Home Advisor - homeadvisor.com

[RockIT Man]

I just got a call from this company. I turn down almost all third party work, but for some reason, this one caught my attention. Has anyone ever used them?

www.homeadvisor.com

 

[Kitten Kong]

We have a number of these 'schemes' in the UK also.

They are mostly aimed at professional building services. Ie, plumbers, electricians, builders, hvac etc.

Very very few requests are for the IT trade.

I would be extremely wary, for a number of reasons.

1: The amount of service calls you will actually qualify for.
2: The amount it WILL cost you pr month to be a pro for this 'scheme'.
3: Double triple check the actual quality of the clients who will be looking for IT work.

 

[Archon Prime]

I've always been sceptical of those types of places. Read the fine print if you decide to do anything for them.

Edit: By the way. I love your website, @RockIT Man

 

[Porthos]

I just got a call from this company.

They must on a roll. Got a call today as well wanted an Audio/video installer. Dontdo that work,lol

 

[MichaelBits]

Off Topic...
@RockIT Man

Are you using BOLT for your web design?

 

[labtech]

HomeAdvisor is a company that has come from the construction/renovation/electrical/plumbing type of work. Been around for a long time.

Their model does NOT port well when it comes to technical services.

Furthermore, their customer base is elderly folks and they are NOT good customers generally speaking.

HomeAdvisor support stuff is absolutely crap. I am being kind...

Waste of time and money IMHO. Run away.

 

[Markverhyden]

No. For the reason below. $347.88/year just to have the privilege to give them even more money for leads to a market segment that is focused on the lowest price.

 

[JoeTech]

$350/yr plus cost of leads leads that are most likely elderly clients on 15 yr old grey Dell desktops running XP with only 256mb ram? Sign me up!

 

[AtlCPU]

I tried it for a while in my experience I kept getting leads that where not in the territory I told them I worked in. I also got quite a few that definitely where bogus. Yet they want to charge for every lead. I closed mine real quick.

 

[Tech Savvy]

We're on it, we get a job about every 8 days. Our setup fee was reduced more than 100$ from what others have posted here. Each "lead" costs me 14$ for my area.

Average job is 120$ from there. But definitely the older crowd. Just last month I got an older gentleman that wanted to upgrade his ram in his Apple II [emoji23]

It doesn't hurt us being on that site. So we'll probably renew again next year.


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[Tech Savvy]

I actually have a picture of it cause I haven't seen one since grade school and I thought it was cool, plus I'm in the cult

 

[Markverhyden]

I actually have a picture of it cause I haven't seen one since grade school and I thought it was cool, plus I'm in the cult

LC-II if I remember correctly. I've still got my PM G3 and PM 7600/132. Might fire up one of those for old times sake. LOL!!!

 

[GTP]

They wanted to charge me $10 for every job lead, then want you to drive 45 km (one way) to eject a stuck CD where the client only wants to pay $5!
F*** Off!

 

[RockIT Man]

No. For the reason below. $347.88/year just to have the privilege to give them even more money for leads to a market segment that is focused on the lowest price.

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I e-mailed him back specifically asking about membership fees before getting him to mention the $350. He shold have mentioend it up-front when I asked about pricing and he would have saved us all some time. No thank you.

 

[RockIT Man]

They wanted to charge me $10 for every job lead, then want you to drive 45 km (one way) to eject a stuck CD where the client only wants to pay $5!
F*** Off!

WHAT A LEAD!

 

[RockIT Man]

Edit: By the way. I love your website, @RockIT Man

Thanks!

 

[RockIT Man]

Off Topic...
@RockIT Man

Are you using BOLT for your web design?

No, sir. I'm honestly not sure what that is. I built it myself mostly from scratch using Bootstrap.

 

[fastremotehelp.com]

I actually used them around 2005 or so, for about two years. I qualified as the only Computer Service they had in palm beach county fl, since I had both business insurance, and a corporation. Some leads were very good, they actually qualified the leads before passing them on. Then one day they started a promotion, and I was getting 10-20 leads a day that were all crap. I bailed in a week, after trying to get them to fix the issue. If they went back to qualifying the leads as they had originally done, I'd have stayed with them. The leads cost about $10 at the time, I closed 80%, and the average ticket was $250. This was back in the day when people would hire someone to replace a failed CD drive in their home, $150.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

plus I'm in the cult

I knew it was real!!!!!!!!

 

[lan101]

I actually used them around 2005 or so, for about two years. I qualified as the only Computer Service they had in palm beach county fl, since I had both business insurance, and a corporation. Some leads were very good, they actually qualified the leads before passing them on. Then one day they started a promotion, and I was getting 10-20 leads a day that were all crap. I bailed in a week, after trying to get them to fix the issue. If they went back to qualifying the leads as they had originally done, I'd have stayed with them. The leads cost about $10 at the time, I closed 80%, and the average ticket was $250. This was back in the day when people would hire someone to replace a failed CD drive in their home, $150.

Yeah I've not replaced a cd/dvd drive in over 2 years. I've had a couple times people bought laptops and didn't realize they didn't have one built in so I just got them an external.