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Interesting Experience with IPSOS on Smart Phone Shop

February 06, 2025 01:44AM
At the end of January, I performed a smart phone shop, well known to those who get jobs on their Sassie platform. I performed it. It required owning a particular brand or another brand of Android. I own two android smart phones, one brand the other other brand. I marked I owned the brand one on a non-brand shop. I did not get a review or rejection. When it was not paid with the others, I sent a contact email and added that I used the other brand smart phone for the shop. Within a day, I received a response saying it had been reviewed and would be paid the next time. I received a 9/10 grade.

I suspect that it was being held, and my email clarified that I owned an android that met the requirement. The 9/10 would reflect correcting my answer for the brand of smart phone I owned. Whew.

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
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February 25, 2025 06:32AM
I had something like that on a brand specific phone shop. In the past, I would trade phones with my husband who has the android blah blah they want for some shops and I have super old falling apart iphone. This used to be just fine. I would do the whole shop on the phone requested for the shop - the selfie, in store conversation - when in store pics are required, those too, on the phone they want me to have and even do the report on there. I completed many shops using both phones on the same day. Recently though It was noted I had the wrong phone type. It could have been me clicking the wrong button? Regardless, I stopped signing up for those other shops to prevent confusion on either end - just sticking to my personal phone. It might be like this for a lot of us because I noticed specific brands are being bonused more.
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February 25, 2025 05:12PM
The apple shops are sitting at a standstill near me and increased fees. I don't have one. I guess if I took a pic with an android they would know I wasn't using apple? Not worth the risk I guess. I will have to ask my friend if she has an old one, maybe I can rig it up with my hotspot from the android
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March 01, 2025 12:42AM
I do use my Samsung phone to record and keep time. I use it to take the selfie as well. So far no problems. I select Other Android and keep my Google Pixel in sight during the shop.

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
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March 01, 2025 02:05AM
Datagirl,

I'm guessing the stuff captured in the background is differently formatted for Android and Apple. So they can probably tell.

Asked my brother about his old phone and they get traded in, not given to friends.

Watched a documentary about Alan Touring who broke the German enigma code during WWII. He was found dead of an an apparent suicide with a half eaten apple on his bedside table. There was an inference that was where the current Apple got it's name from. Dont know if we'll ever know.
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