HomeAdvisor Class Action lawsuit link in description: scam alert
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Scam Alert: Must Watch video before signing up for HomeAdvisor
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Dmitry and Steve simply reading online reviews from Home Advisor employees and fraud practices, lying to contractors, marketing technics etc.
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Dmitry and Steve are discussing Home Advisor complaints and reading reviews from previous employees of Home Advisor accusing company of lying to its contractors, and using questionable sales tactics. All reviews are taken from www.glassdoor.com
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This company needs to go down. I myself will open a lawsuit against them.
I was going to sign up
Great Idea! Every one else do the same. Millions of small claims should overwhelm and get the word out to the consumers as a Ponzi Skeem. This will turn out to be so bad for contractors if we don't rid them. Every consumer worldwide asking the Kings advise all under one roof. Once your eliminated well that's it there is no more. The Bank get's to recycle the deed on your home! you have been deleted / terminated!
Green King how could I file a lawsuit against them?
Green King I plan on opening a lawsuit on them as well. Looking into it. Been with them for a month. 90% dead leads
How are those suits going? .... LOL
thank god I watched this. I was thinking about signing up.
dbedazzling1 all they said in this video is totally true, I signed up and they fuck me up, unknown charges and a pain on the ass
I lost $700 dollars in 1 week fooling with home advisor..save your money and find a different way to ad.
fcbayerndinho10 yeah the problem is they where able to build a Monopoly by RIPPING CONTACTORS OFF. More Contractors need to let the world know this Company is owned by A LEECH I feel sorry for him when he burns in Hell
That's why I'm posting. I'm not a tradesman, but I've been clipped twice by 2 of these companies now. I'm posting until I get tired of it, recoup my 70 bucks, sort of. By stopping even one person to sign up with these con artists, I'll be happier.
Shadow Wolf Oh, I'll be busy tonight, and a post or two a day until I cant type anymore.
Good Video. I own Mr. Fix-All Home & Garden Inc. in Raleigh, NC. I never sign up for any lead generating service ever. Nothing will replace a good name, and a great reputation. My company stays busy year round, based on one concept. Do quality work.
+MR. FIX-ALL INC. Good for you!!!
MR. FIX-ALL INC. yeah I should never have I just didn't know what they were you know it's my my fault for being smart and aware they are like snake company
I grew up with harcore pro tradesmen. My dad was one. What I learned of character, I learned from them all. Stand up men and women in the trades can lose their reputations quickly with these "services" just by association. I'm tired of getting it without a reach around. I didn't want to deal with Home Depot, but I have to now. Maybe in the north it is better, but in Florida they'll send out any asswipe with a bucket of tools.
Hey man how did you get your first job?
These two people are right. I had Home Advisers service leads. Never got a job, wasted my money. Bad leads, it’s a scam for all contractors. Plus they make us compete, they sell the same leads to five contractors. Be carful with Home Advisers don’t waste your money with false leads.
I'm on home advisor. now my 2nd week.. it is starting to really add up.. it almost is like I'm paying money to get a lead that does not even want to get a contractors
+John Newkirk don't wait too long!
what should i do to get leads?
+John Newkirk Angie’s list, organic SEO, referrals, thumbtack. All much cheaper
thanks i subscribed. home advisor is playing dumb.
class action lawsuit anyone ?
Appreciate the info! I literally just talked to them today so i decided to look into the company and found this video. I had a feeling something was wrong and you confirmed that.
Thank you for this. Home advisory has been calling my business repeated trying to get us to sign up with them. We will not be doing that. Thanks to you! thank you for saving our company money.
From a homeowner viewpoint - a few years ago I have had a couple good experiences but now (2020) no one even responds to any request and NOW they want $100 just to request help. No more Home Advisor for me.
nice job guys ...these dirt bags need to be put out of business. The contractors need a Lead service that Checks all leads. to make sure their solid leads
Shadow Wolf you have that option if you go be a sub contractor, leads are what they are leads. if you can't call people right away and and have problems selling your business Homeadvisor isn't for you. if you're a good at what you do the ROI can be incredible.
