Thumbtack

I am a Pro on Thumbtack and it charge hefty price for every job lead, for example, on a wedding photography work the potential customer pay range is $700- $1000, Thumbtack charge $80, it is not a big deal if it ended up landing this job, or even if I did not land the job, at least it is a real job out there. Too often I found it is a scammer, or people who never intend to use thumbtack to find a pro, or nutty people who think they deserve and entitle everything free for them. I ended losing the money twice as much as I earned from Thumbtack, If thumbtack is not doing something substantial, I do not see it too far away for Thumbtack belly up

I kept getting cold calls and answered. It was Thumbtack sales trying to sell me a service and I told them I am not interested as I don't subscribe to paying to use online platforms seeing as I have tons of reviews and use multiple platforms therefore I don't need to chase work. They told me I wouldn't be charged, sent a disclaimer to sign via email that I signed and I was charged 300 dollars. I was told they were giving 100 dollars to the top performers to use on the site to bid or use towards job leads. I called back and they said they'd deactivate my account and that would stop the charge. Apparently that didn't work. Now I am trying to talk to sales and they aren't helpful. They are trying to avoid refunding me. Really frustrating and aside from the sales department the company isn't o bad. I won't use their services after this ordeal.

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I am a pro on thumbtack
I am a pro on thumbtack, in the beginning leads were great with a 90percent close rate. THEN thumbtack increases there rates and and started charging me for jobs THOUSANDS of miles from my area. They said I had REMOTE work turned on. Which I didn't. After emailing support MANY times for refunds. Get the same Form letter response. As a pro. I'm losing faith in this site... they bill me for bogus leads then won't refund the bogus leads costs... they use to be good then got GREEDY.

Worst customer support ever
I am waiting for 23 minutes, no one answering no one picking up my call
What are you doing there? Just collect our money without any answers?

Sarah is the most unprofessional freelancer on Thumbtack. Her website is linked here:
https://sarahkooiker.com/

Sarah scheduled a telephone meeting and was a no-show. I wrote a review to express my unfavorable experience with her. Sarah called me crying hysterically and pleaded with me for a second chance by offering to help me get the project done for free in exchange for removing the terrible review. I told Sarah that I will pay her for the job.

Sarah offered to start the job next Tuesday. Unfortunately, Sarah backed out of the business deal and I lost the client. I am working hard to salvage the relationship with the client.

I believe her prior good reviews on Thumbtack aren't credible. Stay away from working with Sarah.

I am a housekeeper and was encouraged to sign up with Thumbtack. DON'T DO IT! I got one lead out of 77 that actually responded and pinned out, even though everyone knows that some people just will not reply to your messages on these Sites Thumbtack will bill you for EVERY Lead that fits your profile even if there is no correspondence between the pro and the alleged Client. I wasted a whole monthly budget on them, safe yourself some money, don't sign up.

I was just charged over $235 for 3 identical leads that were scams. Similar names of a potential customers asking for an estimate for our services with the EXACT same phone number, same scope of work and add-on services, same replies thorugh the messanger on the website and the person sent the same broken English texts to our business phone asking us to follow up with someone via email.

Thumbtack refused to refund but also only gave a credit for 2 out of the 3 scam leads which is to be used on future lead fees ONLY and the 3rd scam lead was refused even a credit which was $89!

Most likely there is someone working for Thumbtack creating this scam leads to generate revenue for the company since they state they do not give refunds but only credits which is money they get to keep anyway going towards future lead fees.

I have recently been extremely disappointed with Thumbtack, which I used consistently and happily for the past two years. This has been my primary means of attracting new clients to my tutoring and editing business. It has enabled me to consistently attract a full time amount of freelance work.

Very suddenly, my profile stopped showing up in search results, despite my being a top pro with a platinum status, having 23 five star reviews, and a perfect response record. I have reached out to customer service multiple times. In one week, I dropped from 860 listing views to 40.

I was told that "this just happens sometimes," and "it's part of the analytics," but that there was also nothing I could do to improve my situation aside from reaching out to potential customer's directly.

I called customer service four different times and received four different responses. I was told by two representatives that they would connect me with a supervisor which never happened. I was told that this "isn't a tech issues" while also being told that I had done everything "perfectly" on my end and that my situation - no longer showing up in search results - was very puzzling.

I used to frequently recommend Thumbtack to friends and family. I will not be recommending Thumbtack any longer. I am absolutely infuriated and will be searching for a different platform on which to advertise my business moving forward.

I have a painting business in Adairsville Ga. I have been on Thumbtack for several months, HOW STUPID AM I? Your lucky to get 1 job a month. I get several request a day and respond to almost every one. The way it works is when you get a request it costs you to reply and in my line of work you need to look at the job on order to give a proper quote and when the customer views your quote you loose your money, I might have one person a month actually respond with an address or phone #. They are 3 men who own this company in San Francisco and they don't have a phone # to reach them. I wish the BBB would investigate them because I fell they are sending out fake requests or they are viewing them their self or just flat out making the requests up. I know whoever is doing this is getting rich just off myself alone. If anyone wants to call me about this, feel free to do so, *******714.

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Please don't spend any money on this. You will not receive any leads from it. You are better off investing somewhere else. PLEASE BELIEVE ME - If you look at ALL of their public pages -they have removed the reviews sections - because they are not HELPFUL.
There customer service was also a disaster - but you can always give them a try and see for yourself - I don't normally leave negative reviews- I just don't have time for that. But I think this is worth letting people know about it. I'm not sure if it is based on fake profiles, but we did not receive ONE lead from 20 quotes we sent out.

Booked a photographer thru Thumbtack. The session was cancelled due to force majeur. Rebooked the session. Few days later he did not reply to the emails or the texts. Days later he replied he was out of country. He did not refund us the money. Called thumbtack they said they are third party and they cant do anything. Then why are we booking thru you! A rip off!

They way thumbtack Conduct business its Discusting. I found out today that when you get a direct lead you and 5 other company get charged for the same lead and then you book the job but you get to the customer home and you fiend out there is onther company working on the job. So how is it fair for the us pros. They give the customer the options of booking more than one company at the same time but they won't hold the customer responsible to pay for our service fee. So they met only charge us for the same lead 5 times. And when you ask for a refund they only refund you leads and not money never heard of that before.

Hi I'm pro with thumbtack, I work with them around 3y.It was not bad to start with them compare to Very expensive Home advisor. Now! They make some changes with leads. Before we got more chances to get some job, the send 5 leads to 1 costumer around ($20) per leads, not bed to take the job for that money. Now they send 10 to 15 leads to 1 costumer,! I'm not was even review by costumer. So Im losing more money end more. Don't have any job anymore. Im in progress to find something different.