Indeed Job Spotter

Update 2/10 - the network errors appear to have been corrected. Everything I captured today went through! Thanks!! Response to developer: I’m not claiming that you are intentionally not sending them through based on the location. It appears that the problem is occurring in certain locations when down the street it works. There is one good location I used to try daily except it kept giving me the network error. A location .5 miles down the road is always successful. Just trying to help by providing info. Update: was hoping the latest update would fix the network errors. No such luck. When the submissions go through, the app is wonderful. However, more and more lately I am experiencing the network bug that is obviously location based. The same ones will go through on a monthly basis and the same ones will not go through on a monthly basis. I have followed their instructions to not close the app or wait until you are on wi-go to submit but it still fails. If it was a cellular issue, nothing would go through. Please fix this. 5 stars when it works consistently.

While I have come across many opportunities to share job postings in my community and in my travels, the fact that this app made me review others’ photos demotivated me from ever posting. I would just like to post a job to share if I find a Help Wanted sign out and about. However, half the time I see these at night, and I’m not going to make effort to come back to a place to “take a picture of the outside of the business.” I value my time more than that. Also, some exteriors are just difficult to photograph. You can’t get far enough to get the front of the business in the picture, or there’s some obstruction. Like, oh well, would have been great to share, but my picture will probably be considered garbage since only one would be worthwhile, so why make the effort? These signs aren’t for the best paying jobs anyway, so I almost feel guilty in sharing them. I think it would be better to incentivize posts that are verified as genuine & just accept the help wanted sign. I guess that’s difficult to do, considering how it could be abused, but just my 2¢ & frustration in not being able to share what I find.

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UPDATED: down to 1 star, would be zero if possible. I received a generic reply from the “support team” and that is all i have heard. Beyond terrible service especially from a job service. Clearly a cookie cutter email reply. What a waste of my time. If you get money from this app, cash out fast or they will ban you and keep all your work for nothing. What a clever business model. My email is not even the one associated with my job spotter account so there is zero chance anyone even looked into this since no one on the other end asked for anything. What a joke. I used this app very often and benefited from it. Last year I practically paid for all my Christmas shopping with this app. I check my app one day and it is now banned after I spent the entire month of November putting in a ton of submissions to gear up for Christmas shopping, just for my account to be banned. I cannot imagine how much free posting they just got off of me. I had nothing but high praise for this app if you asked me days ago, but until customer service replies, I will continue to be livid and seek some sort of answer. Maybe I will get to update my rating if they fix this. It’s a shame that I have been doing this for so long and this happens to me.

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I used to love this app, and would make about $10 per month photographing Help Wanted signs for the last 3 years or so. However, it’s become very evident that they’ve changed their algorithms in the last couple of months. Most of my submissions are rejected for being “duplicates” when they aren’t (the rule used to be that a submission would only be marked a duplicate if it was submitted more than once by the same user in the same month, but now they’re just marking pretty much anything a “duplicate”) and they’ve cut way down on how much they give you for each submission. They used to pay around 100 points (aka $1) for detailed signs at small businesses. Lately I’m getting at most 20 points (aka 20 cents) for signs that I absolutely would have gotten 100 points for in the past. It feels like it’s not even worth it to photograph signs anymore at this point. If they switch their algorithm back to the way it was, then I would up my rating. It really is a shame because I would have given it 5 stars before.

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I have been using this app for about a year and there have been some changes recently that make this app pretty undesirable. There is no rhyme or reason for the reason they provide for rejections, if someone doesn’t want you to have pints for your submission you just aren’t getting them. If you send them a message with a question or request to appeal an a rejection, you will not get anything back no email, no f** you, nothing!! If you submit a hiring sign and then submit the same one a few weeks later, you might get points or you might get a rejection there is no telling, it’s like a crap shoot!! You could submit the same sign as another job spotter and they get points and you get “not a hiring sign”. There is no consistency, no logic and no communication. It didn’t used to be like this but that’s how it has evolved.