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Is this mini shop from hell?

September 11, 2011 03:16AM
Gfk sent this e-mail

These are some really cool shops. You will visit nutritional club distributors, get a sample of a specific nutritional drink (you don’t have to drink it!), and assess whether the distributor is in compliance with company standards through taking a few covert photos. ****This is really one of those great and easy 007 types of shops.*****

These locations pay $10 and reimburse up to $10!

This report is easy mostly yes/no, multiple choice questions (***about 50 questions****), and uploading a few photos (****about 8 photos. They have to meet their criterion or YOU WILL NOT BE PAID****.

The guidelines are 18 pages long and I think you have to take the test as well.
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September 11, 2011 04:21AM
When a msc describes an assignment as "cool, great and easy," 99.9% of the time they are anything but!

I'm wondering how one can take covert photos in a place like this.
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September 11, 2011 12:08PM
All for a whole ten dollars! I think NOT Gfk.
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September 11, 2011 03:16PM
Many companies like Gfk are looking for $2-$3/hr work force.
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September 11, 2011 03:30PM
Now I know why I stopped working for them, outragious!

Live consciously....
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September 11, 2011 04:16PM
The weirdest thing about Gfk is they don't post address of the shop on the main page (like most Sassie postings). They send dozens of e-mail about the same job (which goes in my spam), they ask you to download obsolete versions of browsers so that you have the privilege of submitting your reports, in the instructions there are at least three dozen places that tell you ".....You will not be paid".

I wonder how that company stays in business.
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September 11, 2011 04:33PM
It was that limitation of browsers that work with their system that put them on my do not work for list. A company that does not keep their system current can't possibly be current or thoughtful in other areas.
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September 11, 2011 11:29PM
I keep getting emails from GFK. However, I am glad I never accepted any shops. I have read that most of the shops are quite complicated for the low pay. Always beware of Fun and Easy shops, which are neither fun or easy.
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September 12, 2011 12:40AM
I got another 2 e-mails for those fun shops.
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September 12, 2011 02:32AM
Avoid those "super easy" cell phone shops, too. There is nothing super-easy about them! Oh, and the mail order shops they have started recently. I've learned my lesson the hard way with them.
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September 12, 2011 11:56AM
On a different note I see the Boy Scouts Store is shopped. Kind of neat to see a different one pop up.
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