Multiple emails…Same shop

January 11, 2023 04:23AM

Does anybody else get 4 emails a day recruiting for the same shop? The next day it starts all over again.

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January 11, 2023 04:54AM

LOL, welcome to the mystery shopping world.

Some companies apparently feel if they flood your inbox with the same offer multiple times a day you are more likely to accept them. Some as often as two hours apart.

January 11, 2023 05:12AM

And sometimes I get four emails at a time but their list of locations vary from one to the other.

January 11, 2023 05:45AM

@sandyf wrote:

And sometimes I get four emails at a time but their list of locations vary from one to the other.

Sandy, that's usually because the different locations are at different pay levels.

Just tell me what's available at whatever price and I'll figure out whether the price is right.

January 11, 2023 07:01AM

One Company sends me emails but divides the shops by state, so I end up with 3 emails that I am just going to delete. Another Company sends the same email everyday with the same shops for the same price, but changes the title to look like they are sending new information or they have changed the price.

January 11, 2023 02:13PM

Like we can not tell. Lol. Well it is good to know I am not the only one.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2023 02:15PM by Livsmarbs.

January 11, 2023 02:36PM

I sure do. I just hit delete. Sometimes, I get so many from the same company, my inbox is so completely overflowing, I forget to head on over to see what the MSCs who don't send out emails at all have on their board.

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

January 11, 2023 11:38PM

Nah, in my area the pay remains the same even up to the last possible day to do a shop. Anyone looking at California and seeing bonus shops they are 500 miles away in the Bay Area. Never get a bonus on most shops. But some of those emails do not even have my state and they are often sent like that early in the month before even you bonus area people have a bonus.

@wrosie wrote:

@sandyf wrote:

And sometimes I get four emails at a time but their list of locations vary from one to the other.

Sandy, that's usually because the different locations are at different pay levels.

Just tell me what's available at whatever price and I'll figure out whether the price is right.

January 14, 2023 07:26PM

Low paying so called "EASY" and "FUN" shops often generate multiple emails to sucker in unsuspecting people who believe that the shops are actually easy or Fun! I am getting disgusted with shopping- I see fees not rising but price of gas rising a lot where I am- just not worth my time or effort.

January 14, 2023 07:29PM

Learn to set up email filters that dump that crap straight into a folder. Then delete the folder’s’ contents every month or so. I’ve got them set up for IPSOS, Intelli-shop, Ellis, and a few others I can’t remember.

January 14, 2023 07:44PM

Pluses and minuses to this. I just got a 20 dollar shop from Intelli to make a phone call and ask 2 questions. If I had not seen it, it would have been snatched up.

January 14, 2023 07:45PM

Yesterday, I got 3 in a row for the same shop with the heading same wording just different positioning. Delete delete delete.

January 14, 2023 08:43PM

Intellishop although has low fees especially for storage units (won’t touch that shop ever), has good paying shops every once in a while. They were my first MSC to start with several years ago.

Right now they have a beauty retailer shop that pays well. I have seen the fee drop then increase again over the past month. They also had a few decent cell phone comparison shops in the beginning of the year.

I just ignore their fast food, Home Depot, and on-site storage shops.

January 14, 2023 09:53PM

I live in a medium sized city and the good shops get snatched up fast. Despite the number of emails, I wouldn't have half the work that I did if I didn't sort through them quickly. If at all possible, with some MSCs, I try to check them the minute I get them, and a lot of times, the shops are still taken by the time I get to the board, and this is working from a home base computer. However, there are other MSCs that I ignore, and some that I have taken myself off their email list entirely.

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 01/14/2023 10:28PM by GinnyLynn.

January 14, 2023 09:56PM

If I get the four e-mails in a row with a descriptive subject line I like, I will normally go to the website and check the job board. I find it's faster.

This is especially true with IPSOS since they don't arrange their states in alphabetical order.

January 14, 2023 10:27PM

All the time.

I set up filters to automatically organize any mystery shop offers to a folder that I can easily sift through, then delete as a bulk.

Very infrequently shopping the Greater Denver Area, Colorado Springs and in-between in Colorado these days.

January 19, 2023 05:35AM

Too bad there isn't a way to opt out of that specific shop's emails for this run or have a links that allow you to provide feedback just to reduce the ridiculous amount of emails for shops that you won't do. If they had a feedback link that says you are not interested in this shop for reason a, b, or other -- like this shop is too far away from me. Maybe they could have another link that says please notify me if the shopper fee increases x% or goes over some value.

Now when I see emails from these serial same shop emailers, I just wait until late that night or a few days to look at them.

About six months ago, I emailed a scheduler back and told them I appreciate the notice of shops, but was there a way to opt out of emails for specific jobs that they had already sent me and they said no.

Is it possible that they send out 4 emails a day on the same shop so they can inflate numbers in their feedback to the client? When a client says why are so few shops being filled, the MSC has an "ain't my fault" stance and say we sent out 1.2 million emails in the last month. When it is really the same email to 10000 unique shoppers 4 times a day for 30 days in arow.

January 19, 2023 02:27PM

I agree with this! Great post.

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