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Hi All, I have just moved to a new area, am self employed. Just wondering if anyone has had success advertising with Trusted Trader/Bark/MyBuilder/CheckaTrade etc?
 
Bath is nearly 20% student population out of around 90k population. Its now end of tenancy season and phone ringing but im booked up until late August already.
Hmos everywhere. I find if you deal with landlords directly around here they pay for reliable trades as council are very much on the ball regards licensing. The agents are all about £$€. Prefer to deal direct. They Also add 20% on to my bill to the landlord. So i sometimes pop a copy over by email if they annoy me, they then get funny but often landlord comes direct in future!!
People bemoan checkatrade but i am liking it, its brought in nearly 5k of completed or agreed work since March. Not bad for £2 a day.
You could consider preferred management for the insurance call outs in your area, say 30 mins each way... if local they pay alright.
I do work for a builder who mainly gets his work off of checkatrade. This year I’ve rewired a 16 room hotel which he refurbed ,two rewires and just priced a restaurant with flat above for him. He’s having it off on checkatrade IMO.
 
Bath is nearly 20% student population out of around 90k population. Its now end of tenancy season and phone ringing but im booked up until late August already.
Hmos everywhere. I find if you deal with landlords directly around here they pay for reliable trades as council are very much on the ball regards licensing. The agents are all about £$€. Prefer to deal direct. They Also add 20% on to my bill to the landlord. So i sometimes pop a copy over by email if they annoy me, they then get funny but often landlord comes direct in future!!
People bemoan checkatrade but i am liking it, its brought in nearly 5k of completed or agreed work since March. Not bad for £2 a day.
You could consider preferred management for the insurance call outs in your area, say 30 mins each way... if local they pay alright.
Fair enough. I guess its horses for courses. Bath is very well heeled tho so I guess it may be exceptional. I live in a generally non affluent part of Wales, where house prices are low. Landlords don't have so much financial incentive to upkeep the properties...
So is Checkatrade pay per quote? £60 per month doesn't sound bad as long as it brings in work
 
Fair enough. I guess its horses for courses. Bath is very well heeled tho so I guess it may be exceptional. I live in a generally non affluent part of Wales, where house prices are low. Landlords don't have so much financial incentive to upkeep the properties...
So is Checkatrade pay per quote? £60 per month doesn't sound bad as long as it brings in work
£60 per month no lead fees, there are loadsof promos out there too, 12 months for 10, they have a money back guarantee tooif you dont make the fees back or are unhappy after 12 months. If you call them them the offers to join get better the longer you leave it.
 
£60 per month no lead fees, there are loadsof promos out there too, 12 months for 10, they have a money back guarantee tooif you dont make the fees back or are unhappy after 12 months. If you call them them the offers to join get better the longer you leave it.

Perhaps things have changed since Checkatrade was taken over by Homeserve, but I know people whose annual fees almost doubled to £1,500. Lots of people apparently left homeserve/Checkatrade as they weren't willing to be shafted.

I wouldn't rely on their refund policy, as no doubt the small print will make that difficult to successfully claim.

Checkatrade were charging people around £750 for their first year's membership and then after they worked hard to get good reviews, Checkatrade were charging much more for their second year's membership. Perhaps this has changed because of how many people left and the competition they have with other trade advertisers.

Checkatrade have lots of sparks that are in or are local to my area, but trustatrade have hardly any, but I don't know which of the 2 get more customer traffic.
 

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