Has anyone else tried JobSlinger Plus? I am using the free month to see how it works out.

My reaction is "another pay-to-shop" so I have not even considered accepting the free month. You want my money rather than paying me, you will see my back as I depart. It is up to the schedulers and companies to bear the expense of advertising their jobs and training shoppers for their work, not up to the shoppers to pay the tab off of minimum wage and lower work. Personal opinion.

I agree, I just accepted the free month to check it out. I do not plan on continuing after free month. Maybe they will get the idea and continue service for free. I think most will abandon after 1st month.

*"It is up to the schedulers and companies to bear the expense of advertising their jobs and training shoppers for their work, not up to the shoppers to pay the tab off of minimum wage and lower work. Personal opinion."*

Agreed!

Ironic!! Dynamic presentation Jobslinger presented at July '09 Pittsburgh MSPA Shopper's conference NEVER mentioned a word about a fee being involved!

With regular Jobslinger.com there is no fee.

I use Jobslinger.com as well as volition.com and of course this board.

Of note, you cannot use your email from the free Jobslinger.com as your email for the Jobslinger.com Plus. I did not like this due to my email tied to PayPal for most of the companies I work for. had to use secondary email, and could not try out some of the features.

I am testing the 2 month free trial as of this am. Unless it is the best thing since chocolate was invented, I doubt I will continue after that. The nice thing is that you don't need to use a cc to try it out, so there is no chance of it continuing without your consent. :-)

dee shops Wrote:
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> I am testing the 2 month free trial as of this am.
> Unless it is the best thing since chocolate was
> invented, I doubt I will continue after that. The
> nice thing is that you don't need to use a cc to
> try it out, so there is no chance of it continuing
> without your consent. :-)


That is why I signed up. If they had required my CC or Bank info I would have passed.

I'm trying it out too, but I was able to use the same emailaddress I used on Jobslinger.com. I haven't made a decision if it's worth anything yet. It took me three night to "connect" all my sassie sites, and I don't do too much with any sassie companies.

do not pay for this! there is a free list of every company that does business in the industry. Just Google mystery shopping companies and take your pick. Also Volition has an updated list of "fee free companies" Spend a few hours and apply to any and all. Over 200, all with no fee. I will only charge you a small fee for this advice. lol

It is not about paying for free lists of companies........it does offer convenience of linking all your Sassie companies job boards so you don't have to go to each one and check.......check out the other thread on this subject.

[www.mysteryshopforum.com]

I have always been an advocate of DON"T PAY TO SHOP.....or GET INFO but this actually seems to offer some very effective tools........I will see after the free trial whether it really pays for itself. But so far, most shoppers seem pleased with it. It is $4 a month but if it saves you many hours of searching for jobs AND if it provides you with jobs you normally would not have found,,,,then perhaps it is worth $48 a year........

I noted some of you said 2 month free trial. Is that a typo??? because the understanding I have is that is 1 month. I signed up, but so far I realize most of my shops are not with sassie either. They apparently have not had a lot in my area. So that is something to consider too. I will see how the free trial goes. Does anyone know, that at the end of the free trial, do we need to send them something in writing, or will they just disconnect from their end??? Curious if there is any repercussions for not joining, since their software ws downloaded to the computer.

My trial is for a month. My understanding is that at that point unless I agree to pay, my trial will just end, which having used for just over a week, I will not pay for. I am not that impressed. I will just go back to the emails from the individual sites, and my contact with schedulers.

Also, I did not download the software, I went with just the email notifications.

Yes I am using the 1 month free trial. I do not see that it is all that. Sometimes I am not even able to log in JobDinger. I have found very few jobs from there, possibly my location. I suspect this is another money maker for them, but does not seem to benefit me. Also, I agree with bugspost, why pay to shop. This is a business, I want to get paid.

My free trial is up. I will not be paying for the Plus subscription.

I generally received emails about jobs at least 3 or 4 days prior from schedulers than from JobSlinger Plus.

Oh well, it was free.

While looking for a different nugget of information the other day I stumbled onto the FTC website where I found them addressing mystery shopping. The FTC says consumers should be skeptical of mystery shopping promoters who:

“* Advertise for mystery shoppers in a newspaper’s ‘help wanted’ section or by email. While it may appear as if these companies are hiring mystery shoppers, it’s much more likely that they’re pitching unnecessary — and possibly bogus — mystery shopping “services.”
* Sell “certification.” Companies that use mystery shoppers generally do not require certification.
* Guarantee a job as a mystery shopper.
* Charge a fee for access to mystery shopping opportunities.
* Sell directories of companies that provide mystery shoppers."

Federal Trade Commission at [www.ftc.gov]

Not sure if it applies Flash, these emails are from schedulers I work with on a regular basis. They send me an email when they have something in my area. Since I am in a rural area, they do not have many shoppers in area.

If you were referring to emails in general, then I probably would agree. Most of the emails' from unknown people is "pay me for my list of companies" that someone could get for free by going to the correct places. Too many people find out the hard way.

The FTC is referring to those emails received primarily by the non-shopping public telling them how they can make so much money mystery shopping. I have a hotmail account that is what I use to sign up for various 'deals' on the internet and it is junk mail central, receiving as many as 100-125 spams per day. That account receives lots of 'offers' like getting a free laptop to test, getting $500 gift cards to shop my local mall and all of those 'too good to be true' type things. FTC is not at all referring to emails from schedulers at companies with whom you have signed up.

