Gas station shops on Presto that are $33 right now, are they similar to the other ones on Ipsos sassie where I have to reveal and evaluate the gas station?

Oh, they went up! Yay, only $27 more to go!

Wilson, yes. They are two shops combined. One used to be a picture audit and the other was the mystery shop with the reveal and audit. Now instead of paying $18 for each one, which you could schedule and do together on the same day. So they combined the shps and offered us less money for twice the work.

I am holding out until they raise the pay to $60, which still isn’t double what they would have paid before.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/06/2022 03:06AM by Morledzep.

Yes they’re similar. If the app is working then they’re often easier because you input into app. As mentioned this is a double this quarter. Normally the singles were at this pay, or close to it, at this point in the quarter. And of course with rising gas prices, the gasoline reimbursement is even less meaningful than before.
The editing is more particular for this brand. If you try one, make sure it’s local so you can return if you need to for something you’ve missed.

Most people here quibble about money/time/value, etc. Yes, the combined shop this quarter instead of the previous separate shops really does rip us off. But the REAL problem here is that even though it is NOT in the guidelines, they will e-mail you and tell you that NOW you must enter the Pumps in numerical order. Since this makes THEIR job easier and our job harder, you might not want to bother with it. Entering them in order means at a busy station you may have to wait much longer to finish your pump photos in order to meet THEIR request. OR they say you can jump around and shoot them in any order BUT you must enter them in order. Which means you enter for the pump, then you have to back out to the previous menu, find the next pump photo to enter, etc.
If you jump around while making the photos, you have to jump back and forth in the APP to enter them as well. This all adds time and effort to give them what they want (and STILL not in the guidelines)
YMMV

Yeah after doing over 150 of these, this is a no for that pay. Gas to the next shop, 60 to 90 minutes each, in 98 degree heat for 33? Nope 60, I’ll reconsider

@Mrcleandpsyahoo.com wrote:

Yeah after doing over 150 of these, this is a no for that pay. Gas to the next shop, 60 to 90 minutes each, in 98 degree heat for 33? Nope 60, I’ll reconsider

I like the way you think. Unfortunately somebody in my area decided that $33 was good enough. Everything for a 100 miles around me is gone.

I really don't see the issues everyone has eth these at this price. I have been doing them for years, and maybe I've just got my system down, but I never go over 45 minutes. I did an 18 pump station yesterday with graffiti everywhere and finished in 43 minutes. Even with 15 minute travel to my next stop, I'll take $33/hr. The combined report is much faster than doing two seperate reports as in the past, plus they only allowed both after a month of the shops being posted, otherwise it was a day apart.

Why does everyone work so hard to defend lower fees? Last year one could do both shops at once starting from day 1. But the visual was significantly faster so many did a route just of visuals then there were only consumers left. Last q the fee for a single (a single plus, since they had already included a few visual questions) was already $30 at this time of the quarter. Last q fees were already lower than the previous one.
So you can do them really fast (I assume you’re including all the time to submit on site?) How nice for you. Between signal and app issues and needing to move out of direct sunlight to see iPhone screen and waiting in line I usually can’t (and definitely not 18 pumps with graffiti since customers are in the way as well), and from what I’ve seen from the comments here, most can’t. Your speed has nothing to do with the fact that the fee is lower than previous years. And no one who defends reduced fees ever counts the time for planning Route, taking and passing quiz, printing paperwork , checking the update letter, bookkeeping/paperwork, and the fact that the fica tax is double that of a waged employee. And for this brand gasoline reimbursements may not cover real gas cost (and there are other costs which is why the IRS has the mileage amount at 62.5 cents per mileage), it’s increasingly hard to find any market item for under $1, printing fees, etc.

@Curtzey wrote:

I really don't see the issues everyone has eth these at this price. I have been doing them for years, and maybe I've just got my system down, but I never go over 45 minutes. I did an 18 pump station yesterday with graffiti everywhere and finished in 43 minutes. Even with 15 minute travel to my next stop, I'll take $33/hr. The combined report is much faster than doing two seperate reports as in the past, plus they only allowed both after a month of the shops being posted, otherwise it was a day apart.

If you want to sit and wait for bigger pay, go wild. But you don't get to complain that others are better able to handle the work and make money. I'm sorry you can't figure out how it works and get a phone you can actually see the screen. You asked why people take them, the answer you don't like is that we like money and get it. In the last hour i finished a $33 BP and a $20 Exxon, reports submitted. I'm happy with my pay and am not willing to risk that I "might" get more at some unknown point in the future.

I didn’t ask why people take them. I bemoaned that fees are going down and that shoppers are defending lower fees.
It’s not the phone, it’s the sun and some of us are over 40.
You completed two gas stations at different addresses, submitted in an hour, including one on Sassie? Ok.
I’m not complaining that some people do it faster. I’m complaining that some people are defending lower fees in 2022 than in 2021, and think that because they do it fast everyone should receive excrement pay compared to previous years.
I have never told people what pay to do work for; I have always said because of my personal situation I too do shops at fees that are too low. But I don’t defend the fees and I try my best not to set future rates ridiculously low. Someone did a double shop for $28 that in the 6 quarters I’ve done this brand has never gone for less than $150. Yes they should have risked $28 instead of lowering the historic price for everyone. You’re happy to receive less pay in 2022 with inflation that is higher than it has been in four decades, fine. Just don’t ask the rest of us to be cheerleaders for transnational corporations with billions in revenue that reduce shoppers fees by more than a third when inflation is through the roof, and to argue against other shopper’s self-interest.

@Curtzey wrote:

If you want to sit and wait for bigger pay, go wild. But you don't get to complain that others are better able to handle the work and make money. I'm sorry you can't figure out how it works and get a phone you can actually see the screen. You asked why people take them, the answer you don't like is that we like money and get it. In the last hour i finished a $33 BP and a $20 Exxon, reports submitted. I'm happy with my pay and am not willing to risk that I "might" get more at some unknown point in the future.

As for the pay being lower, the work is lower, a lot lower. The old report would take 30 minutes to do a full audit and 20 for a visual, usually on two seperate visits. Now the visual is about 20 questions, most not requiring pictures unless something is wrong. No taking 2 pictures of all the pumps, the MID, the canopy... you don't even have to take a picture of the pump if something is wrong. So the starting pay went from $18 to $25, a 40% increase to add about 10% to the report. I'm good with them making that change. It seems to be in my favor.
Are bonuses lower? Yes, but it has always been a thing when there are more shoppers. More people in the last six months have started looking at side hustles and we have lots of new shoppers. The same thing is happening Werth other gig work. I have friends doing grocery delivery, and they are seeing a huge drop in available work. They will take some low paying jobs, eventually figure out they aren't making enough money and they will move on or get more discerning. But some of these high paying remote locations, might not be so remote for a new shopper and they are willing to do the job cheaper because it is right next to their house.