Anyone doing the flu shot checks at drug warehouses med x ect? Beware I did them and at the address I was given there was a different business so I took a picture of the address and turned it in. These shops pd 15.00 apiece I took three kinda all together. When I got paid I received 1.00 apiece total 3.00 and the auditor gave me a 1 out of 10. That was not a good day.

So, please explain more. You did 3 shops at the same address? I don't know how you managed to get 3 at same place in the first place. Or, were all 3 at different addresses and none were where they were supposed to be? They pay a small token for shops that you're unable to complete. I've done a few of the flu shot ones at drug stores and all were paid in full. No problems

I did this shop and the entire neighborhood was shut down due to a power outage. I checked at 2 PM and again around 4:30 and hung around as the power had come back on but their computers were not up. I finally left at 5, sent a note to the scheduler that I could do it the next day (it was a three day window and I had chosen the first day). Finally filed the report before midnight and got paid a whole dollar! What a waste of my valuable time. Someone finally answered the messages I had sent but it was after the date of the shop.

I picked up one. Drove 30 minutes to the store but it had no pharmacy. Got paid $1. What crap is that?

Don't do them. What a waste.

Thanks for the heads up!

Hmm, I got paid for mine. Unfortunately somebody grabbed all the rest of them before I got a chance to grab them after I found out the how easy they were to do.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/09/2023 08:40PM by Morledzep.

Maybe the smart thing NOW would be to call ahead? Not worth the effort for just $1.

Obviously those who did them already did not expect this to happen, but the remaining ones that need to be done would be better served with a phone call.

I think the MSC should demand payment from the client for giving them a crap list of locations. It's not fair to the shopper, but it's also not fair to the MSC. The MSC is trying to fill shops for the client. The client is/should be responsible for the locations they give.

@hbbigdaddy wrote:

I think the MSC should demand payment from the client for giving them a crap list of locations. It's not fair to the shopper, but it's also not fair to the MSC. The MSC is trying to fill shops for the client. The client is/should be responsible for the locations they give.

And the MSP should pay the shoppers their full fee.

@Susan L.

How is the MSP/MSC going to pay full price if the client isn't going to cover that cost? It's a crap situation. I would argue as a shopper, it's my responsibility to check that what I'm about to go and do is going to be there like expected. Yes, the MSP/MSC should give the correct information, but they are not compiling the data, but instead setting up the shops on whatever platform they use based on what the client has instructed them.

This is why I generally do not pick up new assignments or random things. While in theory, some may be easy to complete, I don't like trying to learn new rules/scenarios for a limited time offering. If this flu shot shop was going to be around monthly, then I would change my mind, but the subject of "flu shots" has me believing this is a short-term project that at $15 is not worthy of my time to learn and mess with. But I don't do this for a living either, so I can be a little more selective with that I take.

My point is, I don't set out to do shops that I am uncertain if the business is there or not. I am only taking shops for places I already know. And If I don't know, I'm checking google maps or some other tool to familiarize myself before heading out the door.

@dhatley wrote:

Anyone doing the flu shot checks at drug warehouses med x ect? Beware I did them and at the address I was given there was a different business so I took a picture of the address and turned it in. These shops pd 15.00 apiece I took three kinda all together. When I got paid I received 1.00 apiece total 3.00 and the auditor gave me a 1 out of 10. That was not a good day.

What city?

I agree with hbbig daddy if you do not know the location. In my case it was an unpredictable power outage but I usually check addresses even in the city where stores are almost always open the posted hours. Website postings on hours and prices (for restaurants) seem no longer to be relevant due to staffing shortages so closing early and constant inflation of prices etc. I find google earth works to see a location and yelp will often tell you a location is closed. Sort by most recent posting.

@hbbigdaddy wrote:

@Susan L.

How is the MSP/MSC going to pay full price if the client isn't going to cover that cost? It's a crap situation. I would argue as a shopper, it's my responsibility to check that what I'm about to go and do is going to be there like expected. Yes, the MSP/MSC should give the correct information, but they are not compiling the data, but instead setting up the shops on whatever platform they use based on what the client has instructed them.

This is why I generally do not pick up new assignments or random things. While in theory, some may be easy to complete, I don't like trying to learn new rules/scenarios for a limited time offering. If this flu shot shop was going to be around monthly, then I would change my mind, but the subject of "flu shots" has me believing this is a short-term project that at $15 is not worthy of my time to learn and mess with. But I don't do this for a living either, so I can be a little more selective with that I take.

My point is, I don't set out to do shops that I am uncertain if the business is there or not. I am only taking shops for places I already know. And If I don't know, I'm checking google maps or some other tool to familiarize myself before heading out the door.

