Exxon/Mobile Lighting Availability

Is it just me, or did these all disappear pretty quickly? I know we're not supposed to start them until September 2nd, but I planned/reserved some for an area near me on Friday, and there were a ton left over. I went back on today, and they're literally all gone. I check other cities where I remember seeing them (even though I don't live nearby), and those areas are all taken too. I wonder if they were on a quota setup, where if a certain amount is done, then the rest isn't necessary?

EDIT: I realize my auto correct changed it to "Mobile" - oops

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/01/2025 05:03PM by scottsteg.

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I first saw them on Friday, August 28th. It looked like a pre-launch where you grab a location, but you can't perform the actual shop until September 2 (the form won't appear until that date). Once the date begins, you have 5 days to complete the job before it gets released from your reservation. I always depended on these around now and suddenly they all went into the ether. Not even some remote location way far.
The limit is 20. Maybe you have some enthusiastic shoppers nearby.
@sestrahelena wrote:

The limit is 20. Maybe you have some enthusiastic shoppers nearby.

I take it back. My new theory is that there is a national limit and once that is reached they all disappear. I believe the purpose is to not flood the editing and payroll departments with everything all at once.
I'm thinking there is a quota of how many can be assigned overall at a given time because i canceled one I couldn't get to tonight and many popped up. They were gone again within a few minutes.
@scottsteg wrote:

Is it just me, or did these all disappear pretty quickly? I know we're not supposed to start them until September 2nd, but I planned/reserved some for an area near me on Friday, and there were a ton left over. I went back on today, and they're literally all gone. I check other cities where I remember seeing them (even though I don't live nearby), and those areas are all taken too. I wonder if they were on a quota setup, where if a certain amount is done, then the rest isn't necessary?

EDIT: I realize my auto correct changed it to "Mobile" - oops
Ah yes, the Quota... Makes sense now. I wish they would say something to that effect in the requirements like "limit x shops per person" or "once a required amount of tasks are completed, others will no longer be needed" or then what I call the Pokemon rule which is "gotta catch 'em all."
I picked up the max amount and usually when I start submitting them I can see additional ones but I cannot. I know last time, more appeared at a later time, probably after people started getting rejections.
I only picked up 11 when it came out and I have seen anymore available ever since
@scottsteg wrote:

Ah yes, the Quota... Makes sense now. I wish they would say something to that effect in the requirements like "limit x shops per person" or "once a required amount of tasks are completed, others will no longer be needed" or then what I call the Pokemon rule which is "gotta catch 'em all."

That's exactly how I view it as I'm snagging shop bundles and thinking of Pokemon! "Gotta catch 'em all!"
I was told I was banned from doing them. I've completed them successfully for a few years now. I never let them fall off. I don't know what I did to piss them off, but something had to happen. I can still accept this company's work on their own website. I just can't accept jobs on the Otter network.
The ones in my area disappeared, and they came back this weekend and I snagged another 11. I am traveling this Saturday and looked at my destination, and there is a massive dividing line between "lots available" and "absolutely nothing" with a major interstate as the boundary. I know the area and almost every station along either side of the boundary (it's where I lived for over 20 years) , and no sane shopper would have not crossed the interstate for one or two easy ones.

So my guess is that they are only accepting a certain volume of shops for each reviewer each week or two. The title implies that they have multiple months to knock all this out.

These have been one of my favorite shops so far in my ten weeks of doing MS. Make $70-80 in an evening driving a little and listening to podcasts or sports, working 8 minutes, and moving on to the next one. I just wish that the "time finished" question was at the very end of the survey.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/08/2025 06:08PM by nc-retiree.
Retiree- hit "I'm done" at the end of the survey and it will bring you right back up to the time out box so you don't have to scroll around so much.
I did not realize there is a quota. I do know that there are no September Shops. This happened once before when I did Chevron shops for Maritz. Then they were gone.
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