MSNinja,
Most video clients do not permit night or weekend shops. Model homes are closed at night, as are apartment leasing offices. Weekends are prime time for commissioned sales agents at new homes, car dealerships and apartment office, so the client does not want shoppers taking up those hours when sales are most likely to happen. Assisted living sales managers do not work at night or on weekends, for the most part. Those categories account for about 90 percent of the video shops, by fees paid, at this time. Shop in these areas run from 20 minutes (a very short apartment shop!) to 4-5 hours (full function resort community for seniors).
So, it is the client situation, not the video MDCs that drive the need for weekday, daylight shoppers in those industries.
A whole different breed of very short, lower paid video shops are growing in retail and parking situations (typically in one party consent states), when off-peak hours for shops are needed to capture evening worker shifts. Those tend to use different equipment than is used for the long format interactions mentioned above and accept shoppers who do not own their own equipment, or may permit the use of less expensive equipment or even a Smartphone. So, keep looking.
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
They were given to someone else but they put me on the list in case someone backs out, ugh!
