Anyone use my builder for work?

[rolyberkin]

Joined up to see what it is like, looks like a bit of a cattle market. The customer posts a job, you express an interest and then if they shortlist you, you pay a fee even if you don't get the job. Can't get my head around it but quite compulsive viewing

 

[buzzlightyear]

if they shortlist you, you pay a fee even if you don't get the job.

so what is the point in that ,you has well give the monies to a tramp down the road .

 

[rolyberkin]

I think it is a match the buyer to the seller service, very sceptical though. It works on a feedback style system so not sure how you get off the blocks as a new supplier? May as well just burn money. I have joined will throw £50 at it as an experiment/investment and give the forum an update in a month.

 

[Octopus]

Can't get my head around it but quite compulsive viewing

You need to get out more .....

 

[rolyberkin]

I cannot believe the amount of people out there that cannot put up a shelf or curtains, one today wanted a picture put up? WTF!

 

[buzzlightyear]

I cannot believe the amount of people out there that cannot put up a shelf or curtains, one today wanted a picture put up

probably ring local hero then .

 

[PEG]

We are only a couple of steps away,from Fixed Odds Gaming machine type job searching,where a bookie has a set of machines,say plumber,spark,plasterer,and you put a tenner in,hit the button,and if you get three little neon-drivers in a row,you win that £22 job,the other side of Helman province...

I told me missus 25 years back,the day would come,where people would be watching simple fools,shaping foolishly,fly-on-the-wall style,on the telly,and calling it entertainment...and along came the brain-dead viewing dross we have today...

 

[Des 56]

if you get three little neon-drivers in a row,you win

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

I have a mybuilder page. Im very very selective in what i opt for. I only go for jobs where i am down the road say i can pop around within the hour to either quote or do the job. Customers like that. I find they will pay market rate then. I wont entertain rewires etc off there... people quote silly prices..

 

[JAWS]

Before I decided to go down the electrician route I used mybuilder for electricians, you can tell those with experience and qualifications to those who haven't as the prices used to vary considerably. Had one chap who was willing to drive 12 mile to sort a fluorescent light out which stopped working, quoted me £20 all in with not even knowing what was wrong.

 

[MDJ]

Joined up to see what it is like, looks like a bit of a cattle market. The customer posts a job, you express an interest and then if they shortlist you, you pay a fee even if you don't get the job. Can't get my head around it but quite compulsive viewing

I wouldn't give a Builder the steam off my ----.

 

[Rpa07]

I wouldn't give a Builder the steam off my ****.

Ah, welcome back MDJ - we’ve missed you and yer smooth tongue!

 

[rolyberkin]

So just over one week in to the mybuilder experiment, so far I have spent £31 on buying in leads, won three jobs, completed one (fitting doorbell) and got paid £30 although the client did give me a £5 tip! For the first time in my relatively short electrical career a customer haggled me down on price by £10. I undercut someone just for the sheer hell of it and have had two official reprimands from my builder staff re the content of my e mails. I do have a feeling it is all a crock of rubbish! Apart from that its all going well!

 

[Toneyz]

All I would say is it works for some people and the make a reasonable living with the jobs some it doesn't.

 

[camerabloke]

All I would say is it works for some people and the make a reasonable living with the jobs some it doesn't.

Have you got any experience with it ant