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[barronbathrooms]

I did not say what my return on the money I spent was! It is a disgrace that a company can charge £40 just to get there number. Each to there own ill stick to my recommendation work me thinks

 

[Guest123]

My advice for those thinking of trying it is to avoid the bigger priced leads e.g £40 plus as these are a lottery. Stick to the £3.50 ones which will give you jobs worth £100 is fine for smaller jobs. Like I said I don't use it as my main source of income, only as a secondary income when I'm held up on bathrooms, but it works for me. Like most, I was sceptical, but I've learned how to play the game on there now. Just don't try to use it as your main source of income!

There are far worse ways of throwing your money away, Yellow Pages being a good example.

 

[gravytrain]

don't do it !!!. i used them for a while. in the end it costs you loads, chasing leads that turn into nothing.
i did get work from it but really if you were going to chase 10 leads at say £20 you'd be much better off
spending that £200 on another form of advertising.

i had probably 20% good customers/leads and 80% bad.

just spend the money somewhere else, local paper, leaflets, boost your yell.com listing
any of these would do better in my experience.

the only reason they are hassling aggressively is that they are probably deparate for work the same as everyone else
which isnt a good sign.

 

[PlumbersMate]

System is right, no good spending £38 on a lead for a bathroom, the leads price are set on how much customer sets their budget at for their job. Have seen some set their budget at £4000 for a taps change n such like. I think if u go for the cheap leads and smaller jobs there is money to be made


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[hammers4spanner]

Why would anyone pay £30 odd quid for a job you may get???
i can see the logic of spending£3.50 for day fillers just to help bring few pounds in and promote your business. I tried boiler guide which at £15 a lead thought was more than expensive but gave it a whirl and to be honest boiler guides leads imho are false.
Problem being these companies are going nowhere and are here to stay ,if anything rated people are getting bigger as now here them on radio and t.v .

 

[Yorkplumber]

Rated people used to be good. After 2 years and £40 quarterly payments. I had a string of leads where the client would not answer the phone. I went round to there house and there was nobody there. Complained to rated people asking for a refund but was told refunds are not given and that they would give me a free lead. It happened a number of times. I don't think clients realise that we have to pay for there info. When I first joined it was £5 per lead. Then it went up to £10 then £15. They are money grabbers. Don't use them mate. Like was mentioned before go with a good local magazine.

 

[Steve_P]

With these types of scams, sorry, companies, you get rated not for any ability in what you do but how polite you are when you're there. Rated by the customer and they know what exactly about your job? Do they check out your qualifications? Do they know if you can actually do the work? Or could you be bert from down the pub who just says "yeah, I can do that mate"!!!!! Wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.

 

[Leo21]

I'm a bit shocked to be honest or naive, I had no idea it was just another conning company. To be honest cold calls rarely get passed there first sentence with me, so I've never actually been offered it.

 

[Steve_P]

It's only my opinion but the way I look at it is . . .

There's a company who sell you a lead but it's not just you that is being sold this lead, possibly another 30 people at the same time. There's 100's of jobs across all the trades and they do the same with each one. Now, they aren't doing this for the love of the building trade, that's obvious. How else could they afford a multi million pound TV advertising campaign and sponsorship of prime time TV programmes?


Agencies that work on a %age I find more bearable as they put you up for the job rather than selling you the hope of bidding for it alongside lots of other people.


Again, just my opinion.

 

[petfenn]

there are a lot of these sites about service magic,find a tradesman ect all follow the same rule you pay for a lead which is sold to 5-10 others and hope your quote is the best,i used service magic for 3 months and only broke even ,luckly i was only trying them out for a bit of extra work so no harm done,i was supprised at some of the cp12 quotes £18 was the lowest.

 

[Guest123]

Just got beat with a quote to supply and fit a new bathroom suite, towel rad, tile 18m2 of wall and floor. Some muppet quoted £850 and got the job No wonder the industry is in such a mess.

 

[Leo21]

But will it be a good job?

 

[Agile]

It may work in some areas but in London its mostly used by what I call Third World origin workers who buy houses in other countries and dont have UK house purchase costs.

I did a trial and actually got a job out of them doing a gas pipe. But she was a nightmare and wanted extra work doing within the agreed price and particularly an invoice for an extra 50% to send to her insurance company!

She was quite nice but those sort of customers always want something extra!

She showed me the other two quotes she got and they were both about what I wanted and not too

hat cheap for the actually work needed.

 

[Shaun210272]

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[galaxy_plumbing]

sorry but not.

 

[Steve_P]

sorry but not.

With you there mate.

 

[tizintit]

we are always getting calls from rated people and similar sites it works for some and not others if you sign up for em all you will spend more than you earn
i am registerd with boiler guide
its free to reg but not cheap to buy a lead
they only sell the details of each job to three tradesmen so you have a fair crack at the job

 

[southcoastboile]

Rated people is one big rip off, it is geared towards the customer putting the ball in their court. You have to pay for their contact details then THEY tell YOU how much they want to pay and you might not even get the job. Web sites like this encourage time wasters and penny pinchers and there is always a desperate plumber out there that is willing to undercut your price even without looking at the job, the only winners here is the website that charge you £48 per month and anywhere between £10-£70 per lead (customers phone number) which 2 other plumbers are also allowed to purchase, this encourages cut throat tacticts where plumbers are undercutting each other in desperation driving the prices down. More importantly the customer senses this and plays one against another putting the ball in their court. I do not recommend this to anyone a very frustrating way to try and get work and the majority of the time ending up costing you money. Avoid at all costs for the sake of your dignity and the future of plumbing.

Totaly agree with this, wont be using them again, rather spend my money advertising elsewere

 

[hammers4spanner]

we are always getting calls from rated people and similar sites it works for some and not others if you sign up for em all you will spend more than you earn
i am registerd with boiler guide
its free to reg but not cheap to buy a lead
they only sell the details of each job to three tradesmen so you have a fair crack at the job

fully disagree on that , leads are fake as they come !!

 

[barrysunley]

but your paying to quote for a job your not gauranteed to get

No different to any other quote you do - you're not guaranteed to get anything.