@sandyf wrote:
I live in California and do not see more than half of what nsliner has listed but if I search for the entire state I see different shops than I do in my area. Hotel shops down here seem to be few and far between as do high end restaurant shops for a great job........ So what indicates a valued shopper in one area may not hold true in another
@nslinhar wrote:
@sandyf wrote:
I live in California and do not see more than half of what nsliner has listed but if I search for the entire state I see different shops than I do in my area. Hotel shops down here seem to be few and far between as do high end restaurant shops for a great job........ So what indicates a valued shopper in one area may not hold true in another
I do not live in California. As stated, I searched California (not a zip code). I found, North to South, enough hotel and high end dining to keep me on the road for a month easy. I also see different shops than I do in my area, as some busineses are regional. If I searched Texas or New York, the statement would be the same. I am able to see high end shops for ACL across the entire United States, enough to take me East to West on I40 and back, one hotel and one high end dining per day. It appears I am valued in the USA.
@SoCalMama wrote:
@nslinhar wrote:
@sandyf wrote:
I live in California and do not see more than half of what nsliner has listed but if I search for the entire state I see different shops than I do in my area. Hotel shops down here seem to be few and far between as do high end restaurant shops for a great job........ So what indicates a valued shopper in one area may not hold true in another
I do not live in California. As stated, I searched California (not a zip code). I found, North to South, enough hotel and high end dining to keep me on the road for a month easy. I also see different shops than I do in my area, as some busineses are regional. If I searched Texas or New York, the statement would be the same. I am able to see high end shops for ACL across the entire United States, enough to take me East to West on I40 and back, one hotel and one high end dining per day. It appears I am valued in the USA.
There are only 2 hotels in CA right now that we can see. Both are assigned. Neither of them has a fee. Not exactly prime shops. I declined one of them last month.
95% of the restaurants have reimbursements under $100. I don't recall any with a fee or if they do have a fee, it is $15 or less, which is not enough for me to consider it to be a fee. There are a handful of restaurants with reimbursements around $150.
@sandyf wrote:
I am not sure where you are coming from but a high end restaurant with little or no fee and a hotel with no fee both 450 miles away is not a shop most Californian's would take. Yes, if I was on vacation I might but if I was trying to make a living doing mystery shopping a route for me would actually cost me money. It can take up to 2-3 hours just to get out of town at times. In town the (town being a megalopolis plus some) I finally saw a bonus on two shops from acl today. I have never before seen a bonus on those shops even with one day left in the month. But the locations bonused at $2 on a shop with a flat fee of $10 for one and the other 10 reimbursement and 10 fee were a 45 minute or more drive from my house if I drove for the 20 minute window between morning and evening rush hour. And the two shops were not at all near each other. It is a losing proposition to drive for almost 2 hours to get a $2 bonus with probably no other shops nearby or if their were they would be little pay shops that the locals to that area do.
I do see larger bonuses but they are in small mountain communities an hour or more winding road drive from a city much closer than my city. And these mountain communities usually have a one or two street downtown so the drive up there and back might be for only one shop.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
I still shop for them. I get email requests for me to do shops but they don't contact me by phone. They must like Honny better than me, LOL. I really think it's just an individual scheduler preference. The schedulers for my area are not phone people, I guess.
@HonnyBrown wrote:
When I said, "contacts me by phone," I meant text. The scheduler du jour texts me at the end of the month to ink my shops for the following month.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
I still shop for them. I get email requests for me to do shops but they don't contact me by phone. They must like Honny better than me, LOL. I really think it's just an individual scheduler preference. The schedulers for my area are not phone people, I guess.
I think that Sandy's point is that these are not "good" hotel shops. For me, a "good" hotel shop is one that pays mileage, has 2 nights not one night, and has a fee of $250 to $500 on top of the reimbursement. Their shops are good if you need points or need a place to stay on the road and it is the right place at the right time.@nslinhar wrote:
I'm not coming to California. I do not live in California. I was using California as an example.
@HonnyBrown wrote:
When I said, "contacts me by phone," I meant text. The scheduler du jour texts me at the end of the month to ink my shops for the following month.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
I still shop for them. I get email requests for me to do shops but they don't contact me by phone. They must like Honny better than me, LOL. I really think it's just an individual scheduler preference. The schedulers for my area are not phone people, I guess.
@nslinhar wrote:
I see your point but not Sandy's as it relates to yours. My point was I see the same shops as you. You are personally offered jobs not on the board, but as of yesterday the board was the same for us. And Niner it seems.
@HonnyBrown wrote:
When I said, "contacts me by phone," I meant text. The scheduler du jour texts me at the end of the month to ink my shops for the following month.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
I still shop for them. I get email requests for me to do shops but they don't contact me by phone. They must like Honny better than me, LOL. I really think it's just an individual scheduler preference. The schedulers for my area are not phone people, I guess.