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It is time that you quit stone walling routes from your mystery shops and let us all make the money instead of waiting until 11 o'clock hour.
I am tired of getting Super hero shopper needed - $97 bonus or send me offers or Urgent Scheduler Help Request - could you do this again? when two days early I gave a bid for these shops and ten more

This year I have heard crickets on all the routes I have submitted or I get this "I will ask for you." or The client just felt that the offer was too high. I am checking into getting the bonus amount approved.

They sent us a letter saying I Was a top gas station audit {See the previous post} and yet they are doing nothing to help us to continue to make them money

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I have learned to just say no. I call their bluff when they tell me they can't pay that much. I might only get half to 3/4 of the locations I used to, but I still end up getting historic pay amounts. Also, I only rarely do projects that don't require 100% completion, only when the shop is convenient, somewhat bonused, and requires no additional travel. I have also learned that the new real deadline is two/three weeks after the "deadline."

Maybe also the editors could be included.
I am now seeing almost a week's backlog of unedited and hence, unapproved shops that I have done. It is almost as if they want to delay payment. This past pay period more than half the shops I did the previous week were not reimbursed or paid for.
Maybe they could send out an Email blast advising shoppers of a problem with their editing corps.

Yes, they the editors are running a week late. I got used to same date review. I don't suppose we can submit shops whenever we get around to it instead same day.

I agree that the editing has become slower on some projects. However, even when they take a week to edit, they still have fast pay compared to most other MSC's. Their aggressive strategy of playing games with shoppers on pay and attempting to lower pay across the board is significantly more troubling to me.

It’s July 17 and the monthly blue (or red) stations are still part of ishopfirst even tho they’ve gone through two bonus increases already. The green ones in the app also don’t have a scheduler two months into the quarter. Looks like they’re trying to save on scheduler fees as well as shopper fees but at some point I just feel like it will all cave in on them. Normally to get a route assigned you need to go through the scheduler but I wonder if the PM’s are just reaching out to their favored shoppers, or shoppers are contacting the pm’s directly?

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2022 10:24PM by Notme2021.

jay states--2.50 bonus is such an insult.

Bob disagrees--It is business and shoppers are self-employed contractors.

jay concludes--their cheapness is gross.

Bob opines--a company's first allegiance must be to their shareholders, then the holders of any debt and finally their employees. Self-employed contractors are free to either bid or pass on an association. As the old adage goes, "If you don't like the peaches, don't shake the tree."
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@shopperbob wrote:

jay states--2.50 bonus is such an insult.

Bob disagrees--It is business and shoppers are self-employed contractors.

jay concludes--their cheapness is gross.

Bob opines--a company's first allegiance must be to their shareholders, then the holders of any debt and finally their employees. Self-employed contractors are free to either bid or pass on an association. As the old adage goes, "If you don't like the peaches, don't shake the tree."
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i'm not sure why you keep referring to yourself in third person, but you do make a great white knight for them lol. the fees are too low for the work required. they're paying less and less money while they get richer and richer. yes, i'm aware we are independent contractors, doesn't mean it's not unsettling to see how cheap they've become when with the way things are, you'd expect fees would go up if anything.

@shopperbob wrote:

Bob opines--a company's first allegiance must be to their shareholders, then the holders of any debt and finally their employees. Self-employed contractors are free to either bid or pass on an association. As the old adage goes, "If you don't like the peaches, don't shake the tree."
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That's a simplistic view. A company's first duty is to act both morally and lawfully. While doing so may be in the true interest of shareholders, very often companies and shareholders view (short term) monetary return as the sole measurement of the responsibility to a company to its shareholders. That's often not the case. For example, it is not in shareholder's interest to live on a polluted planet. A company acting in its shareholder's interest will refrain from polluting notwithstanding the short and even medium term revenues and profits doing so yield. Money is a poor measurement of interest.

Jay ^ rousseau,

I should have been clearer in my response and included that I was directing my opinion strictly toward a profitable business. There certainly are ethical considerations to consider. My comment concerning a fruit tree stands, as does my opinion that a client has no obligation to offer more than required to its contractors. Were we employees, though, that would be, as the wizard commented to Dorothy, "A horse of a different color."

Very simple rule: There is what someone will pay and what someone will accept in pay. That is the whole of the law.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard Feynman-- letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230

I might be only getting 50 to 75% of the locations I used to, but it's my experience that I'll end up getting the same amount of pay eventually. It's just important to be strong and not accept the locations for less than what you have received before. If somebody else takes them, then that's business and that supply and demand. Their goal is to get the shops filled as cheaply as possible. Our goal is to try to get as much money as possible for completing them. It's a negotiation and a balance, and if they want all of the locations done, then they're eventually going to have to pay.

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