Easiest shop ever?

Gonna be hard for me to top this one. Can you?

I'm out on a a gas station route, all booked through Presto.

The last of my 7 after dark shops on this run is right next to my hotel.

Got out of the car after returning from the other 2 after darks tonight, walked to the street corner, checked in on the app, took the first few shots, walked a few steps forward to change the angle for the store pic, and done.

$25 for 3 minutes and zero human interaction.

Have synthesizers, will travel...


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@Morledzep wrote:

I love dark audits..

Me too!
Sadly this year I was on vacation the first 7 days they were available. Someone else took over 200 that I've done the past 3 years or so.
Nice!

@CoolMusic wrote:

Gonna be hard for me to top this one. Can you?

I'm out on a a gas station route, all booked through Presto.

The last of my 7 after dark shops on this run is right next to my hotel.

Got out of the car after returning from the other 2 after darks tonight, walked to the street corner, checked in on the app, took the first few shots, walked a few steps forward to change the angle for the store pic, and done.

$25 for 3 minutes and zero human interaction.

Shopping Arkansas, Louisiana, & Mississippi.
Not the easiest, ever.

There was a closed location of a certain merchant. The same MSC paid me month after month for a year or so to take a photo of the vacant store. Literally a drive by. $25 per time. Except once when I forgot to pick it up until the end of the month when they tossed in an extra $10. One photo per report. And the narrative literally consisted of "This location no longer in business."

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/24/2024 12:13AM by Rousseau.
@Rousseau wrote:

Not the easiest, ever.

There was a closed location of a certain merchant. The same MSC paid me month after month for a year or so to take a photo of the vacant store. Literally a drive by. $25 per time. Except once when I forgot to pick it up until the end of the month when they tossed in an extra $10. One photo per report. And the narrative literally consisted of "This location no longer in business."

I've done a bunch of these too. Very easy! At some point you think they would take it off the list but I'm happy to get paid to confirm that yes, it's still gone.
@foodluvr wrote:

@Rousseau wrote:

Not the easiest, ever.

There was a closed location of a certain merchant. The same MSC paid me month after month for a year or so to take a photo of the vacant store. Literally a drive by. $25 per time. Except once when I forgot to pick it up until the end of the month when they tossed in an extra $10. One photo per report. And the narrative literally consisted of "This location no longer in business."

I've done a bunch of these too. Very easy! At some point you think they would take it off the list but I'm happy to get paid to confirm that yes, it's still gone.

I have come to the conclusion that the reason why some MSCs/Clients do not want shoppers who think is because they don't think themselves. So much more satisfying when both sides are thinking. As you know, the number of thinking MSCs who want thinking shoppers can be counted on one's digits.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/2024 12:38AM by Rousseau.
@Rousseau wrote:

@foodluvr wrote:

@Rousseau wrote:

Not the easiest, ever.

There was a closed location of a certain merchant. The same MSC paid me month after month for a year or so to take a photo of the vacant store. Literally a drive by. $25 per time. Except once when I forgot to pick it up until the end of the month when they tossed in an extra $10. One photo per report. And the narrative literally consisted of "This location no longer in business."

I've done a bunch of these too. Very easy! At some point you think they would take it off the list but I'm happy to get paid to confirm that yes, it's still gone.

I have come to the conclusion that the reason why some MSCs/Clients do not want shoppers who think is because they don't think themselves. So much more satisfying when both sides are thinking. As you know, the number of thinking MSCs who want thinking shoppers can be counted on one's digits.

You are not wrong! And it's the same MSCs that don't want their editors and schedulers thinking either lol
It certainly wasn't the easiest shop I've ever done, but not far from the strangest. I did a Shell debrand probably close to 7 years ago. And 2 or 3 weeks later I did the regular shop at the same Shell station with all new Shell branding and new pumps. I got paid for both shops in the same payment the following month.
easy ones are great, especially when you needed to be there anyway - but my more favorite gigs are bank bonuses - $300-$500 for about 10 minutes of my time.
oh had a funny one last week...I found a bonused valet parking shop two doors from an urban Five Guys with no parking in front....so I left my car with the valet, walked over to the Five Guys and had lunch - a generously bonused shop, finished lunch, walked back and picked up my car, got home, wrote up the two quick reports. $71 bucks plus the lunch....don't come up like this often, but thought it was interesting anyway lol...particularly since that Five Guys location has literally no nearby parking.
Nice. I love a "right place, right time" situation!

@BarefootBliss wrote:

oh had a funny one last week...I found a bonused valet parking shop two doors from an urban Five Guys with no parking in front....so I left my car with the valet, walked over to the Five Guys and had lunch - a generously bonused shop, finished lunch, walked back and picked up my car, got home, wrote up the two quick reports. $71 bucks plus the lunch....don't come up like this often, but thought it was interesting anyway lol...particularly since that Five Guys location has literally no nearby parking.
Has anyone seen the new payment for the bank account opening shops? They've REALLY taken a dive. Yikes.
@nellybean212 wrote:

Has anyone seen the new payment for the bank account opening shops? They've REALLY taken a dive. Yikes.

First week of the quarter. They will go back up.
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