Rody Piper That's not the problem with Home Advisor. the problem is YOU REFUSE TO give credits to contactors for shit leads even when LEADS are Shit Another problem you sell leads to 8 Contractors & make $480 for each phone call. Your all a bunch of LEECH SCUMBAGS. Google should remove you from the all pages & run a better lead system they don't need bottom feeders like you.
Thank,s Dametre , Finally Someone who Has the Brain,s , & Time to Expose , these Unethical Business Practices
I'm an Electrical Contractor who works 100% word of mouth. thanks for the info, I certainly don't need this headache
Word of mouth is all I will go by after today. And Valpack coupons, maybe.
How did you get started?
How did you get your first lead?
I absolutely HATE that I signed up with Home Advisor. I wish I would have seen this video prior
+hotboy0789 we wish more people see it too, please share!!!
+hotboy0789 sorry about your experience
I signed up too and payed $288 money that I wont get back.
@Srt8Renegade I'm going to my bank and file papers to stop them from going into my acct.
@Srt8Renegade my husband also had to cancel his credit card, but now sent him to collections. Did you pay collections or just walked away?? Please help.
Storm Group Roofing....I used to work in law enforcement and I called the department in Colorado that has jurisdiction in the area where Home Advisor's office is located. I sent them this video and asked them to look into the drug sales, etc. That and the class action suit should cause some sweating on HomeAdvisor's part. :)
+JoAnn Rohmann thanks for comments and for phone call!
Umm, you mean you called the attorney general??? 😆
Thanks, Home Advisor SUCKS ! Damn thieves !
Valuable video- anything that anyone can do to help keep contractors and home owners from ever using Home Advisor is commendable. I do Search Engine Optimization (which is an ethical way to get businesses to the top of the Google ), and I'm always seeing Home Advisor in the top organic positions- They use their massive network to dominate other companies. I've dealt with many contractors who got burned with B.S. leads- (including plenty of roofers). I absolutely despise Home Advisor. I hope someday a class action lawsuits brings them down
I’m a new contractor they told me that I wasn’t going to get charged for the leads unless I called but no they lied now they are charging me 1,108 dollars , they are a fraud,
Great video they are terrible if your a small business owner stay away !! They call me all the time luckily I did my homework on these clowns . They brag about there BBB rating so I thought I would check that out , more complains than you can imagine . They are paying to maintain a false status of an APlus company .
Dont remove this video !
Small guys like myself can fall into their trap
Kind of like direct TV! Lies and BS
It must cost them a lot of money. A lot.
Sounds like a company run by Gordon Gekko its good to see you guys helping out other tradesmen in a similar situation.
Thanks John, I agree, this is good content for American Greed episode. We always love to help other contractors with advice.
I'm a Design Consultant and I have used Home Advisor to find a few contractors, plumbers, floor installers, electricians etc. I have had both good and bad ones but all of them have been SUPER EXPENSIVE. I'm talking about overcharging by double and even triple the normal price quotes. I wonder if they are doing that because home advisor is charging the contractors too much to begin with.
thank you for this video - we received a call from someone saying they could triple our business, speaking really fast, kept saying "one time finders fee" but something told me to call my daughter and check out this company. Thank you for helping us avoid a big headache.
I told my wife not to sign up! She did. Total 300$ gain (only one lead was good) vs 600$ loss (fake leads) ! I knew they are scam ! The sky is the limit for them ! They remind me Forex online retail traders ... you never win a buck ! Your losses is their profits !
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It's 2019 and HomeAdvisor is still doing this crap. I used it to look for a estimate for a job and there was no indication that using the HomeAdvisor form would waste a contractor's time and money.
I had to close my small business they are trying to say I owe the 3 grand and I never even made that much from them
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I am a owner/operator of a small 2-man pest control business. Home Advisor has been contacting me everyday trying to sign me up. I almost gave in til I started to see that most online only businesses are scammers and crooks. So I decided to do research before I made a costly mistake. It's hard enough for a small business to make it and now I see why. Thanks for opening up my eyes.
