I have been frustrated with this company for keeping a shop in pending for long periods of time. I must schedule a days worth of work to make it worth driving to an area that has shops available. When a company keeps me in pending I am holding open time for them but may or may not get the job. Is this their usual way of doing business? It makes putting a schedule together really difficult.
Note that it is not Corporate Risk Solutions leaving you in limbo but rather Summit Scheduling, an outside scheduling company tasked with getting these shops placed with shoppers. Chances are very good that the job has already been assigned and you are now an unwitting backup. So put the job on your calendar with an annotation that it has not been assigned to you. If you have something else interesting come along, go cancel the pending shop with Corporate Risk Solutions. My rule of thumb is that if I am not assigned the job in 48 hours, don't count on getting it and make sure I cancel my request before it becomes an unwanted obligation at the last minute.
I know what is happening. Just less willing to let the company off of the hook. They contract for scheduling just like they contract for shopping. The buck stops with Corporate Risk Solutions.
I know how to put my schedule together. I just wanted to communicate with companies that from the shoppers' point of view such practices do not serve anyone very well.
I understand your frustration and anger and I certainly wish that a number of these companies would NOT use outside schedulers at all. Within the past hour a shopper friend of my acquaintance who has ONLY ever signed up with SI received a solicitation for a shop from chris.tiefel@intelli-shop.com. Now this is fascinating because in the years she has shopped SI she has ONLY received emails from SI. Within the past month KSS began scheduling for SI. When I play 'connect-the-dots' it sure looks to me like somebody is playing fast and loose with the shopper database.
Oh the wonders of privacy... I prefer to deal with companies directly... When they use scheduling companies it makes them look incompetent at best and trying to hide who they are at worst... Crs are great though done only 2 shops at one of their stores... Well worth it... No probs..
Over a 5 1/2 yr. period, I've only completed 17 shops for this MSC. Today, I was shocked to be paid in 24 minutes; that's NOT a typo. After completing the report, I mailed the company's contact, as required, and my money was posted to PayPal in less than 1/2 hr.; this is certainly a record for me. Have others experienced such rapid payment from an MSC?