Jackson Hewitt/H&R Block Photo Audit
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I have performed both in the past, both easy. I think the pay was higher in the past, however. I have 1 HR scheduled now, I have yet to look at the paperwork.
It used to be a $30 fee with the same MSC two years ago.
They're not difficult, but I used to do them for a lot higher. I wouldn't do it for $10.
I still see them for $10.00
I'll wait until they offer a bit more money. I find them very easy to do. Most of them here are located inside Walmart. When I'm taking the required pictures, I must make sure no minors are in those pictures. It's illegal. That's the only hard part I can think of.
I'll wait until they offer a bit more money. I find them very easy to do. Most of them here are located inside Walmart. When I'm taking the required pictures, I must make sure no minors are in those pictures. It's illegal. That's the only hard part I can think of.
I believe they were $20+ a pop when I was doing them last year and they were actually quite easy to do. Oh well, I guess I am not missing anything now that I am out of grad school, have to get a real world job again, and left that MSC.
The last one I did was in March. Easy, nearby and paid $20.
I think they went for as high as $50 last year, if I remember correctly.
Not sure if we are all looking at the same ones. 5 pictures and up to 45 minutes in the description of the ones that I saw.
I remember having take a picture of the sign out front, the signs in the window, the table outside, etc.
Thank you everyone for the very helpful feedback. I am going to possibly try performing one when the fee goes up slightly.
My shop says 11 pictures. This is for the smaller tax client.
I did several of these, and I found them very easy. I guess they could take up to 45 minutes, but each of them only took me 20 minutes on site, and then the time to do the report. These are some of the easy shops I have done. For the ones located inside of a W-mart, the hardest part was getting a manager to the customer service desk to sign-off.
They are super quick and easy. I prefer to make more, but didn't mind $10 for these once I found out how simple they are. There must be different types of audits, because the ones I've done last month for H&RB and JH only needed 2-3 pics. Super easy, they practically rolled the red carpet out for me!
I have all the luck. I did a JH and the place was hidden in the back of an office center. Then I find out it's the corporate office and call center that supports all the retail stores in the area. They had a good laugh and let me take photo's and circle "no" on almost every question while the office manager called someone at headquarters and laughed on the phone with them about my visit. He let me walk around and take all the pictures I wanted. There was not a single tax preparer on site. They were talking about having that location removed from the website as its not open to the public.
I should have known something was wrong when the hours were listed as 11:00-11:15 AM and the calls went to voice mail immediately.
No questions from the MSC on the report.
I should have known something was wrong when the hours were listed as 11:00-11:15 AM and the calls went to voice mail immediately.
No questions from the MSC on the report.
@scanman1 wrote:
I have all the luck. I did a JH and the place was hidden in the back of an office center. Then I find out it's the corporate office and call center that supports all the retail stores in the area.
I don't remember the MSC but I had the same thing happen to me with Dunkin Donuts. I had to go buy a donut and coffee at each one on my list. One of the stores I got turned out to be the baking center, no sales. I reported it to the MSC but wound up getting that site two more times for shops.
The ones here do not take long to do except for the photo taking. In walmart, too many kids running around and it's illegal to take a picture of them. The last one I did was time consuming because of the kids. They were playing a game..running in front of my camera, sticking their tongues out at me and being kids, but....
I grab every one of these shops I can get they are quick and easy report takes less to do than most. I had a Jackson Hewlett at Wal-Mart Which too 5 minutes and then I did a Kraft cheese in the same Wal-mart which paid 15.00 I made 25.00 for a half hour work.
Ugh, I regret not grabbing these while they were on the board in my area! The only thing that bothered me was that they required an actual camera (not a cell phone..)
Somewhere in the Midwest, shopping / auditing full time since 2014. Will use PV-500 for food! 
It took 20 minutes for a manager to sign off. Then the only preparer was with a customer. I was required to wait 30 minutes before giving up. While waiting I was able to answer all but 2 questions. I also got one photo. A kid got in the photo but I just cropped her out. The rest of the time waiting I read emails and Facebook. Report was easy. So it wasn't too bad for a $20 shop.
NOTE: I'm not on the forum every day. If someone comments on my post, I might not reply right away. I've been a shopper since 1991. I've never done any work for a MS company in any other capacity.
Hmmm...cropping pictures, huh? I've read that a few shoppers crop their pictures and I was under the assumption that M.F. specifically says do not crop your photos.
Can someone explain please.
Can someone explain please.
Be very careful with the images for these J-H shops. Some locations are so small that the requested pictures cannot be obtained via the method in the instructions. The instructions are like those of a well-known audit in which one stands just inside the front door and photographs, left, center, and right. These instructions work very well in locations that are the size of those in the well-known audit. However, in a tiny J-H location, standing inside and angling left and right will not yield the desired view of the location. This violates the instructions. Good luck if you are photographing one of their tiny locations. For tiny locations, the best way to get the desired view is to stand outside of each end and look in and capture the image. However, standing outside of the miniscule location violates the instructions. But the image matches the description of the desired image. :spineyes:
@ Canuck:
I never crop ms/audit photos. Instead, if there is additional information in my picture, it is submitted along with the desired image.
I also try to be careful about what I have photographed...... I am learning to be careful with my camera.....
This may be why some (all?) companies want us to take additional pictures 'just in case'.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/09/2015 06:13PM by Shop-et-al.
@ Canuck:
I never crop ms/audit photos. Instead, if there is additional information in my picture, it is submitted along with the desired image.
I also try to be careful about what I have photographed...... I am learning to be careful with my camera.....
This may be why some (all?) companies want us to take additional pictures 'just in case'.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/09/2015 06:13PM by Shop-et-al.
My JH audit instructions state to "stand outside the kiosk" to get the pics. Must be different MSCs?
There are both JH's inside Wal*Mart and stand alones being audited.
Did the ones y'all do also have them pull 10 customer files for you to examine? I've got two of these and they are both at Walmart kiosks. They don't even keep hard copies of their files there. My first one is in an hour and a half. I'm wondering how this is going to go. Also, it says it should take 1-1/2 hours to complete and pays $35.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/10/2015 09:37PM by MelNel525.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/10/2015 09:37PM by MelNel525.
You know, from reading all your posts, there must be a couple of different MSC's doing these. I'm reading things that I don't have to do. The ones I do are inside Walmart. Small kiosk. Nothing about signs in the windows, tables etc.
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Sounds like somebody is mixing the details of the H&R Block and the Jackson-Hewitt jobs. They aren't the same thing exactly.
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