Now,this is not so funny...

I think if that was me and it was something uncalled for except for the capriciousness of their mind I would want to take a hotel shop close by and then visit them and then educate them about the sheer gall of them doing that when it is the MSC's fault.

@december babyPosts wrote:

I cancelled last year after rescheduling twice because I did not receive the vest etc, then the scheduler wanted the three done the week I was going away on vacation. I wrote to the scheduler to explain and she gave me a flake citation times 10.! She wrote on the citation that I flaked "likely" after the vest was sent.

The funny thing is because of the flake citation I can never self assign anything.

So the three jobs I have done since then for the I company have been highly bonused. Apparently the other schedulers don't care that I am a flake when they need something done. Besides the fact that my scores are all 10's and one 9 because I did not write one sentence in the past tense.

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Sybil 2 -- Oh, sorry I wasn't clear -- no, not being allowed access to hang the marketing materials on resident doors is an expected contingency. There is a printed form you fill out for each apartment/condo complex that you have to scan and submit to the MSC -- on it you list your time in, time out, how many door-hangs were done, etc. -- and there is an additional section provided for when you are not allowed access beyond the concierge desk. You check the appropriate boxes stating that you were not allowed access and left the marketing materials at the front desk/office, and have the concierge sign it. Then you're done! Doesn't happen often, but in some of the more exclusive, high-rise apartments/condos downtown (large city), access to resident floors is VERY restricted, so it does happen.

Lexxycon -- The door-hangs I've done are for Mercantile Systems. I usually sign up for several downtown buildings, park the car, and then walk from one to the other. I enjoy the walk, and the pay isn't awful. (Not wonderful, but not too bad.) :-)

Izzy, when you are actually able to perform the door hangs, you get extra money over a certain number of door hangs. If you are not able to perform any of the door hangs, what type of payment do they give you? I am guessing that you don't get the full amount since you were not allowed to actually complete the full project. Do you get paid half the fee?

Speaking of getting paid: Not door hanging but when I had a BV with Trendsource and the target never showed up, I was fully paid

Uh oh...I see em' again and now they want you to do a circuit of 6 spotter visits...

Okay, my bad! They say a separate circuit fee and a bonus...How do you think that will work out?

@Sybil2 wrote:

Izzy, when you are actually able to perform the door hangs, you get extra money over a certain number of door hangs. If you are not able to perform any of the door hangs, what type of payment do they give you? I am guessing that you don't get the full amount since you were not allowed to actually complete the full project. Do you get paid half the fee?

It's been my experience that when I have to leave the door hangs, the job then pays either $15 or $18, the same as a merchandising job.

Oh no! I'm new, this sounded like fun and I just signed up for it!
I'm not sure I want to do it now.
I'm not sure this will show up or not, but I signed up with Intellishop. Is that the company you guys had problems with not getting the gift cards sent and not saying you returned the vests?
I need to know because I'll decline the offer if it's not going to pan out.

It's $10 a gas station and 5 gas stations per day. One hour at each one. I thought it would be fun. Please advise me if its not going to work out. I'm new and naive. Help me from getting taken advantage of please guys!

@Bunnyriley wrote:

It's $10 a gas station and 5 gas stations per day. One hour at each one. I thought it would be fun. Please advise me if its not going to work out. I'm new and naive. Help me from getting taken advantage of please guys!

I can only say, if it is a particular mystery shopping company, I am not sure I would enjoy their spotter shops.

Bunnyriley, you need to do a forum search for last year using the keyword of the name of the project or gas station. You can read all about it there. I can't refer to the name because it is against forum rules and my ICA.

I know times are tough but $10.00 an hour is not enough for me to take most shops never mind one on my 100-foot list.

@Sybil2 wrote:

Bunnyriley, you need to do a forum search for last year using the keyword of the name of the project or gas station. You can read all about it there. I can't refer to the name because it is against forum rules and my ICA.

I know times are tough but $10.00 an hour is not enough for me to take most shops never mind one on my 100-foot list.

I figure it this way, instead of you suffering through one $10 an hour shop in the "awful heat" they want you to circuit it and suffer 5 times!

Now... I realize some will take these spotter shops but I did them a few years ago and since the price dropped to $10 bucks....that's a NO!~

Thanks for the heads up everyone! Someone in my area already took the route closet to me, but there are several more. Think I'll wait to see how this all plays out. (Maybe with good bonuses?)

