I've been shopping about two years and work with about 40 companies. TS introduced me to Mystery shopping. My first two schedulers were amazing. They were extremely respectful and said I was their best shopper. I regularly received PAD of 10 or $15 in my immediate area and up to $60 for farther away.
Both of my first two schedulers that were so great left the company.
The schedulers that replaced them were much less attentive, appreciative, and courteous.
It became much more difficult to secure PAD. A certain young female scheduler was very rude and unappreciative. She accused me of going back-and-forth between different schedulers to get more PAD even though multiple schedulers would constantly send me text messages or phone calls asking me to do Shoppes. One Scheduler would offer me eight dollars the next would offer me 20 totally random and indescriminant.
Because of the schedulers false accusations I was removed from eligibility for grocery shops but I was still eligible to complete other shops for Trend Source. However I hardly did any of the other shops so this effectively canceled my incentive to work for them.
I very diligently and politely persisted in trying to talk to a higher up associate. I finally succeeded and was told that I had never written a bad report and I was an asset to the company and I would be reactivated but I had to watch myself in my communications with schedulers.
Trend Source used to account for about 40% of my shops I did about 150 for them in one year originally.
I still shop for them but they are very small portion of my mystery shopping income now they probably only account for about 5% of my shops. It is very rare that I can secure PAD on my local shops. I have very little interaction with the schedulers whatsoever. I will use their self assign feature basically when I'm walking right by a business that has a shop available.
The first two schedulers for Trend Source I had were fantastic and really spoiled me and created some false expectations in me that are now more realistic.
My is opinion Trend Source is a good company to have a relationship with. They have the fastest pay in the industry and some good shops available. The upper management is good and will give you a fair shake.
The main issue with Trend Source is that they have what seems to be 100 schedulers competing with each other in a boiler room type format and they are very indiscriminate and sloppy and don't follow any pattern so you really have to figure out how to work with them or keep it to a minimum as I am now.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/20/2020 04:07PM by Gitarshop.