@hbbigdaddy I agree with @Susan L. The client should pay the full fee for shops even when they submit bad information. The shopper is still providing data -- in this case that there is no pharmacy at that location. Shouldn't the client know which locations have pharmacies? I don't know how anyone can argue that this information is only worth a buck.

Making the client pay the MSP the full rate for non existent or closed locations like this would incentivize the client to provide accurate data. Making them submit correct data is critical to the process and it is irrelevant if you don't tend to do these types of shops or if you are part/full time. I haven't done this shop either. It is a slap in the face to the shopper to pay them $1 for the knowledge.

There have been many discussions on the board that for other shops, they don't answer the phone most of the time where the guidelines say call before you go. So it is problematic if you are trying to verify their hours and there is no information available online.

Google and the company website do not always have accurate data. I wanted to get a haircut yesterday at Supercuts and saw on the company website that a particular location closed in 50 minutes and I was a few minutes away. When I got there it looked closed, but I got out and pulled on the door and it was locked. No one answered the number that I had dialed as I walked to the building. Google also had the same wrong information concerning their hours.

@dhatley I would reach out to the MSP about the grade of 1. That is a mistake that they need to correct.

@heywave

I agree the shopper should get the full fee. $1 is not sufficient. But @Susan L. wrote "And the MSP should pay the shoppers their full fee"

Is MSP the one that should pay it if the client is not going to pay them for it? That is not realistic. What should happen and what does happen are not always the same thing.

@hbbigdaddy wrote:

@heywave

I agree the shopper should get the full fee. $1 is not sufficient. But @Susan L. wrote "And the MSP should pay the shoppers their full fee"

Is MSP the one that should pay it if the client is not going to pay them for it? That is not realistic. What should happen and what does happen are not always the same thing.

The biggest problem is the Walgreens buy out of the 3 drug store chains was in 2012. In 11 years the vaccine manufacturer didn't notice they were receiving checks from Walgreens instead of the MedX drugstore and update the client list?
There are other problems with this campaign it wasn't just the $1 which doesn't even cover gas across town let alone driving time and time to complete a report with uploading pictures.
The vaccines for the 2023 flu season starting in late September early October has to be ordered in January. For Walgreens the order comes from a central ordering and the vaccine company used us for $1 to update their client list. Anyone who did these took money out of their pocket to give the MSMs client the information.
I wrote the project manager thru the Sassie system for the individual job and was ignored. There was no explanation as to why it was only $1.

Other companies from what i have read here give half the fee. I was expecting to get $7-8. $1 is laughable. I think these msc think we live just around the corner from every shop so no time wasted. I spent at least 45 minutes waiting for my store to open back up again as all the others around were up and running and I expected them to open any minute. My CVS store had lights but their computers had not come back online. Probably no one in the store had the knowledge how to do that. I actually spent more time on this shop then I would have spent had the store been open.

Well at least I got my dollar quickly. Exactly a week since I did(n't) do the job. I am making a list of all the fantastic things I can buy with it. Maybe those of you who do the $1 reimbursement gas station jobs can help me out with suggestions.

Is this the shop where you must portray and elderly person 65 or older?

How did you do this if you were not that old? Makeup? Dress differently?

Did you have to ask about the difference in injections?

@French Farmer wrote:

Is this the shop where you must portray and elderly person 65 or older?

How did you do this if you were not that old? Makeup? Dress differently?

Did you have to ask about the difference in injections?

I am 62 so it wasn't much of a stretch.

Yes, you're supposed to ask if they recommend the senior flu vaccine as opposed to the regular one and record what they say.

The way I read the rules you are supposed to actually be 65 or more. It did not say anything about portraying. But perhaps my scheduler sent an email worded differently.

They had one on the board here that closed down about 15 years ago! I didn't request it.

You could have made yourself $1 by just filling out the form that it was closed :-P

@meanviking wrote:

They had one on the board here that closed down about 15 years ago! I didn't request it.

@hbbigdaddy wrote:

You could have made yourself $1 by just filling out the form that it was closed :-P

@meanviking wrote:

They had one on the board here that closed down about 15 years ago! I didn't request it.

No you needed a picture of the building with the address.

Yeah, I saw something like you all described. I checked the pharmacies and found they were suppliers to senior care homes. I said no thanks.

They were at different address but $ 1.00 for each location that’s crap usually you get at least half the fee. I’ve been shopping since 1998 so no more of the flu shot shops for me.

Tulsa, Ok

@dhatley wrote:

Tulsa, Ok

I sent a PM to you.