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Promptly? I don't know if I'd go *that* far. Let's just say you no longer have to send 'reminder' emails after waiting for your money for 90 days. Now they usually get it to you around 60 days +/-, with no 'reminder'. 
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walesmaven Wrote:
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> They have been paying according to their announced
> schedule for many, many months now, without
> reminders.
Yes, they have; but that's still 60 days last I heard... right? I think? Sixty days still just doesn't feel prompt to me, even if that *is* their agreed-upon pay timeframe. I don't think I'd seen/heard about the 45 day thing. If that's the case, I can send a 'reminder' email right now for a couple shops, I think.
But yes, I'm glad you don't have to wait 90 days and the send the reminder email. Once I sent the 'reminder' on the 88th day, and they told me to wait 90 days. Heh. So, I wondered if perhaps they meant "wait 90 days", and I would get the payment in my account. Nope. I waited two extra days, and still nothing. So another 'reminder' email. I guess they meant, when I emailed them on day 88, that I was to wait to send my 'reminder' until the full 90 days. A bit ridiculous!
However, I still like the shops I do for them (a lot, actually) and the people I've actually 'talked' (emailed) to. And will gladly continue shopping with them.
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> They have been paying according to their announced
> schedule for many, many months now, without
> reminders.
Yes, they have; but that's still 60 days last I heard... right? I think? Sixty days still just doesn't feel prompt to me, even if that *is* their agreed-upon pay timeframe. I don't think I'd seen/heard about the 45 day thing. If that's the case, I can send a 'reminder' email right now for a couple shops, I think.
But yes, I'm glad you don't have to wait 90 days and the send the reminder email. Once I sent the 'reminder' on the 88th day, and they told me to wait 90 days. Heh. So, I wondered if perhaps they meant "wait 90 days", and I would get the payment in my account. Nope. I waited two extra days, and still nothing. So another 'reminder' email. I guess they meant, when I emailed them on day 88, that I was to wait to send my 'reminder' until the full 90 days. A bit ridiculous!
However, I still like the shops I do for them (a lot, actually) and the people I've actually 'talked' (emailed) to. And will gladly continue shopping with them.
Practitioner of the Nerdly Arts.
Hey! Woo-hoo! Goodwin just paid me today for the shop I did November 1st! I wasn't expecting that til early January. Yay!
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StormCloud Wrote:
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> Hey! Woo-hoo! Goodwin just paid me today for the
> shop I did November 1st! I wasn't expecting that
> til early January. Yay!
Congratulations! So, that was about 45 days, right? I can't remember "where" I read about that timeframe, but I found it somewhere on their site, I think. If they stick to that, that's probably a decent amount of time--at least compared to some!
I shop for two companies that pay on the 20th of the month for the previous month, so I try to do their shops toward the middle to end of the month so I'm not waiting much longer than 45 days.... Longer than that is just "too long."
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> Hey! Woo-hoo! Goodwin just paid me today for the
> shop I did November 1st! I wasn't expecting that
> til early January. Yay!
Congratulations! So, that was about 45 days, right? I can't remember "where" I read about that timeframe, but I found it somewhere on their site, I think. If they stick to that, that's probably a decent amount of time--at least compared to some!
I shop for two companies that pay on the 20th of the month for the previous month, so I try to do their shops toward the middle to end of the month so I'm not waiting much longer than 45 days.... Longer than that is just "too long."
I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.
Yeah, almost exactly 45 days, actually.
I must have missed the thing on their website about the 45 days, last I knew it was 60. I only learned about the 45 day thing here!
There's a couple I shop for that pay two months out. September shops in November, October in December, etc. I don't mind *too* much, although sometimes it does feel like forever. However, the one set of shops is apartments, so no cash outlay on my part, only time; and the other is grocery shops, things I'd be having to spend money on anyway. And those grocery shops often end up with good bonuses on them, in some outlying towns around me.
I must have missed the thing on their website about the 45 days, last I knew it was 60. I only learned about the 45 day thing here!
There's a couple I shop for that pay two months out. September shops in November, October in December, etc. I don't mind *too* much, although sometimes it does feel like forever. However, the one set of shops is apartments, so no cash outlay on my part, only time; and the other is grocery shops, things I'd be having to spend money on anyway. And those grocery shops often end up with good bonuses on them, in some outlying towns around me.
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I have three main ones, and a couple of occasional ones. I love 'em! I'm just annoyed that for two of them, the rotation went back to 90 days. At first, for those two stores, it was 30 days. Then 60. Then 90. Then after a while, 60 again. Then back down to 30. Then suddenly back up to 90. I may have a couple of iterations off, but you get the idea. I *SO* wish they were 30 day rotations again!
Since it's not at all odd to be in a grocery store every 30 days, it must be so that you're not memorable by asking so many questions, and/or so they get different perspectives. Which I guess I get. I just love my grocery shops! A couple of them are even 'flat fee', and some are mostly reimbursement; but that's OK, because I need to buy those anyway... so grocery reimbursements are as good as pay.
I had a co-worker/friend some time ago who had nine kids. Those gigantic Costco bags of fish sticks were one single Friday night dinner for her house! Mine was in the freezer a few months. Imagine buying those big-ass bags of food, and having them only last *one* meal! Sheesh!
But then I've had dogs in the double digits in my past, and would go to Costco to get 160 to 200 pounds of dog food at a time. For each month. Heh.
Since it's not at all odd to be in a grocery store every 30 days, it must be so that you're not memorable by asking so many questions, and/or so they get different perspectives. Which I guess I get. I just love my grocery shops! A couple of them are even 'flat fee', and some are mostly reimbursement; but that's OK, because I need to buy those anyway... so grocery reimbursements are as good as pay.
I had a co-worker/friend some time ago who had nine kids. Those gigantic Costco bags of fish sticks were one single Friday night dinner for her house! Mine was in the freezer a few months.
Imagine buying those big-ass bags of food, and having them only last *one* meal! Sheesh!
But then I've had dogs in the double digits in my past, and would go to Costco to get 160 to 200 pounds of dog food at a time. For each month. Heh.
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Goodness. I decided to go back and apply, since I feel like I see so much posted about them - even though I had to write a new 'narrative' I don't have on file for shop apps. It took SIX tries to submit it - didn't like my email address, didn't like the format I put the phone number in, didn't like my town, didn't like the verification code I typed in, didn't like my email address again...then finally, success! lol. Man, I appreciate simple applications 
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