@cindycribbs wrote:
This morning the scheduler (who I have decided I am not a fan of and will not go out of my way to help) sent out an email saying tomorrow is the absolute last day these yellow/red shops can be done. So I guess they will just fall off the board and they will tell the client they could not complete them. In my opinion, this is a complete lie. I have offered many many times to do them but they refused since it was not within 48 hours, if they had taken me up on my offer of the multiple Saturdays or Sundays they could have been done weeks ago. It is really sad that this is the way IPSOS (or at least KSS Scheduling) is choosing to operate.
@sestrahelena wrote:
The shoppers will not win. It is no different than minimum wage employees scraping by while the CEOs of the conglomerates they work for buy extra mansions and yachts. The top dogs at Ipsos pay us less to keep more. They will not give that up. Who would? What I wonder most is how they piece together shops that have been done incorrectly or abandoned midway when a new shopper realizes how much is involved for the base pay they've agreed to. I guess they work it out somehow. Enough to make their money, anyway.
@BuffaloNY101 wrote:
Just sounds like a train wreck. They will learn to schedule further out and pay better to get them done. They may end up paying crazy the first few rounds but will learn. Then again they could end up not completing them and losing the contract. This would mean they most likely would go to another MSC. We shall see.
@KateH wrote:
@BuffaloNY101 wrote:
Just sounds like a train wreck. They will learn to schedule further out and pay better to get them done. They may end up paying crazy the first few rounds but will learn. Then again they could end up not completing them and losing the contract. This would mean they most likely would go to another MSC. We shall see.
Again, I want to repeat this. There is no learning curve. KSS, the middleperson, between Ipsos and you, has a long shopper database and records of how much $$$ shoppers get paid in each geographical region. They are not rookies. Their business model is to keep bonus to bare minimum hoping a newbie, someone driving there will take them, and then the last day or post deadline start offering better bonus, until they reach the absolute last day that they really have to have the shop completed and then they have to pay real $$$ to have it completed. They also know how much Ipsos will pay them and by when and when they need to have completed a certain % of shops and the % of shops that needs to be done total to satisfy the contract Ipsos has with their client. Do not forget that there are usually performance "bonus" for Ipsos based on the % of locations completed.
@jay225 wrote:
i get what you’re saying but but i don’t see how waiting for the last day will help them no matter how big the bonuses are, when there will be thousands of incomplete locations they need done. i’m guessing this is something maritz learned early on.
@jay225 wrote:
@sestrahelena wrote:
The shoppers will not win.
what do you mean by winning though? eventually they will need to start bonusing and giving bigger windows if they want locations completed. there are way too many gas stations for them to play a waiting game. even still, i don’t consider getting $35 for a gas station “winning”. $100 a shop, ok, that’s a win. i’m just hoping for fair pay.
@jay225 wrote:
but have they ever had clients nearly as big as these gas stations? it’s easy to hold out when you got a few popular locations to fill, not when you have a sea of them.