"I'm a contractor with home advisor. 50% of they time they send me leads where the person never answers the phone or its a wrong number. The leads cost almost $85-$155 each and when I call customer service and tell them the lead wasnt a lead at all they basically say "screw you". They charge you whether or not the person answers the phone or not. They try to tell you losing the money is part of using their service but its not. The $325 annual membership fee is the cost of using their services. Each lead you buy seperatly. I don't mind paying for a lead if I at least get to talk to a client and have a shot at the job. When no one answers the phone its unethical to call that a lead and take a contractors money. They know if the home owner answers the phone or not too because you basically 3 way call the home owner through home advisor. IF YOU ARE A CONTRACTOR, SUBCONTRACTOR OR HANDY MAN STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS SCAM OF A BUISNESS. I've literally thrown away so much money using their "services"."

"I never signed up on the site, therefore, I have no idea how they got my number. First, the rep starts the conversation saying he has leads in my area and then states 290 to sign up and on top of that they want you to give out personal information such as social over the phone to complete a background check. I recommend never give your social over the phone to a company that you have never did business with. I've had to block this company because they call extremely a lot I do not want your business."

"Service Magic AKA Home Advisor was an OK source in the beginning. I set them up for 1...count that 1 commodity or service. After looking at my bill, something did not add up. Many of the contacts never responded to my calls or emails, some were absolute jokes, and the occasional one that did set..well..they were so rare, that the service with HA did not pay for itself. Lets move to a couple months ago, I noticed charges that did not make sense. They charged $600.00 worth of leads I never asked for..they then said there is nothing they can do about it. I will see them in court I guess. "

"I wish I could give a lower rating. Home Advisor gives professionals bad leads. Period. And they won't credit you for these bad leads, although the salesman that talks you into joining tells you that they will.
I kept a spreadsheet of all of my leads and 61% of them were unreachable and no credit given. That is outright theft, if you ask me. The other 39% were mostly people just shopping around and not interested in spending money.
You will spend a lot time preparing bids and meeting with people and making no money.
So, like I said, don't do it, you will regret it!"

"I was browsing for a service within the homadvisor website to learn how it works. I got to a point where it asked if I wanted to submit my project, or just view some of the contractors. I selected the latter, because I was not ready to get anything going, but homeadvisor gave out my name and phone number to these contractors without my permission. I am still getting calls asking if I am ready yet to begin my project.

I will never use homeadvisor again, because this experience proves that they cannot be trusted. After this experience, I went to look at other reviews, and it sounds like there are many other good reasons not to trust homeadvisor, basically because they apparently do not work to validate the contractors on their list and scams abound."

"Someone called his name Hunter Alousio claimed to be working with home advisor invited me to join this fraudulent company that they are helping people I sign up and they promised to start give me leads immediately firstly I got a lead after a month and when I called the number no one to be found in fact the phone is not going and debit my credit my account for the job I did not even speak to anybody I called them they promised to take the money out which they never did another one came a lead from Indianapolis when my company is in Illinois 4 hours to the lead I called them this is4 hours drive how can I live in Illinois and send a lead to in Indiana again they promised to pay me back the money they took for this lead which they never did
Well I have a lot to say but this is just few out for you to see
Finally I called them to cancel my account but to my surprise they still continue to debit my account fraudulently until I cancel the credit card this company is not worthy to exist in the modern age I shocked this is America company?wow I think they need correct the way they are operating this is not help this is a fraud"

"I used your website to set up a few appointments with contractors. I called them to confirm appointments. NONE of them honoured the appointments or called me back to reschedule. Waste of time using HomeAdvisor.
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"Got burnt twice. Their contractors are best at lying."

"Our business gets numerous calls from different sales reps at Home Advisors to pay to put our company listing on their website. I have asked numerous times that they stop calling us. They want us to pay them to list our company business. PLEASE STOP CALLING US!!! "

"I was so burned and screwed by home advisors top recommendation that I cannot give them any lower of a review. They recommended handyman to redo our downstairs basement bathroom who then turned out to be the most ridiculously incompetent and horribly cheating contractor. Do not use them for any reason."

"I wish I could give them a negative star review. They don't deserve the 1 star. Charged me for a lead after two years that I cancelled service and won't refund my money. Worst customer service!!!"

"Home advisor has charged me over $600 in false leads the names are made up addresses are made up the emails are made up and if I call the number some go through to businesses that aren’t looking for any services and some calls just hang up without even allowing you to talk to anyone they are the biggest scam I’ve ever seen an I’ve only had them a month an when I call customer service they refuse to give me a refund saying leads aren’t promises of getting the job no duh I have no problem paying for a real lead and not getting the job but not for a false lead "

"They don't tell you about the outrageous fees the charge after you sign up. Only that you will have you name on their website for a yearly fee."

"i tried to pause my leads and thought I did but since i put in 2 weeks it didn't work. Come to find out and pause over 3 days has to go thru them. Don't remember that in the web page. So now they have sent me to collections. Is there enough contractors that have been stiffed to do a class action suit. i spent over $1600.00 and called 2 leads. That's $800 per lead and they would work with me if I stayed in the program, which would still cost me more for bad leads that cost too much. Should would like to see em get their due reward for costing me so much before I could finally get out. Now my credit is going to be affected. Let's do something about this rip off. ****@****"

"This company has not changed in 3 years in 2 states. No contact from who they provide. No shows for online appointments and people who show up and can’t do what you detailed in the request. They also do not guarantee that they have insurance. Use next door or other sources. This company is useless."