$3.00 GAS SHOPS FOR $4.00

Noticed that my favorite $3.00 gas shops went to $4.00 to start with no gasoline purchase necessary. Unfortunately, now they are revealed shops so I have to out myself for peanuts. No thanks. I'll wait until they get high on the out of town ones or not do them at all. What in the world is CRI thinking? Reveal myself for $4.00??? I think NOT! And no, I didn't do them for $3.00 either.

They've been on the board in Louisville since the weekend and no one is biting. Get a clue.

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That is the thing I don't like about CRI, they post new jobs for a joke fee in the hopes that there are suckers out there that will take them. Sad thing is I think there are people that actually do. I finally picked up my first 2 shops from them that started out at $4 and after a month of nobody picking them up finally got bonused up to $20 which I'm still wondering if it will be worth it for all the work involved.

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That is the reason that I haven't worked for CRI. Even when the shop fee gets near $20 it just seems like much more work than other companies have for similar pay.

I do alot of shops for CRI. It is alot of work for some shops that have lots of narrative. It's also a PITA to not be able to save your work as you go along, only to have the report fail when you hit submit. I've learned to do my narratives in Word Processing, but it's still a PITA to have to redo the report.

The gas shops went to $6.00/$1.00 today across the board in Louisville and several are gone now. Still not enough money when you have to reveal yourself and can't go back to that store again.

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At the current price of gas $6.00 is not worth it unless you are right there; and for that price the report better be super easy.

If I could get a couple gallons of gas, I'd be taking gas shops left and right. But, where I live, $2 and $3 won't even get me a full gallon. Not worth it.

Already went to $7.50/$1.00 here in four days. I'm getting more interested. lol That will get two gallons of gas on my way to somewhere else.

I get emails from them everyday, but good grief all the work that is envolved for all their shops, for example a well known home improvment shop which if I can remember correctly you have to interact with 4 employees and a whole bunch of other crap for 6 big ones. I dont think so, not even if I was going to be there. Their shops do go up some what over time but I would like to know how long are their reports in general.

I agree CRI pay is super low and i have yet to do any shops from them yet. I was thinking about doing the home improvement shop since its up to $16.00 but I dont know because it seems to require alot

Now I dont know how long their reports are but for 16.00 I might do it only if their reports are not going to take 2 hours to complete.

Whenever I looked at the CRI scenarios they always seemed too much work for the money. There are other shops that I do where the work is less than they ask for and pays the same or more.

Charlene Wrote:
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> Now I dont know how long their reports are but for
> 16.00 I might do it only if their reports are not
> going to take 2 hours to complete.

I can't even pass their Corporate Culture test to get into their site (failed 3x)-and trying it again and again, I get an SQL database error.

If they are that low-paying, I have enough work, maybe I need to just pass on fooling with this. It should not take in excess of 45 mins to apply and be approved by a low-paying MSC.

I wish to all companies would go to Sassie-these random applications, etc are a PITB! Don't even get me started on Prophet. Or my all time fave-not-shopmetrics.

I have ended up doing 3 shops for them now in the last 2 weeks. I only took these jobs once they got bonused up to 20 and it ended up not being as bad as I thought. The interactions were fairly easy and I just noted all the names in my cell phone as I went and it just looks like you are texting. The only issue I had was the discount dept. store shop asked for 8 total employee interactions and I could only find 6 total employees in the store, and I mentioned that in my comments and I got 5's on all my reports. All together it took me a little over an hour to do the onsite visit and fill out the report for each one. Still don't think I would do one for under 15 though.

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GregP Wrote:
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> I agree CRI pay is super low and i have yet to do
> any shops from them yet. I was thinking about
> doing the home improvement shop since its up to
> $16.00 but I dont know because it seems to require
> alot

I finally got signed up and passed several tests just to see what they pay. That one pays $18 here and I sure as heck would not do it for that. Are they kidding me? Who has that kinda time? By the time you do the report, etc it would be maybe $6 an hour.

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