Presto Guidelines

I took a shop that needed to be done in 12 hours. I opened up the guidelines and read them, but I did not open up the report. After doing the shop they now wanted pictures of a phone and information about other phones. I used the scenario that was in the guidelines and nowhere did it say I was to take pictures other than the front of the store. Why don't they give complete instructions. The worst-case scenario is that I will be out $12 fee they were paying.

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@Insight wrote:

I took a shop that needed to be done in 12 hours. I opened up the guidelines and read them, but I did not open up the report. After doing the shop they now wanted pictures of a phone and information about other phones. I used the scenario that was in the guidelines and nowhere did it say I was to take pictures other than the front of the store. Why don't they give complete instructions. The worst-case scenario is that I will be out $12 fee they were paying.
Sounds like Ipshitz strikes again with their half-assed guidelines... I wish all these MSCs would hire somebody who has actually been a shopper in the current mystery shopping era to create their guidelines and make sure they correspond with what's needed for the shop forms. Hell, I'd be a content creator if they paid me. I'm a long-term shopper, and I know Photoshop and the full MS Office suite.

Ipshitz has a reputation for not being responsive to shoppers' questions; what they don't seem to realize is that if their guidelines were better written and included all the information we needed to know, they'd probably receive fewer questions.

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown
@Insight wrote:

I took a shop that needed to be done in 12 hours. I opened up the guidelines and read them, but I did not open up the report. After doing the shop they now wanted pictures of a phone and information about other phones. I used the scenario that was in the guidelines and nowhere did it say I was to take pictures other than the front of the store. Why don't they give complete instructions. The worst-case scenario is that I will be out $12 fee they were paying.
Technically you're supposed to review the questionnaire as well as the guidelines. But really that's just an excuse for their lack of details. Also don't forget the time/location stamp on your photos.

IMHO these aren't worth it for $12. If desperate I'll do it for $16. But right before a new phone comes out they'll go to $20 or $24. Unfortunately for you that only happens twice a year and one of those occasions was a week ago.

(Assuming I am correctly intuiting which shops these are.)
If I'm Presto-ing, I'm completing the report on my phone while I'm at the location.

There's no way you can miss photos from a report...

Have synthesizers, will travel...
Its pretty hard when you are with an employee and they walk you to the door before you leave. Thee wee no other customers in the store when I was then. It didn't matter since I paid already for the shop I did yesterday.
I don't do phone shops often, but I don't have a problem entering the info into the shop online in the parking lot before leaving, especially because my son always parks the car in the shade somewhere close, but the shade isn't usually where they can see it or would notice it.
You often can't see the whole report until you "check in" on site and answer preliminary question that will trigger other questions to populate.
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