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March 03, 2020 12:32AM
Friday afternoon most of the unclaimed green shops in the area popped up with a price of ,$50. I jumped on it and signed up for what I could complete in 48 hours. About 20 min later the ones I claimed were gone from my incomplete shops list and the rest of the batch were gone from the map. After a help ticket and several emails it turns out that the batch was part of a private route for a specific shopper and want supposed to be posted to the main map. Over 50 shops at 50 bucks each is one very nice payday. Wish they would have put them out for everyone at that price. (Or at least let me keep the ones I claimed.
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March 03, 2020 01:53AM
Dam exact same thing happened to me! I was so shocked. Why don’t we all get special treatment?? I’ve done a ton of these too
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March 03, 2020 03:44AM
Schedulers sometimes are shoppers too. Just saying.
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March 03, 2020 10:16AM
Well, that's pretty rude. Maybe unethical? Just snatched them away from you like that? After you've contracted to do them? This project's nightmares just keep getting bigger and bugger!
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March 03, 2020 12:18PM
If you were on the webinar, they said you can apply for a route and may get approved. It depends on your past history with them i think. Like, do ypu cancel shops, extend time, etc.

Not sure i want to be committed to a route, based on the current program. Lots of problems.
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March 03, 2020 02:01PM
Seems like someone proposed a route cheaper than what OP self-assigned. And got it. After it was already taken. Just my 2cents.
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March 03, 2020 02:09PM
I got 20 of them in my area I could finish in 48 hours. They were taken from me by Presto in thirty minutes
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March 03, 2020 03:02PM
I think it's more likely that the "disappearing" shops were previously promised to a route shopper and only posted on Presto by mistake.... This blunder (?) should give shoppers an idea as to what they could get paid for these shops.

Hard work builds character and homework is good for your soul.


Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/03/2020 03:03PM by MFJohnston.
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March 03, 2020 05:31PM
One question: how many or how few locations comprise a route?

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)
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March 03, 2020 06:04PM
"Route" is a vague term. It can be as few as two locations or as many as a billion.

Hard work builds character and homework is good for your soul.
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March 04, 2020 03:38AM
According to presto they were definitely posted by mistake. I do think they should have left me the ones I claimed. My mistakes usually have consequences I have to live with. Them maybe not so much.
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March 04, 2020 03:51AM
Ha ha that’s right. Wish I would have kept mine too
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March 04, 2020 08:14AM
Wow what state are you in that they were offering $50/shop? Are you in a rural area? I have a couple routes scheduled and the most I am getting is $30/shop.
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March 04, 2020 08:15AM
I think they said on the call that a route is 15 or more shops. I have picked up 2 so far, one with 39 shops and one with 29.
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March 04, 2020 12:29PM
@MFJohnston wrote:

I think it's more likely that the "disappearing" shops were previously promised to a route shopper and only posted on Presto by mistake.... This blunder (?) should give shoppers an idea as to what they could get paid for these shops.

Exactly, last time they were bonused at $60 and then started going higher. These rates were for short distance shops, 20 miles or less. The dark audits are at $75+ and still not done everywhere.
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March 04, 2020 02:36PM
And now they have all been lowered to $22
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March 04, 2020 02:44PM
The trouble here is that the MSC's mistake would not have consequences for the MSC, rather they would be for the shopper who was previously promised the assignments. It stinks all around: There was no feasible "solution" that did not make a shopper feel burned - either you or the other person.

@kojak666 wrote:

According to presto they were definitely posted by mistake. I do think they should have left me the ones I claimed. My mistakes usually have consequences I have to live with. Them maybe not so much.

Hard work builds character and homework is good for your soul.
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March 04, 2020 02:49PM
Well now they have all been lowered to $22. Not sure how Presto is allowing all this to go on in their platform.
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March 04, 2020 02:50PM
...Except if both shoppers got paid regardless of which got the route!

(MFJ's post)

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/04/2020 02:51PM by sestrahelena.
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March 04, 2020 02:58PM
We all know that the MSC is not going to gift somebody $50/shop for a blunder like that - and such an expectation is unreasonable. An apology for the confusion is appropriate.

@sestrahelena wrote:

...Except if both shoppers got paid regardless of which got the route!

(MFJ's post)

Hard work builds character and homework is good for your soul.
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March 04, 2020 03:00PM
Oh, I know. But you've gotta admit that neither shopper would, "Feel burned" then!
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March 05, 2020 12:59AM
Hello,

How is anyone getting routes? I am reserving 10 at a time.
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