So I want to thank you for this video. I just signed up for Home advisor tonight and haven't been billed a dime yet. I tried to contact them to cancel 10 mins after this poor decision and was told to call back in the morning. I'm heading to my bank in the morning to block this transaction. I will tell every new business owner to stay away from this company. Thank you again and the others for opening my eyes.
I wish our then, project manager would have seen this before signing up. We too are part of the contractors that got scammed. We have made numerous attempts to reach them, speak to anyone who can do anything to help us, just to be told that because the proper cancellation procedures (which we never knew about) were not followed ( which was to call their customer service line) and they can't accept the emails from the rep stating he was going to cancel the account so they are not issuing a refund (over $2600). Emails were sent in Nov 2019 to cancel then again in Feb 2020, but our bank account continued to be charged since November 2019. There is much more, but that's the gist. Please do not use them, they scam, lie and play games. As much as I can I will making it my life mission to get them shut down, so they don't take advantage of other hard working honest small business. I will leave reviews on every site I can think of!!!! Shame on the people that work there and know their unethical practices but continue to implement them.
I was emailed an application for membership and hesitated to join until I researched Home Advisor further. Thanks to your video, I will not sign-up. They areis a SCAM!!!
I started a business and had it registered in my state. Home Advisor got my business number from state records and contacted me about advertising. They wrote a wonderful ad about how great my company is. It was extremely convincing. It went into great detail about how experienced and professional my company is. That ad proved to me that their organization is a multimillion dollar scam. They were praising my business and making it sound great before I started my first day of business and got my very first customer. Their only concern was to get me to pay them $625 for the ad. Home Advisor was ready to praise my company to the public when all I did was registered the name of my business. I WILL NEVER USE THEM TO ADVISE ME OF ANYTHING. 😂🤣😂🤣
I got scammed. It's a shame that people like that are alive. As just started in the business world I got hit very hard. BIG SCAM!!
Just got scammed for 290 from them ,if this is still ongoing , I would like to file a joint lawsuit if enough people will band together to get out stolen money back
I'm so glad that CUT them in a call . I told them that would look for more inf. this girls start getting upset.lol
I just was following my intuition .
+ELARTE DEL AMOR good call
Don't wast your time and money, they will destroy your account. Fake clients
Breaking news! Class action law suit filed this week against HomeAdvisor! chimicles.com/class-action-filed-homeadvisor-iacinteractive/
Storm Group Roofing Wow is been a month i haven't recieved a call from home advisor once i told them about the leads issues they were having. Also is common sense why pay a yearly + leads?? That is a total loss on every lead that isn't real. What if you did a $800 job. Later get lead calls that aren't real. Pay up and keeps adding up worth $800. Then where is your previous job worth? I wish home advisor will stinguish/ banned as in forever.
its to bad a service such as home advisor cannot be an honest instead of crooked service as it can be very beneficial to the contractors using it. maybe when they lose this lawsuit they would reorganize into the service they could be! I particularly hate when I call a lead and #1 the number is not a working number or 2 there is already someone there working on their A/C 5 seconds after I get the call.
was considering them for leads. thank you so much for the info. I don't normally put a lot of faith in these testimonials but with so many negatives they have to get my full attention. Almost had their hook in me. Not now!!! Thanks again. Maybe I should apply for a job and pickle my brain with drugs and beer!? NOT!!!!! Thank you for the heads up
I recently used Home Advisor as a consumer to find somebody for a job and from my experience, I feel it is a scam. I lost a lot of money and I am left with a house I still have to fix. I will never trust such a site again.
Steven Wylie how did you lose “a lot” of money? The homeowner doesn’t pay anything to use HomeAdvisor?
So happy I’m seeing this. I knew I wasn’t alone in this feeling. Legit just argued with them on the phone.
Thank you for the videos!!! I just filled out complaint information. Home Advisor only takes money, NO REFUNDS!!! WATCH OUT!!!!
I wonder how Adam Carolla put his voice in their add.
