Dear Intelli-Shop: Your forms are heinous

2 of the intellishop schedulers do a great job with me. While I wish the pay did not take 2-3 months I'm happy with Intellishop overall. I think they just may have 1 really nitpicky proofreader that made me do a double take a couple of times. I dont want to let 1 bad apple spoil the bunch.

risinghorizon Wrote:
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> spree Wrote:
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> > I think some evaluaters there are different
> than
> > others. I think there may be one there that
> sends
> > everything back asking for more information.
>
>
> That is my suspicion too. And she/he must be
> editing for another MSC as well. And the pay is
> too slow. When I deactivated my account, my pay
> remained pending. As soon as I reactivated it, I
> received my pay for one but one is still pending
> so I guess I will stay reactivated but I have
> stopped doing anything for them.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/15/2012 01:34AM by spree.

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Sidenote: I've decided ClientSmart is worse than Sassie, especially for those of us who want to save a copy of the "review all answers" screen and must backtrack two or three steps just to get to it because it doesn't come up in the page-by-page progression of the reports. I don't know if it's a ClientSmart thing or if it's how the individual MSC enters their forms, but it's enough to drive a shopper to drink...And not just virtually, Virgil and Virginia, wherever you are!

*Head thumping on desk after entering almost 70 reports on that platform over the last few weeks*

I've been doing this for 1 1/2 years and printing everything, but after reading these posts am rethinking that! However, for a while now I've been trying to print 4 pages to a sheet. Some come out too small to read but most are manageable so it saves even more paper than 2 to a sheet.

I like Intelli-shop. The only issue I have is their gift shops. I don't know if the client is picky or the editor assigned to those shops is, but I hate them. I only do them if I'm doing a route and the shop is on the route or across from it, and there's a bonus attached. The reimbursement sucks and the detail they want in that eval is ridiculous. Just put on a name badge that says "Mystery Shopper" and call it a day. Not worth it, IMO.

I don't do their car shops (because car shops make me feel bad inside) and I did the electronic purchase and return once and a merch audit (for Intelli-shop) in the same store. That was announced, so I will never be doing that place again...which is okay because the same people work there and I know they'd spot me eventually. I guess the form complexity depends on which shops you take. I've done way worse ones though.

BTW, I'm not in any way affiliated with Intelli-shop any more than you all are. Just giving my opinion.

In what way do the car shops make you feel bad? Is it because you feel like you're leading the salesperson on when you know you're not going to buy? If that's the reason, think about it this way: By receiving feedback on his performance, that salesperson may see a great increase in his sales. Your review may be the catalyst for all kinds of positive things if he heeds the feedback.

That's it exactly. I do try to look at it that way. It's just a bit harder to do when the lot is busy and full of potential customers...and me...lol. I feel like by taking up the sales persons time and potentially making other customer's wait for an available rep., somehow I'm causing more trouble. I know it's all in my head and I've done 3 car shops, one of which was such a good experience, I will return just to buy the Audi (that I cannot afford) from this particular genltleman! LOL. Thanks for helping me get out of my own head :-) I'll eventually do more car shops, they are fun and easy, just gotta look at them as positive things in the long run.
TechSavvy Wrote:
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> In what way do the car shops make you feel bad? Is
> it because you feel like you're leading the
> salesperson on when you know you're not going to
> buy? If that's the reason, think about it this
> way: By receiving feedback on his performance,
> that salesperson may see a great increase in his
> sales. Your review may be the catalyst for all
> kinds of positive things if he heeds the feedback.

If at all possible try to go at the least busy times. In addition to what you mentioned there is an added benefit that you won't have to wait and can keep your shop time down. Stay away from the end of the month and try to go on weekday mornings. It's no guarantee, but should help. Even if they don't forbid weekends try your best to avoid them and evenings.

Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.

^ What she said. ^ =)

I just recently deactivated my membership with Intelli-shop because their editors can be ridiculous and the forms are even more ridiculous than the editors. The car shops are a rip off. It was hard for me to actually decided to deactivate my membership with them because they were one of the first companies that I registered with when I started this adventure in 2008 but their reports are absolutely ridiculous. The amount of narrative that is requested is way too much compared to what they pay you for these car shops. Not to mention the time spent on the lot pretending to be interested in these cars. More trouble than it's worth.

The only issues I've had had to do with the reporting form malfunctioning (which apparently happens a lot). The system was malfunctioning and I couldn't "submit" the shop in time despite sending in a "technical issue" alert. The scheduler still gave me grief about it and refused to reimburse me even though the issue was on their end.

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