Marc -
Especially as the owner of an MSC, your comments are off-base.
* Very few (if any?) of us have anything to do with Glass Door or any other such website. Most of us couldn’t really care less what is said there as we know that such sites are often bunk. Yes, somebody cited comments there. So what? You are a company. You will have detractors - whether warranted or not.
* Insults and linking clients with MSC's... You clearly have done little more than take a perfunctory look at how things run here. Insults are and such ICA violations are constantly reported to the moderators here. Messages are deleted. Accounts are suspended. Users are occasionally removed. Many of these violations - especially the ICA violations - are committed by folks new to shopping and/or the site and simply do not realize the transgression. They are told the rule here and usually edit their own posts. Nobody is screened before they are allowed membership - which has good and ill consequences. Regulars here work to keep this controlled. However, only the moderators (who do not post here) have the ability to take direct action.
* Alexis might be the only person who put her first name on her post. However, some of us have better identification than that readily available. My moniker is my first and middle initials with my last name. Any MSC could easily identify me if they wanted to do so. I (and others) do not consider myself anonymous here.
* Are you really sensitive to the number of "likes" your post got? If you are upset by the number of folks you don't know who did or did not "like" something you wrote on on open forum...
* Statistics on this forum.... Yes, folks come here to vent their frustrations. However, if you would bother to read the responses to many of these posts, you would find a tremendous amount of guidance being given to those folks. Yes, we do, as a community, disagree sometimes. I can't speak for everybody, but I learn a lot from this forum when we do have difficult disagreements about mystery shopping. Your citing of number is nothing more than a very poor attempt at a mathematical analysis. (I am a mathematician...) 1) You have not counted every thread to find out if most are negative or not. 2) Just because a thread was started with a complaint, does not mean that the thread itself is negative. 3) You forget that folks usually don't speak up or ask for help about things that are going well. 4) Many very positive and complimentary comments happen in discussions that are not in the "Compliments and Kudos" section.
* If you think that my initial comment to you was negative, you have a severe misunderstanding about the types of folks who mystery shop. Do you not understand that most folks who do this need to make money? We come from all walks of life, but most are here because their salaries, wages, retirements, etc. do not meet their financial needs or they are between jobs. A few do this as their full time employment. Some, though a relatively small number, shop for the experiences. You posted and described yourself as a company that offers shops that will require an outlay of (in some cases) over $200 and require several hours of work (preparation, meal and report time) for a sum of $15. All in all, you are asking folks to "work" for about $5 an hour after putting out well more cash than what many shoppers can afford. Where I live, that $5 is 1/3 the minimum wage. Anybody trying to make ends meet with these jobs will fail. What you offer for work does not help us to make a living. The meal that we "get" will not pay rent, hospital bills, etc.
* That said, there is a place in this mystery shopping world for companies like yours. You will need to understand, however, that just as your requirements for mystery shoppers eliminate most folks, the compensation you offer for your shops will eliminate you from most shoppers' interest. You are simply targeting a very small percentage of the community.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/30/2018 01:47PM by MFJohnston.
Especially as the owner of an MSC, your comments are off-base.
* Very few (if any?) of us have anything to do with Glass Door or any other such website. Most of us couldn’t really care less what is said there as we know that such sites are often bunk. Yes, somebody cited comments there. So what? You are a company. You will have detractors - whether warranted or not.
* Insults and linking clients with MSC's... You clearly have done little more than take a perfunctory look at how things run here. Insults are and such ICA violations are constantly reported to the moderators here. Messages are deleted. Accounts are suspended. Users are occasionally removed. Many of these violations - especially the ICA violations - are committed by folks new to shopping and/or the site and simply do not realize the transgression. They are told the rule here and usually edit their own posts. Nobody is screened before they are allowed membership - which has good and ill consequences. Regulars here work to keep this controlled. However, only the moderators (who do not post here) have the ability to take direct action.
* Alexis might be the only person who put her first name on her post. However, some of us have better identification than that readily available. My moniker is my first and middle initials with my last name. Any MSC could easily identify me if they wanted to do so. I (and others) do not consider myself anonymous here.
* Are you really sensitive to the number of "likes" your post got? If you are upset by the number of folks you don't know who did or did not "like" something you wrote on on open forum...
* Statistics on this forum.... Yes, folks come here to vent their frustrations. However, if you would bother to read the responses to many of these posts, you would find a tremendous amount of guidance being given to those folks. Yes, we do, as a community, disagree sometimes. I can't speak for everybody, but I learn a lot from this forum when we do have difficult disagreements about mystery shopping. Your citing of number is nothing more than a very poor attempt at a mathematical analysis. (I am a mathematician...) 1) You have not counted every thread to find out if most are negative or not. 2) Just because a thread was started with a complaint, does not mean that the thread itself is negative. 3) You forget that folks usually don't speak up or ask for help about things that are going well. 4) Many very positive and complimentary comments happen in discussions that are not in the "Compliments and Kudos" section.
* If you think that my initial comment to you was negative, you have a severe misunderstanding about the types of folks who mystery shop. Do you not understand that most folks who do this need to make money? We come from all walks of life, but most are here because their salaries, wages, retirements, etc. do not meet their financial needs or they are between jobs. A few do this as their full time employment. Some, though a relatively small number, shop for the experiences. You posted and described yourself as a company that offers shops that will require an outlay of (in some cases) over $200 and require several hours of work (preparation, meal and report time) for a sum of $15. All in all, you are asking folks to "work" for about $5 an hour after putting out well more cash than what many shoppers can afford. Where I live, that $5 is 1/3 the minimum wage. Anybody trying to make ends meet with these jobs will fail. What you offer for work does not help us to make a living. The meal that we "get" will not pay rent, hospital bills, etc.
* That said, there is a place in this mystery shopping world for companies like yours. You will need to understand, however, that just as your requirements for mystery shoppers eliminate most folks, the compensation you offer for your shops will eliminate you from most shoppers' interest. You are simply targeting a very small percentage of the community.
Hard work builds character and homework is good for your soul.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/30/2018 01:47PM by MFJohnston.