More Tasks on the Shipping Shops, Same Meager Pay

Just a head's up, 2 new tasks have been added to the shipping shops:

1. Mandatory to upload a screenshot showing the location hours. They also want this photo to be geotagged which is silly since its a screenshot of a website. This MSC continues not to know how to use ISS correctly, sigh.

2. Now you must confirm that you completed the shop, what the package weighs and sign your name on a statement saying you read the guidelines. Yes, for every location you complete.

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I just did a completely unrelated shop that is reported through ISS and it also had a new question promising I had read the guidelines. Maybe ISS is promoting that? I did not have to sign, just mark a bubble.
Another MSC always thanks me in comments that I followed the guidelines. This makes me think there are Jamokes out there who do shops without reading what needs to be done.
As the pay gets lower and lower, the quality of work received as a whole decreases. I have no doubt that the mystery shopping company in question is having issues with shops done incorrectly or poorly. They took a project that used to pay quite a bit more with another mystery shopping company. They're trying to get the same work done and pay very little considering the amount of work.

These questions are a feeble attempt to try to increase the quality of the work received without increasing the pay. It's saddens me that shoppers take these shops and reward the company for their behavior.

However, we can complain and moan and complain and all of that. As long as people continue to take the shops, nothing will change. From what I see, however, quite a few of these shops just don't get done. It's possible that they have a new contract that does not require 100% completion. It might not even require anything close to 100% completion, because I know they're not getting anywhere near that.
Wow, the details of #1 is ridiculous.
All that for a lovely five bucks! I miss doing these shops, been over a year, but not with this MSC!
This MSC definitely employs the Arab/camel philosophy of business and they seem to be successful with that model. Until and/or unless there are no more shoppers willing and/or needing to accept the work, they do not have any incentive to change.
I did one of these with the new MSC a few months ago. I have no incentive to do any more, especially with these new requirements. I miss them with the old MSC!
For me it is an issue with reimbursement,.Living on one edge of the continent I cannot mail to friends/family without going over the reimbursement. There have been numerous price increases in postage since the last time they upped the reimbursement. If I could get my mailings reimbursed completely I would be more likely to take jobs even with a slightly lower pay. I do not want out of pocket expense for these shops. The shop no longer has value in it for both the reimbursement shoppers who really want to mail something and the fee shoppers who want to earn more than $5.
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