Hi Everyone. Well, after 15 years the RV-Dreams Community Forum is coming to an end. Since it began in August 2005, we've had 58 Million page views, 124,000 posts, and we've spent about $15,000 to keep this valuable resource for RVers free and open. But since we are now off the road and have settled down for the next chapter of our lives, we are taking the Forum down effective June 30, 2021. It has been a tough decision, but it is now time.
We want to thank all of our members for their participation and input over the years, and we want to especially thank those that have acted as Moderators for us during our amazing journey living and traveling in our RV and growing the RV-Dreams Family. We will be forever proud to have been founders of this Forum and to have been supported by such a wonderful community. Thank you all!!
I know, I know... All the fuss over the man who killed that woman who'd advertised on Craiglsist.... What she did was... well, her business, but she certainly did not deserve to be murdered for it.
Last night, I went through Craigslist jobs in the "etcetera" section and found at least 12, 7 of which I think may pan out into fast(er) cash. Not a lot of cash, but still.
$20 an hour, 5 days a week, 2 hours a day visiting stores to see just how "friendly and helpful" their CS departments are. I'm a chick, it will kill me to wander through Macy's, try on clothes and ask for "this in black." Ugh, don't know if I can stand it.
Just remember the old adage, "If it sounds too good to be true........". $20 an hour to be a Mystery Shopper sounds like a scam to me. I've had friends do the Mystery Shopper thing and they didn't make anywhere near this much. I'd question that job thoroughly.
The company that manages a certain mall in a Rust Belt city is looking for reasons to boot several low-traffic stores is what the job boils down to. Not nice, is it?
Soon, malls will be nothing but kiosks.
Or maybe they will become winter RV storage sites; that, at least, would be useful.
Well, that wasn't too bad. Spent the 2 days I walking through XXX-Mall for a couple of hours, drinking coffee, visiting the 3 stores on the "hit list." It's too bad, they are good shops, neat and clean, plenty of inventory. Maybe too much inventory, but hey, that's not my call.
Then --I was actually paid for this-- there was a roundtable discussion on shampoo. Yes, $25 to anyone who would volunteer to discuss the merits of their particular shampoo and accept a big honking bag of toiletries from the nameless company sponsoring this.
And we consumers wonder why everything costs so much. Marketing departments keep giving it away, that's why! I understand the need for feedback and, even more, for companies to get some idea of their target demographic.
But I now have enough shaving cream for 2 years and a case of shampoo.
