You people work hard!!

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/05/2019 02:50AM by Niner.

@ceasesmith wrote:

I was then about 200 miles from home, after completing 600 miles of an 800 mile circle. And yes, it was an 18 hour day.

Yikes. I know $500 sounds like a lot for that, but there's no way in hell I would have done it for that. What you really did is had 2 $250 days that you just did all at once. To me a $500 day is one that can be done on 8-10 hours, and often less. I would have needed an extra $100 and gotten a hotel room.

Well, you do what you can do. I think I said, if I hadn't run into rain/snow/fog so the last 200 miles took 8 hours, I would have been home before dark. Still would have been a 13 hour day, but not an 18 hour day.

And I've done the same route before, for $1100. It just wasn't there this time. I was lucky to pick up the orphan shop for the extra $100.

And I did the same route last week, different MSCs, for around $600; still did it in one day, and still count it as one day.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/05/2019 10:38PM by ceasesmith.

@ceasesmith: You rock! I am familiar with those conditions. I know that what you do is astounding and otherwise amazing.

My best so far has been $250 in one day. Spent the next day in paperwork torture but I had fun. Free lunch and dinner. 2 gym shops, 2 hardware stores, and several more passing through shops. I did not travel far simply an hour or so away from home.

The best day I had I made $1200 in a day doing alcohol and tobacco compliance shops on the east coast. For about 6 months these shops were paying $20-$50 a shop and I could do 25-40 a day depending on how spread out they were.

On the day I made $1200 every shop was about 6 minutes apart in a busy city and I was paying a driver $12 an hour to drop me off in front of the store and wait outside with the hazards on. The shops only took ~2 minutes each. I'd run back to the car and fill out the report while my driver took me to the next shop. Each shop was bonused, paying $50 each and I could do 4 or 5 of them an hour. It felt like I was printing money. I couldn't believe how overpaid I was.

During this period of my life I was a college student making $3000-$5000 a month mystery shopping part time. It seemed like so much money at the time. I continuously blew through all my money every month and never worried because I knew I could just grab more shops. I frivolously spent most of the money and to this day I still can't figure out where it all went.

Unfortunately, the client dropped the pay down to $15 a shop so I can't afford to pay a driver anymore. I was also stuck with a $3000 tax bill for the money I made during that period. Now I'm lucky to clear $300 a day and I have to travel farther and farther. I miss the good old days but I always knew in the back of my mind that it was too good to last.

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@Jbrz123 wrote:

I was paying a driver $12 an hour to drop me off in front of the store and wait outside with the hazards on.

This is spectacular

@Jbrz123 Sounds like the JUUL compliance shops. They used to pay a lot better. The old MSC dropped it to $15 and only does a few of the shops in my area. Another MSC took over most of the JUUL shops and pays only $10-11 and has more restrictions (max of 10 stores per day and 50 shops in a month total).

That's exactly it! Those JUUL Compliance shops were incredible! It's sad to see the new MSC butcher them. The new MSC makes you take a selfie in front of the store for a measly $10. I've been avoiding them out of principle and because they just leave me with a nasty feeling. They don't even pay the full amount when they send you to the wrong location.

@bgriffin wrote:

@Jbrz123 wrote:

I was paying a driver $12 an hour to drop me off in front of the store and wait outside with the hazards on.

This is spectacular

I paid my 8 & 10 year old children $10 an hour (10 years ago) to help me pack and ship 50 x 100 boxes of bottled beverages one December. I think that they each got $500. I got $4000, so I still made out like a bandit.

I make my husband drive my routes on a regular basis. He works for free. (No bgriffin - a smart ass comment is not going to be necessary)