What is the highest you have negotiated for Five Guys? I constantly see them on the board for $25. I have tried making an offer for $30 (and even $27-28) but it is almost never accepted, which is annoying because the make an offer button is there but they won't accept a couple dollars over the current pay rate? There was even one time I put in a request fof $35, it was denied, then later they increased the pay to $35 anyway! So I'm curious, what is the highest rate you have gotten for one of these jobs?

Best I ever got was $30.

I get emails all the time from Samantha, their automated system. It is always $1 over the offered fee. I usually respond to these when the money is good. $16/$19/$26 are my usual fees. I do not use the Make Offer button. I've gotten up to $10 offer a higher shop fee for other shops.

Most I have done it for is $40. I have done it several times for $40.

My $25 locations are being offered to me at $30 now. This is from schedulers, not Sam or MOA.

I am normally at $27 but got $50 once

I do them for the standard fee of $15. Never seen them higher in my area. I mostly do it for the free meal. Sounds like I need to figure out the system! I get auto emails from Samantha about Sonic but not 5 Guys.

$50

Um, these are only $15 in my area! $15 reimbursement and 15 for pay.

I always figure out what I'll do a shop for. Currently that is $30, which I've gotten multiple times.

Then I do MAO for $36 figuring I can then come down twice to $33 and then $30. I then decide if I really want to do the shop at this time for $30. I've gotten $33 once using this method and have gotten $30 rejected when the MAO was at $25.

One location a couple hundred miles from me I can get consistently for $35. I only take it when I'm driving by it though, either doing other shops or visiting family nearby.

Overseas scheduler: $25
US scheduler: $35
Job board, new to me location: $15

I used to get $45 consistently for the shops closest to me and $55 occasionally for a shop that I had to travel a long way to get to. But something changed last year, they don't accept my offers any more. So I dont do very much work for them anymore.

I think I remember you mentioning your son does MSC too. Do they not accept his offers either? Do you think it's just you? If they accept his offers and not yours and it's the same amounts, then maybe they have you on a list. You would know for sure if you make an offer first and he makes an offer for $2 higher. If they pick his and not yours...then they don't like you. I say you test out the theory and let us know.

@Morledzep wrote:

I used to get $45 consistently for the shops closest to me and $55 occasionally for a shop that I had to travel a long way to get to. But something changed last year, they don't accept my offers any more. So I dont do very much work for them anymore.

@hbbigdaddy wrote:

I think I remember you mentioning your son does MSC too. Do they not accept his offers either? Do you think it's just you? If they accept his offers and not yours and it's the same amounts, then maybe they have you on a list. You would know for sure if you make an offer first and he makes an offer for $2 higher. If they pick his and not yours...then they don't like you. I say you test out the theory and let us know.

HB, he mostly only does fast food shops and door dashing. He has been having trouble getting them to accept his offers too, but he calls and talks to them, he doesn't do the MAO on the website or app. The best he's been able to get recently is $35. So he only does them when he's going to be in the area anyway.

You're right, we should test your theory, they don't call and offer me jobs anymore either.

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I looked at my previous 5G instructions: They allow (2) shops in a day - but must be different time periods. Question: Anyone know how often you can shop the *same* 5G store? Thanks

@BabyBooey19 wrote:

I looked at my previous 5G instructions: They allow (2) shops in a day - but must be different time periods. Question: Anyone know how often you can shop the *same* 5G store? Thanks

Off the top of my head I think it's 30 days.

@Amarsir wrote:

@BabyBooey19 wrote:

I looked at my previous 5G instructions: They allow (2) shops in a day - but must be different time periods. Question: Anyone know how often you can shop the *same* 5G store? Thanks

Off the top of my head I think it's 30 days.

I thought it was 3 weeks?

Back to topic, $40 is my record. $25-$30 is more typical.

In my area the standard fee is $10 (AND the reimbursement falls $2 short of a little burger, fries and drink). I recently got a Samantha offer for $15. I won't consider this for anything less than $25.

