Please don't let the flashy site fool you, CAST Retail is nothing more than a dolled up CROOK company! They say their pay date is the 15th of each month. What they don't tell you is that it will be a week later when your pay is processed. You will not get your money for another week and a half after "processing". It took ICs like myself to call them on their wording. They expect you to work on a deadline but does not comply with deadlines themselves.

Beware the pimps, oops, sites with flash, for they are the ones that will get your (well, you get the picture)!!!!!

BE CAREFUL!!!!

I guess I am curious about why this needed a second thread to effectively state the same info you stated in the other thread about this company. We do not have a "no new thread" policy here, at least as far as I know. But, to me, I don't see the value added in making a second thread to state what you have already said. Obviously, your mileage might vary.

Truly, this is a different subject matter than the other post. However, if you have the power to delete the thread, then so be it. I refuse to get into some long drawn out debate over something so minute. It's pathetic and takes away from the meaning of the site.

I do not have the "power to delete it. I just did not see the need to repeat the essence of the post with a separate header. It says the same thing, after all, as your last post on the other thread, in the end.

You are a truly combative person. You do not deserve any further response.

Food4Thought Wrote:
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about meaningless statements and meaningless statements. since the only positive thing you have written concerned Bare and "years ago"


I guess we can infer since the industry has changed in the past few years, the statement meant little. Play it how you want. I am done speaking with you, new moniker or old.



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lol...this is too funny....1 thread...2 threads...3 threads...

thx for all the threads...I enjoy reading them...

If anyone is looking for work, PLEASE, go somewhere else. Cast Retail, IS NOT a very reliable or trustworthy company to work for.
While vacationing at a friend's house, we witnessed first hand how this company really treats it's Independent Contractors ( IC ).

Here's what happened to her: Jane started out working a few jobs a month & once she got comfortable with the company, decided to take on a few more jobs. That's when the trouble began.

Cast sends out dispatch notices, offering their IC's a way to make more money. Jane decided to take on another another contract, with a local drug store in her area. She found several stores in her area on the Cast Dispatch List that she could easily handle.

She was granted the stores she had requested. Each email was to have all the information an IC is supposed to need to complete the task at hand. (but the information was not complete) The name, place, address & store number of each store she was suppose to visit along with the necessarily forms, photographs & a complete set of instructions.

She printed up all the information that she had access to & headed out to do the work. After completing a few of the stores she had received, she got a call from one of the dispatchers telling her, she had to go back & re-do one of the store visits over again & was told that she would be paid for the 2nd visit.

She was furious & argued with the dispatcher, she brought to his attention a problem she had encountered with the dispatch email. There was a section in the dispatch email that requested a username & password, which Jane didn't had have, because she had never been requested to set up an account, also the word 'Regional' was left out. The sentence read, Planagram ## is to be used. There was no direct notation to her, that she was in the ## Regional Area for the drug stores. So how was she supposed to know which one of the several regional planagrams she was to print.
Those mistakes were corrected. Jane completed her visits & submitted her reports after revisiting the stores she had completed so far to make sure she would be properly paid.

A couple of days later, she had successfully completed the visits & submitted the reports along with the requested photographs online. The morning after she went to a local copy center & faxed off the documents. A fax confirmation page was received which she placed in her file folder for safe keeping.

Like clock work the following month her check arrived. But it was short. By $220.00 dollars. She was furious. Jane contacted Cast & spoke with another dispatcher & was told that her faxes had not arrived.

Quickly, she faxed just the front pages of her forms in as instructed by the dispatcher, this time using the CastScan system. She was informed that the forms were received & assured by the dispatcher that her payment would be processed as quickly as possible.

So she waited... and waited...several days went by, before she started to call Cast back. She left message, after message none of them were returned. One person did try to find out of the check was ever processed, but she never called back to confirm it. Finally my husband called Cast to asked for the name & extension number of the CEO that's when we found out that the check had been sent out the week before. Before the woman rudely hung up on my husband which upset Jane & I, because Jane wanted to handle things herself.

So the check finally arrives & it was short, by $20.00 dollars. Then it, her wallet & checkbook were stolen from on top of her desk during a dinner party that she gave at her home...for my birthday.

She contacted Cast & requested a Stop Payment on the check, so now she's going to wait.

Jane has received an email which states: "Per your request I have stopped payment on check #### issued 9-2 for $200.00 due to a theft you reported and reissued another check. Additionally, it has been brought to my attention that several members of our dedicated staff were recently harassed by a caller demanding payment on your behalf. He called everyone including our Director of HR to complain about how our company operates. The Independent Contractor agreement we had was with you and we will not tolerate rude harassing communications from a third party. As I understand, the issue was simply that we had not received your faxed documentation and once received a check was issued. Based on these recent events we will not be continuing to offer projects to you."

