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December 01, 2019 12:14AM
@JASFLALMT wrote:

No. No, I don't. I've been a shopper for nearly 2 decades and am signed up with over 100 MSCs. The issue (or non-issue) about payment is not remotely similar to that of an employee.

@Sandy0606 wrote:

@JASFLALMT wrote:

LOL! You can say that you are the president of the US for this conversation but that doesn't make it true.

We are self-employed ICs.
When speaking about this issue about paydays we are no different than employees. You know that.
It is the same in this context. Direct deposits don't happen on holidays or on weekends. We get paid by direct deposit & millions of other "employees" get paid by direct deposit too. That is the issue, direct deposit payments. I guarantee there were millions of "employees" who had a payday today & they got paid yesterday. The norm is if a payment day falls on Saturday, the payment is made on Friday, if it's Sunday, the payment is Monday. No, we are not employees of a company, but we get paid just like they do. I've never had this problem with Paypal.
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December 01, 2019 12:35AM
@Sandy0606 wrote:

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

@Sandy0606 wrote:

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

I have never worked for them and went onto their site after reading the raves and see jobs for 6.00, many of them with a couple near me, I have to take the test. Matt is my scheduler, seems nice enough, but 6.00?
They're low paying, but very nice. I've figured this pay issue is a function of not only the last day falling on Saturday but Thanksgiving in the middle. Their jobs are fun, but you won't retire off the pay. lol
Thank G__ I retired way before finding MS'ing......have you done any for this fee?
I've done phone shops for $6, but I've never gotten off my couch for $6.
This was meant for SandyF.....

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December 01, 2019 01:00AM
@Irene_L.A. wrote:

@Sandy0606 wrote:

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

@Sandy0606 wrote:

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

I have never worked for them and went onto their site after reading the raves and see jobs for 6.00, many of them with a couple near me, I have to take the test. Matt is my scheduler, seems nice enough, but 6.00?
They're low paying, but very nice. I've figured this pay issue is a function of not only the last day falling on Saturday but Thanksgiving in the middle. Their jobs are fun, but you won't retire off the pay. lol
Thank G__ I retired way before finding MS'ing......have you done any for this fee?
I've done phone shops for $6, but I've never gotten off my couch for $6.
This was meant for SandyF.....
Sorry, it came to my email.
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December 01, 2019 01:39AM
???? How did Irene's post go to your email?
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December 01, 2019 07:54PM
My first time reading this thread...Irene I have not replied to this thread. these are other Sandy's, not me. So what was meant for me?
What I want to know about is the other 360 briefly discussed. I have seen shops that sound interesting for 360 Intel but could not find info about the company and if they are fair etc. etc. Anyone willing to discuss 360 Intel here?
And now to pay issues. No we are not like employees. I have never come across a situation where an employee gets paid regularly on the lat day of the month after they did a job, or 60 days after the job or even 90 days after the job. If this company is paying at the end of the next month that already is not like an employee. If you cannot wait another day and feel you would like to be paid like an employee there are msc out there that pay after 2 weeks ot twice a month roughly more like most employees get paid.

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

@Sandy0606 wrote:

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

@Sandy0606 wrote:

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

I have never worked for them and went onto their site after reading the raves and see jobs for 6.00, many of them with a couple near me, I have to take the test. Matt is my scheduler, seems nice enough, but 6.00?
They're low paying, but very nice. I've figured this pay issue is a function of not only the last day falling on Saturday but Thanksgiving in the middle. Their jobs are fun, but you won't retire off the pay. lol
Thank G__ I retired way before finding MS'ing......have you done any for this fee?
I've done phone shops for $6, but I've never gotten off my couch for $6.
This was meant for SandyF.....
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December 01, 2019 09:12PM
@SandtF,,,I wanted to know if you've done the 6.00 jobs for Ath?

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/2019 09:13PM by Irene_L.A..
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December 02, 2019 12:36AM
@Sandy0606 wrote:

When speaking about this issue about paydays we are no different than employees.

Uh we are completely different than employees. Employees are employed by the company and get a paycheck. We are independent contractors and as such we are a business getting paid by another business as a supplier. Two entirely different things.

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December 02, 2019 01:22AM
@sandyf wrote:


What I want to know about is the other 360 briefly discussed. I have seen shops that sound interesting for 360 Intel but could not find info about the company and if they are fair etc. etc. Anyone willing to discuss 360 Intel here?

@sandyf I've done several of the 360 Intel shops with no problems or issues. The ones that I have done are all flat payment shops, so your profit can vary depending on the place. I mostly use them as dinner or lunch shops when I have a bunch of retail shops in Atlantic City. The reports are easy and I usually have them done before I leave the building.

