@BusyBeeBuzzBuzzBuzz wrote:

Longtime lurker, eh? How many accounts do you have?

"Member Since: 05/20/2024 10:37AM"

@ocnative wrote:

Figured I'm banned because I could self-assign on nearly every listing before I did my first shop, but now I can't self-assign on any listing. When I try to self-assign on any listing, I now get a message in red text saying I'm not eligible to self-assign. Someone on Reddit said that was one method they use to ban people from completing shops but they could be wrong, I guess. I have an active account but cannot self-assign or request. Yes, I've emailed them to inquire about the change, but they have not replied. After two weeks of waiting for a reply, I've given up expecting one. The whole situation is odd. Oh well.

@mgoodreau wrote:

They banned me, sent me an email saying why I was banned, told me I was banned permanently and within a week, I can self assign all of them again. I really like the phone shops. They are quick and easy. Keep checking. Maybe the same will happen for you.

Good luck!

@sandyf wrote:

Why in the world would they ban someone "just because they can?" You may not know the reason or not like the reason or disagree with the reason but I doubt very much they go in with and random selector tool and cackle while they select some shopper at random.

@BusyBeeBuzzBuzzBuzz wrote:

Longtime lurker, eh? How many accounts do you have?

"Member Since: 05/20/2024 10:37AM"

@johnb974 wrote:

@sandyf wrote:

Why in the world would they ban someone "just because they can?" You may not know the reason or not like the reason or disagree with the reason but I doubt very much they go in with and random selector tool and cackle while they select some shopper at random.

I worked in aerospace for almost 30 years. I have seen supervisors let people go for no other reason than they wanted to. I had one supervisor, just hired, who was getting rid of anyone that knew more than them. He made that clear, he didn't want anyone in his department that knew more than him. It does happen when someone is hired and they block anyone to boost their own ego.

@sandyf wrote:

Seems to me there is a reason in your examples. You may not like the reason but it is not just random. We are not employees in this business so there are no state rules governing how they dispense work or who they might stop giving work to. As for your Aerospace buddies, If you were In California at the time there are definite protections. Those people who were let go for "no reason" could have challenged it. I have worked in large corporations. There needs to be very good documentation in order to let someone go. Sometimes they are contract workers in the Aerospace industry and they may get to the end of their contract. Often when this happens there are issues with the particular employee such as they are a pain in the neck so the boss starts to document every infraction. There are very few employees who do not have some sort of infraction once in a while. I spent some time being a supervisor and was amazed at how some of my fellow employees who I thought were exemplary employees really were not once I was supervisor and knowing the whole story and their work ethic.
But you are free to believe what you like

@johnb974 wrote:

@sandyf wrote:

Why in the world would they ban someone "just because they can?" You may not know the reason or not like the reason or disagree with the reason but I doubt very much they go in with and random selector tool and cackle while they select some shopper at random.

I worked in aerospace for almost 30 years. I have seen supervisors let people go for no other reason than they wanted to. I had one supervisor, just hired, who was getting rid of anyone that knew more than them. He made that clear, he didn't want anyone in his department that knew more than him. It does happen when someone is hired and they block anyone to boost their own ego.

@Cassiespark wrote:

He was banned because he was outed, and told as much to the MSC. He told us all of this, so nothing was random or contrived or just mean...Why we are still talking about this a year later, I don't know. No one has ever fought this hard to do a cell phone shop in the history of cell phone shops.

@viv0412 wrote:

Cassie, things just don't make sense with him. I think i remember reading about him not having much of an income because he was his mother's care giver, and that he lost so many years income because of that. But if he was in his industry for 30 years, he should have been pretty much eligible for retirement!
How did he get so far behind financially (based on his own admissions of financial judgements against him) if he worked for 30 years in a fairly high paying industry?

@Cassiespark wrote:

He was banned because he was outed, and told as much to the MSC. He told us all of this, so nothing was random or contrived or just mean...Why we are still talking about this a year later, I don't know. No one has ever fought this hard to do a cell phone shop in the history of cell phone shops.