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$3 for an onsite visit???

April 24, 2009 04:14PM
I just got an email for some new shops. Go to a place and look for exterior and if a particular sign is there with a price (that you note), you are done. If it isn't there, you go inside to look for it. If you still don't find it you check the service area. And golly, you can take up to 10 of them per day. How far out of your way would YOU drive for a $3 shop? (Plus phooey on 10 per day--there are 2 near me on opposite ends of town.)
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April 24, 2009 04:42PM
I got the same email...No thanks!LOL

Joan
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April 24, 2009 05:01PM
On a certain level it brings the theory and practice of mystery shopping into perspective.

If I needed to go to the location anyway for the products/services they offer, then a $3 subsidy would not be bad. But the companies aren't looking to hire routine consumers but rather folks who would conceivably do 10 per day of these. And the probability of a routine consumer having an appointment to visit the site in the next couple of days and also be a mystery shopper to their expectations is slim, so it has to be a specific trip.

Jobs such as this just seem to me to be preying on the desperate and that in and of itself is ugly.
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April 25, 2009 07:52PM
I got the same offer. I was curious and wanted to check out the details, but guess what.......three of them in my area were already scoffed up. The locations were not by each other. If I was passing, maybe I would take it. Otherwise, I could not justify the gas and time involved for the whopping $3.
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May 03, 2009 07:25PM
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these are strictly fill in shops and the company, I am guessing CRI knows this very well... use them and abuse them as needed, do not base your operation around them
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May 03, 2009 09:29PM
These weren't even CRI but rather another chronically underpaying company.
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May 09, 2009 01:03PM
Might as well do it for free. This is ridiculous. But someone out there will probably take it.
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May 11, 2009 03:50PM
You crazy? Forget it.

**** Action Stations, Launch All Vipers *******
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