HaveARayDay Wrote:
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> Tactrueblue Wrote:
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> > I think I'm done with the auto dealership shops.
>
> > They are way too time consuming. Not even just
> > the visit itself but then the reports are just
> too
> > time consuming. I completed a auto shop today
> and
> > the only reason I did it was because it was a
> > bonus shop and I hadn't completed one in a long
> > time. I remember now why I hadn't. They just
> > take way too much time. I was in the
> dealership
> > for over an hour and a half talking about a car
> > that I don't want and now I'm writing this
> stupid
> > report. To recall everything that was said in
> an
> > hour and half presentation from a car salesman
> is
> > similar to getting a root canal. This is the
> last
> > one I'm doing for sure. Thank goodness the guy
> > did a good job. Does anyone else hate
> dealership
> > shops? $25 for an hour and a half of my life
> that
> > I'll never see again? And now another 30
> minutes
> > completing this report? Yeah this is why I
> > stopped doing them in 2008! Okay I'm done
> venting
> >
>
>
> I stopped doing auto dealerships after the 3rd
> shop. I did a post last week asking if I was the
> only one who felt guilty doing them. I feel like
> I'm wasting the salesperson's time. But, a few
> experienced shoppers shared their perspective as
> to why they don't feel guilty and how shopping
> dealerships can be useful feedback for the
> salesperson. Nevertheless, $25 didn't seem worth
> the discomfort.
>
> However, for $75 I'd learn to live with it!
> Please let me find a dealership shop for $75.
> Guilt would go straight out the window!
HaveARayDay, just remember that "some of us members" find that this is a very long and hard shop to do. The time that you have to invest at the dealership (since this shop requires 2 visits), and the long and detailed narrative required to complete the shop. So this shop is by no means equal to the $18 to $25 shops. So I would say unless you know some shortcuts to get this shop done without investing the time to do one, I think you are going to have to earn "every penny" of that $75. Yet I know that for other forums, some members find this shop as easy as falling off of a log. Yet when I applied for the shop and got accepted, it was then when I saw the long and extensive guidelines for this shop. "For me", had I seen all of the guidelines before applying for the shop, I would not have applied for it. Yet since I applied for it and felt I could do it (as long as the car was on the lot), I tried to do the shop. Yet I really felt like returning the shop when I saw all of the guidelines, however I have never returned a shop before in my history of being a mystery shopper and I decided that it would be a good learning experience to learn how to do a high-end car shop and to see if I should further apply for these types of shops or to never do another one again. On a side note, when I first got into mystery shopping, I sure was tempted by the high pay of an Ikea shop ($70 at the time), yet when I read the horror stories (posted by members on another online forum) of the purchase and return part and the long and extensive detailed narratives required for the report, I knew that I would never want to do an Ikea shop. Thus far for now, I think (just for myself) I'm going to put this $75 auto dealership shop in the category of "Don't touch this shop with a ten foot pole". LOL!!!
Wilson
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/09/2012 05:37PM by WestCoastWilson.