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I received an email thanking me for offering my services to Merc Systems/shopmetrics. Problem is I don't think I applied to this MSC. Looks legit - any one deal with them?

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I got that one today as well. Crazy part is that long ago I registered with Merc on their old SASSIE site and so it would not let me register. So I tried my email address and asked for a password and pretty promptly a new user name and password were supplied. Some of my previous information was still there, some had obviously been lost and they want looooots more information now.

I'm a little leery - Merc is not on our list of companies. Checked MSPA and even volition - not there either.

Got one too, i register, thinking that i had applied for this one yesterday. Now im worried.

That request probably went to everyone who had registered with them through Sassie. Their Sassie site is still active, but the new Shopmetrics site is active as well with different jobs showing up. I completed the re-registration process, and the info. that they asked for is standard Shopmetrics fare. Within two hours of registering at the new site I received an email in the standard template format offering the same jobs that are on the Merc Shopmetrics board.

@LIJake wrote:

I'm a little leery - Merc is not on our list of companies. Checked MSPA and even volition - not there either.

Mercantile Systems and it is on the list

Yes, I got it too and was already registered with their Sassie. I figured it had to do with them switching to Shopmetrics.

"The future ain't what it used to be." --Yogi Berra

Hi Everyone!

Yes we are moving from Sassie to Shopmetrics. Those who believe aren't with Mercantile Systems possibly registered YEARS ago (as far back as 2004) and then forgot. I personally am the one that exported from Sassie and imported to Shopmetrics. The ONLY people receiving the emails "Welcome to Mercantile Systems at Shopmetrics" were already in our system on Sassie.

Hopefully we will have ALL of our assignments/clients moved to Shopmetrics by the beginning of the new year but we are moving shops/clients over as long as we aren't in the middle of a project.

I am trying to reply to everyone's emails but I have gotten (EEK) over 150 emails in the last hour! It is taking me a bit of time to go through each and every single one, but I am trying my darndest!!

Deva Roberts
Director of Operations
shoppers@acemysteryshopping.com
ACE Mystery Shopping
[ace.shopmetrics.com]
[acemysteryshopping.com]

Hi LIJake!

Mercantile Systems IS a member of the MSPA.

@LIJake wrote:

I'm a little leery - Merc is not on our list of companies. Checked MSPA and even volition - not there either.

Deva Roberts
Director of Operations
shoppers@acemysteryshopping.com
ACE Mystery Shopping
[ace.shopmetrics.com]
[acemysteryshopping.com]

I like Merc- fair pay, and easy to deal with. Responsive!

Got one tonight too. Gave me a log in and said I was already registered.. ???? They even have shops in my city !

@amberngriffinco wrote:

They even have shops in my city !

Refreshing, huh?

@SchedulerDeva wrote:

Hopefully we will have ALL of our assignments/clients moved to Shopmetrics by the beginning of the new year but we are moving shops/clients over as long as we aren't in the middle of a project.

Does this mean no more getting passed over for shops on the sassie site that require a minimum score because you've never done a sassie shop even though you have a perfect 10 on the shopmetrics site?

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

Mercantile System's a good company to work with and never had a bad experience with them. SchedulerDeva was also one of the schedulers I worked with on some of my assignments too.

Very infrequently shopping the Greater Denver Area, Colorado Springs and in-between in Colorado these days.

@SchedulerDeva wrote:

Hopefully we will have ALL of our assignments/clients moved to Shopmetrics by the beginning of the new year but we are moving shops/clients over as long as we aren't in the middle of a project.

Why, oh why? From what I've seen of Shopmetrics, this is NOT an improvement.

I love Merchantile Systems.

They had some great restaurant shops and I did a lot of them. They paid with gift cards. I collected and saved the gift cards for special occasions. I would LOVE to do these again.

If those are the ones I'm thinking of, you can use the gift cards ON the shops some! You can email me at devar@mercsystems.com to verify.

@SunnyDays2 wrote:

I love Merchantile Systems. They had some great restaurant shops and I did a lot of them. They paid with gift cards. I collected and saved the gift cards for special occasions. I would LOVE to do these again.

Deva Roberts
Director of Operations
shoppers@acemysteryshopping.com
ACE Mystery Shopping
[ace.shopmetrics.com]
[acemysteryshopping.com]

I would believe that is true, but on Sassie ALL new shoppers start off with a 5 rating and as soon as they have completed one shop,that changes to a 10 (if they did the shop correctly). The only shops we had that you needed to have a higher rating than 5 (which would include new shopper rating) would be fine dining and high end hotel. shop.

@bgriffin wrote:

@SchedulerDeva wrote:

Hopefully we will have ALL of our assignments/clients moved to Shopmetrics by the beginning of the new year but we are moving shops/clients over as long as we aren't in the middle of a project.

Does this mean no more getting passed over for shops on the sassie site that require a minimum score because you've never done a sassie shop even though you have a perfect 10 on the shopmetrics site?

Deva Roberts
Director of Operations
shoppers@acemysteryshopping.com
ACE Mystery Shopping
[ace.shopmetrics.com]
[acemysteryshopping.com]

@SchedulerDeva. That was my complaint. I did a 4* hotel shop on the shopmetrics system, got a 10 and an email from the editor saying it was one of the easiest to edit reports he had ever seen. Similar hotel shops showed up on the sassie site and i was turned down for all of them. I can only assume it was because I had not done any shops on the sassie site.

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

Hi bgriffin!

Make sure you email Jamie @ jamieg@mercsystems.com She is the one that will be able to help you with those. If I scheduled those, I would certainly help, but they are not my clients.

@bgriffin wrote:

@SchedulerDeva. That was my complaint. I did a 4* hotel shop on the shopmetrics system, got a 10 and an email from the editor saying it was one of the easiest to edit reports he had ever seen. Similar hotel shops showed up on the sassie site and i was turned down for all of them. I can only assume it was because I had not done any shops on the sassie site.

Deva Roberts
Director of Operations
shoppers@acemysteryshopping.com
ACE Mystery Shopping
[ace.shopmetrics.com]
[acemysteryshopping.com]

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