I made $65 for a shop at a college; it took an hour and fifteen minutes to do the shop and the phone call, plus another hour to write up. Not bad pay.
Fine dining - I have gotten as much as $50 (fee plus bonus) when the MSC really needed someplace shopped. On top of that was the valet fees, drinks at the bar, pricey dinner, and coffee drinks in the coffee bar (these were at a hotel.) $157 in reimbursements on those.
For one grocery store, I get $20 fee and $10 reimbursement. On that, I have to do a return the next day, but the returned goods are not discounted from the reimbursement, and the store is located a block from my house. For another, I get $20 plus $5 reimbursement. The third I get $18 and $8 reimbursement.
For short notice bank teller, I have gotten $27 several times. I LOVE those.
For high end fine dining, I will go 16 miles round trip; for a good bonus I will shop 5 miles from home; for the rest, its within 2 miles, or somewhere I needed to buy something at anyway, or its on my daily route of where I go (never more than 3 miles from home *and* directly on the way to get me to work or my kid to camp or school.)
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/06/2008 11:00AM by dee shops.