@ceasesmith wrote:
I made an offer (utilizing "Make an Offer" of $25 for a gas station. Straight ms, no audit. It was declined.
They paid another shopper $40 for the gas station ms. (I know this for a fact, as she called me and asked me why I didn't do it.)
I do not understand how that make them more profitable.
@SoCalMama wrote:
They can pick and choose their shoppers. If they have a list of people who are paid too much to be profitable, they can block every one of them. It's their choice. Their shops are incredibly simple. They can, and will, find somebody to do them. Yes, you can get blocked or deactivated for being late too often. Nobody owes anybody anything.
It's one company out of 100's.
@ceasesmith wrote:
One out of hundreds is fine for you who live in an area where many companies have shops.
I do not.
Market force has MOST of the shops within a 400 mile driving radius. I shop rural areas in Nebraska, Colorado, KS, OK, TX, SD, and WY. I am signed up with well over 100 companies. In all the areas I traveled to in the last 30 days, Intellishop had TWO shops, Reality Check had 8 (I did 7 of the 8), HSBrands had 3 (never heard back from the scheduler, so I didn't do any of the 3).....etc., etc., etc.
Marketforce had literally hundreds. I did 6 of the more than 40 I requested.
Of course they can pick and choose their shoppers. I don't know about "they will find someone to do them", because some of the ones I requested were still on the job board with "Make an Offer" after the deadline; they did not get shopped.
I am NOT deactivated. I am blocked -- that is, I cannot be assigned shops by schedulers. I can take them off the job board (no, thanks; I'm not driving 90 miles round trip for $8 -- that doesn't even pay for the gas!), or utilize "Make an offer" -- which doesn't work very well.
@SoCalMama wrote:
They can pick and choose their shoppers. If they have a list of people who are paid too much to be profitable, they can block every one of them. It's their choice. Their shops are incredibly simple. They can, and will, find somebody to do them. Yes, you can get blocked or deactivated for being late too often. Nobody owes anybody anything.
It's one company out of 100's.
@ceasesmith wrote:
SoCal, that's the entire point of my....discomfort. Being blocked from schedulers means I can no longer call one and ask, "What does that shop pay?"
When I make an offer on shops I have been doing for 10 years or so (on which the fees have dropped drastically), I make an offer based on what I've been paid for that shop before. But when I'm out in the middle of nowhere, and it's a shop I've never done, I don't have any guidance on what make an offer might be accepted.
I'm not asking for 10x the posted rate.
Why am I getting the feeling your posts are accusatory, as though I have done/am doing something wrong?
@shopperbob wrote:
johnb974 asserts of SoCalMama--She almost always sides with the MSC and against the shopper.
Bob disagrees--I have never read a post by SoCal that was not business oriented and, while opinionated, was certainly objective in nature. What she does not project is being an employee, as she is, as we all are, a self-employed contractor. No shopper is entitled to anything other than to be paid for a successfully completed assignment and have the terms of their agreement upheld. When MF fired me in 2010, I accepted their decision, lost approx. 25 lbs., became no longer borderline diabetic and my BP dropped a considerably; I had completed 30 of their shops in 09/10.
My understanding is that the purpose of your post was to determine WHY you are blocked.@ceasesmith wrote:
SoCal, that's the entire point of my....discomfort. Being blocked from schedulers means I can no longer call one and ask, "What does that shop pay?"
When I make an offer on shops I have been doing for 10 years or so (on which the fees have dropped drastically), I make an offer based on what I've been paid for that shop before. But when I'm out in the middle of nowhere, and it's a shop I've never done, I don't have any guidance on what make an offer might be accepted.
I'm not asking for 10x the posted rate.
Why am I getting the feeling your posts are accusatory, as though I have done/am doing something wrong?
@ceasesmith wrote:
bgriffin, thanks so much for the kind words. I'm really glad there's a need for us low quality mystery shoppers!
@Monk-N-Nut wrote:
I'm shaking my head in horror. Sorry this is happening to you, Cease. Idk if you have ever considered sources of income? I know their are legitimate companies that hire work at home'rs at every level of expertise. Cease, I will help you if you want.