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Marathon Returns! Underwhelming

January 06, 2023 09:13PM
It's the same. They disappear before they are bumped in pay. They take about 15 minutes. I wish they still had an app. It is quicker to pay and does not have as many pictures.
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January 06, 2023 09:48PM
@heywave wrote:

Are the new Marathon shop and reveals the same as what is being discussed in this thread? For this Marathon assignment they want you to go in the store, visit the bathroom no pics, make observations in the C-store no small item purchase, and then go back to your car to get the letter, put on your safety vest, go inside and present the letter and take pics outside and make more observations for $10.00.

No gas purchase, no small item purchase, no reimbursement.

Has anyone done these and how long do they take? If this is the same as the ones discussed in this thread, how long did it take before they were bumped in pay?

I haven't done one because someone took them all (even the CRAZY hard to schedule locations) at $10. Or what appears to me to be $10 as they were never bumped. Maybe someone has inside contacts & got a route at higher pay, but of course I have no knowledge of that.
They are easy, but I'm not going to make a route of them at $10.
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January 13, 2023 12:43AM
So somebody took all 3 in a small town but left other gas brands, shipping, a bank and drive in shop still on the board? So they're going there for $30? I can't figure it. Why not just grab them all and make it a day? I considered it myself but the dates didn't go out far enough and had other areas to go to this week.
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January 13, 2023 12:58AM
Are all the shops with the same MSC? If not, the Shopper who took the three might not be signed up with other MSCs.
@sestrahelena wrote:

So somebody took all 3 in a small town but left other gas brands, shipping, a bank and drive in shop still on the board? So they're going there for $30? I can't figure it. Why not just grab them all and make it a day? I considered it myself but the dates didn't go out far enough and had other areas to go to this week.

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008
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January 13, 2023 01:12AM
@sestrahelena The Marathons have been extended to Jan 28. Still no bump in pay though. I am confused too when I see a shop picked up in the furthest point of a remote area, especially a one way in, one way out scenario, and leave other shops that are still remote, but closer in. Shops that you would pass on the way to that distant shop.
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January 13, 2023 02:02AM
@myst4au wrote:

Are all the shops with the same MSC? If not, the Shopper who took the three might not be signed up with other MSCs.
@sestrahelena wrote:

So somebody took all 3 in a small town but left other gas brands, shipping, a bank and drive in shop still on the board? So they're going there for $30? I can't figure it. Why not just grab them all and make it a day? I considered it myself but the dates didn't go out far enough and had other areas to go to this week.

Yep. All the same Walmart-like MSC.
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January 13, 2023 02:03AM
@sestrahelena wrote:

So somebody took all 3 in a small town but left other gas brands, shipping, a bank and drive in shop still on the board? So they're going there for $30? I can't figure it. Why not just grab them all and make it a day? I considered it myself but the dates didn't go out far enough and had other areas to go to this week.

I think the MSC plays games to make things look more urgent the next time the shops post (or when they return with a couple bucks bonus). Shops disappear too often and reappear. Just my $.02 - take or leave smiling smiley
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January 13, 2023 01:02PM
Yes! I 100% think the MSC pulls them & then puts them back on so that you will think 'man, i should grab these before someone else takes them again'



@patman9760 wrote:

@sestrahelena wrote:

So somebody took all 3 in a small town but left other gas brands, shipping, a bank and drive in shop still on the board? So they're going there for $30? I can't figure it. Why not just grab them all and make it a day? I considered it myself but the dates didn't go out far enough and had other areas to go to this week.

I think the MSC plays games to make things look more urgent the next time the shops post (or when they return with a couple bucks bonus). Shops disappear too often and reappear. Just my $.02 - take or leave smiling smiley
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