I know for sure that one company does that. I did not care for any of their shops and didn't do any for a long time. Eventually I decided to do a few. That's when I suddenly saw much better shops.@Ksauber wrote:
I am currently signed up with over 40, and I find that it is more than enough to keep me busy on the weekends, which Is when I can MS. My issue is not that I can't find worthwhile shops with some companies, it's more that a handful of companies I am signed up with seem to not have the quality I would want. I don't know if I should be taking the low-paying jobs in order to be able to have access to the better jobs. Apologies if my initial post was confusing.
@AnneAshley wrote:
I know for sure that one company does that. I did not care for any of their shops and didn't do any for a long time. Eventually I decided to do a few. That's when I suddenly saw much better shops.
@tnewton2112 wrote:
It is not true the A Closer Look only shows Pizza shops to new customers. Most of our shops are available to new shoppers. There are a few clients that require some quality reports before being seen but not many in comparison to the number of shops we have.
@bgriffin wrote:
@tnewton2112 wrote:
It is not true the A Closer Look only shows Pizza shops to new customers. Most of our shops are available to new shoppers. There are a few clients that require some quality reports before being seen but not many in comparison to the number of shops we have.
Interesting, as that has not been my experience. Correct me if I am wrong but it is my understanding that ACL has at least 3, and possibly more, ratings. They also have shops that correspond to those ratings. The pizza shop is one that is assigned the lowest rating, although there are definitely other clients that have those ratings. It was explained to me once that the lowest rated shoppers only see about 25% of the available clients, the next sees about 50%, then 75%, with only the very highest rated shoppers seeing all of the available clients. My rating, at times, has been at each level along the scale and that is about what I have seen as well. At one time I had a scheduler tell me I had their highest rating. I have also had a ticked off scheduler drop me to the lowest rating. Based on what I see now I would guess that I have a rating that shows me about 75% of the available clients. I have also seen complaints from shoppers that say they only see the pizza client and perhaps 1 other client in an area and when I look I see about 3 times that number of clients. Based on that information it seems they would have a much lower rating, most likely the lowest. Additionally I have occasionally gotten last minute offers for a client that I know ACL has as I see their sister chains but not them. Which tells me that I do not have the ability to see all clients.
Maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps ACL has changed their super secret internal rating system. But I do not believe that is the case.
@bgriffin wrote:
To the OP. It really depends on the MSC and how they handle it. I am not an expert but I do not believe Sassie or Shopmetrics MSCs have the ability to hide particular shops from particular shoppers. That does not mean those MSCs do not have shops you can't see, it just means it is done differently. Those companies usually offer those shops directly to the shoppers they would like to use. Those are normally referred to as "off the board" projects. There are quite a few companies that use both platforms that have off the board shops. So let's say MegaMSC has the Spacely Sprockets account and they only want to offer those shops to LisaSTL and walesmaven. Those would be offered directly via email, phone, etc. Even after being offered LisaSTL would not be able to log into the MegaMSC sassie and see those shops until they are assigned. Prophet and many of the proprietary job boards do have the ability to hide shops based on a rating.