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I have 10 years in my field and a masters degree. I am an experienced designer and after venturing out on my own, I thought Thumbtack might be a good way to begin building a client base. I have spent oodles of money so I can submit quotes on jobs. The problem is I would estimate 7/10 jobs are completely fake. 7 out of 10 is created and submitted by a Thumbtack bot (computer) or employee. 1 out of 10 is submitted by someone who is in the field and seeing what other people are charging. 1 out of 10 is a kid who has no money to hire someone or stupidly thinks people should do hundreds of hours of work for $50. That last one is possibly thinking about hiring someone but has no real incentive to follow through.

The first day I paid to respond to quotes I was sent a quote from an actual human being who responded but decided to do it in house. The next several dozen quotes never responded in any way or indicated they were real.

Beware, Google Capital has invested in this garbage scam so they are helping them to clean up their internet history. There are tens of thousands of complaints that have been buried. This was most likely started by some slick white kid in Sillicon Valley who talks fast, shakes the right hands, inflates the value of his company based on fraud then sells and bails. They all think they're Mark Zuckerberg.

Stay AWAY FROM THUMBTACK!

Reason of review: Absolute scam.

Monetary Loss: $75.

Preferred solution: Full refund.

Thumbtack Cons: Having to pay for quotes, Fake quotes, Scammers, Non specific quotes, Employees of thumbtack generating jobs.

Location: Los Angeles, California

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your an ***. the site is unbelievable. if you are broke this site isn't for you

Guest

I have been on Thumbtack about a month, I did get 3 real paying jobs the first 2 weeks, nothing after that. I intentionally sent in a job request for my profession in my area, and to my surprise Thumbtack never sent me a request for the job.

Now they doubled their credits needed to send in quotes for jobs, I'M GONE! They should be making the people that want work done buy credits as well just to *** out the fake requests. I think the site tries to regulate who gets the jobs.

I get a request on my phone for a job and before I can type in a quote the job is already taken. Site definitely a scam.

Guest

I completely agree with you. I paid about $170 in order to be able to submit quotes.

So far after almost a month no one replied to my quotes. I receive almost 5-10 messages about people requesting quotes and all I can think of is all fake.

I decided to give it try as I also used as a client and it worked. But on the contrary it's just a money maker for them.

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