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Does Ipsos penalize shoppers for extending dates they allow?

August 05, 2023 01:57AM
Is it just me or does anyone else notice a tendency for Ipsos to take longer to evaluate and mark a shop as received if the shopper has extended the date(as permitted)? I've noticed this more than once and am curious if this may be an unofficial way of "training" shoppers not to extend shops. Does anyone else have any experience with this?
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August 05, 2023 06:19AM
@veebeeshops wrote:

Is it just me or does anyone else notice a tendency for Ipsos to take longer to evaluate and mark a shop as received if the shopper has extended the date(as permitted)? I've noticed this more than once and am curious if this may be an unofficial way of "training" shoppers not to extend shops. Does anyone else have any experience with this?

I do not know how a (slightly) elongated processing time could be seen as a penalty. More concerning is whether IPSOS factors extending of dates into future assignments and fees.
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August 05, 2023 10:10AM
Some of you are paranoid
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August 05, 2023 11:52AM
For myself, their "Training" of not to extend shops has been the silence of the scheduler when I have made the request.
Now, I avoid working with any of their so called "schedulers" and, as a matter of fact, I get a huge chuckle when those same "schedulers" ask me to help them!
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August 05, 2023 02:39PM
If they didn't want you to extend the date, that option wouldn't be there.
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August 05, 2023 03:49PM
@boridi wrote:

Some of you are paranoid

CMAO! <cackling>

Have synthesizers, will travel...
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August 05, 2023 04:02PM
I recently forgot to reschedule my due date for a restaurant client and the shop fell off my assigned shops. I remembered my error first thing after waking up next morning and it was back on the board, so I grabbed it and did it that night. Took about 2 weeks for it to be reviewed. Whether this actually signifies anything, I have no idea.
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August 07, 2023 04:15AM
There are times where editing is fast and times when it is slow. If you extend some and they take longer to edit, the most likely explanation is that editing just started taking longer by the time you did them.
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August 07, 2023 05:15AM
The option to change your dates is another one of their gimmicks to avoid paying a scheduler. There are no penalties involved.
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August 07, 2023 12:03PM
@mystery2me wrote:

...the most likely explanation is that editing just started taking longer by the time you did them.

Or it could be a question of workload. If a nation full of shoppers extend their shops to the last day available, that is going to make for a huge wave of reports to edit.

Have synthesizers, will travel...
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August 11, 2023 09:58PM
On certain types of shops, I self-assign to the furthest out date, then change it to the day I do it. Others I have to be certain that I can perform it on the day I schedule it since they blackout days. I can change, but most of the time the date change is not available.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard Feynman-- letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230
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August 18, 2023 02:32PM
@boridi wrote:

Some of you are paranoid
And some may be incurious. As the saying goes, "Just because you may be paranoid, doesn't mean you're not being followed!" To each their own.
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August 18, 2023 02:34PM
@Morledzep wrote:

The option to change your dates is another one of their gimmicks to avoid paying a scheduler. There are no penalties involved.

I'm not familiar with this. How is the scheduler's pay affected by the shopper changing dates, as permitted?
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August 18, 2023 02:50PM
@Rousseau wrote:

@veebeeshops wrote:

Is it just me or does anyone else notice a tendency for Ipsos to take longer to evaluate and mark a shop as received if the shopper has extended the date(as permitted)? I've noticed this more than once and am curious if this may be an unofficial way of "training" shoppers not to extend shops. Does anyone else have any experience with this?

I do not know how a (slightly) elongated processing time could be seen as a penalty. More concerning is whether IPSOS factors extending of dates into future assignments and fees.

Depends on one's definition of "slightly". People have reported lag times of 2 weeks, or more. Here's how increased processing time can be a penalty. The longer a shop sits unaccepted and remains an open question, the longer the shopper needs to keep checking back to respond (within 24 hours) to provide an answer if questioned. Memories can fade over time, which increases the risk we may not respond appropriately and thereby not get paid.
Every touch of the same shop takes time and reduces our return on the investment of our time. Not to mention the fact that for that period, however "slight" the pay remains in the company's pocket rather than the shopper's, where most shoppers prefer it, as soon as possible after we've performed the shop.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2023 02:52PM by veebeeshops.
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