@wiseshopper wrote:
They currently have a number of new home buyer shops which pays $35 and should not take longer than 15 min.
@safeweb310 wrote:
I did a restaurant shop for them and I found their reports unbelievably complex. every single item in the shop, the food, the service, the wait time had to be documented 3 or 4 different ways. Each item had to be written in a very specific format with very specific grammar and structure rules. if you don't turn in your report written exactly as they specified, they will reject it. I am a writer and I don't mind reports but these were booby-trapped. there were so many points that you could fail on, I never finish the report for the restaurant shop I did for them. they also note that they can check with a video as to whether the times you're reporting are accurate, etcetera. I would never do one of these shops where I had to spend my own money and then they pay me back, especially a restaurant shop where you are spending 50- 100$. there are so many places they could disallow your information and end up not reimbursing you. I can't imagine what the hotel shops would be like. other shoppers report spending at least 12 hours on the restaurant shop reports
@Roxie wrote:
I have done three restaurants on their main (old) site. They took at least three hours. One place we had five busboys, and I had to keep track of which one did what and when, along with everything else. I have received an 18, 19, and 20. It is frustrating to write a great report and have a point taken off because you wrote more than three to five words on one question in the summary section or for saying the soup was served at the correct temperature instead of saying it was hot. However, they do have some very nice restaurants, and the reimbursements are usually adequate to pay the bill, so the three or four hour report is well worth it to me. I'm still afraid to try a hotel.
@teriraia wrote:
If you breakdown all those hours into an hourly wage you would be making about $2.00/hour.
@SS4U wrote:
Coyle demands narratives for each scenario and I have no problem with that. They definitely expect a well-written report and their editors will keep sending it back for correction.
My only complaint is when it's returned repeatedly over a course of a few days for further editing on misc. parts of the narrative. It seems this can be consolidated into one return rather than dragging it out.
Ther than that, I have been very happy with Coyle. They expect quality and they pay accordingly.
@Roxie wrote:
I have done three restaurants on their main (old) site. They took at least three hours. One place we had five busboys, and I had to keep track of which one did what and when, along with everything else. I have received an 18, 19, and 20. It is frustrating to write a great report and have a point taken off because you wrote more than three to five words on one question in the summary section or for saying the soup was served at the correct temperature instead of saying it was hot. However, they do have some very nice restaurants, and the reimbursements are usually adequate to pay the bill, so the three or four hour report is well worth it to me. I'm still afraid to try a hotel.
@teriraia wrote:
I have been hesitant to take Coyle assignments because of the time it takes to write the report. If you breakdown all those hours into an hourly wage you would be making about $2.00/hour. On top of that if your report is rejected you are out quite a bit of money. No thanks.
@jrossetti wrote:
@Roxie wrote:
I have done three restaurants on their main (old) site. They took at least three hours. One place we had five busboys, and I had to keep track of which one did what and when, along with everything else. I have received an 18, 19, and 20. It is frustrating to write a great report and have a point taken off because you wrote more than three to five words on one question in the summary section or for saying the soup was served at the correct temperature instead of saying it was hot. However, they do have some very nice restaurants, and the reimbursements are usually adequate to pay the bill, so the three or four hour report is well worth it to me. I'm still afraid to try a hotel.
These are things they explcitly tell you to NOT do. YOu dont know if it's the correct temperature, you made an assumption. Our job is to be objective, not to make things up. Perhaps that soup should havle been served room temperature, or perhaps cold.
For example, I was at a job and was given two free drinks. We didn't report it as the employee gave away two free drinks. It was reported that two of our drinks were complimentary with no assertion as to why. We assumed he was stealing, but turns out not only was it rang in, but that company allows up to $50 a night on comps and we got $20 of them and he had done nothing wrong at all.
My first resort for them took me the better part of 5 days. The second one, closer to 3, now a restaurant job can be knocked out in an hour or three, and the hotel/resorts can be done primarily on site with some time leftover to do touristy stuff or relax.
Coyle is not for the faint of heart or the disorganized.
@SteveSoCal wrote:
That said, there's not a Coyle shop I have done that netted me less than $25/hour in reimbursement for the time I put into it.
@SteveSoCal wrote:
Some were upwards of $500/hour.