I do personally KNOW from experience that info I have sent in has been used.
However, I ALWAYS give my permission to use it when I send it in!
For example, there's a ff shop I do regularly that is drive thru or dine in. The location has no drive-thru, and has no dine-in. Every time I see the shop on the board, I e-mail the current scheduler and explain it to them. They ALWAYS thank me and say they will forward the info to the client.
Another shop I did was a UTV shop. The location carries only ONE model of ONE brand. The following month when I saw the shop on the board for a different brand and a different model, I e-mailed the scheduler with the information I had. Since they have to pay $200 to get this shop done (many miles from the middle of nowhere), it saved them and/or the client time and money.
When northeastern Nebraska was flooded this past March, and I was there, I got on my laptop and e-mailed more than a handful of schedulers about closed/flooded roads, washed out bridges, etc. They were able to tell the clients the locations could NOT be shopped, and why.
Granted, this is NOT the same thing as using info in a report and not paying me for the report.
I have on occasion messed up shops so badly that I either could not report at all, or the report was unacceptable. I have sent the relevant details to the scheduler and encouraged her (or him) to let the client know, knowing that the report could not/would not be used. I have been thanked, and told the info WAS sent to the client.
I do realize that other shoppers do not do this.
I'm weirder than hell.