Great video thank you for posting I thought I was the only one with my business being run around. They sent me consecutively 20+ jobs back to back all dead ends no one calling back and then come to find out they set you up on an automatic acceptance of any and every job they send you so naturally I racked up a bill of $217 in about 1 week of no call dead end jobs I called them one lady told me they will remove them all from my bill, a few days later another person calls me telling me that they will not be removing them from my bill and charging me anyway.... they send you dead end jobs and expect you to pay $30-$50 a lead... its ridiculous
So glad I watched this. I’m waiting for their call to get started so I can tell them to pound sand…
Yes, we are constantly ripped off by Home Advisor. We are a member of Angies list and Home Advisor. We just accepted a lead on AL, then 5 minutes later the same lead came to Home advisor..It also has in big green letters, submitted by Angies list...they have done this to us hundreds of times...this lead was 22 dollar charge from HA. And we pay Angies List 400 a month...Home advisor is double dipping and refuses to credit the money back....I have tons of screen shots to prove they are stealing from anyone who uses them...I wish I could show you the proof I have, its so black and white....
i told my husband it was a scam. im glad he didnt sign up but they bought the website domain he was going to make right before we made it, and they wanted to charge us 8,000$ for it. so we changed the name and bought a different domain. I build websites, its what I do. He saved alot of money by talking to me about it first
+Desii Ramos this is radiculuos, thanks for sharing!
Desii Ramos advice
on building a site
I need a site built
Caleb Phillips did you get that site built?
Wish my husband had consulted me 1st, not after the fact. Here we are 5 months later, collection calls and letter!!
I really appreciated these videos. Thank you, you have saved me money and time spent. Rock on!
+David Pingree thanks for feedback!
In CA there are " at will workers " or " contracted employees " ? A lot of people don't understand this? In California If you have something in writing that states you perform tasks for x amount of hours for an individual who pays you to do so than you truly are a " PAID EMPLOYEE " with legal standing and rights. You work for someone but nothing in writing than legally you are not an employees " WORKER " no legal rights. He can let you go with a phone with no explanation and doesn't need to pay you a penny and it's completely legal because you are nothing to him or that organization. Are you a worker of an employee?
Home advisor sells leads to as many as possible. Home advisor will make more on jobs than contractor or make money on jobs that are never done
thanks i was thinking of joining as well. no thanks!!
robert ruggiero do not be a fool like me...stay away from home advisor.
Just tested our Angie's List profile by putting a lead through- it came up on our Home Advisor profile and charged us for a lead. They merged and are now double dipping. We are canceling today. We will put our $100/month from Angie's List into local advertising. This is disgusting. Such a loss in the contractor leads.
+Candy Smith that’s horrible thanks for sharing! Please join us for class action and share this video: ruclips.net/video/PH-KnoPE0nY/видео.html
Comment below with your experience!
Still happening. I'm a HA subscribed professional and wondered why so many leads never called me back. Just finally got on with a customer after getting the computer-generated lead and immediately connected, only to find out that someone else got this lead many minutes before I got the same lead and they scheduled an appointment with the first person that called them back. So I'm paying for leads that I don't stand a chance at getting. Seems like they can charge us for services not rendered which seems criminal in my opinion. Others have this experience?
Not one video is in favor of them so glad my instinct kicked in, to check them out. Will not answer or respond. See other videos none talk favorably..
These two talk of employees now watch other contractors. Live and learn people
I am an electrician/AC service tech for a long time. Home Advisor contacted me, and I decided to give them a try.
I do not regret at all my decision to join up with them.
Do I receive a lot of joker leads? Absolutely. But even after factoring in the expense of the jokers, I am still way ahead. Some of the joker leads are credited back to my account.
When I call my recruiter/rep who signed me up, he always calls me back.
My only affiliation with HomeAdvisor is that of a vendor.
I normally do not comment on these sites but when I read everyone bashing them, I had to speak up.
