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Care.com

2.9

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Available in more than 20 countries, Care.com is the world’s leading platform for finding and managing high-quality family care. Care.com is designed to meet the evolving needs of today’s families and caregivers, offering everything from household tax and payroll services and customized corporate benefits packages covering the care needs of working families, to innovating new ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain professional benefits.


care.com
Founded in 2006
Dallas, TX
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Care.com Reviews Summary

The company generally receives positive feedback for its reliable service providers and the ease of finding suitable candidates for various needs, such as pet care and housekeeping. Customers appreciate the professionalism and attentiveness of the service providers, which enhances their overall satisfaction. However, there are notable concerns regarding service reliability, with several reports of no-shows and difficulties in communication with applicants. Additionally, issues with the website's functionality and billing practices have frustrated users. Overall, while the service shows potential, improvements in communication and reliability are essential for enhancing customer experience.

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service
379
value
382
shipping
127
returns
186
quality
687
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New York
1 review
4 helpful votes
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There is no e-mail receipt of any type when you sign up. And there are no further e-mails regarding bills to your card. Therefore they bet that a lot of people will forget and not spot these recurring charges on their card. The ethical thing to do would be to simply shoot an e-mail out whenever the card is charged. But the fact that so many people have continued to complain and the company has not adjusted their practices says something about the company. I for one couldn't live with myself if I knew my customers were so upset. It's so easy for them to see if a person logged on our not to use their service. Just shut off the recurring billing!

Date of experience: February 28, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Thanks for your feedback, Brian. At Care.com, we know that the process of finding the perfect caregiver is no easy task and we set out to make that experience as helpful and seamless as possible. We cannot know for certain which stage of the search/hiring process each customer is in, so we put the control in our member’s hands to inform us when they have fulfilled their caregiving needs. I'll make sure to share your feedback with the right department!

Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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RIP OFF Merchants
February 28, 2019

DO NOT USE THESE PEOPLE. THEY WILL CONTINUALLY CHARGE YOUR CARD EVEN AFTER YOU CANCEL.

This is a scam. The ONLY way to get out of the continually taking money fro you is to cancel your card at your bank.

Thieves. STAY AWAY.

Date of experience: February 27, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

We appreciate your review. All of our subscriptions auto renew until set to cancel and this is clearly outlined at the time of purchase before selecting a subscription. This is a setting you can edit at any point after upgrading in your Account & Settings page by selecting the Downgrade option. You can easily cancel subscription by contacting us via email at [email protected], we are also on Facebook and Twitter.

California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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What a terrible service!
February 25, 2019

Unfortunately there is no option of giving no stars. Care.com does not protect its subscribers. A woman was harassing me on the site and I contacted care.com on three separate occasions and got no reply. I had to close my account to no longer hear from this woman. After opening up a new account I was contacted by care.com saying that the new account was closed down. After several inquiries they said it was because I had a previous account. When I explained the reasoning behind this they still did not offer me support about being harassed. I joined Sitter City and got a job immediately. The care.com team is horrible and I do not recommend signing up for their service.

Date of experience: February 25, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

We're sorry you've experienced this, Soraya. Please email us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter so we could look into this for you. We appreciate your feedback and we'll make sure to share this with the right department!

Pennsylvania
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Posted one ad, never hired anyone and they have been charging my credit card for over 7 years without my knowledge.

Date of experience: February 17, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Sorry to hear this, Marcia! As stated in our Terms of Use and twice on the upgrade page when you had initially signed up, all of our subscriptions automatically renew until cancelled. This is a setting you can edit at any point after upgrading in your Account & Settings page by selecting the Downgrade option. Please email us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter so we could review your account and refund eligibility.

Michigan
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I only needed help for one month. I signed up and even though one month was the most expensive option, I chose it because I knew I only needed temporary help. I don't have a credit card so my sister let me use hers. She just informed me that they have been charging her card for six months! I tried to find the options or ANYTHING about my account or "subscription" and it's impossible to navigate. They dont even allow you to cancel completely. Why, if someone chose the ONE MONTH option would you continue to charge them? Finally I figured out how to put it on hold... and one of the options in the reasons for leaving section is "I did not understand I was signing up for a subscription" I used their service for one month and never signed back in after that. And both the people I found on Care.com... NEITHER showed up to work.
They obviously intentionally make it very confusing to people... and their scam works. How can they get away with making you go through a maze to find what you supposedly signed up for? Disgrace!

Date of experience: February 7, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Hi Wanda! As stated in our Terms of Use and twice on the upgrade page when you had initially signed up, all of our subscriptions automatically renew until cancelled. This is a setting you can edit at any point after upgrading in your Account & Settings page by selecting the Downgrade option. Please email us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter so we could review your account and refund eligibility. Hope to hear from you soon!

California
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Stealing money
February 4, 2019

I needed to hire a temporally care giver and got a membership for just a month. I got a lot of messages from many applicants but after one month it was stopped. I got an email from the company which said "your job is closed. Did you hire someone?" After 6 months I noticed this company was charging me monthly for the account which was not active. I did not receive even one message from job seeker. It is a smart way to steal money from people: deactivate the account with monthly charge. If I was getting message I would notice that the account is active. WORST COMPANY EVER.

Date of experience: February 3, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Sorry to hear this, Nadia. When you post a job ad and do not select an end date, they do automatically close after the third week being posted. Also, all of our subscriptions auto renew until set to cancel and this is clearly outlined at the time of purchase before selecting a subscription. Please email us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter so we could look into your account and see if you qualify for a refund. Hope to hear from you soon!

Idaho
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I set up a profile to secure childcare for my first born. However we decided to go with family and did not use these services. I didn't realize I had agreed to a quarterly fee of $78 until after almost 1.5 year of them charging my credit card. I requested a refund because it's clear I did not use the service and my request was rejected. BE AWARE!

Date of experience: January 31, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Hi Carla! Our refund guidelines is, we're able to refund last charge within the past 30 days after the first auto renewal. Please email us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter so we could look into your account and see if you qualify for a refund. Hope to hear from you soon!

California
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Member on care.com
January 31, 2019

This company a bad, nothing but a scam... I was with them, long time they closed my account after collected the fee for membership MORE THEN 2 TIMES, I could NOT get back... jobs that postings NOT real
THE COMPANI MUST BE CLOSED FOR GOOD... I GOING TO HIRE A LAWER AND SUE THEM...

Date of experience: January 30, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Sorry to hear this, Judith. Please email us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter and we'd be happy to look into this more for you if you want. Looking forward to hearing from you soon!

Arkansas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Do not trust them
January 30, 2019

Signed up for 3 days and tried to get some help for a simple task. Could not get anyone to respond to messages. Was told that was not their fault, and that I could not get any of my $31 back. Trust this company at the risk of your own money.

Date of experience: January 30, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

We're sorry to hear this, John. Please email us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter and we'd be happy o review your account and see if there is anything we can do to help you find someone. Best wishes!

Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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This site made me waste a bunch of time making a profile that said was free.
Once someone wanted me to watch there pet. They sent me to a pay screen for 30 bucks. I cant write them to say anything and made me look like a idiot in my town.

Date of experience: January 28, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Hi Sam! We only require one party be a paying member in order to communicate on the site, this means families with Premium membership are able to reply to your applications if they wish to, even with your free account. Please note that families who are actively looking to hire end up upgrading their accounts to Premium so definitely keep applying for better chance of getting hired!

Colorado
1 review
2 helpful votes
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To anyone hiring from care.com, please note, care.com WILL ALLOW someone with a DUI on their driving record to be a member on their site, for you to hire. As long as the candidate can have the charge expunged from their record they will gladly let you be a member of their site. Some states will allow expungement of such a charge after only 5 years. However, some states will not allow expungement of any alcohol or drug related charge, ever. So, if you live in such a state and you made a mistake 20 years ago, were charged with a misdemeanor, completed everything ordered by the court, never had another charge of its kind and are honest and forthcoming about it to care.com, you will never be able to be a member of their site, for life. No if, ands or buts, no exceptions!
Personally, I would want the honest person who learned from their mistake to work for me, not the person who, with the help of care.com, hides it.
This is how it works, they run a background check and pull your driving records. If something shows up (DUI, dwai, careless driving, etc.) Care.com will send you an email stating you have 7 business days to clear it up. If you can get the charge expunged from your record you can be a member on their site, if not, you are banded for life. No joke!

Date of experience: January 25, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Thanks for your review, Lori. I'll make sure to pass your feedback along. Best wishes!

New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Scam to take your money
January 23, 2019

My account was closed and was told it was because of fraudulent activity. Nothing could be further from the truth. When I called I was told that the account was closed and the ad taken down - done deal. What happened to the six months I just paid? They take it and thats that.

Will never use them and will tell my mommy friends this site is a scam.

Date of experience: January 23, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Sorry this happened, Chrissy! Please email us [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter so we could look into this and see why you were not refunded. Looking forward to your reply!

Arizona
3 reviews
12 helpful votes
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They will shut you down and not give you any legitimate reason in doing so. I hired a healthcare worker from their site and they lied and didn't show up and then when I left her a negative review on the site she complained about me and Care.com took her side with out asking me for the evidence i had. So I would highly question Care.com's motives and their operating procedures and the people that they have on their service.

Date of experience: January 23, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Hi Michelle. Sorry you feel this way, if you'd like us to take another look at your account, please email us [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter and one of our member care representative can help!

New York
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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First off, they are just trying to get money from you, but the number of families I was contacted buy who didn't even bother to interview me just wanted to hire me with very little notice was staggering. If I asked a question they were never heard from again. If you're looking to flush money down the toilet go ahead and sign up for care.com, the positive reviews are probably bots because I doubt a single real person using this site actually has great luck on it.

Date of experience: January 21, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

We appreciate your feedback, Jess. Sorry your experience on the site was not what you've expected. Please email us [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter for any account specific questions or concern.

Colorado
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I was shocked to see so many dissatisfied individuals due to Care, Com. I have been using the website since 4.2018. I was working with an agency when I by sheer luck received info about this website. I was able to obtain my first position off the site paying no $$ at all. I have only pd the $20 site fee when actively seeking employment. Since I've been using the site I have been able to keep busy with a full schedule while making more $$ than working for an agency.

Date of experience: January 20, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Thank you so much for sharing your experience using the site to find work, Christina! We appreciate you taking time to write this feedback and we appreciate you being a Care.com member!

Tennessee
1 review
4 helpful votes
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SCAM! SCAM!
January 17, 2019

I thought it was a scam when no one was replying to my messages. So I applied to every ad on there in the special needs catagory and sure enough, NOTHING!

Date of experience: January 17, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

It is ultimately the family' decision to reply to the applications they receive although we advise everyone to reply promptly to their messages, we're so sorry if this has not been your experience. I suggest applying to all jobs that interest you and send a follow up message if you don’t hear anything back. I thought this article on the site might be helpful as well; http://tinyurl.com/zum4fvj>. Feel free to email us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter if you have other questions or concern!

Michigan
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Don't get your hopes up
January 15, 2019

Care.com is nothing but a scam a ploy to set you up for nothing more than a let down they take your money and could try that they are going to help consumers Place potential clients in jobs and take consumers who are looking for jobs who are trying to apply for positions in either which can get through you cannot tell me that I have applied for over 30 jobs and not one person has even checked one of my messages I paid into your little scam for 1 month thinking that was why no one was ever getting my messages and if my applications but that's not the case because I paid into it and it still was the exact same thing 20 resume sent out and not one person checked any of my messages what a bunch of fraud I want my money back don't get your hopes up people whether it's you're looking for someone to hire or you're trying to find a job to get hired from it's not going to happen they're just going to take your money and run

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Response to my 1st reply

I have actually had families contact me thru my resume references, I'm not neong bias but my resume is pretty good, I have had many tell ke they reply I don't understamd why ibdont get them and I havr had people reaxh out to me that I didnt apply for also reaching me another way. U see. I dont know what ot is you do but I'm onto it and I know for fact you pick amd xhoose what goes amd what doesn't. Period

Date of experience: January 15, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

We're so sorry you feel this way, Michelle! It is ultimately the family' decision to reply to the applications they receive although we advise everyone to reply promptly to their messages, we're so sorry if this has not been your experience. I suggest applying to all jobs that interest you and send a follow up message if you don’t hear anything back. I thought this article on the site might be helpful as well; http://tinyurl.com/zum4fvj>. Feel free to email us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter if you have other questions or concern!

New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This is a horrible business. They have no sense of integrity or ethics. Terrible customer service department. Poorly run website. They charged my credit card without any notification, invoice or receipt. Complete fraud.

Date of experience: January 14, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Thanks for your feedback, Tahene. As stated in our Terms of Use and twice on the upgrade page when you had initially signed up, all of our subscriptions automatically renew until cancelled. This is a setting you can edit at any point after upgrading in your Account & Settings page by selecting the Downgrade option. We apologize if you misunderstood our billing policies, but do hope you were able to find the care you were looking for! Best wishes!

Texas
3 reviews
16 helpful votes
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Odd experience
January 12, 2019

Firstly of all, I had my account for over 3 years and never got a job. Then my account was randomly deleted out of no where a week ago. Made a new account because I have always really wanted this site to work and I get a notification that I have to upgrade to let the jobs I apply to respond back to me. I don't know what the point of the free app is then. And I would never pay how much they want you to pay to upgrade.

Date of experience: January 11, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

Hi Keelin! We only require one party be a paying member in order to communicate on the site, this means families with Premium membership are able to reply to your applications if they wish to, even with your free account. Please note that families who are actively looking to hire end up upgrading their accounts to Premium so definitely keep applying for better chance of getting hired!

New York
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Account Terminated
January 10, 2019

My account was terminated for no reason. Suddenly i tried to log in and it didnt let me, so i try resetting my password and it didnt allow me which was weird so when i checked my email i saw my account was terminated and i called and they dont want to let me know why it was terminated not only that everyone i was in contact with for a job received an email from care.com letting them know i was terminated, one of those person forward me the email and it is not how care.com says they let them know but instead make it sound like if you were a criminal or something bad you did when you technically don't know what is going on. I lost interviews because of that and is so unfair. Care.com should at least investigate what is going on before terminated anyone's account. I've been a member for probably 10 years and never had an issue until now.

Date of experience: January 9, 2019
MemberCare -. — Care.com Rep
over a year old

We're sorry to hear this, Daniela. If you'd like us to review your account again, please email us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter and we'd be happy to look into this for you!