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If you are a mystery shopper for companies who use Sassie and you have an AOL email account, you may not be getting email notifications when shops are available in your area.

Sassie has reported a known issue with AOL, which you may or may not have heard about. They have required that Sassie not email people with AOL email addresses – this means that any company who sends email invitations for shops, recruitment emails through Sassie’s system, and possibly some Jobslinger emails may not be reaching you.

Sassie has sent out a link to shoppers with more information and a survey they are asking shoppers to complete if you are affected by this. You can read the document here.

Sassie suggests using a Gmail account to add to your Sassie profiles to ensure that you are getting all of the shop notifications. This can be cumbersome, especially if you work with many companies who use Sassie. However, it may be less time consuming than checking the mystery shopping companies’ job boards or Jobslinger on a daily basis.

If you do opt to switch to Gmail for your Sassie companies, remember that you will need to add this email address to PayPal if the company pays with Paypal, as we need the current email address linked to PayPal on file in order to pay shoppers.

Sassie continues to try to work on resolving this issue, and as we learn more we will share it with you. I encourage any affected shoppers to use the link above to complete the survey to help Sassie in their efforts.

Until next time….happy shopping!