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Are there any shoppers who have completed these shops and have followed the posting pattern?

I live in south Florida and have completed quite a few of the compliance shops in my area. I noticed that they had a massive cluster of the shops in Naples and Ft Myers. Two months ago the shops fee were $28 (usually $18) for those two areas. The shops were not picked up and just disappeared at the end of the month. A few of the shops sprang back up in December in Naples, but only a few and the fee was reduced to $15. Now I noticed a few shops again were posted for December but the fees ranged from $15 or $22 but nothing for $28, The guidelines have changed now to no necessary purchase and no reimbursement.

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Same thing in the San Francisco/Bay Area. Started off with a $18 shopper fee in the summer and at sometime it was increased to $23 and then $28, with a handful as high as $38-43 in sketchier areas. They used to have a lot more shops (hundreds in the SF Bay Area) but now they only a post a couple of shops (around 10-20) each month for $22. It's probably because the e-cig company is facing a bunch of lawsuits right now and being monitored by the FDA.

Darn. I loved doing these shops, and was looking forward to doing a nice route in Naples if they bonused them.

I don't think they bonus them anymore. All the shops that weren't assigned in December in the SF Bay Area were all rolled over to January at the same pay. It's still a decent pay since the shops and reports take only a few minutes to complete.

@Luna126 Not sure if this has happened in your area. STN recently cut the pay on the shops in the SF bay area for the compliance jobs from $22 to $15 (except stores in sketchy areas). They recently added a bunch of my shops again (similar amount when they first started the program). I also noticed that another MSC is also doing a compliance shop for the same client as STN. They recently posted a bunch of shops too in my area for a $10 pay (all different locations/stores from STN).

@azncollege I just checked my area and it's the same as you said. Shame I really loved doing these shops. The locations are much much more closer and I don't have to come out of pocket this time. But I am disappointed that the pay is lower. I may pickup a few and wait for the rest to see if they slowly bonus them. Usually I find compliance shops end up getting bonused because their shopper pool is so small.

@azncollege Hey do you still see the shops in your area? I assigned myself two of the shops and a few days afterwards majority of the locations disappeared.

A little bit different than compliance shops but there were jobs posted in my area for only $4.25 per store because they were offering a cluster of them. Go into store, ask question about e-cig then educate employee. The MSC said it would take 5 mins per store. They thought if they offer a cluster and $200+ total that nobody would calculate how much that was per store. Most of them are still sitting on the job board.

@Whatfun14LF wrote:

A little bit different than compliance shops but there were jobs posted in my area for only $4.25 per store because they were offering a cluster of them. Go into store, ask question about e-cig then educate employee. The MSC said it would take 5 mins per store. They thought if they offer a cluster and $200+ total that nobody would calculate how much that was per store. Most of them are still sitting on the job board.

wow. $4.25 how nice of them

The easiest report I've done that takes less than 10 minutes offers me at least a $15 flat fee and I get groceries out of this!

@Luna126 They disappeared in my area too for a couple of days. I just checked and they reappeared (although a lot less shops). I ended up taking some shops with the other MSC (which has hundreds of shops in my area). Exact same guidelines and report as STN. I'm pretty sure STN is about to lose the contract with the e-cig company. It looks like the other MSC will probably eventually take over the shop program completely.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/24/2019 05:28PM by azncollege.

@Luna126 Looks like their back again on STN for February. About a 90 shops in my area. The other MSC is also still scheduling for February too. The other MSC also has a new type of compliance shop to test if the store will sell you an excessive amount of packs. Mostly different locations but a couple of the shops are the same location. A little confused why they're having two different MSC do the shops.

@azncollege Thanks for the update. I see they are back in my area as well. I guess we shall what happens in the next round of shops, which MSCs keep the shops.

@Luna126 Did STN remove a bunch of the shops in your area? There were about 80 shops in my area this morning. I just checked a couple of hours later and they got rid of 90% of the shops.

Also curious if the other MSC has shops in your area. The other MSC uses the iSecretShop platform to post jobs.

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