Bark

Their leads are mostly not viable: 90% of leads refuse to reply (won't answer phone or reply to email). I mean, it takes me 9-10 leads to get one reply.

I still get many bad leads:
1) I help people with their everyday problems and some people are nonetheless embarrassed to ask for help; many people who reach out for help and create a lead on bark immediately cancel their lead having had a change of heart, but I already paid for the lead! This all can take place in under 10 minutes!
2) I am still getting what seems to be someone playing a prank, and that prank leads to a bogus lead
3) Many leads don't understand that if they say they are open to doing things through internet meetings (like Zoom) that I may be located 100s of miles from them, so they decline when they find out I am not in the same town they are in

It's exhausting. But maybe that is just par for the course. What is bringing this to a head for me is that Bark's bad-lead refund policy is now too strict.

It used to be if you could make the case to them that the lead was not serious they would refund what you spent on it. Now you cannot reason with them. Very frustrating.

These points 1-3 above I have brought up with Bark before, either in direct emails or when they sent a survey to the user community.

My guess is that if Bark management replies to this review, it will be at best a simple restatement of their refund policy. (In other words, they will double-down, and not address points 1-3.) Prove me wrong Bark.

I have been with them for about 2 years and became more active with them when COVID hit last March.

All bark.com did was take my money provided no legitimate leads for my business. Ignored the vast majority of my calls and bot a chance they care about the business person. Avoid

I have used a company called P J Building to change my fence, they have replaced my fence with a cracked one.
The guy said he was going to change it, I kept chancing them and I received this answer "put woodfill on cracks and all ready to paint". I have paid for a new fence and received a cracked one. Do not trust this guys if they did not finish the job and said they will come to repair DO NOT TRUST.

When I first came across this site you were able to buy the exact amount of credits to apply for a job, although now it seems the minimum spend to apply for a job is £72 as you have to bulk buy credits. I was ok with spending £10 here or there on projects but to be forced to spend over £70 to apply for a job you aren't guaranteed to get, as a freelancer just doesn't make financial viable sense.

95% of projects I see are vague, giving no information as to what the project even is, making it an even more ridiculous notion to front so much money upfront. I'm also 90% sure half the projects are fake, you'll quite commonly see back to back projects like 'Sue', 'Susie', 'Susan' all with the exact same job details posted within minutes of each other.

Although I have to say among the many projects I've had no reply for I have had one successful project, so if you are serious about applying for projects I would suggest only applying for anything with a bespoke written detail as there clearly are some legit projects out there.

Can I sue this place!? It's not even a business they scammed me 800 dollars. I'm so upset, because of these $#*!ers I don't trust any other company because places like you are the reason why I usually do this but the one time I do I get scammed 800 dollars.! I can't pay my rent so I have to work overtime all because I thought I could start something great. LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES DONT TRUST THIS PLACE THERE EVIL.
And they reply you guys can go to hell.

Very efficient gutter and drain cleaning service. Scott, the chap who came to my property, also noticed a leak and did a little fix on my gutter, without fuss. Good price and would highly recommend!

This is an update to my review written a couple days ago. I went to Bark yesterday, signed in and began looking for a ink to delete my account. There is none so, I called the number listed. Next, there was a recording of a male with an English accent. Could barely understand a word he said.

I was then given a series of options to connect with customer service and pressed #2. The phone rang and rang and rang. I hung up. Maybe 30 minutes later decided to try again. This time I pressed #4.

A lady with an English accent answered. Told her that I want to delete my account and gave my account info. She could see where I had gone in and changed all account info in my feeble attempt to delete.

I told her that because there is no link to delete the account myself, I entered the information "CANCEL MY ACCOUNT." She told me that one has to call to delete. She was very nice, cordial and professional deleting my account while on the phone with her. That was yesterday.

Today I check my email account and there were NO spam emails from Bark. Usually there are 20 or more scam tire kicker request notifications. I am free. Successfully removed myself from them and their emails that I never signed up for.

And thank you to the Bark rep who handled everything so swiftly.

Fast response and very knowledgeable and helpful. Bark also contacted me to ensure I had been contacted and was satisfied with the responses I received.