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wooohooo just saw phone shop posted for $2.00!

May 05, 2024 07:43PM
Not a misprint- a call to a storage place for $2.00! Cannot wait to not sign up as the shop fee is an insult! Hope no one signs up. My fingers will not dial for such a low fee!
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May 05, 2024 10:36PM
Several yrs. ago, Trendsource listed phone shops for 50 cents.
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May 05, 2024 10:54PM
I might do it for $2 if the total time of reading the instructions, dialing the phone, talking to the employee and entering the shop takes less than 6 minutes smiling smiley
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May 06, 2024 05:37PM
CRI is back what?

shopping north west PA and south west ny
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May 08, 2024 03:16PM
My minimum for a phone shop is $5 - and that is assuming that I don't have to wait for X number of days to see if I get a follow up call or contact from the client. What is everyone else's minimum pay for doing a simple phone shop?
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May 08, 2024 03:26PM
And it's just like any other shop - you get into a groove after a couple of them. I lucked out a while back and was able to snag ***42*** phone shops for one client at $8 each, and was able to spread it out over a week.

When they allowed me to sign up for each one, I really thought there was a mistake and they were going to pull some of them back from me, but they didn't. Usually there's a limit of 5 or 10 per round.
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May 08, 2024 07:33PM
@MysteryHulk wrote:

My minimum for a phone shop is $5 - and that is assuming that I don't have to wait for X number of days to see if I get a follow up call or contact from the client. What is everyone else's minimum pay for doing a simple phone shop?

$5 as well. I also don't do virtual tour shops since it gives the employee time to make small talk with me. I also don't do shops where I have to ask for the target by name because a "friend or family member" wouldn't recommend them to me unless the leasing agent knew them personally. Leasing agents on reddit have also said that it's a dead giveaway that they are talking to a shopper because people looking for an apartment don't care who they talk to.

For retail shops (i.e. car shops) my minimum is more because those usually require follow-up. I also don't do car shops where I have to ask for a salesman by name unless the person happens to have great reviews online. Then I can say that I read the reviews and only want to work with them. As someone who purchased a brand new car recently, it's what I did to find a salesman who wouldn't waste my time.
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May 08, 2024 09:40PM
Surely this was just a bad joke.
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May 13, 2024 06:45PM
My minimum for phone shops is generally $10, but I will sometimes make exceptions for as low as $8 if I know it's easy or I have a good relationship with the scheduler.
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May 13, 2024 06:46PM
My minimum for phone shops is generally $10, but I will sometimes make exceptions for as low as $8 if I know it's easy or I have a good relationship with the scheduler.
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May 13, 2024 08:40PM
@hamptonroadsva wrote:

I might do it for $2 if the total time of reading the instructions, dialing the phone, talking to the employee and entering the shop takes less than 6 minutes smiling smiley

Even better when the shop posting includes the words, "Quick and easy," right?
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May 14, 2024 01:27PM
@LindaS wrote:

@hamptonroadsva wrote:

I might do it for $2 if the total time of reading the instructions, dialing the phone, talking to the employee and entering the shop takes less than 6 minutes smiling smiley

Even better when the shop posting includes the words, "Quick and easy," right?

Those are trigger words for me, because usually that means "lengthy and difficult" lol
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