I am just venting. I understand that this is not going to serve any other purpose.
Over the past ten years that I have been a mystery shopper, I mostly have had success.
It is too bad that the majority of the opportunities that I come across pay so little as to not make them worthwhile. I understand that is a matter of opinion, but I consider myself to have value.
One of the companies that pay well is ath Power. I have done numerous successful evaluations for them.
I recently became eligible again for some of their projects. I applied but was not obtaining any assignments. I made several queries and was told to just keep applying.
Finally, one of the individuals advised me that I had been the subject of a "secret deactivation". Although my account shows a status of "active", I had been deactivated.
Apparently, it was the result of a payment dispute, and I had been considered as being "combative". I have copies of the email messages from that dispute, and I can testify that they are not combative. I merely requested being advised specifically why I was not going to be paid. I eventually was paid, but in retaliation, I suffered the "secret deactivation".
As a consequence, I wasted a lot of time applying for evaluations, taking tests, and setting aside days for shops that I never had a chance of obtaining.
I left phone messages and sent email messages to the principles of ath, but I did not receive a response.
It is my opinion that this practice is juvenile and vindictive. However, nothing is going to change if the heads of the company approve of such retribution.
Sincerely,
PS
I noticed that their executive profiles are no longer available online. At least, I just received an error message via ath.
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