My husband made only 2 calls, one to inform Cast he was not happy, with the way Jane was treated & the other was just to ask for the name & extension of the CEO to inform him/her that there is a problem that should be handled by him/her. The person that was rude was the HR Director, when she hung up on him. He DID NOT demand payment. He just tried to bring it to their attention that a person should be paid promptly for work that had been completed.

So now, we wait & see....

Cast Retail, IS NOT a very reliable or trustworthy company to work for.
While vacationing at a friend's house, we witnessed first hand how this company really treats it's Independent Contractors ( IC ).

Here's what happened to her: Jane started out working a few jobs a month & once she got comfortable with the company, decided to take on a few more jobs. That's when the trouble began.

Cast sends out dispatch notices, offering their IC's a way to make more money. Jane decided to take on another another contract, with a local drug store in her area. She found several stores in her area on the Cast Dispatch List that she could easily handle.

She was granted the stores she had requested. Each email was to have all the information an IC is supposed to need to complete the task at hand. (but the information was not complete) The name, place, address & store number of each store she was suppose to visit along with the necessarily forms, photographs & a complete set of instructions.

She printed up all the information that she had access to & headed out to do the work. After completing a few of the stores she had received, she got a call from one of the dispatchers telling her, she had to go back & re-do one of the store visits over again & was told that she would be paid for the 2nd visit.

She was furious & argued with the dispatcher, she brought to his attention a problem she had encountered with the dispatch email. There was a section in the dispatch email that requested a username & password, which Jane didn't had have, because she had never been requested to set up an account, also the word 'Regional' was left out. The sentence read, Planagram ## is to be used. There was no direct notation to her, that she was in the ## Regional Area for the drug stores. So how was she supposed to know which one of the several regional planagrams she was to print.
Those mistakes were corrected. Jane completed her visits & submitted her reports after revisiting the stores she had completed so far to make sure she would be properly paid.

A couple of days later, she had successfully completed the visits & submitted the reports along with the requested photographs online. The morning after she went to a local copy center & faxed off the documents. A fax confirmation page was received which she placed in her file folder for safe keeping.

Like clock work the following month her check arrived. But it was short. By $220.00 dollars. She was furious. Jane contacted Cast & spoke with another dispatcher & was told that her faxes had not arrived.

Quickly, she faxed just the front pages of her forms in as instructed by the dispatcher, this time using the CastScan system. She was informed that the forms were received & assured by the dispatcher that her payment would be processed as quickly as possible.

So she waited... and waited...several days went by, before she started to call Cast back. She left message, after message none of them were returned. One person did try to find out of the check was ever processed, but she never called back to confirm it. Finally my husband called Cast to asked for the name & extension number of the CEO that's when we found out that the check had been sent out the week before. Before the woman rudely hung up on my husband which upset Jane & I, because Jane wanted to handle things herself.

So the check finally arrives & it was short, by $20.00 dollars. Then it, her wallet & checkbook were stolen from on top of her desk during a dinner party that she gave at her home...for my birthday.

She contacted Cast & requested a Stop Payment on the check, so now she's going to wait.

Jane has received an email which states: "Per your request I have stopped payment on check #### issued 9-2 for $200.00 due to a theft you reported and reissued another check. Additionally, it has been brought to my attention that several members of our dedicated staff were recently harassed by a caller demanding payment on your behalf. He called everyone including our Director of HR to complain about how our company operates. The Independent Contractor agreement we had was with you and we will not tolerate rude harassing communications from a third party. As I understand, the issue was simply that we had not received your faxed documentation and once received a check was issued. Based on these recent events we will not be continuing to offer projects to you."

My husband made only 2 calls, one to inform Cast he was not happy, with the way Jane was treated & the other was just to ask for the name & extension of the CEO to inform him/her that there is a problem that should be handled by him/her. The person that was rude was the HR Director, when she hung up on him. He DID NOT demand payment. He just tried to bring it to their attention that a person should be paid promptly for work that had been completed.

So now, we wait & see....

Has there been any improvement with Cast in the last year or so?

They are not high paying, and I've not done too many, but I've never had ANY trouble getting paid. The OCD side of me loves doing giftcard resets, so I take one every once in awhile just to make the organizer in me happy.

Thanks Karen. Sounds like this might be a company to try 1 or 2 low paying jobs and see if the pay comes as expected before getting too involved with them.

I have worked for them a lot and the pay arriving on time and correctly is never a problem.