Has anyone used this. I seem to have got some ridiculously low quotes one offered. £100 to swap a toilet and basin for vanity unit and concleaded. Then swap radiator for towel radiator would involve draining down the system.
They just want to come and start the job then say it's alot more? Is a ridiculously cheap price would be a few days work I'd imagineAvoid internet tradesmen sites like the plague
They are lead generation sites nothing more
Loads of horror stories on here over the years
Has anyone used this. I seem to have got some ridiculously low quotes one offered. £100 to swap a toilet and basin for vanity unit and concleaded. Then swap radiator for towel radiator would involve draining down the system.
completely agreeI've tried to use it...
As a tradesman, looking to fill in short-notice capacity in my scheduled diary.
As a gas safe heating engineer, plumber and installer.
You know that the £100 quoted is ridiculous!
That's less than my 1st hour on a call out... and I attend with all the qualifications, experience, knowledge, insurance and equipment you'd expect a professional tradesman to possess (and the overheads that come with this).
It's not possible to use it as a professional tool.
I have had a few decent jobs and customers from it, since joining in late 2023, but 95% of the leads I've "expressed an interest" in, have been "shortlisted" for, and have paid a "shortlist fee" for, have been a waste of time and money - and quite often extremely unpleasant.
There are 'cowboy customers' as well as 'cowboy builders' and this platform is full of both.
There are also genuine customers who are innocently clueless and matching these with a decent tradesperson is pure luck on the platform.
From my POV, the biggest issue is the vagueness of the job descriptions... Mybuilder could do much more to guide job posters through a prompted script, to get as much information across, as possible... Brand names, photos at various fields of view, expected lead times, site conditions etc. But they don't.
Trades can ask questions once they have 'expressed an interest', but the job poster has to 'shortlist' them, in order to be able to provide answers, many of which, would make further negotiations genuinely unfeasible... So, a fee raised and money wasted for the trader.
It could be so much better and still as profitable IMO, for Mybuilder.
I could go on.
Sorry for the long post.
Just wanted to put things across, from a tradie's POV.
The idea is good, but the result is these sites attract cowboy customers and cowboy tradesmen.
As a user of tradesmen rather than a tradesman looking for work, any mention of My Builder or Check a trade etc. and I knock them off the list, my thoughts are why would a good tradesman need to sites? If they need the sites to get work, either just starting or useless. I will not take the chance.
my thoughts are why would a good tradesman need to sites? If they need the sites to get work, either just starting or useless.
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