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Is there a way to see apps through Gigspot?

October 04, 2025 12:50PM
I applied to a couple shops through Blink Research on Gigspot. Is there a way to view pending applications? It's hard to tell if it's still pending or I just didn't get the shop without seeing the application. I applied for 2 dinner shops the same day thinking I wasn't assigned one and later realized that the first may not have been assigned yet.
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October 04, 2025 06:09PM
I’m not familiar with “Blink” but am with the challenges of GSpot.

Not being able to track our applications is a negative, especially when other apps and MSC’s already have the option built in.

I’ve tried reaching out to GS “support” with no success, and the reply being “there are no plans to upgrade this app.”

The only way I’m able to keep track of assignments I’ve applied for on GS is the cumbersome process of saving screen shots to file separately for review when/if there’s time.

It makes it very hard to prioritize and plan our time and results in having to decline jobs with those who take thier time choosing a contractor, due to resulting scheduling conflicts. Then the contractor is punished for the declines which are circumstances beyond our control.
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October 04, 2025 08:04PM
And you can never again access the MSCs individual job boards. So I've heard.
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October 04, 2025 09:22PM
@sestra:
Technically you can if you use a different email than the one for GS, and you don’t mind recreating your account and payment details in all the portals and checking them several times a day to see if there’s anything different there.
Lately, I’m finding it to be rewarding, because it seems what’s posted on all of the previously reliable platforms has declined dramatically in quality and quantity.

AI can’t replace us but I think they’re going to keep trying that until this business…changes enough to beat the learning curve that AI is still in “beta” mode and us more prone to the fallacy of who programs it than we are.
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October 05, 2025 01:00AM
Interesting. If you use a separate email for Gigspot you don't get flagged as a fraud when you enter all your personal info that's the same as on the original MSCs? I didn't know that. Is there stuff in GS that is not on the other job boards?
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October 05, 2025 01:25AM
I don't know if using a different email address will work, because you still have to add your SS# address and the rest of your personal info.

But if you are on Gigspot you cannot sign into the legacy sites of any of the companies that use Shopmetrics. You can only access them through Gigspot, and the MSC's do not post all of their available jobs on Gigspot, so you miss a LOT of opportunities.

It took me 3 weeks, emails, phone calls, and a lot of crap to get out of Gigspot, and I was an idiot and didn't write down the names of the companies that I had been doing jobs for before I was finally released, so I had to try to remember them, I couldn't remember all of them.
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October 05, 2025 11:48AM
I deleted my old Gigspot account so I can log in to each MSC manually and do apps on their website. I created another Gigspot account with a different email that I use mainly for searching for shops. However, I think Blink only uses Gigspot so AI have to complete reports through them. And the apps ai submitted are through Blink. I don't think it matters that the ss number is the same.
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