HomeAdvisor Experience

WOW! I get it, HA ruined your life. But, so far HA always refunds my $$ when I follow their instructions (attempt within 24 hours, and again the next day) and cannot get a response.

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Is HA the one that starts advertising your buisness with their number or is that someone else.

Oh. Iā€™m certain itā€™s them. How else are they going to charge me for a lead. SOMEONE (might have been you) said that they actually got a call through HA from someone who had their card already and for some reason reached out to them through HA. And although I can understand impatience with that scenario, if one of my prospects uses HA to verify my legitimacy, then theyā€™ve earned their fee, fair and square.

Itā€™s not me.

OK, guys. This week, I spent $130 on leads with HA. I landed $1747 in work. Hmm, 7.441328 %. Oh, almost forgot, I meet one of those leads tomorrow afternoon, so my cost may actually go down from there. YEAH, HA is a fraud, itā€™s no good. YOU KEEP BELIEVING THAT, & Iā€™LL KEEP WINNING THOSE DEALS! Stay away at your own peril, my friends.

Oh yeah, Chuck Norris CAN believe itā€™s not butter. Just ask his pal, and his pal knows who Iā€™m talkinā€™ about. Donā€™tCha?

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I was just going back over this thread, and wanted to revive this for a chuckle for old timeā€™s sake. Can you believe it wasnā€™t that long ago?

What city are you in

Like is it a major city your pulling work in.

The Tidewater area of Virginia. Iā€™m in Chesapeake, and limit my area to Chesapeake and VB.

Does it seem like the service is more sucessful in larger areas. You in VB and squid in KC

Also considering eliminating the PW leads from HA. The window cleaning leads Iā€™m winning much more often with upsells to include PW, and I donā€™t need to worry about the $99 Rangers who work for nothing. Lost a PW lead this morning to someone who quoted $125. I wonā€™t even go out to a PW lead unless weā€™ve spoken about my $149 minimum.

This week I spent 0 on home advisor and landed just a little over 6900.00. Plus I didnā€™t do any yearly feeā€¦ So that 0% costs plus I saved the yearly fee. Damn I think I made money off myselfā€¦ I feel so cheapā€¦ I need to go take a shower.

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Maybe the bigger city aspect is what were missing here for it to be successful.

Maybe, but it all boils down to numbers. Smaller markets are different, to be sure, but I need interested people before I can sell, and HA gives me , as Iā€™ve stated before, a legitimacy that woud take years to accomplish. Now that I have five 5 star ratings, itā€™s easier, much easier.

Well, few of us are the masters of our game that you are, my friend. Get that shower and hurry backā€¦

Iā€™m glad your making money boss donā€™t get me wrong. It just seems like itā€™s a race for the bottom here. Diffrent markets are going to get diffrent results. If Iā€™m getting bad results from a product im obviously going to call it a bad product. Just like anyone else would. The bitterness comes from pestering after that. Iā€™ve gone out of my way to tell HA itā€™s not for me. They continue to pester. Emails, calls, junk mail. If it wasnā€™t for the pestering Iā€™d care less. Then there rep gets on here and starts the canned responses. Just rubs me the wrong way. So donā€™t take my opinion personal. Iā€™m glad itā€™s working for you. And Iā€™m really glad your making money off it. But it
dont work here :grin:

Sometimes I win sometimes I just break even. Hardley a master I just keep pecking away at itā€¦

I feel like this sums up what most of us are trying to say about HA. The PW leads are trash. It sounds like youā€™re making a killing off window cleaning. Unfortunately some of us do not offer window cleaning. Therefore when we are just accepting PW leads, HA is not worth a dime. I have spoke my mind to them and went through the whole 10 free lead thing. Funny thing is I was never able to get ahold of any of the free ā€œleads.ā€ And that was me trying to call multiple times, sending emails, and texting.

Sounds as if I didnā€™t hold out long enough. I only received about 5 free leads. THEBASTARDS! :laughing:slightly_smiling_face:

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Gee just got another residential lead. The phone number is out of service and the email is a completely different name than the name stated. I received it right at 10:00 am too! Some coincidence huh? :roll_eyes: