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I finally read all the negative reviews about this site. After spending 100$'s of dollars and getting nowhere with alleged "prospective clients". Now I know it's a scam. I've sent this particular client info. Followed up. And they "allegedly" responded twice directly to us to contact them. Called and Sent her an email that I'd be available to chat anytime that's convenient for her. NO response. NOW I get another request for info from the same client from Bark. Stating that "no one has responded to Karen yet" use 6 credits to gain access to their info. I'm ALL SET with Bark.com. Everyone else should be as well.
I'll be adding this to the endless list of dissatisfied "professionals" out there. And the BBB.

Simply not what is being advertised and a waste of time and money. If you're lucky enough to even get a conversation, you get a grumpy person fed up with calls or someone who will waste your time.

The leads we were provided were either time wasters who did not want to spend anything. This service is sold as "potential clients waiting to speak to you" and most we spoke to were fed up with the calls they were getting through Bark. Those that didn't cancel out calls, fail to respond to emails or simply be rude to us, wanted to spend next to nothing and were of the view "I can do this myself for nothing".

Poor quality leads from the bottom of the pond.

I've spent £100 so far on Bark.com for my videography business and my overall experience has been disappointingly poor. The leads are low quality and the majority of them that I purchased were uncontactable. Most of the leads in my niche are about 25 credits which roughly equates to £1.20 + VAT per credit. So they are not cheap. You call, leave messages, email and text and they don't respond to even say they're not interested. Which makes me question whether they're even genuinely interested leads. I'm also curious to understand Barks lead generation process as I wonder whether they are going for a quantity over quality approach. I even stupidly responded to an email from Bark that said someone specifically requested that I quote on a job and low and behold after spending £30 for the pleasure of contacting this "keen" lead they didn't respond. Their customer service team were relatively helpful when I complained but ultimately my money has gone down the drain and there's not much that can be done about it. The qualification process on these leads need to be addressed. It's been a costly and disappointing experience as I was really hoping that their leads could help me to grow my business. I don't mind paying a premium for quality leads but the leads from Bark.com are definitely not good quality or value for my advertising spend. I've attached a screenshot of a lead which they're offering for 18 credits (£21.60 + VAT) this is the type of brief you can expect when you advertise with them. Would you spend £21.60 + VAT on that? It might work for other businesses but If you're a Videographer or Photographer I'd avoid it like the plague!

I was hopeful Bark would be a legit way to get leads for my Hypnotherapy services. WRONG! I purchased the promotional credit package of 30 credits fo around $35. I sent approx 10 quotes. I did not have even 1 person respond. A nice "No Thanks" or " Not interested " would be nice. Once you spend credits and send your info to the prospective client, you are supposed to receive all of their contact info. That didn't happen either. I did receive their name and town, which I searched Facebook for. Not one of them had a facebook profile. Go Figure! Needless to say, the contacts are either bogus or other business professionals trolling their competition.
My BEST form of advertiding is still my website SEO and Google. - Nuf said!

I recently connected with an Accountant through bark, Mark Undis. This was my first time having a business conversation with an Accountant about my own business and I must say i'm quite impressed with the professionalism, courtesiesness, understanding, patience, and knowledge Mark Undis displayed and shared with me. I highly recommend bark, and Mark Undis specifically if you need accounting help or professional accounting advice, you will get your moneys worth and then some!

They breached their agreement by not offering proper contact details for the lead. I paid for business contacts, yet most leads have personal emails and if you do reach out via phone or email, its crickets. They refused to refund my money although I received ZERO services in return. Stay as far away as possible. I'm also reporting them to the BBB and any other review site possible to ensure they don't deceive others by their business practices.

Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.

Once they get their hooks into you, i. E. they get your email address, they'll never stop emailing you!

And if you're a seller the majority of the 'leads' are false or at best, simply people fishing for quotes to get an idea about how much a service will cost with no plans on actually hiring.

They also sell each lead to tons of people. I once call a 'lead' and they told me: A] they have no idea where I got their details from and B] that I was the 4th call in 5 minutes!

Young, bored, kids also seem to use Bark to prank each other.

Avoid Bark like the plague. You'll thank me later.

This is an update to my review written a couple days ago. I went to Bark yesterday, signed in and began looking for a ink to delete my account. There is none so, I called the number listed. Next, there was a recording of a male with an English accent. Could barely understand a word he said.

I was then given a series of options to connect with customer service and pressed #2. The phone rang and rang and rang. I hung up. Maybe 30 minutes later decided to try again. This time I pressed #4.

A lady with an English accent answered. Told her that I want to delete my account and gave my account info. She could see where I had gone in and changed all account info in my feeble attempt to delete.

I told her that because there is no link to delete the account myself, I entered the information "CANCEL MY ACCOUNT." She told me that one has to call to delete. She was very nice, cordial and professional deleting my account while on the phone with her. That was yesterday.

Today I check my email account and there were NO spam emails from Bark. Usually there are 20 or more scam tire kicker request notifications. I am free. Successfully removed myself from them and their emails that I never signed up for.

And thank you to the Bark rep who handled everything so swiftly.

When I first came across this site you were able to buy the exact amount of credits to apply for a job, although now it seems the minimum spend to apply for a job is £72 as you have to bulk buy credits. I was ok with spending £10 here or there on projects but to be forced to spend over £70 to apply for a job you aren't guaranteed to get, as a freelancer just doesn't make financial viable sense.

95% of projects I see are vague, giving no information as to what the project even is, making it an even more ridiculous notion to front so much money upfront. I'm also 90% sure half the projects are fake, you'll quite commonly see back to back projects like 'Sue', 'Susie', 'Susan' all with the exact same job details posted within minutes of each other.

Although I have to say among the many projects I've had no reply for I have had one successful project, so if you are serious about applying for projects I would suggest only applying for anything with a bespoke written detail as there clearly are some legit projects out there.

I see quite good results from Bark. I'm in the accounting /tax field. The key factor, in my experience, is to analyze every "bark" as they call it. One major aspect is the notes. Not only can I see in the notes if the job suits me, but it also shows that the person is honestly looking for this service, not just browsing around and trying out new things... So I usually dismiss those barks without notes, and I do see a high conversion rate, I'd say 1 out of 3. Which makes sense to pay 50 bucks to get a long term client.
Last but not least, if you want to try it out, I have a way to get you a 40% discount on your first package (and I'm also getting some free credits, to be honest...) shoot me an email freelimitedinternet at Gmail. Thanks