I knew I wasn't alone. CRIMINALS
I signed up for Home Advisor, gave $300 and Iwill never use them again. I am starting to believe the leads are fake and people are paid for that
I called HOME ADVISER to complaint about 1 of the bad leads that i got and after a week they gave me what they called a Re placement lead and guess what ? they gave me an other bad lead , I just don't understand why they keep doing that , i regretted signing up with HOME ADVISER and ANGI'S LIST.
Where can companies review employees that used drugs, stole, lied, broke stuff, constantly late or gone, bad attitude, bad customer services. And more
I was a idiot to sign on some years back!! DON'T DO IT!! I think they were calling me and hitting me with a fee and then I'd call them back and never talk to anyone... but to late already charged!! NOT 1 JOB!! NOT 1!!!
Thanks for this! They've been bugging me phone and email.... BLOCKED!!
Thanks so much guys I was thinking of joining but not now. Keep up the good work you're doing a good service
I am a contractor who must have hit the jackpot. When I signed up, they told me that contractors sell 1 out of 4 leads. I have only been listed with them for a month and have sold 5 of 6 and the 6th just hasn't made up their mind yet. I have only experienced three "bad leads" and was credited those fees. I have not experienced anything of what you are reading from these papers. I think you need to interview contractors that it works for and find out why. For me, I kept my lead count to only two a week, and honorably sold my work. I am now booked out for two months due to HA, and put my leads on hold in order to not overbook. Please try looking at the other side of the coin, not just the negative.
Matthew Russell ~ Gee, if your experiences with HA are such a booming success, then how and why did you find the time to s'TROLL' across this channel?
Truther41God thank you for noticing my post. The short answer is, so folks can see that if worked right, it ain't a scam. In fact I booked out so much work through HA, I had to hire a guy to get through it. Booked out two months solid, and one customer who now wants an addition to their home after seeing my work. I am only using HA to get through the slow months and am seeing word spread faster than I thought, I may be cancelling or seeing if they have a hold longer than 30 days (which ran out last week). While the leads were on hold, not a single charge or attempt to sneak any others in, so not sure why folks say they do it. I am a simple guy trying to make money for my family instead of a boss. In case there are doubts about me I can be found on Facebook hishandscarpentryllc Centralia WA.
They just suckered me into Home advisor. I own and operate a wildlife Control company . So far with home advisor out of 40’leads I’ve got 6 the thing that gets me they will send me a lead that says Raccoon removal fee $24.00 and get another that says Raccoon removal fee $34.00 same animal same job different price. They have charged me over $1500 I’ve only made $400.00 I’m in the hole over home advisor they send me bogus leads or people who don’t answer their phone I’ve only been with them 2 weeks I’ve already changed bank accounts I’m not paying them for something I never got period.
MY husband is having the same problem. Did they send you to collections? He canceled within 3 hours and they were still charging him for leads.
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@@wecan7645 is there going to be a charge for this service?
@@mariacastellanos3632 A fee for the class action? I just called and filled out the form and their website. I don't really know but I don't believe class action suits cost the plaintiffs. I am looking into that. I just know that HA is not playing fair. I was just sent to collections and have been charged another $341 for leads. I disputed the charges through my card and that temporarily stops you having to pay. Still trying to figure out where to and what department handles this type of issue. HELP
HomeAdvisor put me into depression last year and almost bankrupt me.
They got the last strand by unlawfully auto-renewing by charging over $350 but I payed almost $4k in leads in two years and 90% of dead leads and progressively got worse as time went on.
I pity the costumers that decide to get on HomeAdvisor too because I had several clients tell me they were called by over 8 contractors.
+Lucero & Grant +Adolfo Castro thanks for sharing! Please join us for class action and share this video: ruclips.net/video/PH-KnoPE0nY/видео.html
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I talked to them before but didn't give them a chance, they call me from different numbers all the time so i keep blocking the calls, they call and a local number shows up but when you listen to the message it's a out of state number to call back. That really sucks they're taking money from contractors like that!
They r now switching cancelled accounts back to approved without telling the contractor . CALL AND MAKE SURE UR ACCOUNT IS CANCELED
Couple things I want to say about Home Advisor. I had a good friend used them for his Roofing business in CT.