By making them a route at below minimum wage, this will likely be a repeat of last year.

All the vests and hats will be sent to the newbies that will flake on them. Time to just sit back and see what happens.

I see one of those shops for Lookout WV. I live out west beyond Arkansas why is it showing up on my board. This is the yellow sign with the red arrow thru it?

SunnyDays2 -

Re door hangs, if concierge doesn't allow you access, you get paid the "standard" fee without the extra pay for "over a certain number of doors" (i.e., no reduction in standard pay because you couldn't get access).

So do you have to do all the shops on the route in one day or do you just have to get them all done before the due date?

@Izzy wrote:

I like the door-hanging jobs. I like the ones in high-rise residences, start on the top floor, and work my way down floor by floor. Easy-peasy. And in some of them (particularly the high-end downtown condos) the concierge informs you that you aren't allowed beyond the front desk, so THEY take the door hang materials, sign that you delivered them and weren't allowed upstairs to personally hang them, and you're done! The pay seems fair -- and you get paid for taking your daily walk! :-)

I could do that in my power chair but I haven't seen those shops yet. I could not do the residential door hangings but could do high rise apartment buildings.

Today I Will Choose Joy!

"Finally, whatever things are good, true, noble, lovely, of good report...if there be any virtue, if there be any praise...think on these things." ....It's a command, not a suggestion!

I noticed some "spotter"s shop in my area. It seems the shopper's fee is $10/$15 per station in a 5 or 6 station circuit. I decided to evaluate two different circuits which primarily started out with a GS that was less than a half a mile from where I live. Within each circuit was a GS at least 50 miles from me which meant that I would be traveling at 100 miles just to "spot", plus spend a hour on site. That is a least 3 hours shopping one shop. The hours are only allowed 8 am to 5 pm. So a few GS were less than five miles from each other while one other was more that 25 miles.

So my question is, "Are we supposed to shop the 5/6 shop circuit, all in one day"

It would stand the reason to sign up for more than two circuits to cover more area that you have to drive thru to get to another area. Plus wait for someone to flake to get a bonus

Because I don't see me performing the shop as originally stated.

Sojo917 - if you have to drive 100 miles, then the IRS mileage rate amounts to $57.50 for just this one location. If the fee is $10 per station, you are losing money already. Maybe you can find other shops along the way. For these, INHO, the simplistic approach is that if they were a block apart and a just one block from your house, you would be spending 5 hours plus prep time plus report time to earn somewhere between $50 and $75. It just doesn't make sense to me. And then you have add in the cost of getting to each one of them. As for your question, I don't think you have to do all of them in a single day. Is that the make or break for you?

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

The circuit shops do not pay enough whether the shops have to be done in one day or multiples. At the current fee, a shopper would have to be assigned three or more shops to venture out on such a distance. I am not worrying about the IRS and mileage until after the drive is done, not before.

I did them last year, they were supposed to be at the bonus, but didn't pay me that. I drove 120plus miles to go do two, and they ripped me off for the rate. This year the circuits are not even logical. They did not look at a map putting those together.

@Sportsfamily1215 wrote:

I did them last year, they were supposed to be at the bonus, but didn't pay me that. I drove 120plus miles to go do two, and they ripped me off for the rate. This year the circuits are not even logical. They did not look at a map putting those together.

Sure.

First you drive 30 to get to the first one, 29 miles to get to the second one, 48 miles to get to the third one, 32 miles to the fourth one and 51 miles to get to the fifth one. Now how much gas have you used?

Not to mention time..

@Lexxycon wrote:

@december baby wrote:

I wrote to the scheduler to explain and she gave me a flake citation times 10.! She wrote on the citation that I flaked "likely" after the vest was sent.

So wait. Is she insinuating you wanted a free vest? I don't get the whole "likely" thing. Don't you have to send it back anyways? I'd complain about the 10x flake. That's excessive.

I NEVER received the vest. I have no idea what the scheduler thought when she wrote that. The scheduler was just annoyed that I could no longer do the shops. I think I originally signed up to do the shops the week of July 1 After rescheduling twice, I received an email that said all the shops should be rescheduled after July 25 to ensure receipt of vests. I let her know as soon as I received the email that I would be unable to do them

Yes, I thought flake times 10 was very excessive considering that I did not flake. But as I say it has worked in my favor. I only take jobs when a scheduler writes to me and it is highly bonused. And since I can't self assign, it saves me from taking things too quickly

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