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App users, fees going down?

June 11, 2016 04:47PM
I am curious if other people who use the apps for little jobs have noticed a major decrease in fees? Jobs that a few months ago I snapped up because they were very convenient to where I was working anyway, and just a few photos or questions for $7 to $9 are now running at $3. I saw a vastly under timed "small" merchandising job that I used to do every week during the summer for a merchandising company. It was a popular drink fixture you had to refill. Lots of different flavors. It paid $20 for 75 minutes. You really had to hustle to find/ bring the stock out and fill it in that time frame, plus record the outs and photograph the fixture. The exact same job, at the same stores ( large grocery chain), is now on an app for $10 and they claim it will take 20 to 30 minutes. If you really do the job correctly, it will take lots longer. The amazing thing is all the stores within 20 miles are taken! There are demo audits for 3 demonstrators with photos and questions for $3.50, a drug store photo shoot, with 44 photos for $3.75.
I may be freeing up some space on my smartphone with all the soon to be deleted apps.
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June 12, 2016 12:32AM
I am noticing this trend also. I am also noticing that the jobs are being picked up as quick as ever, so why not lower the fees? I am sitting on the sidelines until the fees rebound, if ever.
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June 13, 2016 05:12AM
@Wild Bill wrote:

I am noticing this trend also. I am also noticing that the jobs are being picked up as quick as ever, so why not lower the fees? I am sitting on the sidelines until the fees rebound, if ever.


I saw a App user fee down to $2 its charming when the email said "You run in the electronic store really quick and ask what their favorite gadget is and plug in a ten question Y/N answer. Your $3 was 50% more than the $2 rate offered here. I saw a bunch of $1 phone calls get sucked up instantly, when $1 and $2 phone shops get taken in minutes where the shopper is using a recording 1-800 number to record the call and write a report how desperate is their plight? The App shops got reduced because they figured out people are willing to do them for half the price.
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July 04, 2016 10:10PM
Yes, definitely noticed this as well as the complexity going up. 30, 40 photos and they are supposed to be "incognito". I think not. Then came the revealed audits but the gas stations would not accept the LOA on the phone and insisted on a printed copy - that is when I just quit doing their jobs (this was Easy Shift, but it kind of applies to mot of them). They also are now wanting you to sell or solicit orders from places that would NEVER order from someone walking in off the street.
That said I have been doing quite a bit of work for Survey.com and they are still paying decent rates (I even did some longer term merchandising work and it was well compensated). The company is responsive and Hans who came on the forum and answered all our questions when he found a former employee had posted about them and then never came back. He has been great to work with.
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