Care.comReviews 12,031

I joined to be a pet sitter and even became a premium member. I sent out countless applications but no replies. What I really hate, is how they keep your CC on file! My account is set to delete the beginning of June and I better not see another charge! They also make you agree to things that you don't want to. You'd have better luck posting an AD in the newspaper than using this site!

Etween 2002 and 2006 I signed up to offer my Professional Domestic Services. I was over 45 years old with 28 years of service in the field. The ist interview they sent me to a couple who had paid for a background check that listed me as White and having lived in places I never lived. The people they sent me to were extremely rude and racially insulting. Then Care.com wrote me and stated they don't hire agencies and I am an individual. I tried again to use the service twice and found that they had ruined my reputation with their misinformed and incorrect background checks of me. I wrote to address the situation and got nowhere. If you look on the site itself you will see they discriminate against Black workers of experience and excellent reputation. We subscribed to this site for 30 bucks for the year and they have live updates. http://www.caretaker.org/ we found a lot of help when we had a homestead years ago and I got some gigs that were temporary too. Straight up honest folks who own the site and the people posting wanted ads are from all over the world and the USA. Posting your own ad isn't that expensive either. Some offer trade for housesitting and others pay wages. It was worth it for us.

I worked three days for a guy who lived in Minnesota to take care of his mother at her home in barboursville. Then I find out the job Ted told me was 4-5 days, 4 hours a day was actually on call. When I refused on call Ted said he would send a check sometime next week. He made sure I signed all the papers for both his ins companies so he would get reimbursed for her care. Meanwhile, the older woman he left in charge was taking advantage of her. All she did was write down calls on the answering machine every three-four days, give her Rx, and go to dinner. She said to make sure I added household duties On the daily sheet so he thought we did more. She said his brother was stealing cash from the mother. I never saw anyone take advantage except her. Of course Ted didn't believe it. In my opinion he likes being able to say he's in charge as long as he doesn't have to find out whats really going on.

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I was a victim of a fraud case on your site. The following person at this email address *******@gmail.com has retrieved all of my info from your site to contact me for an alleged caregiving position. They seem so legitimate when telling me to send them my resume by email. They gave me all the information about a patient that I would be taking care of at the beginning of May. The sent me an advanced payment of over $2000 and told me to deposit the money in my account an deduct only my salary of $400 and send the rest to an accountant. According to the bank the check was a fraud and the bank forward the check to the fraud department and put an hold on my account. Now I suffer because I am unable to have access to my money to continue my life journey.
Your site has caused exposure of my personal business and access to criminals therefore I had to delete my account to avoid them having access to my info.
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Absolutely terrible don't use this site. No one will ever hire you and I have gotten contacted by so many scam artists including one who I googled and took $5000 from a lady who fell for her scam. The someone tried the same scam and there have been loads of other bull$#*! messages. I had to go to the police because the First Lady was harassing me so much and sent me a fake check and wouldn't stop contacting me. No one normal will ever contact you ONLY SCAM ARTISTS

Ga naar een gastouderbureau, zij kennen service.
Je betaalt net zoveel omdat het wit is icm belastingteruggave.
Care.com denkt vooral aan zijn eigen omzet, gooit met titels als " gratis lidmaatschap" maar ondertussen word je automatisch naar de betalende lidmaatschappen geleid.
Reclame vliegt om je oren, maar een melding dat er geld afgeschreven gaat worden kan er niet vanaf.
Oppas via een gastouderbureau is gecertificeerd en heeft een opleiding, dus mensen die bewust voor de opvang gekozen hebben (niet iemand die niet weet wat hij wil, dus gaan we maar eventjes oppassen.) Ook heeft een gastouderbureau backup op moment dat de oppas/nanny ziek is.

AL MET AL, BEGIN NIET AAN CARE.COM!

After complaining 3 separate times about getting scam text messages (I had been on the site for over a year and never had any issues prior!), I was finally informed that my number was visible to "premium" members and that there was a way to change that. So you want to tell me that you have premium members that are also scammers? Seems pretty shady to me! I was kicked off the site and each time I have tried to rejoin, I have instantly been kicked off again. Great customer service right? BEWARE!

The family refused to do anything with taxes, wrote me off on theirs as a "charitable donation", got mad when I asked for a W2 form at the beginning of the year, and stood there denying they have to give taxes "we don't do taxes in this family" is what they said. I realized I was getting paid less than $3 an hour, watching 2 horrible children kids 50 hours a week, and they didn't have a problem with paying me that little. They make me feel bad for having doctors appointment that I have to go to, forget that I'm a real person, and don't ask me if I can stay later when they show up at 10pm at night- but I stopped getting paid at 4!

