$3 shop posted with "Please Read Carefully"

Yeah, I read to $3 and stopped reading. WTF?

I'm sure someone will do these, but really. You expect someone to give a crap about $3 and do anything carefully?

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ha, $3 is about the fee for just reading the directions.

I just turned down an on-site inspection for TheSource because they wouldn't pay PAD. Sorry, $17 just (almost) covers the prep. It doesn't cover the half hour there, another half hour back, printing required pages, on-site an hour, and about 2 hours for the report.

Besides, the business they want shopped? Isn't where they think it is by a few country miles. I told them that in my PAD request.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/26/2022 02:36AM by ceasesmith.

I think I know the company; I do a lot of shops with them and took one without even thinking. Actually, I was thinking it was just a quick little something that I could do between whatever. It isn't, and it should have been priced at least at $15.00. At least. I am profoundly disappointed to see behaviors like this toward the shoppers out of companies that I really thought were respected in the industry.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?
"Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
-- Abraham Lincoln

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/27/2022 12:43PM by GinnyLynn.

I won't even open the email for $3!

I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.

Recently, I saw something like this for a luxury brand. It seemed jolting. This brand and this pay in one e-mail space? Are they nuts? Are their competitors clever? Regardless of brand, the gig pay should be substantially more than three dollars because of the amount of time needed to complete the work. At least the shopper did not need to travel for this assignment and would not need to factor in that cost.

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

I just saw a $3 shop for an on-site visit that used to pay $8. Yes, it's an easy shop; but this is an insult. Sorry. NO!

Are schedulers crazy?

I think schedulers probably have one of the worst jobs. They have to fill these crap assignments for the low pay their bosses want and have to entice shoppers to do them. They are stuck in the middle of an MSC that wants to get away with paying as little as possible and shoppers who want as much as they can get.

One thing I've always wondered is if the MSC owner asks the question "Would I do this work for the fee I'm asking others to do it?" Instead I think they ask "what is the lowest we can start at before we have to offer some bonus to finish scheduling them all?"

@big_sky_thunder wrote:

Are schedulers crazy?

It is indeed jolting to see the pay-scale of these assignments for work being done in support of a luxury brand. So pay can be low for whatever, but the pay on these assignments do not come close to minimum wage, much less a living wage. These are Third World poverty level rates of pay. The assignment won't even buy you a hamburger. Is that really where we are, much less want to be? I am profoundly troubled by the implications of it all.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?
"Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
-- Abraham Lincoln

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/27/2022 11:02PM by GinnyLynn.

A fast casual shop was reimbursement only. The report was super easy and the food was delicious and plentiful. Every time I did the shop, I asked the scheduler for a fee. That fee was $3 and fine with me. I wasn't working for food.

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

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/29/2022 01:05AM by HonnyBrown.

I’ve done more for less. Haha.

It is really something to see these fees all low -and yet people do them.

With gas above $6 again near me I really can’t afford to shop as much. I have to turn down work. And so I am worse off (doubly).

I should start doing some work for Amusement Advantage. They seem really understanding, they’ll pay $100 in gas for some stuff, the jobs look interesting, and I can’t afford to work for these other companies making me LOSE money working for them.

Although I have been doing the Field Agent gigs for pennies on my way to work. My time is now free. I need the cash.

What's really nice about the $3 fee is that if you can't complete it due to the location being closed, you also get a $3 fee.

@FrugalCat wrote:

What's really nice about the $3 fee is that if you can't complete it due to the location being closed, you also get a $3 fee.

Reading the instructions, paperwork, and travel is worth more than $3.

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