GfK; Really? (Rant)
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I stopped shopping them when they unaassigned me from a shop where they posted the wrong bonus by mistake. Totally wrong.
They did that to me once (we had an agreement for the shop fee to be $50, but they tried to assign it to me for $25), and when I called them on it, they removed the shop instead of adjusting it. The sad part is that they tried to email me a few days later and have me shop the location for the agreed upon amount, and I raised the amount desired due to the annoyance factor.
There are certain MSC's that I charge more than others. As an independent contractor, I have the right to set my own value on my time and if a company chooses to annoy me more than another MSC, I can always bump up my asking price. I do mystery shopping because I enjoy it, I'm not desperate for money.
There are certain MSC's that I charge more than others. As an independent contractor, I have the right to set my own value on my time and if a company chooses to annoy me more than another MSC, I can always bump up my asking price. I do mystery shopping because I enjoy it, I'm not desperate for money.
Arguing with fools is like playing chess with a pigeon...
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
Not scheduling for ANY company.
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
Not scheduling for ANY company.
This company is not on my favourite list, that's for sure.
I'm with you all! This company is just plain irritating.
I have no issue wit GfK but this issue isn't just exclusive to them. Soooo many schedulers send out one email per client location. They think this helps somehow when in reality it just makes me send that sender right into spam.
Learn how to work efficiently, schedulers. It's the only way this is going to work.
Learn how to work efficiently, schedulers. It's the only way this is going to work.
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Seriously, nobody cares that you're offended.
Seriously, nobody cares that you're offended.
How about when you live in NYC and they send you shops from San Francisco or LA adding "in case you travel".
C'mon!! More emails? Ughh..
C'mon!! More emails? Ughh..
You would think the scheduler would realize that if a shopper was going to travel, they would notify the scheduler of the specifics.
newyorkdan1 Wrote:
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> How about when you live in NYC and they send you
> shops from San Francisco or LA adding "in case you
> travel".
> C'mon!! More emails? Ughh..
newyorkdan1 Wrote:
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> How about when you live in NYC and they send you
> shops from San Francisco or LA adding "in case you
> travel".
> C'mon!! More emails? Ughh..
Arguing with fools is like playing chess with a pigeon...
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
Not scheduling for ANY company.
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
Not scheduling for ANY company.
This is crazy! Beth Phaller is emailing every shop in triplicate! If you are THAT desperate to have shops done, remember, money talks and B.S. walks! The shops have been at $35 (w/ bonus) for DAYS now; no takers means raise the bonus flag!
Also, why would I do your cell phone shop for $11.00 plus a $4 bonus, when I just got another cell phone shop from another MSC for $25?
I wish you could block individual schedulers from contacting you; all I can do is laugh her off to spam.
Also, why would I do your cell phone shop for $11.00 plus a $4 bonus, when I just got another cell phone shop from another MSC for $25?
I wish you could block individual schedulers from contacting you; all I can do is laugh her off to spam.
Arguing with fools is like playing chess with a pigeon...
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
Not scheduling for ANY company.
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
Not scheduling for ANY company.
I have had some issues with them this month too. Stupid trap surveys, annoying scheduler, and inflexibility. Now, I wasn't an angel in all this. I picked and applied 5 shops and the scheduler was nice enough to give me me the 2 furthest from my house in totally opposite directions from each other. So, I do the first far away one and the employee did not have a business card. Nor did he have a brochure. So I just took timestamped pics thinking this should cover the POV photo. Nope not at all. My other far away shop gets rescheduled by the client. I nicely say no problem, I'll work it into my schedule. Then they rejected my first shop that took me over an hour and another hour or two of email pin pong. Once they refused to pay me, I cancelled the other pita shop. Guess I won't be working with them anytime soon. Not for the same scheduler, she's on my short list of people I don't want to work for anymore.
Floating around like a feather hoping the wind will set me down somewhere awesome.
Good for you, Lelou.
Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.
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