Is there any more recent feedback on this company?

Thanks.

Is this the one primarily in Philly By Marc?

Yes, the office is in Phily and the founder is Marc Kravitz.

Can you tell us about how it is to work with them? Good assignments? how quickly and by what method they pay, etc.?

Thanks.

He pays VERY quickly ... most of the time it is within a week. I started with some retail store jobs for him and they went really well. I also hear he has phone shops that are really easy. I am doing some restaurant shops for him and he is VERY specific in how he wants these narratives written. I always get 9s and 10s on my other MS shops but my reports with him get torn apart. He can be very nice but sometimes he comes off like a jerk in his e-mails - he does offer some constructive criticism though and is patient in the beginning.

Marc Kravitz at i-SPY Hospitality has recently gotten more rude and crude in his emails.

I did an assignment at the end of July. Since he edits the reports as well, he had to make a handful of edits (about seven). He HATES making edits. He will criticize your work against an imaginary set of rules that he doesn't initially provide. After making these edits, he writes me an email that reads, "Your last assignment." I confirm that I received the email and thanked him since I really didn't enjoy working with him.

It's now Monday, August 17 and I'm only just now getting his check (this is slow for him). He sent me the check after a barrage of emails that he never answered. I called him about the check and he says to me, "Let me check." After that, he hung up on me. This is the owner of i-SPY Hospitality, mind you.

After emailing him telling him that I will have to make a Small Claims claim against his company, he finally emailed me back confirming that he sent the check ("I said I’d check on it. You said nothing. I hung up." - direct quote from email).

I write "respectfully" at the end of my emails. He responded: "You were rude in all communications with your assignments. Now you are “respectful”? Treat people as you would like to be treated.

I said I would check."

After asking him how I was rude, he wrote:

"Please – your work was crap no matter how much time I spent editing and providing feedback; not once with an apology on your end, or “thanks for taking the time to rewrite … sorry…” … All emails with not a word in the body … just rude and careless." (Proof here: [i.imgur.com])

Finally, the check comes in today. It's $30 short. For this amount, it's difficult for me to go to Philadelphia and file in Small Claims court (they require I be there in person).

This is NOT a person you want to work for. Steer clear of Marc Kravitz and i-SPY Hospitality.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2015 02:02AM by BooG690.

I just re read this thread that I initially commented on and have to say that I no longer work with Marc due to him being very rude. I still have yet to be paid for a shop I did 2 months ago but have been debating on emailing him due to him being a total a-hole.