I have been accepting assignments for Market Force for over 6 years, in fact recently I received a congratulatory message from them for having completed 1000 successful shop. How am I being rewarded? They are once again cutting the fees on some of there shops.
I have complained to them in the past, and have gotten the standard response: That the from time to time they review their shops and make adjustments in the fees. The funny thing is I have never seen them adjust their fees up, only down. Oops I forgot, they did increase the 5 Guys reimbursement from $11.00 to $12.00.
This morning when I opened their "Daily email." I noticed they had now cut the fee offered on Kmart and Sears stores from $25.00 to $20.00, and Sears Auto Centers from $10.00 to $8.00 When I first started, Market Force were offering $10.00 for "Conoco-Phillips-76" gas station Mystery Shops and Audits plus up to $2.00 reimbursement for a required store purchase. Over the last couple of years that fee was reduced to $9.00 and again to $8.00. On top of that they now require a 2 Gal. fuel purchase as well as the store purchase, and while they have increased the reimbursement, they have capped it at $5.00. I realize that might not be a problem in some areas, however in Southern California a gal. of gas an a "76" station is close to $3.00 per gallon. As you can see my required purchase exceeds the capped reimbursement.
I is my recommendation that we as shoppers refuse to accept assignments from Market Force until they restore their fees and reimbursements to previous levels. It is also my recommendation that we as shoppers bombard the help desk with email explaining why we are refusing to accept their assignment, and further to re-post this message to any other shopper forums that you might subscribe to.
If they can't get find enough shoppers accept their jobs, mayge they will get the message and quit trying to screw the verry people they claim are so improtant to their business.
Thank you for reading this post
Pete Love
peterclove@gamil.com