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October 15, 2024 10:02PM
Anyone ever try working with them? Their Platform is the most inconvenient of them all
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October 15, 2024 11:25PM
And it's been a couple of years, but I've found the to be repetitive and redundant.

Q. Did they have a dog park?
A. No
Q. Explain:
A. They don't have a dog park.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/15/2024 11:29PM by wrosie.
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October 16, 2024 06:24AM
Yeah I worked for EPMS a while in California.. I might have done one maybe two shops here since I moved, but I haven't looked at very many apartments here. After getting burned out on Long narratives I've mostly avoided shops that require lots and lots of writing.
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October 16, 2024 10:26AM
I have done some shops for them but now all of their shops want a specific person shopped and I can't keep calling and hanging up, its too time consuming trying to get that person on the phone.

Also you need a good memory or take pics along the way because they ask about wall colors, flooring, furniture, etc. Its a lot of detail.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/16/2024 01:00PM by Datagirl.
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October 16, 2024 02:30PM
Just did a round of 3 kinda remote video shops, with the biggest bonuses yet. $300 each, so thankfully, the bar has been raised. Now it's a question of who is more desperate when it comes to me ever taking another shop for them.

I've posted elsewhere on many occasions: their online experience is pretty awful, and I've been trained in that sort of thing.

In addition to the redundancy issues, the navigation is wholly non-intuitive*, and I find the requirement to input time data in two different formats to be infuriating busy work.

*My fave is how you wind up at a page with no navigation forward once you've completed a report. You have to use the back button on your browser to return to a page with navigation links. That is just so wrong...

Have synthesizers, will travel...
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October 16, 2024 04:26PM
What a remote video shop?
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October 16, 2024 06:34PM
@Datagirl wrote:

Also you need a good memory or take pics along the way because they ask about wall colors, flooring, furniture, etc. Its a lot of detail.

Why I only do video shops for them. Best pay, and everything you need for the report is documented.

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October 20, 2024 01:41PM
@nabilino wrote:

What a remote video shop?

Guessing you meant what *is* a remote video shop...

It's a video apartment shop located more than 100 miles from a major metro area.

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October 20, 2024 01:41PM
And while I ragged on EPMS here, they do get kudos for paying really fast this time.

Already got my $900, and I was not expecting it until late next month.

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October 21, 2024 03:23AM
Almost forgot: no discussion of EPMS is complete without addressing their fetish for bathroom locations. Whomever did the questionnaire must've really had to go at the time!

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October 23, 2024 01:01PM
They act like that are a new company and no one really knows what's going on. So frustrating.
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November 06, 2024 11:40PM
I use to do a lot of work for them, but haven't in a while. I think I only did 1 this year for them. Those reports is what makes me not want to do them. Plus, I got something else going on that makes me quick money, so I don't really need to do them anymore. I will if the price is way higher than what they normally pay.
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November 13, 2024 06:30PM
I’ve done several shops with them lately. Their reports are painfully redundant. I’m so irritated by the time I finish the report lol. Each time I do a report for them, I increase the amount I’m willing to earn for their shops. Definitely wait for it to at least double in pay before grabbing one.
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November 14, 2024 03:19PM
I haven't done a shop for EPMS since Grace Hill acquired them. Unless I missed it, guidelines aren't provided until the shop is assigned. Also not provided in advance is if it's a shop anyone, or target. The reporting platform is different, but if the redundancies in the report are the same, the fee would have to be really good for me to bite.That doesn't happen often in my area.
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December 03, 2024 12:59AM
I don't take these shops until they are heavily bonused because the reports are redundant. I also dislike that they ask so many questions to verify the shop when it's a video shop and you can see things like the office layout, agent characteristics, etc. in the video.

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December 03, 2024 04:17AM
@Mert wrote:

I haven't done a shop for EPMS since Grace Hill acquired them. Unless I missed it, guidelines aren't provided until the shop is assigned. Also not provided in advance is if it's a shop anyone, or target. The reporting platform is different, but if the redundancies in the report are the same, the fee would have to be really good for me to bite.That doesn't happen often in my area.

The three video jobs I did in October were post-GH, but everything was the same as far as the way the information was presented and input. The scheduling and video personnel have updated email addresses to reflect the ownership change, but that was it best I could tell, other than super fast payment.

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