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January 31, 2016 03:19AM
I got fed up with intellishop so I deactivated the account. Today I was looking at the boards and thought they were a tad dry. I also noticed that the boards were intellishop heavy. I figured I might as well round out a bad month with some frustration. I went to my account and saw that intellishop deactivated my account?! The reason that was stated was that I did an 'unauthorized deactivation'. Excuse me however I deactivated because I did not want a bizzilion emails and notices. I also did not want to, at that time, work for them. I could not believe that they would actually permanently deactivate me because I did a user deactivate. Why have a user deactivate / reactivate option if you are not going to acknowledge it?

Just lost trying to find a fire pit in a concrete jungle wishing it was a wooded glen...

if it wasn't for bad luck, I would have no luck at all
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January 31, 2016 03:26AM
There is a difference between a shopper deactivating and electing not to receive email notifications. Or, am I misunderstanding?
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January 31, 2016 05:07AM
I deactivated because they kept ignoring the no more email button. I kept getting 'personal request' and other emails from intelli even after electing out of emails. I just never thought they would actually deactivate me for deactivating...

Just lost trying to find a fire pit in a concrete jungle wishing it was a wooded glen...

if it wasn't for bad luck, I would have no luck at all
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January 31, 2016 03:01PM
It may be more politic to use the "black list" or whatever it is called on your email program. They just automatically go to junk mail. You can browse all at once if you choose, or delete all at once. I was tired of 15 emails at the same time, for the same shop, for the 25 to 35 year old males.
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January 31, 2016 06:14PM
Gypsy, it does make sense that if you deactivated they would take you off the good guy list. Suggestion to route their emails to spam would have worked. Sorry that happened, though. Maybe you can work it out with them.

Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.
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January 31, 2016 06:22PM
It makes perfect sense to me. If I were running a MSC and a shopper deactivated herself, I would believe that the shopper no longer was available to work for my company. After all, if a MSC deactivates a shopper, what is the shopper's perception? Would the shopper believe it was a temporary deactivation that might be reversed at any time?

Maybe you will be able to explain and get them to reactivate you. Or, perhaps you can reapply.
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January 31, 2016 08:19PM
Routing emails to Spam is not a good idea for emails from MSCs. Some email providers look at email that has been routed to spam by users and use that information to decide that all email from the MSC (or some other company) is spam and start blocking all of it. That is one of the reasons that people with AOL and Hotmail accounts have problems getting mail from some MSCs. Gmail lets you create folders of your own choice and you can then "train" Gmail what email goes into it. Give a memorable name like "Worthless MSC Mail" and direct stuff you don't want there. That way you do not have any chance of impacting the rest of us.

Shopping South Jersey, Southeast Pennsylvania, and Delaware above the canal since 2008
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February 01, 2016 02:32AM
I do the same thing with Yahoo mail. You can set up filters and based upon the sender and/or words in the subject line direct the mail to be automatically sent to a folder.
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February 01, 2016 05:15AM
I work seasonally with a couple of companies. If I deactivate the account, I am given an email and/or a call asking if I am still in the area and working. After 3 years I no longer get any inquires as to my status unless I work for them outside of my normal season. I had expected the same with intelli...

Just lost trying to find a fire pit in a concrete jungle wishing it was a wooded glen...

if it wasn't for bad luck, I would have no luck at all
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February 01, 2016 05:34AM
intellishop bugs me. I have done many shops for them and gotten 10 ratings. I took a shop one time with them that was $9. After being accepted I was reading the guidelines and didn't like how I had to perform the shop. Basically this business has their own employees and also employees within their store that are employees of certain products that they offer. This shop wanted me to talk to the product employee and then turn around in the same aisle and talk to an employee of the business on the same scenario. It sounded way too difficult to maintain cover. I asked to please cancel the shop bringing up the issue and that if it were made clear in the application i wouldn't have accepted and they gave me a shopper citation for being a "flake". Seriously? How bout you guys make the shop guidelines more clear in the application intellishop
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