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Hi, is it worth it in terms of requirements v job descriptions v pay. Thank you.

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It used to be, when they reimbursed for the cost of the required background check you have to have done every year. But now, nope.

And my opinion is just the opposite -- I find these particular assignments interesting and sometimes challenging, but fun. I do enough of them to consider the small fee for the background check to be well worth it.

The background check was/is $7 for a basic? That's enough to get your foot in the door on those on-site ones. Even out in Kentucky and West Virginia, I was usually able to do one a month and get a $15-$25 PAD on them so one shop made up for the background fee. I never saw the point in the enhanced one in my area but maybe if you're in a bigger area. I did a couple corporate banks, even with just the $7 one.

MegglesKat

Much to much work for the money, we never get pad from them so I stopped doing them, even through they were in my town. I enjoyed them, and found them interesting, but all the pic's you take and if you don't get one right, you have to go back. I was just on their site and see they now dropped prices for the cell phone, down to 6.00, not doing this either. I'm only doing the grocery stores since I go to that market anyway and why pay for food.

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I do these frequently and lately they are very flexible about adding travel pay (PAD) in my area. I can usually plan a meal shop or pick up some other kind of quick audit if they take me to a new area so I like them! Only once was I asked to go into a private home and felt the guy might be shady, but it really was nbd.

I also got p_____ off with their big box for 7.00, way below minimum wage.Just saw a FF hiring for 11 to 15.00 hr.
yet someone is taking them, sad.

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I used to only do the higher priced ones. Most are not worth it for me because I have to put $10 gas in my car to get the the site. Once in awhile they have then for $40 or $50.

My background check is up and I get the message to renew, however you have to pay, no, it's not a big fee,just the principal as all their shops are getting lower and lower. I like the scheduler's, certainly not their fault, just the fee for work involved. I do love that they pay twice a month like clockwork.

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It is a very small fee, but of course the choice is yours.

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

@myst4au wrote:

It is a very small fee, but of course the choice is yours.

YES, the choice is always yours, but a disappointing one, after 12 years to see fee's go down when the cost of living goes up....food bought through their program has risen, gas has risen, and trust me, when doing their groceries (that I do), I always buy more than the 9/12$ they reimburse, so they make money on me, but again, I have to eat....

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The first year that I did it, I took the $17 ones. A lot of them. The volume more than made up for the fee. After I got the hang of them, I only did the ones that offered PAD or the $40 ones. It lapsed a few years ago. I don't plan to renew.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

We can't get as many as we want, here it has always been one job at a time, and no pad, as so many shoppers, they all fly off the board, except the health care ones for 34.00...I do same for 45.00. They do give pad, but so far away, another 10.00 isn't worth it, and area's I'm not familiar with and not interested in going to. Which jobs are you talking about, they have many.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/22/2018 06:17PM by Irene_L.A..

According to my log, in 2005 I was paid $23. When in 2007 the fee was lowered to $17, I decided the work:pay ratio was unacceptable. That same $17 is now, adjusted for inflation, $12.76.

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