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Tasker Rabbit ?

On Radio 4 Moneybox yesterday lunchtime they were talking about self-employment. I don't know if they said more than half of new jobs being created were one-man-bands. They had a guy on who gave up working from a 'proper' job to work for himself. He had his finger in numerous pies doing whatever would make him a living. One of the places he mentioned which is some sort of agency was 'Tasker Rabbit', he got work from them anything from dog walking; and cleaning to fixing Ikea units together.

https://www.taskrabbit.com/become-a-tasker

Has anyone heard of them or used them ?
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  • zugzwang
    zugzwang Posts: 520 Forumite
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    Yes, I had a look.

    There were no other users in my area. Obviously you need other people to do tasks for or vice versa. So gave up.

    May take off hereabouts yet. But it's an American idea and a new one at that.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskrabbit
  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    edited 9 August 2015 am31 10:55AM
    zugzwang wrote: »
    Yes, I had a look.

    There were no other users in my area. Obviously you need other people to do tasks for or vice versa. So gave up.

    May take off hereabouts yet. But it's an American idea and a new one at that.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskrabbit

    The bloke they had on the radio was from London so probably that will be the only place in the Uk.
    I'm registered with streetwise and that has things happening in your local neighbourhood and last week someone advertised himself as a odd-job man. So maybe that could be a place to place a 'free' advert if you wanted some work.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

    Daniel Defoe: 1725.
  • zugzwang
    zugzwang Posts: 520 Forumite
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    I'm not sure. I maybe gave up too soon (character flaw).

    It's probably worth registering just to see what's in your area, see how it develops (you'd perhaps be an early adopter to a success story which could be lucrative eventually).

    I was just thinking at the time, it won't work without advertising, but there you are people are talking about it on the wireless and MSE. :-)
  • Hi - just a quick update about TaskRabbit areas of activity in UK … it seems to still be London only, within M25.

    I applied to join as a tasker in Jan2015 but was told that as it was new in UK they were starting out only in London to see how things went. I emailed again in Oct2015 to see if things had expanded yet and if I could work as a tasker yet, and below is the reply that I received - I think that the more people who express interest in joining from outside London then the quicker they will consider expansion … the website is taskrabbit dot co uk - I have used the site for a task completion, and seems to work very well.

    *****
    Thanks for getting in touch. We don't have a firm launch window for your area quite yet, but we are expanding as fast as we can. However, if you want to keep track of where we may be heading next, please sign up for our newsletter and follow us!

    • via Newsletter– blog dot taskrabbit dot com
    • via Twitter – @TaskRabbit
    • via Facebook – TaskRabbit

    Thanks again for your interest and let us know if you have any further questions!
  • Taskrabbit is micro job site. They offer tasks for london only
    There are many good alternative job sites for international users
  • andrewmax wrote: »
    Taskrabbit is micro job site. They offer tasks for london only
    There are many good alternative job sites for international users

    @andrewmax :cool: - Could you give us a list of other such sites, please? Many thanks in anticipation.
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  • Hi thanks for this. I tried fiver for a while but it didn't work for me.
    Keep going though.
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  • mimiduck
    mimiduck Posts: 194 Forumite
    hello. has anyone registered on taskrabbit? I registered and tried becoming a tasker but I don't know if there is something wrong with the site, I have chosen which tasks I can do but when I click 'continue' it doesn't seem to go anywhere.
  • fewgroats
    fewgroats Posts: 774 Forumite
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    Try Streetlife, Craiglist or Bark.com instead?
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