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I work for many different companies and I find that those that offer high end assignments that either give you a great treat or pay well have to be interspersed with the lower paying jobs. If you work up to the high end assignments and only do those, you will slowly start to see them disappear.
I find it in my best interest to do just as many lower paying jobs as the high end ones as I am then considered more for the better jobs! We have DB&B nights away in top hotels, holiday apartment stays, fine dining and many retail purchase assignments that both pay for the job and let you keep the expensive item.
Do you believe its in your best interest to offer yourself for both?

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MM inquires--Do you believe its in your best interest to offer yourself for both?

Bob replies--No. My interests are best served by completing assignments that fall into one or more of the below:

1-Jobs for which the pay is commensurate with the work.
2-Shops that provide me with a desirable reimbursement.
3-Those which serve a non-industry purpose. That is usually covering the driving expenses not related to shopping or treating a friend to a meal.

Will I accept work that, in my opinion, pays poorly to help a scheduler, client or MSC? Absolutely not. I am a self-employed contractor, not a charity. If the fact that I never flake, am willing to travel anywhere at any time and compose intelligent reports is not sufficient for me to obtain work, so be it.

Yeah, schedulers/companies that NEED help but can’t pay are just begging. If they really have some good, high end shops stashed away, why not use that to negotiate? I have added shops that I didn’t want to get the one I did. No reason for things to quietly disappear as punishment. That helps exactly no one.

I don’t doubt it happens. Just like the scheduler who was has been sending daily pleas for a far away shop and invited bonus offers. I gave a realistic offer. “I can’t do that.” Ok. What can you do? No answer.

Mmm? There are great treats in this biz?

Anyway, I am rural and I work seven days per week locally. I do not have access to an array of low-end to high-end shops that I can get to within one day. I do not have the time to travel far enough to access such a variety of shops. I can only do certain shops anyway: anything not for youngsters; not too late at night; not involving too much out-of pocket cost; and [just for my sake] not too many repetitions of the same assignment type.

What do you mean about shops disappearing? Are those shops subject to rotation limitations such as one per shopper per location, once per shopper per location every so many days, months, or years, or similar? Sometimes, clients end their programs or switch to other MSCs. If this happens, you might not see the shops potsed or receive offers from schedulers as you did in the past.

@MalibuMum wrote:

I work for many different companies and I find that those that offer high end assignments that either give you a great treat or pay well have to be interspersed with the lower paying jobs. If you work up to the high end assignments and only do those, you will slowly start to see them disappear.... Do you believe its in your best interest to offer yourself for both?

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/10/2019 02:46PM by Shop-et-al.

I should have been clearer in my writing, sorry! I meant that in order to keep getting the high end jobs with a particular company you also have to help them out with the lower end jobs.
For example where I live at the moment there are so many travel and tourism awards taking place. I have eaten out in top restaurants 12 nights in the past 21 and stayed in 2 hotels and 2 holiday apartment complexes. But the same companies (there are 2) that are giving me the top end jobs and great social life also request I do the less favourable, lower paying jobs as they have no one else in the area.
I will happily do these as my family and I are having a great time, we have had just over £3500 in DB&B in the past 6 months and approx. £2500 of fine dining the past 6 weeks and in between there have been the holiday apartment weekends. All this fun for a little time writing a report and helping the companies with the lesser jobs.
We save a fortune having someone else pay for our great social life, sometimes its date night, others its family time and it costs us nothing but a little time to report back.
So, I am happy to help where I can and then these wonderful companies keep coming back to me with the tasty options

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