So lemme just give it straight,
I didn’t read the terms and agreements when I first signed up for the app, as nobody ever does.
This has also happened to others! Please help by spreading. It’s toxic and needs to be stopped.
Don’t do work or seek work from Angi/Homeadvisor.
So I start a very fresh business, as a general contractor, I seek a couple smaller jobs because the contract I was going to go into didn’t work out. (My vehicle insurance wasn’t enough for them)
So I get a call from a rep, trying to sell me their app. As they pray on small start up businesses.
I use the app for like less than a week, and since I put that I was “Able to do a lot” & able to “Service a bunch of places” & because I was “Interested” in doing the work, I was sent like a ton of leads.
This is the craziest part. I was told that upon success, i would then pay them their lead fee of $35-101 per. I said okay but then I call them back because my profile wasn’t working correctly, and they tell me I have an outstanding balance of almost $2000. (Within the same week). I ask what is going on? They replied with you pay for every lead that pops into your account. These came in very quickly and I didn’t ask to be bombarded with leads or fees that,
-1, half the leads given are not leads. Nobody picks up,they state that they have the work done, or they plain old haven’t ever put in a work order.
-2. The leads they are making me pay for, ask if your interested in doing a project, not that I accepted a job or should be charged especially when the first part applies.
-3. The reps I talked to continuously lied to me,
I asked if they had a legal department, and was told no. Asked again when I spoke to a manager and was told I can’t call, but I can write them only by letter. They also said the amount was stuck at where it was and the longer I stayed on the phone the more they tried to discount. I told her no, all I want is to have this erased and we could be cool. After an hour of being on the phone and inevitably pissing them off, she ended up getting rude and hanging up.
-4. They have a cap that you were allowed to do in a month from what the manager said, mine was set to $450. They tripled it in a week. Like I said because I said I was able and willing to do the work.
There’s a bit more but
Contacting everyone I think can help, if you can think of anything please help. Just a small business trying to get away from all the scams,