Yes - although I am irritated by a different company that does this. If a company calls to offer me a shop that is NOT available for me to self-assign on the website or if they want to offer me a bonus, that's fine with me. But if they call to tell me about a shop I can clearly see and I can self-assign if I want to, and they have no additional information to provide, no bonus, no nothing, why call me?
It annoys me when Maritz constantly calls and asks. I love shopping for Martiz (I self-schedule myself the shops I choose to do on their website; the shops I do not find attractive, I ignore). I get constant phone calls from their reps who "want to tell me about the open jobs in your area." When I say that I checked the website this morning and I have self-assigned all the shop that interested me, I hear "well, I'm just letting you know what we have." Then they say (naming an address that may or may not be close to me) "What about this shop?" I say that I did see it and did not select it. They say "Oh. Well, may I schedule you for it?" "No," I respond. "Well, why not?" Maritz almost never mentions a bonus. Apparently, this area is full of shoppers and they don't need to bonus except as a last-ditch effort and even then we are talking $5. This constant phone-calling is just a high-pressure tactic to try to intimidate shoppers into taking less desirable shops at the listed price. Apparently it works for them, because I've been with them 8 years and the phone call inquisition continues.
I'm so glad to hear that I am not the only shopper who is irritated by this. I do hear from other shoppers that they allow themselves to be bullied into taking these shops with no bonus simply because the caller seemed unwilling to take no for an answer. And I've even had Maritz reps respond to my refusal in a puzzled and hurt tone of voice, "well, MOST of our shoppers don't care about the money and they just want to help us out."
I've always wondered - can there be that many people who just don't care about the money?