ErrandTribe

Hidden costs!
Even if they are minimal, they are still hidden costs not made clear that are optional or required. I signed up with a dirt cheap subscription but the background check brought it right back to the original price? I wrote and complained but was told that the back ground check is an optional perk. I don't feel that it is optional because I wouldn't feel comfortable even providing the service to a client with out my own back ground check performed on myself and I am as honest as they come. SCAM?

Review: Working with Errand Tribes for a few months now. Honest opinion is that it won't keep you busy full time. I would guess they're a pretty new company, and although the idea is good, it's not going to be full time work. Expect a few gigs a week, but definitely not gauranteed every day. You have to put the effort in too, as they don't just send you jobs, you need to apply for them in there marketplace as they call it. So you check in every day and look in your city for jobs and get contacted by customers direct. So don't expect it to be full time.

I signed up for ErrandTribe two months ago and have had 0 errands. They have a $7.99 start up fee to begin with. Another monthly fee for $13.99 (if you signed up for their monthly service and not annual service). You waste 3 days of your monthly subscription waiting for them to post your profile and more time while they upload your photo. My photo originally uploaded sideways which obviously didn't look professional so I emailed them to change it and never heard back from them, nor was it changed.
You can only sign up for 5 errands per day as well, which was not in the details when I signed up. After I tried uploading a different picture (that uploaded the correct way) I noticed there was a way you could get your 'background verified'. This way the people that post an errand can see you're more trustworthy I guess. A background check, which costs an additional $32.99, is given out to everyone I think. There are no details about the check and how they get your information or anything so I assume it's just a way to get extra money from you. Also, it takes an extra 3 days to get verified as well, which cuts into your monthly fee.
After 2 months of this 'service', and applying to my daily limit of 5 errands every single day for the last 60 days, I have had ZERO errands. Total waste of my time and money. Please DO NOT sign up for this.

Do not sign up for this Service first off they will ask you monthly or annually. I checked monthly found out later that they were trying to scam me. I created a profile and the picture came in sideways. I made a email to address this and it was never responded to at all. You can only apply for 5 jobs during a day guess what some days they don't even have 5 jobs to offer. I eventually started using all 5 offers NEVER DID I RECIEVE A SINGLE JOB. On top of being charged 20 something dollars to use the service they also want you to pay for a 30 dollar background check and that's the only way to be verified. I sent them another email stating my frustration about not having enough errands for even 5 offers. I also complained about how my first email was never responded to at ALL. They finally respond to my message saying they are not charging me for a quarterly subscription service which I never applied for anyway. I then told them that they are a con. I tried to call customer service GUESS WHAT THEY DO NOT HAVE A TELEPHONE NUMBER. BIG CON, Without a phone number businesses are not held accountable by the BBB. They still have yet to fix my profile pic. Don't respond to my emails. Only have two jobs offers somedays. All they want is your money to screw you over on what the website is suppose to do. After I threatened to call The BBB on them, they removed me from the site didn't give me my full month or return my money, for the services I paid for and didn't RECIEVE! On a scale of 1 to 10,10 being the best I give them a -7. Worst Web site ever. DON'T FALL VICTIM to Errand tribe's false promises.

I didn't even finish signing up, I entered my email address and a password, then decided against using the website as I didn't see where it said there was a $20 something fee to use the site (a good laugh as I found the website as a "gig" on craigslist... where you can get errands to run or post errands for FREE). Now I get emails from "Sarah" (if that's a real person) at least once a day if not twice and I can not get them to stop! I've already responded with my disinterest due to the price numerous times and have now threatened negative reviews... nothing, so here I am. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!

I used errand tribe to find someone to help me with walking my dog. Pro's of the site are that its easy to use and there's lots of people signed up. Cons are that everyone appears the same. You can't leave feedback on the person you connect with, or give them a star rating. My first dog walker agreed to meet me at my house at 5pm and did not show up, call to cancel or anything and I had to find someone else. I would have liked to have left a review on them. A few tweaks and I think this could be really much improved.

Customer service is going to lure you to subscribe to a $20 per month membership by offering a 2 week subscription for $2. They manage their clients are certified by making them pay a $24 fee to have a background check done. Can't afford it? They let them go to dumb suckers homes until they pay to have the background check done, putting at risk everyone who desperately needs work done, but the site is greedy.
When you attempt to log in, you can use the same password and username, and even change it and immediately enter it precisely as you chanted it AND use copy and paste to do so, and their service will block your access. This sequence of events occurred to me on two different occasions and instead of fixing the issue, the staff member not only terminated my account, she blocked my ability to sign up again from my phone number and email address. When I requested a refund for the services they never provided me with, and received no response after 2 weeks in email or phone call, I know giving them any money was a huge mistake and regret doing so. DO NOT GIVE THEM BUSINESS! THEY TAKE YOUR FINANCIAL INFO AND DON'T PROVIDE SERVICES AND DON'T PROVIDE REFUNDS WHEN YOU SHOW THEM HOW BADLY THEY ARE SCREWING UP!