Sometimes I need to laugh at "increased Pay" notes

I see shopping companies often putting INCREASED FEE in large letters on shop lists. I click on to see what the big increase is and it is often $2.00. As if $2.00 is going to make me take a mattress shop that requires waiting for the staff, lying on mattresses, answering all sorts of questions. listening to a sales pitch then finding a reasons to decline the advances of the pushy sales person! Then driving home to write the report and load the picture of the front of the store which is often hard to take discretely as the sales people often watch you walk out. Two dollars. Wow! I often just laugh and click off. If they paid decent fees to start with they would not need to increase pay!

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I saw that $2 increase as well. What a joke. This shop needs to pay a much bigger bonus to overcome all that.

Whopping!
Increased!
HUGE Bonus!

2 dollars

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$2 is better than $0. It's still not good...but better.

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I enjoy doing the mattress shops. I find them relaxing and the report is so easy. However, not for $12...never. I have no problem doing them for between $25-$50...certainly not $12. They will go up, especially around a holiday when they have upcoming sales.

The other one that irks me is the smelly soap store with no pay and a measly $12 reimbursement for something I have no use for...nope...maybe for a Christmas gift, but not for $0 pay.

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And do not forget the 360 shops (that have been at the same prices for 15 years), and will increase from .50 cents to $1.00, if you take on at least a few of them and "reply to this email."

Concur on Mattress. It's certainly not 'hard' work. But - when I look at the time involved - well - speaking just for myself - $25 needs to be it. Have done a few for $30+ but $25 would be fair.

I am always intrigued when I see any bonus at all. Disappointed? Yes when I see the huge bonus is only $2. But the major disappointment is in the fact that the near me locations are almost always a minimum of an hours drive round trip and more likely are 400 miles away.

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