MyBuilder for trades 4+

My builder provides continuous number of leads, easy to use, you can drill into what you do and how you specialise and potential customers can see that. You can gain reputation and feedback from customers, which then fuel’s recommendations. The charges are fair on the whole. Not wishing to bad mouth the competition but checkertrade is obscenely expensive by comparison. Only paying for the leads you get shortlisted for which is why I stay with mybuilder. Over all it is a very easy to use app based interstates job finder. Top marks on conceptualisation, usability and price.

Jobs come through on a slow regular basis, some jobs are really good and some are tatty but obviously that’s just down to the customers that want things doing.

My issue with this app is that as soon as a job comes through that is of decent value and worth the time doing. Within minutes you have maybe 5 people express interest and then the customer has accepted all five which means every single person who has been shortlisted for that job has to pay a fee of around £10-£20 on average even if you don’t get the work. How is that fair? I get these guys have to make money for the service but there needs to be something in place where the customer can only shortlist one person and if they don’t like that tradie or the price given they have to post again to have another look. It’s not like they can message you and talk before they shortlist. It’s stupid. The amount of jobs I see on a daily basis where people are paying £20 for nothing because they didn’t even get the job is rediculous honestly. In my eyes this app is just a scam to be quite honest. Money making scheme got the owners and most of the time you can’t even get a good job through. Jobs are too far away and a small profit so not worth it. You turn your radius down when searching and you don’t really get much through so I wouldn’t recommend to use this for your main source of leads.

I’ve been trying to gain work using my builder, but unfortunately have had people shortlist me and before I have a chance to quote for the work they have given it to someone else, this means that I then have to pay a shortlist fee and that can be from £3-£30, the market is saturated with the same trades and you will find 9-10 people with reviews showing interest for the same work. So far it’s cost me £25 to show interest in two jobs, the first one wouldn’t answer their phone after shortlisting me and cost me £14 and then £11 this morning without a chance to quote for the work and given to the person who just threw a quote in without looking at the work first.

There is no way to remove your account or information on the app which is worrying.

if you are going to use this app, I would recommend cheating and getting friends to sign up and pretend they have got you to do work for them and give you a positive review otherwise you will not win any work and these people will shortlist you forcing you to pay a fee without a chance at securing the work.