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Has anyone ever done those gas station shops from Alta 360? I know I won't do them for $5 but sometimes I see them for $8-$10 and wonder if they are very quick and easy and worth it? Report included.

Thanks in advance.

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I would wait for the bonus. Typically they start low at the beginning of the month and then inch upwards as the month progresses. They offer a variety of gas station and c-store type locations and the pay differs. I will do the small purchase shops but have avoided the more involved audits since I do not feel that they pay enough.

I wait until they go above $25.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

I'm fairly new to the business but I would say don't do a gas shop for $5, I'm still kicking myself for doing one for $12 a few weeks ago considering the demands and the situations I was confronted with after dark.

I've never seen them go up to $25 with Alta but I guess I need to pay closer attention. Thanks guys!

I am unable to comment about the present, but when Alta was Ritter, I was occasionally paid, during the prior decade, $25 + a $5 reimbursement for gas and $1 in the store. It was a remote location I drove by on the way to my son's home. As I recall, the only pics needed were of the street sign, the single pump island, the receipts, violations and the store front.

I have not but you are right in watching for the fee. They will nickel and dime us to death if we let them. I have seen it with several firms. I have done other projects for Alta and they seemed decent to work with.

There are too many shootings, car jackings and robberies at gas stations after dark. In a metro area there are few places I would go after dark in any metro area.

I have shopped several places for them no after dark but they were all a little out of my neck of the woods so the bonus was gotten and will be needed again to do these.

A station owner told me last week that he had a station in a different state which got robbed. The robbers shot him, his wife and 10 year old daughter. They died. He showed me his scar. I did not ask for this info, he was quite a talker. Kinda put me on the spot. All I could do was express sympathy but the story certainly made an impression.

I see one of Alta gas station shops with several locations at $25 right now. Think it starts at $6 or $8. End of year so they must need it done bad. I of course don't do Gas Stations this time of year without major bonus money. Its called my too damn cold fee. In nice sunny weather the lowest I will go for an easy one is $20. Well Maritz has one that I did out west for $6 but was 5 minutes for shop and 5 more for report with several locations many which passed by often. I miss those but alas that brand is not where I currently live.

Shopping Western NY, Northeast and Central PA, and parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Have car will travel anywhere if the monies right.

I do the night shops, but select the locations carefully and go as early as possible. I don't go to the "hood" or anywhere near it in the dark.

I was watching the news one night and there was a station I had been to that afternoon on the TV. It had been robbed at gunpoint that night. Another time I went to a station I did several times over the years, but not in quite a while. I asked where the fellows were that used to work there. One was shot and killed in a robbery and the other was hit by a car and killed while riding his bike on the highway shoulder after leaving work. Then I noticed the cameras all over the forecourt.

I've had many near misses at banks and gas stations and malls. Ya just never know. It's scary. I feel like I float through life naively going about my business and then hear about things after the fact.

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Ok last month I did a gas station shop with a bonus. As soon as I arrived I was propositioned by a prostitute. Then I had a guy smoking crack in his car at a pump. When I asked him if I could photograph the pump he was parked at he moved to another pump. So I had to ask him again. There was drug dealers running around the station while I was conducting the inspection. The owner of the station told me that he no longer has a public bathroom because the prostitute was using it to service her clients. He told he saw her working on a customer in the toilet. Also he told me the dealers used the bathroom to stash their drugs. So when they say a gas station inspection are easy don't believe it. The inspection takes time unless you are ignoring infractions.. There are cars driving by so you have to keep your head on a swivel. suspicious customers asking why you are taking pictures and also the homeless who like to hang out at the stations. Gas stations are not easy and should be paid accordingly.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/29/2019 07:32AM by sil2222.

Some stations can be scary at night. Next time you will have a better idea of what bonus you need to do it again. Other shoppers are probably avoiding that station at night. I see a lot of sttaions that normally get snatched up stay on the board for a long time when they need to be done at night. I made some good money last month doing some. I did feel a bit more at risk, but the bills needed to be paid. I told myself a lot of people have it worse, espeically the ones who work at the stations for probably $7-$8 an hour.

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