is anyone working for this company? STOP ..... they are not paying or reibursing. No response from anyone at the company. Is anyone getting paid?

[www.mysteryshopforum.com]

And I recently replied to the person whose addy was in the standard shop notification email to let them know of this thread, my disappointment and the possible reason why these shops are not being picked up. Crickets.

And there are a lot of recent complaints on BBB. This company seems to have an unwarranted superior attitude from what little I've read, much like the walmart-style company.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/04/2024 04:08PM by sestrahelena.

They pay using Tipalita, the same system as Bare. However, you will need to sign up for it. Contact mturner@elitecxs.com as she is very responsive.

I've not been paid either. I had 2 clothing shops that Have not been reimbursed. If they don't eventually pay, I will be out three hundred fifty dollars from my pocket!
I keep getting referred by my scheduler to accounting. I get an automatic response that they're working on their payment system. One of the shops I submitted in february!

Yes, M turner is lovely and very responsive, However, I have tipalita and have not been paid, since February. Thank you for the tip, though, for sure.

Unfortunately, I have to add myself to the list of the unpaid shoppers since February, close to $1 K owed at this point.

This MSC sounds fishy to me; perhaps it is the Tilapia.

I have been paid but will only do the $15 shops with no out of pocket expenses.

I wish this MSC would at least mail a paper check to those affected. With a delay of over six months in some cases, that would be at least be the right thing to do as their one-person accounting department has shown no significant progress in getting the issue fixed.

Editing to add that the IRS would at least add interest.

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How have they paid you this $15.00? consider yourself lucky!

I thought I was paid through Paypal. However, I just went back thru my statements from January and I don't see where I was paid. Maybe, I too, have not actually been paid. I have one $15 shop where it is approved. I will have to keep an eye on it to see if it gets paid.
It shows that the shop was approved. The other 3 shops all have invoices.

I just sent them an email stating that I would not be working for them any longer until i'm paid, $350 REIMBIRSEMENTS!

My past payment was for shops conducted through 6/30/23 and have several outstanding. I would say not enough people are complaining to the BBB as there's only one complaint listed and the BBB rating is A-

Interesting that you can find many complaints on the BBB. I could only find one. Maybe the company has made a few adjustments to their listings.

@4everIndigo wrote:

Interesting that you can find many complaints on the BBB. I could only find one. Maybe the company has made a few adjustments to their listings.

The Better Business Bureau is broken down by region. If you aren't checking the region where the MSC is located (BBB of West Florida), you shouldn't expect to find anything.

[www.bbb.org]

I leave the region blank BBB brings up three Florida locations: "Showing: 3 results for Elite CXS near USA," one in Palm Harbor and two in Hudson. All mystery shopping companies. One in Hudson is listed as Sci-Elite CXS -- that's the one with the A- rating, and the complaint is "No pay. No response. And they're still offering work! Shame on them!." The other two are NR.

"BBB assigns ratings from A+ [highest] to F [lowest]. In some cases, BBB will not rate the business [indicated by an NR, or "No Rating"] for reasons that include insufficient information about a business or ongoing review/update of the business's file."

I've already given you a link to find the negative reviews. If you can't scroll and read, you may want to get out of mystery shopping.



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Since your link "bbb.org" didn't provide any additional digits, and since I had been on the BBB website earlier today and on prior occasions, I used bbb.org which brought me to the main page. Using the link you provided, I now see numerous complaints. Have a nice rest of your day.

If you click on drdoggie00's link, it goes directly to the right page. No "additional digits" are needed.

@4everIndigo wrote:

Since your link "bbb.org" didn't provide any additional digits, and since I had been on the BBB website earlier today and on prior occasions, I used bbb.org which brought me to the main page. Using the link you provided, I now see numerous complaints. Have a nice rest of your day.

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Now I am not really sure that I have been paid as well. There is an invoice but not sure how they pay. Is there a way to check to see if I have been paid?

Are you not keeping a spreadhseet with all your jobs completed, and then when you are paid? I am still waiting on payment from Elite from March and May. What a horrible company.

I do have a spread sheet and I am showing that I was paid. I believe they use Tipalti to pay.

Tell me how?

I am also still waiting on an EliteCXS payment for a March shop. I have reached out three times and signed up on their Tipalti platform. Emailed them last week again and didn't hear a peep back.

From the very few BBB comments they made it seems like they're accusing all shoppers of stupidity.

Did anyone get the email saying they have been removed from Gigspot? 0.0

Crap

Im out $350. That makes over eight hundred dollars lost between two companies in the last five years. What do we need to chock this up to? What do we need to learn? How do we maneuver,to try and protect ourselves Any suggestions?
It would be easy for me to say, well, "Chalk it up and you suck it up., Cost of doing business". However, I don't own this business, and don't make nearly enough money,
to loose andi be ripped off.

I remember (from studying history) there was a time before the 1940s when companies would come up with all kinds of excuses to avoid paying employees they contracted with for the work they did. Thise employees has no recourse, and suffered accordingly. By the Great Depression things had to change. Labor laws were enacted that put employees in first place as creditors of companies, with strong penalties (e.g., jail/prison, steep fines, corporate death penalty) for not meeting payroll.

I remember an incident from my days as a Fortune 50 exempt employee. It was my first month on the job, and on payday all my coworkers got an envelope except me. (This was in the stone age, before email and virtual records, when everyone got either a paper check or paper direct deposit record on payday.)

Anyway, I mentioned it to my boss, who asked the payroll department in HR. Suddenly everyone in HR was freaking out--rushing around like headless chickens--to figure out and rectify what happened. I was presented with a paycheck less than 2 hours after asking my boss. They all knew that someone would get in serious trouble if an employee were not paid on time for their work.

Most Independent contractors don't yet have the legal status throughout the nation that would make stiffing them a crime, but travel/delivery gig contractors have been working on it. Maybe one day it will become real for the rest of us.

I saw one of their shops on GigSpot this morning.