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September 09, 2018 11:53PM
What is it with the: "Can you do this cell phone shop for $7?" I don't get it.....tongue sticking out smiley
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September 10, 2018 05:58PM
Please, I ask all of you, please be kind to those overseas schedulers! They live in a country where the minimum non-farm wage is $8 a DAY. They can not comprehend that it costs us $2,000 a month just to scrape by.

When I have trouble understanding them, I ask them to speak more slowly.

Just say, "I'll be happy to do the shop for $80", or $125, or whatever it is you need. They'll say "I'll have to get that approved by my supervisor", and I say thank you and hang up. I'll either get an e-mail assigning me the shop, or I won't.
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September 10, 2018 06:54PM
They also should realize how much more expensive things are here if the reimbursement for a small fast food hamburger, fries, and drink is 1.5x their daily wage.
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September 10, 2018 07:06PM
The overseas schedulers might be a bit pushy but they are almost always polite to me. I can't say the same for all US schedulers.
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September 10, 2018 07:19PM
@Niner wrote:

They also should realize how much more expensive things are here if the reimbursement for a small fast food hamburger, fries, and drink is 1.5x their daily wage.

I'm not sure if they even can see the amount of the reimbursement.

How arrogant to assume they can extrapolate. We don't do it; why should we expect them to do it?

For example, it costs 10 times more to rent a place in San Francisco than my home here; do I expect shops in SF to pay ten times more?

Nope. Never crossed my mind.
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September 11, 2018 01:31AM
While it's been a while since I got a $40 fee for a lunch shop ("YES! I can do that!!"winking smiley, I learned from this board to never, ever take a shop from MF for less than I feel is my minimum. In this case, that's $12.00. So when they ask me if I can do it for $6 or $8, I say "No I can only do it for $12. That's what I always get paid." She checks something and says, "OK, yes I can see that you did it for $12, so we will pay you $12." She almost cried the one time I couldn't do it for $12, or any other price, because I was on vacation away from my area.
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September 11, 2018 06:45PM
I have realized that (at least for me when shopping their big burger client) once I have done a location for $xx amount, the next time they call with their lowball offers, I tell them that I won't go for less than the prior $xx amount. They are able to pull up your pay history for the location in their system, and will usually say they will send it to a supervisor for approval (and about 90% of the time it gets approved). When they sound really, really desperate, I bump up my minimum by another $5. It may not get approved on the first or second time they call, but usually by the third time, it's approved, and bam, you now have a history of getting paid that new amount and you can make it your new minimum!
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September 11, 2018 09:58PM
Always negotiate the bonus, don't take their first offer as xenshopper said.

I have also done a shop for the low posted amount just to get on the radar that I have done the location before. Then when they are desperate, they call me with a bonus offer because they know I have done the location before.
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