 2/3 of the visits I went to the back and found literally a mountain 12 feet high of cartons from various companies that blocked access to where my box or boxes were supposed to be, so I could not get them. On half of the few occasions when I could get to the rack or location where the boxes were supposed to be, they were not there. I was given so little time for this work, anyway, that I often spent my allotted hours simply straightening the merchandise on the shelves and making the department look presentable again.

The second Walmart experience I had involved a mystery shopping company with a name I have repressed, and happened several years ago. The assignment was to go to the CD Department of Walmart, find 50 different CDs, and put them in the order on the racks where they should have been. I am sure I was assigned this because Walmart already knew the place was a total mess. In other words, go through the CDs and when you saw one that was on their list, make certain it was where it was supposed to be -- in the correct subsection of the CD racks.

I was given 1 hour to do this for all 50 titles. After two hours, I had only been able to find about 18 of the CDs. The CD department was in such an unorganized mess, various genres of music were scattered all over the place in locations they were not supposed to be in.

At that point I decided that since they were only going to pay me below minimum wage for the work I was doing, I had had enough.

In my report I stated that I had spent twice the allotted time and had only been able to find 18 of the titles. I also stated that the CD department was in such a bad mess that once could not do the job in a number of hours, and certainly not in one.

Walmart rejected my report and would not pay me. At that point I had done several hundred mystery shops, and this was the only one a mystery shop company's clients refused to pay for. It has never happened again, either. After that, I have refused to do any work at any Walmart.

Good for you. The work sounds easy, but when you are dealing with a humongous company like Walmart, you are just another body to be used up and replaced by someone else. No one cares if the work gets done. No one checks the work or even tries to make things happen. There is no hustle. It is a serious problem that involves how workers "get by" and how even shoppers themselves trash the location. These locations are pitifal examples of our workforce. I also had that back end experience where huge pallets were in front of where you need to work and no one cared to help me.

I can only applaud the majority of people who do what we do. We have to be intelligent, self-taught, and focused to find jobs. We perform well on-site, work ourselves into new environments, deal well with the public, and then write good reports for unknown internet companies. Bravo. I am proud to be a Mystery Shopper.

Now if only I could earn a bit more money . . .Ha!

I know this is an old thread, but has anyone else had experience with this company? They just offered me a gig October-December on weekends doing Demo's a BBB.

I have heard nothing but horrible things about this company. I would not touch them with a 10 foot pole

I work for some great demo companies but "this" one ain't one of them.

Note: There is a merch/demo forum here ...

I worked for Advantage for three years until recently when I had enough. I did merchandising for them in Wal-Mart and I am much happier now that I left them. No raises, they treat you like it is the only thing to do in your life and you get berated with emails concerning what you did not get done.