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I was thinking about trying one of the BB Audits. Have any of you done them? If so are they worth the time and effort?
Thanks for any advice.

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The audio or other one that requires a drug screen and a background check ? I do the audio audits monthly.

The one with the background check.

Sorry, I cant help with those.

Some people love them and say they pay their rent with them. I hated them because they took WAY too long.

How long do they take? I keep seeing them in my area but I have not wanted to put out the money to do the drug test and background check if they are not worth the time.

For me, this would have been a long-term project. In other words, the first 3-10 audits take more than a day! However, once you get quick with them, and learn all of the 'tricks' and 'shortcuts' then they are valuable if there are enough in your area. Also, since you can only do them every other month, I recommend getting a guarantee that you will be hired for at least the every other month cycle. Once you do two of them they refund you your background check.

There are threads on this forum that have various respondents and their opinions! Check them out, they are very valuable.

I don't know what BB stands for. It must be some company not in my area, like on the east coast or someplace.

Best Buy

Ah yes, we got those stores here but I just couldn't make the connection with the initials. I have never seen shops for the stores themselves, although I have shopped certain companies who sell within the stores. I definitely have not seen any audits; they must belong to the company I am not signed up with.

They are audits so they're not mystery shops. However, if I tell you the companies name there will surely be someone who says it's a mystery shopping company. It's the one with three initals. They pay, on average, $85 per store and say it takes 8 hours. Some auditors say it takes them 6 hours. They often bonus!

There's a long set of guidelines because you do several different tasks while you are there. After you get used to it, you'll just have to know what is new for that month. Like spicy wrote, it takes time. The first one you try, you might not be able to get it all done in one day. They often take 6 hours on average, but the company is always adding more tasks and some of the tasks are very time-consuming. When it started creeping toward 8 hours of standing/walking through the store, I decided I needed a bonus to do them. (If something goes wrong with the equipment, such as the price gun/scanner, for instance, it can really set you back on time.) A scheduler asked me why I would need a bonus if it didn't take longer than 8 hours. She wasn't counting the time it takes to read the guidelines beforehand, of course. I'd rather do a few shorter audits than this one that takes up most of your day. That's just me. You might really like them amd find them worthwhile. It also helps efficiency to have several locations in your area.

Let's say it takes 8 hours, then it pays $10.63 an hour and after taxes, drive-time and gas and the time it takes to read the guidelines and call for assistance, forget about it. Your first few run 8 hours on day one and an easy 6 hours on day two, for the same FLAT FEE, so don't schedule your first 5 or so on subsequent days. This cheap company and cheap MSC should be paying a $200 flat fee for these, shame on them!!!

Shame on the people who take them you mean. Why would the company pay more than someone was willing to work for?

At the same time, I completely agree with you. They require you stay onsite for 5 hours ( ding ding ding that makes you an employee!! ) so at 5 hours I wouldn't do one for less than $300.

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At the moment only demons come to mind

I think I will pass on these unless the pay goes up. Normally I would just try it and see how it goes but in this case you need to pay for the background check and drug test up front and only get refunded once you complete 2 audits.
Thank you all for your input. I truly appreciate it.

It's like $30 bucks, not a whole lot if this works out for you. I would call them and tell them your concerns and maybe they can make it worth your while. And I absolutely implore you to look at the other threads that talk about how great they are. I'm positive those people went through the rough first stores and eventually got their time down and some are very, very happy with this assignment. My objection was that, in order to complete these in 6 hours, you absolutely have to cheat and I'm not a cheater.

There's an email that went out in the last few days reminding people to look in the filing cabinet first, before printing the pogs. However, the filing cabinets are screwy at best and getting someone at the store to help you, when you are seen as the enemy, is nearly impossible. So you're stuck between a rock and a hard place! When I had a manager try to say the "cheating" was normal and the other's before me did it, and then try and bribe me, I reported it and they didn't do anything about it!

@spicy1 wrote:

There's an email that went out in the last few days reminding people to look in the filing cabinet first, before printing the pogs. However, the filing cabinets are screwy at best and getting someone at the store to help you, when you are seen as the enemy, is nearly impossible.

Yes, there are several slow downs on the job. Rifling through the cabinets is one. Some stores have it quite organized and others not so much. Another is when the price gun/scanning tool goes out or you can't log in. In the early days, they would sometimes give you the wrong login for the Telxon gun. That was fun. You had to find an employee willing to log in for you. Also, if you can't find the POGs in the cabinet, you print them from the computer. But, they would have a log in for the computer in the guidelines, but no directions on how to get to the log in screen to type in the information.

And then there was the sound bars, the headphones and every tablet and laptop in the store -- lol.

I think the company saw shoppers on the forums here crowing about how it takes them five hours or less and thought we didn't have enough to do, because they were always adding something on to the audit.

Edited for a typo.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/28/2017 05:17PM by christinereed.

Yes, they add work but not pay. Sometimes I couldnt get a scanner until noon or one, that was when our password didnt work

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