Quick answer
mybuilder
Why?
If you post a job on Rated People your details will be available to buy for the first tradesperson who likes the sound of your job. Once it has been bought once then the next tradesperson can see it has already been bought and unless the job is particularly juicy or they are particularly desperate then they won't want to enter into a competition with another person. ie tradepeople will be become increasingly disincentivized the more the job contact details are bought. The outcome of all this is you are unlikely to receive more than 2 contacts for your job although of course you are free to review their ratings when they do.
Now mybuilder.
Once your job has been posted tradespeople can see the job details and here is the difference. They can REGISTER their interest. It costs them nothing to do this. No one is increasingly put off by the idea that someone has contacted you already. You the client will be notified of all the tradespeople that like the look of your job. You get to review all their profiles and it still costs nobody anything at this point for you to do this. Then you can shortlist all the tradespeople you would like to be contacted by. At this point the particular tradesperson that has registered their interest and who you would like to talk to is charged a fee for the privilege. The outcome of all this is that you will have far more choice of tradespeople to choose from. The tradespeople are also charged less per job lead as more of them are likely to do so. This all creates a virtuous circle. And of course you can still review the ratings.
Check a trade. Trust a trader etc.
The worst of all and the least sophisticated. They charge the tradesperson a large annual fee of around £1000. For this they get on the local leaflets that you may of seen. They are presented as 'reputable' tradespeople. The reviews are highly vetted and there is a large bias towards the tradesperson. They are basically local advertising outfits with dodgy reviews riding on the back of the vogue for internet sourced tradespeople.
And that's it.
A local electrician.
mybuilder
Why?
If you post a job on Rated People your details will be available to buy for the first tradesperson who likes the sound of your job. Once it has been bought once then the next tradesperson can see it has already been bought and unless the job is particularly juicy or they are particularly desperate then they won't want to enter into a competition with another person. ie tradepeople will be become increasingly disincentivized the more the job contact details are bought. The outcome of all this is you are unlikely to receive more than 2 contacts for your job although of course you are free to review their ratings when they do.
Now mybuilder.
Once your job has been posted tradespeople can see the job details and here is the difference. They can REGISTER their interest. It costs them nothing to do this. No one is increasingly put off by the idea that someone has contacted you already. You the client will be notified of all the tradespeople that like the look of your job. You get to review all their profiles and it still costs nobody anything at this point for you to do this. Then you can shortlist all the tradespeople you would like to be contacted by. At this point the particular tradesperson that has registered their interest and who you would like to talk to is charged a fee for the privilege. The outcome of all this is that you will have far more choice of tradespeople to choose from. The tradespeople are also charged less per job lead as more of them are likely to do so. This all creates a virtuous circle. And of course you can still review the ratings.
Check a trade. Trust a trader etc.
The worst of all and the least sophisticated. They charge the tradesperson a large annual fee of around £1000. For this they get on the local leaflets that you may of seen. They are presented as 'reputable' tradespeople. The reviews are highly vetted and there is a large bias towards the tradesperson. They are basically local advertising outfits with dodgy reviews riding on the back of the vogue for internet sourced tradespeople.
And that's it.
A local electrician.
