In a city with the REAL unemployment rate is reported in the local newspaper at over 20%, as long time Las Vegas local with a formal education [MBA] greater than 90% of the local labor force, I've worked over 8 years on a part time weekend basis for 2 other companies similar to Market Source.
A little history first. These 'marketing' companies like MarketSource that contract with big name electronics clients [like HP, Toshiba, Intel, Panasonic, Canon, Microsoft, etc.] to supply part time sales reps in 'vendor' electronics stores [Best Buy, Office Max, Office Depot, etc.] are essentially employment agencies offering no benefits while earning their profits from taking a large hourly cut of their employees' hourly wage paid by their electronic company clients.
In the late 90s I was paid a decent hourly wage of $13 to $15 an hour by "TMG Solutions" [Texas, declared bankruptcy but reorganized as 'Mosaic'] to work on weekends as a 'demo specialist' presenting various electronic products to consumers at mostly Best Buy and CompUSA stores.
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