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In my experience Dee, the higher the reimbursement, the more abuse my keyboard is going take. And since I know the shop is all about writing, I may just go ahead and avoid it! Does anyone else consider avoiding shops because of excessive writing? ;-0

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I actually gravitate towards shops that require detailed narrative. I would much rather spend an extra hour at the keyboard to get a fine-dining experience than jump through a few less hoops for average food.

It's not getting reimbursed in a timely manner than I can't stomach.

Like Stever, I am all over what is left of fine dining here. To me, they are worth the writing. :-)

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The bummer is when it is FD with all the narrative expectations and the meal is just pathetic. You come away so infuriated it is difficult to stay objective so the reports take forever with narrative written, rewritten, edited and rewritten again to take the sting out and leave the objective meat. Doing that in a paragraph is not bad. Doing it over the whole narrative is one of those two coffee pot nights.

Ya, bad FD shops are BAD in more than one way....:-(

I have done a shop for them a month ago. The narrative is long and detailed but that is acceptable if you know it ahead of time. They pay late and that is something that you either accept or not. That is a shoppers issue. At least they normally pay and you do not have to sue them. The answer: Know the ground rules before swinging the bat and if acceptable, stop the @#$%&.

I had to go directly to Freeman himself to get paid on a 9 month overdue shop last year. However, I was paid within hours of contacting him directly.

I am still waiting for payment on a November 6th hotel stay. I submitted the report on time and it was accepted. I have sent several emails with no response thus far from the scheduler, but after reading the previous posts I suppose I may be in for an even longer wait.

I urge you to be proactive about getting your payment. If you do nothing, you will for sure sit with a group of other shoppers in line to get paid. Visit their web site, and take names. You can get yourself paid. It worked for me.

dee shops Wrote:
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> I urge you to be proactive about getting your
> payment. If you do nothing, you will for sure sit
> with a group of other shoppers in line to get
> paid. Visit their web site, and take names. You
> can get yourself paid. It worked for me.

Again another instance when I have to become more agressive with regards to payment. I have been blessed to work for many companies that pay so regularly that When a few don't, it almost falls through the cracks. Buty you are correct. I am kicking butt and taking names from now on. I will be paid.

I have done 2 hotel shops back in Dec and Jan am still waiting to get paid for the reinversment for the hotel rooms and the shop fees. Today is Mar 19th and still waiting. Do not know who do I call to get some info.Thanks

Josi, visit the company's web site. There are many names there, and that should give you some inkling of the people you should start to call and or write. You can make it happen. But please do be proactive about it, and do not wait for the payment. I was proactive and still waited 9 months for a reimbursement. When I got REALLY creative about how to get myself paid using the resources on their own site, I got paid that same day. Just my exp. and YMMV. Best of luck.

OMG, I wish I had read these before. I did two hotel shops in Jan. and haven't been paid yet. I sent three emails and got no response. I finally had to look the company up online to get a phone number just a few days ago and was told she would give it back to accounting. Wonder when I will get paid. I think this sucks and the Super 8 hotels were nasty.

I just saw ALL of these messages about FREEMAN GROUP taking MONTHS and MONTHS to pay!! I strongly suggest a BOYCOTT! I would dearly love to sue! Actually, I plan to contact Wyndham management and let them know that the company they are paying to evaluate thier customer service -- does not even take care of its own customersa (or contractors!) I have every intention of letting the company know how Freeman operates. I hope to cost them (Freeman Group) at least one big contract. They do not deserve to have us working for them, their business practices are unethical in that they intentionally deceive (by saying they pay in 12 weeks). I appreciate any input. Thanks.

-------------------------------------------------------wutec Wrote:
> I have an October shop done with freeman that I
> haven't been paid for as of 1/27. This IS
> RIDICULOUS! It is a $250 reimbursement and
> payment for Shula's Steakhouse. This is a lot of
> money to be out and I have two more hotel shops
> from Nov and Dec to wait on... Is this company on
> the brink of Bankruptcy? Has anyone every sued a
> MSC? would this be a small claims court issue?

Ragdollteddy Wrote:
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> LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!!!! THEY DO NOT PAY FOR MONTHS
> AND MONTHS, IF EVER.

WHY do you say leave them alone? It is NOT OKAY that they take months and months to pay!

Ragdollteddy was rather suggesting that folks not shop for them (leave them alone), not suggesting that shoppers not contact them for payment.

Well its been 2 weeks since I got an email from the scheduler so I am going to email another email till I get an answer. So wish me luck. I enjoy working for the freeman group also.

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