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Where are the IPSOS bonuses? It is the end of the month and three of their regular gas station clients are all over the job board, begging to get done, but IPSOS is holding firm on very low bonuses, yet we are old that 11/30 is the absolute LAST day! Does anyone have any insight on this?

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My guess is that they are only going to complete the locations they can get done cheap, rather than paying whatever it takes to get all locations shopped as some other gas brands do. This could be the agreement they have with their client.

@salisburync wrote:

Where are the IPSOS bonuses? It is the end of the month and three of their regular gas station clients are all over the job board, begging to get done, but IPSOS is holding firm on very low bonuses, yet we are old that 11/30 is the absolute LAST day! Does anyone have any insight on this?

End of the month, yes. But not the end of the quarter. They were also bonusing some shops early to get them done before EOM. Some clients have blackouts the last week of Nov.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2022 02:41AM by Rousseau.

@mjt9598 wrote:

My guess is that they are only going to complete the locations they can get done cheap, rather than paying whatever it takes to get all locations shopped as some other gas brands do. This could be the agreement they have with their client.

I think it is highly unlikely clients either know or care what fees and bonuses pays. Most likely pay a fixed amount per shop. When MSCs pay base, they profit greatly. With small bonuses, they profit less. And when they have to pay large bonuses, they loose money.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2022 02:45AM by Rousseau.

Hopefully they will extend them and pay bonuses to get them done by year-end, but the last round I did not ever see them go up high enough to do the routes I always did for the previous company.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2022 09:51AM by mjt9598.

Almost everything gets done at base rate or slightly higher in my area. I need to move. Or just give up.

Oh, I know you've been at this a long time. Don't give up! I see absolutely wonderful shops (luxury watches, etc.) in areas I don't go. I know you're signed up with lots of MSCs, maybe time to explore some new ones?

IPSOS bonused their fast food Chinese chain last week. Got up to $25 plus the $8 reimburse. That is one of the better paying fast food places with a simple report. I don't really do any of their other clients. I just wait for the bonused fast food ones. Occasionally, I will hit the bank account stuff on the shopmetrics side when the price gets to a juicier level.

It's amazing, have never seen it this bad. They must be trying to meet a certain year-end profit figure.
One of the shopmetrics gas clients (where there are three periods and the current period began in September) has looked like an abandoned project at this point, in my opinion. Still doesn't have it's own scheduler and is in the "ishopfirst" state.

@KA047 I see two gas clients over there. Both of them are quarterlies. When I saw the blue and yellow client back in October, I got the impression that it was a monthly since the due date was ~10 days out and waited for bonuses that never came.

I clicked one of the locations and found out the due date was the 1st/2nd week of December and not October as originally advertised. I think the original fee was $12 and they bumped it up by $3 in two months, but they went from over a dozen available in the area to one and now there are four. Not sure if that is a mind game they are playing and I'll see more pop up or if someone took a bunch at the original fee.

They bumped up the fee on the other client to $25. Not sure where it started, but the locations are a little further out.

I need to see what the experts here have said about the average length of time for these shops. I did one for another brand that took just over an hour and there is no way I would do a shop for $12 that might take that long.

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