This service WORKS but you have to know how to use it, and yes you have to put a little effort in.
1) set your spent target low to something you're comfortable with. If you want one or two leads a week, tell that to the marketing consultant you sign up with. If you get a few leads and are happy with who you have booked that week, turn them off. Turning leads off is as easy as a click of a button in the mobile app, or online.
2) If you get a bad lead THEY CREDIT YOU BACK. Just call customer service, or you can even "request credit" through the app or online.
3) Some people have said they called a lead who ended up only wanting an estimate. HA has pricing guides specific to the area that is free for customers to use. You may not have sold the customer well and they may have made an excuse for not wanting your service, because they have to fill out five pages of questions and look at a price guide to even be sent to you.
4) The site they list your business on comes up tier one in Google searches, they partnered with Facebook, it's on 8 live directories, AND on HA live directory. That alone is worth the membership fee, just utilize it. Upload your portfolio, add a logo, ect.
5) If you're complaining that you signed up and keep getting calls, but ALSO say you've never answered it because you "know who it is" then answer the dang phone and let them know that you're not interested. If you registered they're supposed to contact you and if you never answer how do they know to stop calling?
It's simple, if you just use it right. I see so many valid points on here and it's not for everyone but I've seen so many businesses benefit.
+Kelly Flanagan thanks for feedback! Unfortunately they didn't go away even after numerous demands to cancel service they kept calling and kept charging our cards for fake leads.
I must disagree with some of your points. Unfortunately, we had a spend limit for a month and they charged us $200 more than our spend limit in just 6 days of service! Quite a few of the leads were bogus leads too. We ended up putting our account on hold. They also refuse to credit back leads that are bogus. We've tried and they will not refund. Disputing with my credit card company now since they charged more than what we agreed to pay a month. And...that price is in writing on their website.
Smells like a HA shill.
This post is inaccurate. 50% of the leads I get are fake and they will NOT credit them back. I request credits, but its "credit ineligible." For example, I called a lead this week. The customer answered the phone and started screaming at me for calling her. She did not want an estimate and she did not want a phone call. I requested credit and was denied.
It’s now 2019. This is still true.
I was about to Sign Up My New Start-Up Business Zen Housekeeping out of Colorado and Now Because of these AMAZING and HONEST Gentlemen, I will not be wasting my Money, Time, and I am Deeply Grateful!!!
+Diana C. Duncan thanks for feedback! Good luck in your new start up!
Thank You!! :)
Home Advisor is a JOKE! No wonder Adam Carolla is their spokesperson. WASTE OF MONEY.
As an SEO specialist, it’s easy to out rank angi and home advisor on the first page of google as they’re not ranking for local keywords. If you own a business, invest in local SEO.
But...what about us customers?!? I needed a few shingles replaced on my roof (I'm a sixty year old man with poor balance-lol.) The receptionist for my regular roofer quoted me a high price on the phone. SO...I went online and found homeadvisor. They made me an appointment with a Mr. Justin L., independent or with what company I don't know. It was $200 cheaper than my first estimate, so I figured, what the hey??
The appointed day came today. The Gentleman showed up more-or-less on time, and replaced the four missing shingles. But, THEN the trouble began. Homeadvisor emailed me a $548 charge (which was not pending online this morning.) The young man said he had not been paid, and needed $215 cash. When I (probably stupidly) showed him the email, he of course said he needed $548 because "I have to pay the rest to homeadvisor." So...I paid him the money, and, of course, this afternoon a charge DID appear from homeadvisor. The man had said he'd send his contact info to my cellphone (no business card, no name on the truck) but, that never happened. It was not a total ripoff...he did the work-hopefully well. I also tried to get customer service while he was here, but the hold time was too long, and I had to leave. I will get their online customer support tomorrow. He may be sleazy-but, so is homeadivsor.
Glassdoor now protects companies who use their employee web site to vette new hires...ect.
I wish i can make a lawsuit against HOME ADVISER & ANGIE;S LIST , Both companies belong to the same people and they take advantage over contractors like all of us, PLEASE let me know if we can do something against these bad companies.
