You can always cross-check the job boards in those folks areas if you are skeptical. Just remember that the best bonuses come over the phone or email.
Currently, I am getting great bonuses through my favorite apartment MSC. Feel free to check the job board - you'll see shops advertised at $70+. The same MSC has jobs around a very large city near where you live for about the same amount - though most of them where you are have been scooped up. I have had recent emails asking me to pick up audio recorded visits for just over $100.
Last night, another MSC called and asked if I can pick up their last two gas station shops in Western Washington. One is a 7-hour round trip that requires entering and crossing through a corner of Canada (border crossings, passports, etc.). The other is on an island and requires a ferry ride. The MSC has three days to have the shops filled. Yes, they are willing to offer a substantial bonus for them.
I admit it: Aside from some video shops that pay well anyhow and casinos where I do well playing cards, I rarely take shops without a solid bonus. When MSC's are not offering bonuses, I do the casinos and video work. When they are offering bonuses, I pick up those shops. I've taken the time to know how the MSC's in my area operate with their shopper pay and I shop accordingly.
I also have some advantages: There are relatively few shoppers in the Seattle area, so MSC's often struggle to get shops filled - so they add incentives. There are even fewer shoppers willing to write long narratives or do video. There are also a lot of rural areas with no shoppers within two hours of my house. Shops in these locations are often well-bonused. Of course, I often make offers to schedulers, asking for bonuses.
@Irene_L.A. wrote:
I may be wrong but I get a "feeling" that some embellish their bonus's, getting huge bonus for every job...really?
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