I had been doing them in the 4 corners area for $ 80 each. It was 200 miles and 4 hours.. It was the best I could get. Northern AZ in Flag I have been able to get $ 70 IF they were hard up. Alb, not more than $ 35

I regularly get $40 for some locations one hour from my home but have received as much as $75.

Highest offer was $50 for job 50+ miles from home.

$45

It REALLY does seem to correlate to what you have accepted before AND takes a lot of rejection to finally move the needle.

I've done them for all sorts of prices for a variety of reasons.

The BEST was $50 for a location out of my way.
The WORST was $12 many years ago.
The AVERAGE is $20 - $30 for locations near me.

If you stand FIRM and PASS on $18 - $25 OVER and OVER you can eventually get them to negotiate more.

STILL $30-$45 are rarer than $18 - $25

Haven't gotten to yet. In my area they start at 10, 12, 15 - - then at 18 people start nibbling. I've done 2 completed, and 1 today. I like it. But - I can't see going a dime lower than 18 as the food costs a smidge more than the reimbursement. Has to be my area, and mini $18. I don't degrade someone for taking 10 - everyone has their own reasons for doing this, but I can wish that they'd all just say "25!" and that's that.

for the last months I am getting offers from Samanta with the same price that they offer on the board $15. The highest I got for 5 Guys was $10 for delivery (which is in 2 minutes drive from my residence) and $25 for regular (but with decent travel in my area) and $22 for Sonic.

The shopping rotation depends on how many shops are in between. For example, if you do one today, you can't do it again until X # are completed by other shoppers.

Interesting take on this...I get that we all have our price, but when shopper costs are pushed up past a certain amount it no longer becomes financially beneficial for a company to do business with that client, thus the account being lost and maybe it does or maybe it doesn't get picked up with another company - we all lose. The higher the cost to shop a location, the more time and energy a company will spend on recruiting for new shoppers.
My post is not meant to imply anyone should or shouldn't do anything different, just putting a different perspective out there.

You are right that we COULD price ourselves out of shopping altogether. I just think people want something fair and in the middle. As we have seen with many MSC....the rates and reimbursement do not rise even though the menu prices rise and the cost of inflation continues to go up.

I doubt you are working for the same pay you were working for 3-5 years ago. Some of these shops (maybe not all with your company) pay the same fee they did 5 years ago and some pay even what they did 10 years ago. Who is benefitting from that? I'm sure the MSC has raised their price to the client, so the shopper is the loser.

You have other shops you offer $9.00 reimburse and $0 pay and the $9 does NOT even cover the required purchase. I think that is what infuriates most shoppers with your company. Your company was a behemoth and had many clients, so you could get away with dictating the market pricing for shops for a long time.

Why NOT offer FULL reimbursement for 1 "little" burger, 1 little fries and a 1 fountain drink. Instead you offer a reimbursement that is less than the required purchase. You might argue you can get a hot dog or some other item that might be less. People are going to the BURGER place because that is the name. Who goes to Red Lobster to order vegetarian or chicken dishes? You shop s BURGER place for a BURGER.

@mfisherri wrote:

Interesting take on this...I get that we all have our price, but when shopper costs are pushed up past a certain amount it no longer becomes financially beneficial for a company to do business with that client, thus the account being lost and maybe it does or maybe it doesn't get picked up with another company - we all lose. The higher the cost to shop a location, the more time and energy a company will spend on recruiting for new shoppers.
My post is not meant to imply anyone should or shouldn't do anything different, just putting a different perspective out there.

After several years I've negotiated several locations at "acceptable" fees. I will say that when I recently engaged in "make an offer", the system advised to make another offer at least $3 lower. When I did so, the system responded with yet a lower offer. I will always decline a "round three." So I let it go.

Also, I found the system maintains a history of your highest fee. So you should never accept below that or you will not easily regain your previous high.

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