I've been doing work for SPP for about 6 years now. They are completely legitimate!! They pay direct deposit. You buy soda at different locations, either 2 liter or cans or bottles, and you must buy what is on your list for that month. You can have, say, 4 selections of Coke in the 12 oz cans. You must buy them at different locations, and the DATE has to be DIFFERENT for each 12-pack of 12 oz cans. Usually there are between 12 & 18 items to get, including any that may be the same, as I just said. And as the above poster noted, sometimes it can be REAL TRICKY to read the date, especially on the bottles. I try to make sure I can read it in the store, so I know I won't have a problem when I get home. Then you have to go home and enter information in the computer, print out labels that SPP ships to you, and pack the product in boxes that SPP ships to you. The neat thing is that if you have to get a 12-pack of cans or a 6 or 8 pk of plastic bottles, you send one back and get to keep the rest! PLUS, you are reimbursed for the cost of the product (and they send you an advance before your shop so you have something to use up without it being out of pocket). I keep all the diet products and give the non-diet stuff to the neighborhood kids...I've been doing that for years now.
Now it DOES take a couple of cycles to get used to all this, but I've been doing this for so many years now that I average about $14/hr now. They're really a VERY FAIR company to deal with, as you are reimbursed for your gas mileage at the IRS rate of I think 0.56/mile this year, and if you go over their recommended 30 miles per shop, and can print out a mapquest route of what you drove, you'll get paid for all the miles. I do that from time to time. PLUS they reimburse you mileage for going back the next day and dropping the boxes off at the nearest UPS store. You just have to note it on your cost sheet before you send it in. PLUS they reimburse you for your total cost of the soda, so if they advance you $45, and the soda costs $50, they'll reimburse you the other $5.00. And on top of that, they have their method for calculating the pay, depending on several factors, including the number of stores you visit, the number of items you have to buy, etc, etc.
Hope this wasn't too much information, but they ARE legitimate, and it's also nice to have some free soda around the house without having to pay for it!! HTH.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2013 12:40AM by guysmom.