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December 31, 2012 03:03AM
I like these shops. They are very easy and require no BS minimum purchase. I usually try to wait for bonus, unless I am going to be shopping at the mall that the shop is located at. The hardest part is getting the NAME of the associate who lets me into the dressing room. How stupid is that? What a dead give away! Nobody that is obviously too old to be trying on these trendy clothes would normally ask for the dressing attendants name...unless they were the MYSTERY SHOPPER!!!
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December 31, 2012 03:24AM
Or a perv! LOL!

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"Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
~Viktor Frankl
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December 31, 2012 04:44AM
I have a 30-year-old male relative who shops. He refuses to do these shops because he says he feels like a perv if he has to ask the young girls in these stores what their names are.
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December 31, 2012 01:18PM
It is much easier for a 38 year old mom to ask for the name. "You've been so helpful, what is your name, dear?" "You look like a fellow I used to teach in preschool, what is your name?" "You remind me of a girl/boy that was in my daughter's class, what is your name?"

I 100% agree, this requirement would be awkward for a peer of the salesperson's age group!

The good thing is, I have shopped this place so much that I know the names of a few of the kids who work there. Hopefully, the turnover rate will remain low.
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December 31, 2012 03:32PM
I've felt like a cougar before on some assignments when I have to ask some young stud his name in an unnatural situation. Sometimes you can almost see their gears whirring thinking about the possibility that I am some kind of sabertooth, and it's even more embarrassing. tongue sticking out smiley

Hey, MSCs, ya want names? Give these kids NAME TAGS. And be sure that we can actually READ them without peering at their chests from a half foot away.

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"Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
~Viktor Frankl
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December 31, 2012 10:30PM
Yeah ..... if the client wants customers to know the names of the workers in each of the stores, why are they not required to wear name tags?
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January 01, 2013 01:44AM
I don't even care if the kids use their real names. Just some kinda name, made-up or otherwise, I don't care. Just don't put me in a position to have to ask for a name when no one else would, and don't ask me to decipher a name that's been made with a hokey labelmaker in a size requiring binoculars. Especially when these kids have been named by their parents with oh-so-creative spellings. Ugh. tongue sticking out smiley

Malysa? Channon? C'mon.

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"Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
~Viktor Frankl
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January 01, 2013 01:56AM
shopgal Wrote:
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> Hey, MSCs, ya want names? Give these kids NAME
> TAGS. And be sure that we can actually READ them
> without peering at their chests from a half foot
> away.


LOL. Don't you hate it when you get the "eyes" after you have stared at the name tag on the chest for the umpteenth time trying to memorize the spelling of the name?
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January 01, 2013 02:05AM
LOL, IGoogle! That's for sure! If I have to deal with one more Rybekka or Stanlee or Kurtys in the next month, I'm gonna freak out! Seriously, when did our society decide to get so cutesy with names? Aaaaaarggggh!

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"Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
~Viktor Frankl
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January 01, 2013 03:15PM
I read in one of the above posts that the shop pays $14. This shop only pays $8 here. I thought, along with another poster, that the poster was thinking of a different client, but they verified that it is Abercrombie that begins at $14.

How can that be? Just wondering? Should I move? LOL

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!
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January 01, 2013 03:54PM
pippama77 Wrote:
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> I read in one of the above posts that the shop
> pays $14. This shop only pays $8 here. I thought,
> along with another poster, that the poster was
> thinking of a different client, but they verified
> that it is Abercrombie that begins at $14.
>
> How can that be? Just wondering? Should I move?
> LOL
>
> HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!

It is the same MSC and the same client. It pays $8 here also. If it sits on the board until toward the end of the month, the fee can go up - I've done it at $15 before. Or, possibly, if someone flakes or makes a mistake and it needs to be re-shopped at the last minute. But usually it's $8. LOL. I've thought moving might be an answered, too. A lot depends on the competition in your area.
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January 01, 2013 04:37PM
Ah! Thanks for the info! smiling smiley

AustinMom Wrote:
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> pippama77 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I read in one of the above posts that the shop
> > pays $14. This shop only pays $8 here. I
> thought,
> > along with another poster, that the poster was
> > thinking of a different client, but they
> verified
> > that it is Abercrombie that begins at $14.
> >
> > How can that be? Just wondering? Should I
> move?
> > LOL
> >
> > HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!
>
> It is the same MSC and the same client. It pays
> $8 here also. If it sits on the board until
> toward the end of the month, the fee can go up -
> I've done it at $15 before. Or, possibly, if
> someone flakes or makes a mistake and it needs to
> be re-shopped at the last minute. But usually
> it's $8. LOL. I've thought moving might be an
> answered, too. A lot depends on the competition
> in your area.
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January 01, 2013 06:00PM
Don't move here and take all of my $14 AF shops!!! LOL!
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January 02, 2013 02:59PM
I just did two Abercrombie shops (South Jersey) within the last month or so. They pay $1 (yeah) and reimburse up to $14. Their reports are the easiest I've ever submitted. I haven't seen Abercrombie shops in a while but took a break and I think the company may have changes. When I did shop them in North Jersey, they paid $8.
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January 03, 2013 12:25AM
LOL! Don't worry. smiling smiley

gigishopper Wrote:
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> Don't move here and take all of my $14 AF shops!!!
> LOL!
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January 03, 2013 02:40PM
I just did one yesterday for $8 (abercrombie kids). I was already doing a pretzel one, a sunglass one, and cell phone shop all in the same mall. All with different MSCs. Go me. That's what you call killing 4 birds with one stone.
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