Why No Purchase Reimbursement for Gas Station Food Audits for Alta 360?

Huh?
I asked what a reasonable fee was for an Alta360 shop.
You replied that with a gas purchase blah blah blah
I replied that I had never seen an Alta360 shop require a gas purchase.
You go off on Bare being cheap.

I'm seriously not understanding your train of thought.........

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Wow, way to follow. I don't have to follow your questions exactly. I can say whatever I think is relevant. "You go off" because you can't follow? I said what a reasonable fee was. Shant reply to your jibberish anymore.

@spicy1 - The $200 evaluation that you are referring to with BARE is not a gas audit shop. Not sure they are a fit comparison.

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It is $8 per shop

No but she is correct. That is a low fee for that shop, which is why I wouldn't do it at the base fee. Along with the stereo stores that require you to stay 30 minutes. Add in reporting time and that's $10 an hour before expenses. I have done 2 routes of outlet mall shops in the past 5 weeks where I could have done 8-10 of those shops. That fee is so far away from what the shop is worth that I didn't even bother emailing to see if a bonus was available. The other shops I added all paid a minimum of $25 and took less than 30 minutes for both the shop and report.

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You pick and choose what works for you. I don't do the audits, but they have plenty of convenience stores for me to do. I stalk them and pounce as soon as they are released. They don't pay much (base rate of $6 with a $4 reimbursement), but I can do 4-5 in an hour and there are 50 locations for this brand within 20 miles of my house. Making $24 to $30 an hour (including report time) for a super easy shop? I will do that in a heartbeat! I can make short day routes for a week or so and get plenty of granola bars for my husband plus earn a tidy sum with very little effort, as they are reported on my app when I leave the location so no report time when I get home. I intersperse those shops with others from other MSCs and it's been working out great for me. And I often get decent bonuses for locations that are more than 20 miles away, so I can add them to a short route on days where I am venturing further than I normally like to drive.

I saw that and scratched my head. I would like to talk to the person that decided that fee and ask what were you thinking?

I did several in October and November for $25 each. It was a reveal with a gas purchase and convenience purchase.

Alta has revealed gas stations, besides the food audits?

@spicy1 wrote:

Alta has revealed gas stations, besides the food audits?

Yes, although I think the reveal stores are shopped quarterly (at least the ones I have seen).

The shops were listed at $8. I submitted a request of $15 each for 5 out-of-the-way locations. I thought that reasonable as I often get $25-40 in that area with another MSC and different gas brand. Other shop types with other MSCs stay on the boards forever so I was pretty sure there were a limited number of shoppers willing to go out there. I had a light schedule that week and gas to burn. My offer was politely declined by the scheduler.

Yeah, they have revealed shops in my area that I don't do, and the convenience store shops I do are non-reveal. They take 5 minutes or less onsite, and another 5-10 to report on the app once I have left.

If they have had other people shop the locations for less money, the scheduler isn't supposed to grant "larger" bonuses. Those are the ones where you have to wait it out until they come closer to deadline.

Yet not long ago, I was contacted by a scheduler to do a station for $50 bucks the next day because someone flaked. I did, but I would have done it for half the amount a week or two before on my way to elsewhere. I just don't have time to search for shops in every area I will be traveling in, make offers and wait for rejections, especially when planning a boonie-route.

When I was a full time shopper, I would do a high paying apartment or bank shop, and then find the low paying cell phone/Western Union inquiry/bank audit shops with easy reports nearby. A lot of shoppers here scoffed at the low ball cell shops, but the sheer volume that I did each month put me over my monthly income quota.

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