Obviously there are a lot of folks out there trying to make a fast buck selling lists and a lot of folks just out to scam one way or another.

Nor is it referring to Jobslinger....but rather those people trying to make more $ selling you lists like you can get here...for free. I do not believe it refers to MSPA certification, either (and even though I am silver certified, I think it was beyond easy to pass and means little...but it opened enough doors to get me a couple of restaurants I could not have gotten without it....so...it paid for itself, anyway...)

:-)

Flash Wrote:
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> The FTC is referring to those emails received
> primarily by the non-shopping public telling them
> how they can make so much money mystery shopping.
> I have a hotmail account that is what I use to
> sign up for various 'deals' on the internet and it
> is junk mail central, receiving as many as 100-125
> spams per day. That account receives lots of
> 'offers' like getting a free laptop to test,
> getting $500 gift cards to shop my local mall...
...


I know, if I get one more "free laptop" or "free gift card' to shop any store. Just complete all of these offers. ugh..

I did the same when I first started shopping, I signed for a couple of the emails I received and now, my Spam runneth over.

Luckily I never suckered for those. But I just keep that old Hotmail account open to sign up for contests and all the rest of that stuff that inevitably ends up in lists and information being sold and the spam spigot turned on. I also use it when I need to come up with an email address to give to a client when doing a shop. I just don't want all that junk showing up in my business email.

I guess I'm the odd ball out. To me it sounds like a good idea. I don't have that many Sassie accounts yet (how many are there?) and I won't be doing much MSing over the summer, but I thought I would try out the Jobslinger Plus in the fall. I already spend too much time going from site to sight (wondering which prime jobs I'm missing out on because I've spent too much time looking over specifics of jobs I end up not qualifying for on another site). Paying $1 a week to have a software do a bulk of that work for me sounds like a good time saver and worthwhile.

Am I missing something here?

That being said.. I've heard enough bad about ShadowShopper to stay far away from them.

Just did a quick count of Sassie companies listed on this forum's list and it was 40+, but dated 2006. Is Jobslinger Plus $1 a week? That's a lot of money to recoup. I guess it would depend on if the bulk of your shops are Sassie. A good number of mine are Sassie, but not enough to justify spending $52/year. A trial period may be enlightening.

I have 58 MSC's that use sassie.

I am soooo glad I searched this topic cuz I just finished my free trial and was wondering if I should renew. I got some jive email saying that if I complete the survey I would receive an additional month. Well I completed the survey and I have not seen my free month yet. That was over a week ago.

Thanks EVERYONE for you input

I got my free month!!!! Yay!!! Once your first free month is up if they send you a survey and offer a free month, they do give it to you..... So take advantage...

As everybody finishes their free month, how is this working for you? I started a little later than everyone else and am still in my free trial, but I have not seen any more jobs than I ever did. Usually I get an e-mail notification from the MSP immediately before getting it from SlingMe. It is nice to be able to check the Sassie boards from one place, but some of them have so few jobs in my area I don't check regularly anyway. I won't continue when my month runs out.

I knew this thread was out there somewhere... I knew I had seen it before... haha. I searched these key words and didn't find it at first so I started another thread. Oops! Shame on me. So, any updates?

I finished my free month and did not receive a survey. I felt that it was worthwhile to sign up for that first month. My SassWatch pointed me towards some companies I had not signed up with yet.

However, I don't think they live up to the expectation. I was wanting it to send me a notification every time a new shop showed up on the board. However, the way it is set up is that you can get notifications every hour, four hours, or daily (I think those are the choices). Getting the hourly notifications meant I kept getting notified of the same crap that was already listed and that I had already been told about every hour for the past two days. Getting a four-hour notification meant that I sometimes missed out on opportunities because they had been taken three hours ago when they were first posted.

If the system actually worked to notify me of new postings just as soon as they were posted.. and to only notify me of them ONCE.. then I would pay for the service, as it would save me time.

I used it for the 60-day free trial, and was very happy with it, overall. For free. I got several jobs directly due to how promptly I was notified (before the MSC did) and I also found opportunities I did not know about. It was free, and I would say I made about $300 in 6 weeks that I could directly attribute to Jobslinger Plus. This was due to a combination of finding new Sassie companies and getting notification of the jobs very quickly through the "dinger" SW. For me, the dinger was the big plus, since between doing this for work and teaching for work I spend a lot of time at a computer.

It had some bugs in the SW that caused the updates to my Sassie companies to have an error in one section; this was a glitch they knew about. It got fixed, but it was the last day of my trial, so...it did not get fixed in time for me.

Then later, they gave people the opportunity to do another month if the person answered a brief survey. I did that. This time, I used it to immediately synch all the Sassie information, update accounts, and to sign up for 15 companies I had not know of previously. This time, though, I got no jobs from it that I can attribute to it alone. The new companies I signed up with have no work here; the dinger seemed to ring after I (and everyone else) had already gotten them email sent directly from the MSC, so no work from that. Huge bummer!

Would I pay for it? I'm not sure. The ability to update all Sassies with one click is very appealing, easy and a huge time-saver, as is the ability to sign up with new Sassies with the same one-click process. However, I don't make changes frequently enough to make a one year membership make sense for me financially. If I could continue the with the trial for 6 months, in order to get enough of a track record to see the longer term effects, I might. Since I can't do that...well, I just let it go by the wayside. However, were I moving or something like that, I would probably sign up for the shortest time period possible just to update all my accounts so swiftly.