@MSF wrote:
@JASFLALMT wrote:
I think it's key to not do too many shops for them each month. I think I remember people who got deactivated were doing a ton of shops for them each month and then got the axe.
How many is too many?
I got removed from being able to perform shops for one of Market Force's service station clients after doing about 30 service station shops a month for several months (only one inquiry, no late shops, no errors). Market Force let me continue with their other clients for a few years. I was doing nearly 60 shops a month while I was able to do the service station shops and still did at least 30/month after that option was removed. When the big fast food client contract ended, my shops dropped to 10-20/month. I got axed a couple of months ago, after working about 3 years (1000+ shops) for Market Force.
I understand that there is some top secret algorithm Market Force uses to evaluate their shoppers, but I feel fairly confident that the key factor in those algorithms is the total number of errors and the frequency of those errors with respect to time, not with respect to the total number of shops. If you do a lot of shops in a short period of time, you are more likely to have shops with errors. I am aware of 3 errors I made in shops over those 3 years. While 3 errors in 1000 shops isn't a lot, 3 errors in 3 years (averaging one per year) might have been a little too much.
I would recommend trying to stay under 20 shops/month. Most importantly, if you do get notified of a shopper error, be extra vigilant when performing shops, entering the reports, and especially when proofreading your reports to make sure that you don't make another error!