Yeah, since we get taxed on the fee, I would much prefer they actually reimburse the full cost of our food.@Kathy1296 wrote:
I guess the dollar jump from $9 to $10 for the fee is supposed to help cover the increasing cost of the food. $15.45 won't get you a small hamburger, small fry and drink. Don't even think about cheese. I need to start bringing a piece of cheese from home.
I rarely get a quick response from Samantha job offers. One time I also have a very generous offer at a location near my daughter and submitted for it but never heard back. I figured maybe they were trying to get someone to do it for less and holding out on accepting my offer, even though it was at the price they had offered me.@KokoBWare wrote:
This morning Samantha emailed me again. Same location, same dates offered, fee now $29. Now we're talking. Maybe the person who got the gig flaked or something. Good for me. Again, saw it within a minute and responded immediately.
I posted earlier, but it went to moderation (update -- it just got posted above), so here's a shorter version.@HonnyBrown wrote:
Scheduler called and offered me 3 shops for the fee I wanted. I checked my email later and Samantha sent requests that were higher than the fee I got from the scheduler.
I don't usually get quick responses from Samantha either, if by "quick" we mean "nearly instantaneous" which I sometimes get if my MAO is accepted. But 2 days? (I'm referring to the first offer which is now 2 days old.) Got to be quicker than that, Samantha.@MisterBill wrote:
I rarely get a quick response from Samantha job offers. One time I also have a very generous offer at a location near my daughter and submitted for it but never heard back. I figured maybe they were trying to get someone to do it for less and holding out on accepting my offer, even though it was at the price they had offered me.
@KokoBWare wrote:
Is Samantha drunk? Got an email from "her" a few days ago for a shop offering a $22 fee. That's a bit lower than my normal price but the dates and location were in line with my plans for weekend so what the heck. Literally saw the email come into my inbox and responded immediately.
No response. OK, they must have assigned someone else. But ...
This morning Samantha emailed me again. Same location, same dates offered, fee now $29. Now we're talking. Maybe the person who got the gig flaked or something. Good for me. Again, saw it within a minute and responded immediately.
Silence again. I don't think I'm out of favor with the MSC because I've done a ton of work for them lately with no issues. And I've always gotten the assignment on Samantha offers in the past as long as I was quick to respond.
Job is still on the board at a lower rate. Anyone else run into something like this with Samantha?
@weatherman2111 wrote:
And yeah, I've also gotten called about a shop with a lower offer on the phone than the e-mail. Seriously, how disorganized can they be?
The phone people will never put in a request for more than you've previously been paid for that location.@sstsau wrote:
In my experience, they will regularly offer less on the phone than what is even listed on the job board/website at the time, which is beyond frustrating. I also haven't had much luck negotiating fees on the phone for a long time, so I usually just try to wait for MAO on this MSC's shops now (although Five Guys in my area never gets above $15 given how popular they seem to be).
@MisterBill wrote:
The phone people will never put in a request for more than you've previously been paid for that location.
As for their offering less on the phone than currently on the website, it's either incompetence or intentional deceit.
I got a call tonight from them, amusingly for the same shop they had assigned at $20 even though I had asked for and thought that we had an agreement for $28 and subsequently dropped (and which I still do not see on the website after dropping it). She offered $20 again, and I said no, and then hung up as she was saying something else. She called me back to say that she had another shop and offered me the shop at my local FG (she should have offered that one first), I must have just gone back into rotation for it because I had not seen it previously, and it was this week's lunch shop. She was able to give me $25 for that one because that's my usual price for it (but distance-wise much closer than the other shop). I still have one more AMEX $3/15 offer to complete, so I am happy to get the shop.@HonnyBrown wrote:
They will go lower. My scheduler called me on Friday to fill 3 shops this weekend. He asked if I could do them for $20. Nope, $25 each.
@HonnyBrown wrote:
They will go lower. My scheduler called me on Friday to fill 3 shops this weekend. He asked if I could do them for $20. Nope, $25 each.
@MisterBill wrote:
The phone people will never put in a request for more than you've previously been paid for that location.
As for their offering less on the phone than currently on the website, it's either incompetence or intentional deceit.
@macrophage wrote:
Does the MSC reimburse tolls for driving into the delivery zone for a FG delivery shop?!
@MisterBill wrote:
I got a call tonight from them, amusingly for the same shop they had assigned at $20 even though I had asked for and thought that we had an agreement for $28 and subsequently dropped (and which I still do not see on the website after dropping it). She offered $20 again, and I said no, and then hung up as she was saying something else. She called me back to say that she had another shop and offered me the shop at my local FG (she should have offered that one first), I must have just gone back into rotation for it because I had not seen it previously, and it was this week's lunch shop. She was able to give me $25 for that one because that's my usual price for it (but distance-wise much closer than the other shop). I still have one more AMEX $3/15 offer to complete, so I am happy to get the shop.
Yes, that would work. The delivery shop does not take you out of rotation for the in-person (although it used to). They won't schedule the in-person and delivery shop for the same location on the same day, even if a different person is doing them.@whitney00hope wrote:
How often can I complete these shops at same location? Could I complete a delivery today and dine-in tomorrow?
@macrophage wrote:
Does the MSC reimburse tolls for driving into the delivery zone for a FG delivery shop?!
@MisterBill wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that the shake shops seem to be gone? The delivery shops haven't had one recently, and the in-restaurant shops for the next month (for the locations I'm in rotation for) don't have anything other than $15.45 reimbursement.
OK, I found one after searching a few different areas. I did notice that some idiot took this coming week's lunch shop already, presumably for base pay (a location where I always get $25), maybe it had a shake. But the delivery shops have not had shakes for a few months now.@DRJ wrote:
They just showed up again in the last day or two here.
@Niner wrote:
It's now almost $18 for a burger, fries, and a drink. I do not understand how they stay in business.