Do you see how much their ceo and employees in high ranking are making? It’s in the millions. These people are scammers and the only reason I have my company on their website is to have some type of internet exposure; other than that home advisor sucks!
Home advisor cancelled an appointment I had made on my own, not thru them, with a handyman service. How could they do that? I told them don’t call me again, I don’t want your service.
Thanks for the video--Home Advisor needs to go down-they are a complete scam.
They have send out leads with bad phone numbers, wrong addresses etc. and ALWAYS deny giving a rufund for these … recently they sent me an appointment request. A couple hours later they sent an appointment cancellation email and still billed me for it denying that they sent me the cancellation email. They will lie about anything and everything.
Thanks for making this video guys. They are very deceptive in regards to licensing requirement verification. They are sending out unlicensed plumbers for water heaters.
+Chase Thompson that's disturbing
Homeadvisor, Angie's List, the various home warranty companies, etc., I don't waste my time with any of them. Too much sugar for a dime, as my grandmother would have said.
this video saved me from signing my company up we with this cRaZy company , Thank You
Helllo everyone
The day I have signed up with Home Advisor I went to bank and cancelled my card, and in a week time I have cancelled my service with them.
I found out that they are absolutely scam. And I didn't receive any job from them.
But after a couple of month I have received an email with outstanding balance $815 which they are asking me to pay.
Since they are saying they will send my account to outside Collection Agency.
Do I have to pay them?
Have anyone else faced such an issue with this suckers
+Aziz Nazarov ignore them, report to BBB, make RUclips video, beat advice we can give!!!
This video is completely accurate from the experiences I have had with Home Advisor. I am getting my attorney involved, and want to know how I can get in touch with the persons in the lawsuit.
This comment is based off my experience only about home advisor . I haven't watched this full video yet but almost finished it. What I can say is Home advisor has terrible customer service for contractors its very annoying to be on hold just to get a refund for a lead and it can be very frustrating when trying to resolve certain issues that should be simple. On the contrary Home advisor can be an amazing way to gain new clients. Personally I've recieved a ton of bad leads... although I have profited way more than I have spent on bad leads or people looking for estimates . I would only recommend home advisor for people that have some sort of monthly or weekly service type of business that way if you do get a lead for a job most of the time people end up hiring you for your service. Also people are looking for your service and just want someone to hire to do that specific service. I can definitely see how most professions that do one time repairs, building or installation type jobs with no type of continued service will end up losing more than they make because they aren't gaining that consistent stream of revenue from that client they did the job for they just did the job and now it's done. They may get calls from that person when something goes wrong in the future but that is not enough to count on. I speak from pool service background so this is just my experience home advisor works for building routes for way less than you would spend buying pools off of someone else. As far as the treatment of the employees and the selling of bad leads I am sick from that and probably will not continue service with them after this term is up even though it has helped me greatly .
They kept calling me and begging my business to sign up. After bad experiences with thumbtack and seeing how much worse home advisor is..glad i told them to go pound sand.
Please do a new updated video on the latest glassdoor and indeed reviews. Pretty interesting stuff!
100 new bbb complaints in January ALONE!!!!!
What there doing now is even worse.They are sending a price to the same customer they sent you a lead for.It states we can do such and such a job for a certain amount of money.It a low price that makes you look like a fool but then there contractor goes out to the job site and charges a price much higher.Ots a total scam
How do I Join for the action lawsuit
Link in description
get in now-- it is going hard and fast @ the moment. Friend just gave a disposition legally- They FLIED out to get it from her! This suit is LEGIT!
Do not make same mistake I did, home advisor will sale your leads to 3 to 4 contractors at the same time, you'll be lucky if you get it and believe me they will make you overdraft your bank account. Just this week I was charged $80.00 for a lead that went to a voice mail and I was never called back despite I called back in various occasion, then I was charged today Friday another $70.00 for a lead to paint parking bumpers which I was not even listed to do these kind of jobs. Don't waste your money with homeadvisor unless you don't want your money.
