Looking to sell a mybuilder account

Chris Watson · Aug 19, 2020

Hi , don’t know if this is allowed on here.... I’ve moved to Thailand and have a mybuilder account with over 200 positive ratings. 100%positive , looking for someone to take over / buy the account If possible ? Generates a lot of work if you put in the effort , excess of £25k easy a year .
apologies again if I can’t post this here

Dan · Aug 19, 2020

I'll allow this post. 🙂

Well done for creating such an account! Sounds good.

Do MyBuilder.com allow the sale and transfer of an account? After all, it's your feedback not somebody else's who might be terrible at their job, assuming they themselves can't build up such a good account.

NewStart · Aug 19, 2020

Dan said:
I'll allow this post. 🙂

Well done for creating such an account! Sounds good.

Do MyBuilder.com allow the sale and transfer of an account? After all, it's your feedback not somebody else's who might be terrible at their job, assuming they themselves can't build up such a good account.

As a customer I'd see that as fraud, at the very least mis-selling.

Dan · Aug 19, 2020

NewStart said:
As a customer I'd see that as fraud, at the very least mis-selling.

I think it could well be. At the very least, against MyBuider terms and conditions.

Chuck · Aug 19, 2020

Chris Watson said:
looking for someone to take over / buy the account If possible ?

Only in limited circumstances:

Terms of Use | MyBuilder

Every day, thousands of people depend on MyBuilder's trusted review system to take the worry out of finding professional local builders & tradespeople.

www.mybuilder.com

"15.1 At no time may an Account Owner or Trade Account Contact be changed to an individual or organisation not associated with the Account Owner."

Which I've always assumed means that you can do things like transfer between directors within a company but not sell your 'reputation' to a third-party, which is what you seem to be trying to do. One of the (IMO many) problems with web 2.0 services is that you end up investing quite a lot of time and effort in them but the result isn't an asset that has any sale value.

Chris Watson · Aug 19, 2020

Ok , thanks for the replies .......

oz-plumber · Aug 19, 2020

Loophole ?.
Sell the Business with Name.

Plenty of Businesses get sold to other people and retain the same name , website & customer details.

Harvest Fields · Aug 19, 2020

Or you manage the business and sub out the work?

gmartine · Aug 19, 2020

Let's have a look.
Let's have a look.

Murdoch · Aug 19, 2020

Never trust online sites and reviews ....

NewStart · Aug 20, 2020

Murdoch said:
Never trust online sites and reviews ..

I've had the marketing teams hound me from various similar platforms, they were quite open that you could remove any feedback you didn't like.

I'd personally never look for a tradesman on one and I'd never advertise on one as they seem to be full of people looking for bottom dollar jobs.

Ted808 · Aug 20, 2020

Where are you based?

WC1 · Aug 23, 2020

NewStart said:
As a customer I'd see that as fraud, at the very least mis-selling.

Fair but People buy and sell businesses and their intellectual property (name, domain, reputation- the lot) all the time. When you buy a bahco spanner it's actually a snapon. When you buy a dewalt drill it's really black and Decker . it goes on and on
Good luck to Chris!

Jim Goodenough · Aug 23, 2020

Can't beat recommendations at the end of the day.

Jimmy Burnside · May 2, 2022

NewStart said:
I've had the marketing teams hound me from various similar platforms, they were quite open that you could remove any feedback you didn't like.

I'd personally never look for a tradesman on one and I'd never advertise on one as they seem to be full of people looking for bottom dollar jobs.

As a plumber I would have been lost without my builder as I recently moved from n.ireland to Scotland and it's a great way of getting work and new customers I now have over 270 100% reviews and slowly building my own clients.

Lou · Apr 12, 2024

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consultabuilder · Tuesday at 1:40 PM

Chris Watson said:
Hi , don’t know if this is allowed on here.... I’ve moved to Thailand and have a mybuilder account with over 200 positive ratings. 100%positive , looking for someone to take over / buy the account If possible ? Generates a lot of work if you put in the effort , excess of £25k easy a year .
apologies again if I can’t post this here

i think i am bit late for post. if you still have mybuilder account, i am happy to buy it

consultabuilder · Tuesday at 1:44 PM

Chris Watson said:
Hi , don’t know if this is allowed on here.... I’ve moved to Thailand and have a mybuilder account with over 200 positive ratings. 100%positive , looking for someone to take over / buy the account If possible ? Generates a lot of work if you put in the effort , excess of £25k easy a year .
apologies again if I can’t post this here

i might be late for this post, are you still selling your account

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