I think Diana and others get paid on how many shoppers they can deactivate

Are you receiving this message when applying for a job?

"Oops! Your application was unsuccessful. It’s either because your profile does not meet the project criteria or we’ve reached our limit on assigned shops for now."

I have had that message because the rotation was not met. Once the rotation passed, I did not get that message

Haven't heard of ipsos deactivations yet. That is new to me.

I'm sure they might go threw and look at who is assigning all the ISS shops and then dropping them to grab bonuses at a later date.

Yes, and in the description it says that might happen.

None would be my guess.

I think hb's theory could be accurate. But there are still a LOT of hoarders. I have done exactly 4 of the gas stations I usually do the most of because they were picked off the board before I even knew they had been posted, and I check the board multiple times per day, unless I'm out. Some are popping back on the boards here and there with bonuses, but I feel obligated to grab them, even though the bonus is small, because I need to work.

I think I need to take my early retirement plans more seriously..

I have gotten that same message about my application being rejected. I was not out of rotation. It was on a mailing job and I had not done one for several months.. The scheduler told me it was because they probably had done enough of that scenario already. But why did the job stay on the board and then I applied again several weeks later for the same exact job with the same scenario and got the same message. I was able to self assign other jobs.

tech nerd explanation on some of this stuff:

TLDR:
They have massive amounts of data - don't be surprised if there are issues here and there.

longer version:
Ipsos is likely the biggest player in the industry, and locations that are in their system are likely from a data feed from the client, or another system, like a sales or client management system.
I work in tech, so I'm only speaking on what I've seen in my industry and not specific to Ipsos or Sassie, or shopmetrics, but so many processes are automated and data is fed in from one system to another, it doesn't surprise me if there are some data issues here and there and they can sometimes take a while to correct.
Things like closed locations re-appearing, or shoppers and locations possibly being flagged incorrectly, does not surprise me with the sheer volume that Ipsos does. I do not know of any other company that has as many opportunities as they do.

It could also be based on quotas for a particular project. They might load up 20,000 shops and need 5,000 of them done. This could get more granular like they need 100 done in each state, and once that quota is met, the shop sits and looks available, but people can't self-assign.

There is also probably a function in the msc software that will turn off email offers if a shopper hasn't done a shop in a while, or their profile is not updated, say every 6 mths. In my world, my company received a report that our software was sending millions of emails a month, and some of them were to incorrect or invalid emails - so we built functionality that if the person hasn't logged in for 6 mths, they would not get emails. Emails have a cost - so every email costs money to send. This could be why people think they have been deactivated, it might just be that they aren't receiving emails. fwiw, I just checked my profile in sassie, and my email offers were off. I turned my email shop offers back on and also noticed my address was showing as unverified - so I have verified it and will see if I get emails from them again.

If they were to close the project when the quota seemed to have been met, with many outstanding reports or those in the editing process, it would affect those that would need to be re-shoped or replacement shops if some are rejected and the shopper did not want to re-do it. So they have to keep the pool of shops open until they confirm their quota was met. Also, with errors and glitches, tech cannot always fix those without closing down the affected category of shops, although sometimes they can. But if they needed to it could affect deadlines and of course work available for us. They may choose to keep the issue ongoing until there is a better time to assess and correct. And sometimes tech has not been able to figure out where the breakdown in the coding is.

The shops that were former Maritz shops and now with IPSOS always seemed to have a limitation of how many they would do in a certain period of time. If a client has 1000 locations, they can't handle and address 1000 reports if they were all done the first week they were posted. However, if a client had 1000 locations and received them in smaller batches, it would make it more manageable.

I don't think the issue is with IPSOS. They would rather probably get all the work done upfront, but the paying customer is used to having the data come in smaller groups. I see scenarios or oil/gas or banks go off the board and then return another week or 2 later with another grouping.

There are other MSC that do this too, but just not as noticeable since they don't have the client list that ipsos has.