ThumbtackReviews 1,535

Okay so I was feeling from the jump thumbtack has been sketchy. So I am going to tell you why I think its sketchy.

So they charge an arm an a leg for all these leads but NO one ever responds to the leads. My work is good quality and very reasonable in price. I just can't see all these people turning down a good deal.

The leads come in at all time of the night. Like at midnight 15 people are looking to get makeup done in my area? Not!

Okay so one specific time I noticed a lead came in and of course I didn't book it. 2 weeks later the same name came across requesting a different date with less people to have their makeup done. This same profile was on a different booking site requesting for a different amount of people to have makeup done.

If its not thumbtack creating these profiles they are doing a bad job at screening the people looking for a professional. They should really think of a better way to verify these profiles are legit.

I have wasted so much money buying credits and these people always view the lead but never respond. What a coincidence that they always view the quote very quickly but they never ask questions about booking or anything. I really feel like this site is not legit.

If you want exposure you are better off going on fb paying to promote your business there honestly!

I figured out their scam tonight. I finally bid a job after being persistently asked by Thumbtack to do so. I asked the homeowner to let me know one way or the other. She opened by bid at 7:30 pm and responded right away that the job had already been done today. The jobbers are not updating their files and we keep sending in quotes not knowing if the job is even still available, There is no way for us to know if a job is already sold because the jobber just does not update his files. Just like a weekend warrior, doesn't give a damn. Since we never get contact information we will never know unless we ask the homeowner to fill us in when they buy a contract. Thumbtack needs to figure out a way to keep this from happening, but then that would cut into their revenue. And again why do 8 or 20 jobbers need to be given opportunity to bid on a job anyway? Isn't 3 or 4 enough? With 8 or 10 bidding, one is going to be a low ball bid. All the bids are coming through these bastards and we are being screwed. Sounds like time to contact the attorney general of my state. I'm pissed big time! And I thought that most of the jobs were phony; they still may be. No way to know is there? Hello Mr Attorney General pick up the phone.

Things were good at one time and I spoke highly of Thumbtack. All of a sudden the request slowed down as though they had a personal beef against me. I called and complained and they gave me lame excuses of why the leads were not coming in like normal. One staff member told me to decrease the mileage of the service area and I did that and it did not help. I called back again and complained and another person told me that the service area was to small. I replied, "Your staff member told me to." I put the mileage back where it was and now they give me more far away quotes rather than close. I feel as though a competitor called them and told them that I hate them or something. The response I hated the most was when a guy told me that they only send quotes out to pros that are ready to respond. No one responded more faster than I did. They swear nothing happened but it did. What group of people in their right mind would treat paying customers in that fashion. This is a disgrace!

My review and personal opinion of Thumbtack is that it is in fact a fraudulant website. Maybe for some this works, maybe, but all i do is pay for leads but not one lead in 3 years has responded back to me for they,'re own request. I think thumbtack.com hires people to make up request to take customers money. It reminds me of getting a "local" cold calls but the caller is outta state. They buy the phone numbers to seem like they're local to get me to answer, anyway, same thing. Thumktack is fraudulant. I get "local" request for work however no response from these so called request.

Samuel Nunes did a great job repairing, restoring and creating the front stairs of my house that were originally made of cobblestone and brick when the house was built about 1914. Sam was able to repoint the cobblestone and replaced the bricks that had come loose and broken (brownstone style stairs). Samuel then created beautiful brick steps (entirely replacing the steps that had been there) that had multiple people stop by commenting on the beautiful job and how creatively it was done. I would highly recommend Samuel Nunes. The job was done in the time specified. Samuel was also able to recommend other professionals he works with for additional jobs on the property that need to be done, i. E., fence installation.

I did not use thumbtack to find our new permanent tree contractor Top Notch Tree Experts. But I surly will be using your site to find any services I'll ever need in the future. Brian and his crew amazingly removed 19 of the. Largest oaks and maples in our area all the trees were inaccessible by bucket trucks it didn't hinder how.he approached the removals and I've never seen anyone so confident in the air in my life. Great job Top Notch Tree Experts and you have one check of a pro on your site thumbtack. New customer from today forward

Hired a "contractor" who seemed to know what he was doing, estimated the job for $1650 done in 5 days. After almost 3 weeks and an additional $350 we finally gave him his last payment and chased him away. He screwed up so many things and was careless enough to cause some damage to our master bath. He left a messy workplace every day and we are well rid of him. We will spend the next month fixing his screw-ups and making things right. If it helps, his name is Harold.

I called for help with my laptop because it would not connect to my wifi. William Thomas came over within a few hours to fix the problem. It was a bigger problem than thought so his partner, Cameron Duran joined him at my home and discovered all kinds of programs running in the background. It took some doing but they fixed it. Mr Thomas even stopped by the next morning to make sure I restarted it and checked it again. This is REAL customer service! These great guys are in El Paso Texas.