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December 02, 2019 06:04AM
Irene. Ath has some fairly simple shops for $6 that are a gas station, non-revealed and quick. They also have some revealed gas station shops I will not do for under $25. I am not sure what you are seeing on the board?
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December 02, 2019 12:04PM
Well, here it is Mon. 12/2. Still no pay. Grrrr.
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December 02, 2019 12:21PM
Same here. They have always paid on time.
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December 02, 2019 01:42PM
I hope we get paid tomorrow. I need that $
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December 02, 2019 04:08PM
The $6 jobs will become $10-$20 jobs later in the month. They are super easy if you're gonna be in the neighborhood. The $4 jobs can go up to $30 towards the end of the period.
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December 02, 2019 08:03PM
It’s Monday.. I still haven’t had my direct deposit.i have shopped Alta360 since it was Ritter. When the last day of the month has been a Saturday, payment is made Friday showing up in my bank Saturday. With Thursday being a holiday I am not surprised payment will be made today, showing my account after 2AM on Tuesday, which anyway you look at it is three days late.

There are only two types of their jobs near me. Grocery shops and $6 gas shops. I do both when bonused (Last month I did three grocery shops for a total of $115 including reimbursement) and I never do the two gas shops 30 miles away until they are $25-50 each. I once told Matt I’d do them for $20 during the first two weeks of the quarter, but he said he couldn’t do that. That quarter no one did them. The second quarter he asked me to do them and I got my $50 per.
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December 02, 2019 10:42PM
Payment showed up today at 4:00PM. Colo me happy.
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December 06, 2019 07:54PM
I have a regular route I do for Alta gas stations. It's thru Gigspot which is lot my favorite
But Atla 360 Research is the BEST MSC ON THE PLANET
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December 08, 2019 07:39PM
I've never had a problem with alta360. unless I made a mistake. The pay is 60 days!
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December 09, 2019 12:36AM
I actually will only shop for Alta360 the last week or ten days in the month. Then I'm paid in 5 weeks or so.
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December 09, 2019 10:56AM
@ceasesmith wrote:

I actually will only shop for Alta360 the last week or ten days in the month. Then I'm paid in 5 weeks or so.

And the fees may have risen above $2 (being flippant with numbers here).
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February 08, 2020 12:02PM
Don't be talking smack about my Honeypot.
Best MSC available in my humble opinion. Jessica is Primo Deluxe.
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February 08, 2020 02:40PM
She probaby subscribed to the thread. Every time there is a new post, there is an email notification.

@JASFLALMT wrote:

???? How did Irene's post go to your email?

Kim
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February 08, 2020 06:12PM
Reading this thread late again as the only mention of me was by Irene. Irene if you are listening I have not worked for either 360 company (Alta of Intel) and not for Ath either. I think I once did a $4 pay job for the Chinese fast food and one for a coffee shop. Have not done either since. I would do a $6 job if there was some sort of large reimbursement.
As for the quote below, Irene and anyone else living in West Los Angeles, have you ever seen very many jobs turn to $10-$20 later in the month or $4 jobs turn to $30? Only occasionally I will see a $4 job turn to $4.50 but it will be in an area where there are no other jobs that pay much at all and will require me to make an hour trek to get there. So no. I do not work for $2 an hour. In traffic my car can drive 12 miles per hour. The number is right there on the car computer. A few years ago it was 16 mph, then it went down to 14 and now it is 12. People stop moving to West Los Angeles and clogging up the already over crowded streets!


@whiterosie wrote:

The $6 jobs will become $10-$20 jobs later in the month. They are super easy if you're gonna be in the neighborhood. The $4 jobs can go up to $30 towards the end of the period.
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February 08, 2020 09:41PM
Hi Sandy...I have not worked for Alta, but did a couple bank jobs for Ath, good company, slow payers, but since no reimbursement required and banks all over the place, I'll continue.
You are right about traffic, have to see it to believe it...even folks in the "Valley" where I now live (Encino area), don't want to drive into the city.

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February 08, 2020 10:01PM
@shopperbob wrote:

As they now use the iSecretShop platform, I occasionally see their jobs, but the fees are too low to even approach my requirement.

Alta360 uses Shopmetrics, not iSS. Thats been the case for several years.
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February 08, 2020 10:41PM
@JASFLALMT wrote:

Been shopping with them since they were Ritter, since about 2001. I do shops for them monthly and I always get my shops scheduled through their regular Shopmetrics website. Done thousands of shops, never seen one posted on ISS at all.
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February 08, 2020 10:42PM
Yeah, we clarified that back in November, lol. And not just several years, Alta has NEVER been on any other platform than Shopmetrics.

@Rousseau wrote:

@shopperbob wrote:

As they now use the iSecretShop platform, I occasionally see their jobs, but the fees are too low to even approach my requirement.

Alta360 uses Shopmetrics, not iSS. Thats been the case for several years.


Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/08/2020 10:44PM by JASFLALMT.
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February 09, 2020 06:10AM
Shoppers are seeing "360 Intel" and they think that is the same as Alta360.
@JASFLALMT wrote:

Yeah, we clarified that back in November, lol. And not just several years, Alta has NEVER been on any other platform than Shopmetrics.

@Rousseau wrote:

@shopperbob wrote:

As they now use the iSecretShop platform, I occasionally see their jobs, but the fees are too low to even approach my requirement.

Alta360 uses Shopmetrics, not iSS. Thats been the case for several years.
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