When you've been a customer for over 5 years & have found carw.com to be useful - then, one day, you find out that they have 'terminated' your account. You shant ask any questions, as they will terminate you for this well. I have a clean background and a very spotless driving record, and on top of that, I'm TrustlineLine certified (ca). I have been able to make between 55,000 - 70,000 a year as a college educated nanny. Now, I have to look elsewhere, and very stressed out about it. They are unethical and I question their business practice: They send out a letter to any family you've been in contact with, stating that for their safety, they shouldn't contact you. This is crazy. They are putting you in that category, because this all they have for terminating someone. So, those families will believe you're a criminal - crazy, right? They should change that! Smearing the character of a good person, it's evil. I will look into a lawsuit of some kind, because you cannot deem someone to be unsafe for no reason. That's message they have

I gave this site a try and was greatly disappointed! I've received countless texts and emails from made up numbers and made up names from some sort of free texting app claiming that they need services and will pay money up front. Some claiming they will pay $400-500 to secure me as possible worker... all of which have ended up becoming fraudulent scammers out for my banking info. Now I get texts a few times a week even AFTER I took my profile down. Once they have your number they'll keep trying g to contact you by changing their number in their app. Don't even bother with that site! All the reviews on their site are fake in my opinion...

My daughter recently registered Care.com and received the following:

I appreciate your interest in sitting my son, here are some information about my son, Davide. He is 4 years old, he is a great kid, sweet, loving, very bright, engaging, love to explore his surroundings and easy to get along with. He also loves to swim, go to parks, walks and just have fun. He is potty trained, free eater, well cultured, well mannered, well behaved not allergic to food or anything.

I`m hard of hearing and can only communicate via writing, reading lips or text messaging. I hope that isn't a problem? I am an antique collector, I have a good sense of humor, can communicate well, easy going and love to laugh. Please note that I have a few applicants for this position but I made you our first choice so I wouldn't appreciate a waste of time.

It is a wonderful 4 day work week, Monday - Thursday. I will be dropping him off in the morning by 9:00 am and will pick him up by 2:00 pm or in the evening by 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm because i can decide to shift my duty to afternoon; if you can't work the hours, you can work during the weekend while I get someone else to do this hours. We will be lodging in a hotel around you but you can babysit him in the hotel or I drop him if you want me (let me know your preferred option). I will be very happy if you can get back to me with your total estimate for a month, so as to have you booked and secured prior to my arrival, as I am rounding off plans and allotting money to issues that should be settled before we arrive. The start date is early April. This offer is for someone of well mannered attitudes, neat, caring, kind, patient, good sense of relationship and who loves outdoor, so if you are interested in this offer, please answer all my questions below:

*Do you have a valid drivers license? *How old are you? *Do you have any crime records? *Do you have an open availability? *What are your charges per hour?

Make sure to include your zip code in your response so I could check the map to read the distance between us so we don't end up being far from one another.
I also want to inform you that we will be forwarding money for Davide's items plus $500 for you as an upfront payment, so you can forward the money for Davide's items to the private seller, the seller will send you the stuffs before we arrive with him so that you can put everything in place prior to our arrival, The seller will be sending Kids Ben10 Car, Train Table - White, Fun Explorers Construction Set and some toys because he has special toys he loves and admires so much.

Please get back to me with your #first and last name, #mailing address and phone number so I can forward it to my accountant to send you the payment as soon as possible. Hope you understand clearly, I will be waiting for this information in other for us to get you booked upon our arrival.

Regards,
Hailey Noelle

This is CLEARLY a scam! A ruse to get bank account information.

537 reviews here, 6%.

I was leaving a bad review for another site and saw people rating how awful care.com is. This company is eventually going to be sued for millions. Like everyone else, my wife was auto billed. Sure it maybe posted on their website that they auto bill but most consumers don't see this. It's misleading and how much you want to bet this was planned from the start as a scheme to extract money from people?

What they should do is refund people who are auto billed but they don't. That's where this company does wrong. When someone requests a refund they should honor it. Companies like godaddy do this but they will retract your sale. Key difference.

This one was my fault. I thought I did thorough research before I signed up for the site, but obviously I missed this review site. Never do business with Care.com. On Tuesday, I signed up for their service and paid my membership fee. Then I created a job posting using their forms and their rules. The next morning, I was informed that my account was terminated and given no reason. I found it funny that there was no mention as to when my money would be refunded, so I am in the middle of that battle with these people now. NEVER use Care.com. There are so many other effective ways to find a babysitter online.

My daughter signed up on care.com to be a pet sitter. She corresponded with a care.com client who ask for her contact information to send a check in advance of her doing any work in the amount of $2650. She received the check via priority mail which I was lucky to intercept. I have now read the email correspondence and investigated through Citibank and found the check to be fraudulent. Citibank says it was a spoof to get her bank account numbers and withdraw funds from her account.
The care.com client was asking my daughter to deposit the check and then purchase some furniture and other items from Walmart prior to their arrival. He claimed to be moving to the area and needed her to do some errands and make some purchases with the money and the balance was her advance payroll.
PLEASE BE AWARE and educate others about these types of scams. If it seems to good to be true it is!