mybuilder.com - any good?

chimney_kev

drjohnson wrote: »

mybuilder.com is very poor. It is expensive and a poor service. The industry is suffering enough with taxes and high fuel costs without some internet entrepreneur trying to rake in 5% of a mans bread and butter. These websites should be boycotted.

Hi all
Be aware this site is not all it looks for tradesmen or the general public trying to get a job done.
The site works on feedback no feedback no work so all you have to do is get freinds to post jobs hire you, and there is your instant feedback, its wrong but this is how people are working it.
I myself have been on there for the last three months and actually only been to one house to quote. If you're self employed and not got alot of work on it looks quite appealing but believe me its not worth it stay well clear.Out of approx 50 jobs quoted for i have had 4 replies,if you need a tradesman ask freinds family when you have found one get in the car and go look at his work.
Cheers Kev

chimney_kev

on one feedback it said allthough Dave travelled 60 miles and fitted me 4 chimney terminals for only £60 he was on time and very polite.
I keep looking for Dave to do all my work but cant find him.

baldelectrician

I found them less than super

As a side line I buy web domains.

I have www.myhammer.co and www.myhammer.co . I called them myhammer.co up to see if they wanted it.
Their answer- I MUST be wrong as www.myhammer.co is an email address and not a web domain :rotfl:

owls

There the biggest con going,as prevously said there very easy to doctor.whats to stop someone getting there mates to post ficticous jobs and giving them good feedback even though there the biggest cowboy going,you aint telling me that doesnt go on.

the principal idea of them are good and they might work for some but there unregulated and just a cash cow for the web site owner. your best going for the FMB or some other not for profit organisation.

SonjaLiK

I've used my builder quite successfully.
No, I don't believe the recommendations/comments are all necessarily true, I've decided based on my own experience and opinions of the way certain builders approached us.

hethmar

When my son first moved to London a couple of years back he had a problem with his heating. Didnt know anyone locally so he used my builder - put what the prob was and included photos of the leak - got 6 quotes, had two people to look at it and the chap he chose did the work quickly, efficiently and at a very reasonable price. LOL, he also fixed a dripping tap he noticed in the kitchen when he was having a cup of tea with son after the job (and didnt charge!)

hethmar

chimney_kev wrote: »

on one feedback it said allthough Dave travelled 60 miles and fitted me 4 chimney terminals for only £60 he was on time and very polite.
I keep looking for Dave to do all my work but cant find him.

LOL, cant believe that at all, unless they left one digit off somewhere there.

ormus

i reckon that was just the travelling time part of the invoice.

johnjackson

Many of these sites are useless IMHO.

They are just so open to abuse.

I just found this posted in another forum-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAN5FfRVUU

johnjackson

baldelectrician wrote: »

I found them less than super

As a side line I buy web domains.

I have www.myhammer.co and www.myhammer.co . I called them myhammer.co up to see if they wanted it.
Their answer- I MUST be wrong as www.myhammer.co is an email address and not a web domain :rotfl:

That is bad management on their side.

I'm sure that the .co domain would of been offered to them in the first place, but they must of thought that they did not need it.

You should also be careful as myhammer could be a registered trade mark. I just checked their site and there is a TM logo under their main logo, but it might be that the "any job, any time anywhere" part of it is a registered trade name/mark.

Intellectual property law can be very expensive if you get it wrong

20 years ago, you could make money from registering similar domain names, now companies just call their lawyers!