The Easy Shift App, found online at EasyShiftApp.com, is a new mobile application that gives people the ability to find and complete basic “tasks” in order to earn extra money in their part time.
This mobile application money earning opportunity is very similar to crowdsourcing, a newly popular way to make money where companies take projects and break them into very simple tasks which can be easily completed.
People volunteer to complete these basic tasks in exchange for a small monetary compensation, and they can do as many or as few tasks as they like to earn extra money each month.
How Does It Work?
After you sign up with their application, you will be able to check the Shifts available in your local area. The website says these Shifts should be available all around you, whether at your local coffee house, gas station, grocery store, and many other locations near you.
These Shifts are designed to only take a few minutes to complete, depending on what they are. Some times these tasks are as simple as taking a picture or giving your opinion on something you see or try at local business.
All Shifts will have a posted “reservation period” listed that explains the amount of time you have to complete your task once you have accepted it. If you do not complete your Shift during this time period, it will be re-released to the public and can be taken by anyone else with availability.
Is It Legit?
Crowdsourcing is a legitimate way to earn from home, traditionally speaking, or in the case of the Easy Shift App, people are able to earn while they are out running errands, on their lunch break from work, or getting ready to meet up with friends.
Like other popular crowdsourcing companies, including Amazon Mechanical Turk and Lionbridge Technologies, the Easy Shift App gives their members points when they successfully complete their Shifts, which allows them to move up a “level.”
The higher the levels you achieve, the more access you have to higher paying Shifts and Shifts in your area in general. This company also promises to pay their users within 48 hours of processing their completed Shift.
For the most part, this mobile application and money earning opportunity seems to be fairly legitimate as it follows the industry standards set by other crowdsourcing companies. Customers who are interested can download and try this app for free.
This app is a big scam. 2 shifts not paid, even when you spend hours on it and take 200+ pictures. Nobody should go near it.
What Easy Shift IS....is a predatory business model designed to make tasks impossible for the worker in order to run off with the pertinent information the company needs for free.
This is how the scam works. You accept a job, and begin working. But!.....surprise! There's a bit more to the job than you expected. Let's say, taking pictures of candy at a grocery store.
In addition to taking pictures of the candy, though....they also want you to take photos of each check out lane pole. Each pole must be in the picture fully, from top to bottom. And no other poles may be included in each pic. This requirement they make "shift dependent". Meaning, without it, they will reject the whole job, keep the info, and not pay you.
You can see where this is going.
So, the meat of the "job", basically, what Easy Shift's clients want to know, is about the candy. Where it is, it's price, how it's being marketed. The checkout lane pole requirement....well, that's just there so that Easy Shift gets to have the information for free by rejecting the job done. It's completely predatory, especially because the parts of the job that are designed to make you fail, appear AFTER the REAL information needed has already been accumulated.
This is a totally predatory business model, and this 3rd year law student smells a class action lawsuit in the making, which could bring some much needed regulation to crowdsourcing apps of the future. So, perhaps Easy Shift is serving it's purpose for future generations, but right now....it just sucks.