I did 18 last night. It took me almost 12 hours, with the driving time. My estimated driving time for the route was almost 4 hours, by itself. The ones grouped close together took a pretty short amount of time. The first few took a little longer. I had a few issues with the app locating me. It kept saying that I was like 30 miles away from the site. And then it wouldn't submit, or it would say that I'd already started it and it was in another application. All in all, though, eventually Presto cleared it out, and accepted them, I hope.
The first several took a while. I learned..
Pull up wherever you can get the best "overall canopy" picture. This was difficult for me, because some of these were rural with nothing across the street and I actually had to park and then walk around looking conspicuous (or at the very least, feeling conspicuous... no one actually said anything or even seemed to notice). I had to look up the new vs the old logo to remember which was which, and I thought that was in the guidelines, but the ones that downloaded on my phone did NOT have the new v old in there. So, I'm not sure where I saw it at, but be aware that you might need to take a different picture of them.
The new still sticks out but the surface is flat. It's like a button slapped onto a flat surface. So it extends, but it's not convex. The old is actually rounded out like a mound (yes, I know, convex, but when I first started looking at them, I thought completely flat against the background, not extended). I had a little trouble determining if it was a green strip or a LED bar, as well, if they were not lit. For anyone who might run into that problem, the LED strip is actually noticeable if you look at it from the side. It looks like one of those LED light cords that they put on stages, so you can actually see it and it looks like an actual bar that also sticks out from the smooth surface of the fascia.
The first few, it takes a bit of rhythm to get them down. It may not take anyone else as long, but all of my starters were rural and small and hard to get pictures of from a distance. Once I got that rhythm, they probably took about 10 minutes. I mean, I was taking the pictures first, and then once I got in the app, it took me between 2 and 5 minutes to enter the info, depending on how slow the app was and how long it took to load the picture from my phone. It did load those quicker than if you took the picture.
Note that some of the questions, you can pick multiple answers. I didn't notice that you could do that until more than halfway through my shops. It's the question about the MID, and you can pick whether some lights are lit or not, but you can pick multiple answers and in some cases, multiples apply. Be aware of that. I'm hoping none of mine get kicked back for that. I think it only applies to a few, though.
Also note that when you have a "it's perfect" answer, your answer is normally "none of the above". All the answers except about the LED bar, which is the only one they clarify in "none of the above" are negatives.
I'm also not sure why we have CX evaluation questions in these. We are not supposed to make contact or go into the store, so, i wound up just giving them 10s for all three of those questions. There's no n/a answer for those.
Be careful. One of the first answers, and I don't recall which it was, will flip you down like four questions. If you miss them, it's supposed to pop up with "you must answer these questions". You have to scroll back up to get to them. I thought, "Oh, I'll just click submit to get back to the time out question," and mostly that worked, but on one it submitted anyway.
Oh, well, the dogs loved riding around in the truck with me all night. Overall, I can't complain about $180 for a day's worth of work which is what I made a day at 60k or so a year. That's what I made when I was a legal secretary, and with the commute, I was out about that much time from start to finish, it did include a lunch, though, and two 15 minute breaks, but.. I ate while driving around so.. I count that as a lunch.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2020 11:43AM by naivasna.
The first several took a while. I learned..
Pull up wherever you can get the best "overall canopy" picture. This was difficult for me, because some of these were rural with nothing across the street and I actually had to park and then walk around looking conspicuous (or at the very least, feeling conspicuous... no one actually said anything or even seemed to notice). I had to look up the new vs the old logo to remember which was which, and I thought that was in the guidelines, but the ones that downloaded on my phone did NOT have the new v old in there. So, I'm not sure where I saw it at, but be aware that you might need to take a different picture of them.
The new still sticks out but the surface is flat. It's like a button slapped onto a flat surface. So it extends, but it's not convex. The old is actually rounded out like a mound (yes, I know, convex, but when I first started looking at them, I thought completely flat against the background, not extended). I had a little trouble determining if it was a green strip or a LED bar, as well, if they were not lit. For anyone who might run into that problem, the LED strip is actually noticeable if you look at it from the side. It looks like one of those LED light cords that they put on stages, so you can actually see it and it looks like an actual bar that also sticks out from the smooth surface of the fascia.
The first few, it takes a bit of rhythm to get them down. It may not take anyone else as long, but all of my starters were rural and small and hard to get pictures of from a distance. Once I got that rhythm, they probably took about 10 minutes. I mean, I was taking the pictures first, and then once I got in the app, it took me between 2 and 5 minutes to enter the info, depending on how slow the app was and how long it took to load the picture from my phone. It did load those quicker than if you took the picture.
Note that some of the questions, you can pick multiple answers. I didn't notice that you could do that until more than halfway through my shops. It's the question about the MID, and you can pick whether some lights are lit or not, but you can pick multiple answers and in some cases, multiples apply. Be aware of that. I'm hoping none of mine get kicked back for that. I think it only applies to a few, though.
Also note that when you have a "it's perfect" answer, your answer is normally "none of the above". All the answers except about the LED bar, which is the only one they clarify in "none of the above" are negatives.
I'm also not sure why we have CX evaluation questions in these. We are not supposed to make contact or go into the store, so, i wound up just giving them 10s for all three of those questions. There's no n/a answer for those.
Be careful. One of the first answers, and I don't recall which it was, will flip you down like four questions. If you miss them, it's supposed to pop up with "you must answer these questions". You have to scroll back up to get to them. I thought, "Oh, I'll just click submit to get back to the time out question," and mostly that worked, but on one it submitted anyway.
Oh, well, the dogs loved riding around in the truck with me all night. Overall, I can't complain about $180 for a day's worth of work which is what I made a day at 60k or so a year. That's what I made when I was a legal secretary, and with the commute, I was out about that much time from start to finish, it did include a lunch, though, and two 15 minute breaks, but.. I ate while driving around so.. I count that as a lunch.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2020 11:43AM by naivasna.