Bark

This company charges you for credits to respond to leads with no guarantee of being hired. They will automatically charge you to add credits without your authorization because its built into their system without your knowledge. If you don't get hired, they will refund the credits but not the money.

In fact, many of the leads they get for coaches are those who need psychotherapy, something coaches are not qualified to do.
What started out as being charged $129.60 ended up being nearly $300 because the upgrade the credits automatically when you run out of credits

I own a cleaning company and was looking for new opportunities. I ended up wasting my credits contacting employees looking for cleaning work not companies looking for service. Bark credited the money but won't credit my money back to my credit card. It still stays as credit on their website where leads are NOT VERIFIED. Don't waste your money and time on this site.

I used Bark for the first time and I am quite impressed. I was looking to get some quotes from construction companies as I am extending my property (rear extension). On the day I made the request, two companies already expressed interest, by the next day the companies were 4.3 of of 4 sent a person for survey the property within 5 working days and quotes were provided the following week.

I'm a private tutor and was solicited by Bark. They started by sending me many leads that seem to be good fits for the type of tutoring I did. I finally gave in and bought their token package. They also promise that if you do not receive one client as a result, they will refund your purchase. Interestingly, after I purchased the tokens, the leads pretty much dried up. I contacted them and they replied that if I really wanted to secure clients, I now needed to subscribe to their ELITE PROGRAM at an additional cost of $30 a month PLUS the token cost. I politefully declined and requested a refund. I got no response at all. My advice is to stay away!

I spent $150 on credits; after contacting 16 people, I got only 1 booking.
And that 1 booking I got was from someone who saw my profile on Bark and called me directly to my phone.

The last lead I contacted; I offered her a steal of a deal on purpose to test Bark.com.
$200 offer for something that was worth $600; she sounded excited on the phone but like all others Bark never returned my call.
But when I was talking with her on the phone; I noticed her voice and story sounded familiar to another customer I called a week earlier.
So I concluded it was the same person.

We had a specific set of current and future requirements and provided a level of detail to the businesses Bark put us in contact with. At least 5 high level responses were received within an hour and I have to say all were professional and of high quality in all aspects of their approach.
I was honestly dealt with and the process is still ongoing. Of the five, 2 were unable and expressed this within a day, one was outside our budget but very reasonable and one is still in progress with one waiting for further contact.

The gentleman that come to do my chest of drawers was really nice didn't take him long to do my drawers I thought he was going to take longer. Was very professional brought his own tools and even left all the cardboard in one corner for me. Was on time. I would book him again for sure was worth the money.

Don't spend money on credits. Bark.com scammed us and sold us a different credit pack than we were originally offered and when we noticed the discrepancy and followed up, were unable to get a refund. Have it all on paper. Downright criminal. Terrible customer service. We spent months emailing and phoning trying to talk with management and got nowhere. We are still actively pursuing a full refund and legal follow up.