Actually they sell it to over 12 now.
I'm on home advisor 3 yrs now, just keep your leads on hold as long as u can I get more free leads people still find you at no cost
How do we know that you don't work for them?
can you give me more info?
I've been with them for a little over 2 years and I utilize the same method. My leads are paused the majority of time. I get a ton of direct calls to my phone and the majority of these calls are serious about getting work done. The direct calls are people that have located my business on the Home Advisor site so I still credit Home Advisor with generating work for my business. The key is to keep your leads paused because when a potential customer takes the time to read your reviews and then contact you directly it is a much better chance that you will get the job. I started running my account using this system because I, like so many others, was swamped with dead leads from Home Advisor.
BINGO!
I have been getting calls and my leads have been on hold because we are slammed for work. I can say that I have nothing negative to say about Home Advisor. This is for lawn service though so may be different than what videos I've been watching.
Home advisor was a scam for me, they lied to me and charged me tons more money when I asked to be charged less per month
Man I wish I watched this video before I signed up. I just got had for a quick $500 plus. Never even spoke with a customer.
I just got rip off 4000.00 dollar because a sales lady raised my credit from 360 .00 to 7000.00 with out my authorization. They offer me 500.00 to compensate
I reported them to the FTC.
+Oscar Rosales that’s horrible!
Home advisors...They really offer the worst service. You pay the for EVERYTHING and never get jobs
Thank you for this video. I’ve had 2 calls from them and was thinking of signing up next month. Definitely won’t now.
So, I’m not buying home advisor now. Thank you for your vlog. I was just curious about what IS a good lead service to use that isn’t a rip off ?
Good decision. They are very shady. On hold w bbb. They will run ur business in the ground.. I know a tonnnnnnnnn of contractors screwed by homeadvisor. Put ur ad on google maps. Craigslist and next door!!
I should have learned my lesson when I got crappy leads from Service Magic. Gave it another chance as Home Advisor. Just more crappy leads and boat loads of lies. If they tell you they will refund dead leads, don't believe em. If theres a class action suit please help me join.
i noticed that there were 4 images on your site that arent optimized. They are missing alt tags I would tell your SEO Specialist to do an audit on your website because there could be a few other issues that are holding your rankings in google back. I just thought id let you know to help you out I feel bad that home advisor did that to you! Its awesome that you are putting videos out to help out other businesses!
I just sign up home advisor.i should have read reviews about them.many leads they gave us didn't know how they I get their number I said from home advisor and they surprise they even didn't know about home advisor.how they automatically charge us 88$.this is scam home advisor.
So glad I saw this. Thank you.
Dealing with these a holes right now. They keep calling me asking to pay for 1 yr and how ill get all these leads. He told me its a fee per lead but then later told me that they get a percentage for BIG jobs
they screwed me with a bunch of so called leads, people would not answer the phone, atext, an email or even the door when i went to these houses. spend 2800 in 1 month , thet put me in collection because i told them i only got 600 in so called leads. i ended up settling with a collection company for 2000 to save my credit. then they call me and try to get me back and would tell me i owe them 1400 dollars if i wnt to come back. these people are scum.
The Home Advisor sales rep told told me Home Advisor just bought out Angie's List (October 2017). Last week (Dec 2017) I contacted Angie's List and they said that is false. The mother company is IAC that owns Angie's also owns Home Advisor.
I am a pro with home advisor for closed to 4 years, they are a rip off company, all they care is about getting huge money for one lead which then they sale to 3 more contractors. They are a giant in the business and they rip you off through the cost of the leads, what happen when you are an small business pro and you get a lead for $59.00 when you only have $100.00 in the bank?
Home Advisor has been ripping our small business off big time this year. Charged me for leads on jobs I've completed a year ago. Just got a lead for a furnace install. Contacted customer, he said his furnace was replaced two years ago. This company needs to be culled. From an honest Mechanical contractor. Spend your hard earned money elsewhere.
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I was scammed by home Advisor back in 2020 and still hurting!!!
glad you guys made this video and didn't take it down for the money