Hello shoppers. For our blue light special today we are introducing a new spook.
I'm a retired, former business owner and starting a new career checking out gas station restrooms, hotels and retail outlets. I've already had about all the burgers and sundaes I can stand.
I've been at it now for about a month and it's been interesting (may I have an interesting life). Actually I kind of enjoy it; I'm certainly not doing it for the money. I guess one question I have is how do people avoid spending more time filling out submissions and uploading photos than they spend doing thee shops, or is that just the way it is. That is sure where I spend my time.
Wish I had known about this site when I first started and I could have avoided one or two problems, but sometimes we learn better making our own mistakes than from someone else's. I have to keep telling myself that when my kids don't listen to me.
I'm working about an hour west of the twin cities and trying to concentrate on shops within about 30 mile radius, unless I can get some mileage (good luck with that). I'm learning how to deal with the frustrations of dealing with schedulers who think they are doing you a favor offering you a shop 30 miles away for $8. From what I have already read on this forum, that is the classic issue with most MSPs.
By the way, do they have to hunt when they hire editors to find people with an attitude? I would have never talked to an employee the way they talk to me! I dropped one outfit already just because of the rudeness of the editor. I welcome constructive criticism but I am not a belligerent teenager and they are not my parents.
If anyone can suggest which providers are most likely to have shops for rural areas in the midwest I would welcome that information. I have spent many hours filling out applications for MSPs who claim to have loads of $30 shops available and coming up completely empty. So far, Intelli-shops, Maritz, BestMark, and Corporate Research seem to be working best for me.
From what I can see, by the way (again), the only time you will see a shop for $30 is when they are really desperate. Seems like the name of the game in rural settings is to combine half a dozen shops on one trip and then try to get them all submitted before midnight after you get home (exhausted from a long day on the road).
Enough rambling for now (us old farts tend to do that) and back to hunting for good MSPs and planning out my nest routes.
For a while I will be sucking up whatever information I can from those of you who have 'been there and done that but no T shirt' (since the T shirt would identify you) and, hopefully some day I will be able to pass on the great wisdom and experience to the next sucker who thinks they can make money and collect TVs at this game.
Keep your head down,
Eldon
I'm a retired, former business owner and starting a new career checking out gas station restrooms, hotels and retail outlets. I've already had about all the burgers and sundaes I can stand.
I've been at it now for about a month and it's been interesting (may I have an interesting life). Actually I kind of enjoy it; I'm certainly not doing it for the money. I guess one question I have is how do people avoid spending more time filling out submissions and uploading photos than they spend doing thee shops, or is that just the way it is. That is sure where I spend my time.
Wish I had known about this site when I first started and I could have avoided one or two problems, but sometimes we learn better making our own mistakes than from someone else's. I have to keep telling myself that when my kids don't listen to me.
I'm working about an hour west of the twin cities and trying to concentrate on shops within about 30 mile radius, unless I can get some mileage (good luck with that). I'm learning how to deal with the frustrations of dealing with schedulers who think they are doing you a favor offering you a shop 30 miles away for $8. From what I have already read on this forum, that is the classic issue with most MSPs.
By the way, do they have to hunt when they hire editors to find people with an attitude? I would have never talked to an employee the way they talk to me! I dropped one outfit already just because of the rudeness of the editor. I welcome constructive criticism but I am not a belligerent teenager and they are not my parents.
If anyone can suggest which providers are most likely to have shops for rural areas in the midwest I would welcome that information. I have spent many hours filling out applications for MSPs who claim to have loads of $30 shops available and coming up completely empty. So far, Intelli-shops, Maritz, BestMark, and Corporate Research seem to be working best for me.
From what I can see, by the way (again), the only time you will see a shop for $30 is when they are really desperate. Seems like the name of the game in rural settings is to combine half a dozen shops on one trip and then try to get them all submitted before midnight after you get home (exhausted from a long day on the road).
Enough rambling for now (us old farts tend to do that) and back to hunting for good MSPs and planning out my nest routes.
For a while I will be sucking up whatever information I can from those of you who have 'been there and done that but no T shirt' (since the T shirt would identify you) and, hopefully some day I will be able to pass on the great wisdom and experience to the next sucker who thinks they can make money and collect TVs at this game.
Keep your head down,
Eldon