Theo Markettos wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Most of these sites are a complete waste of time & a rip off for the
tradesman.

There's an equivalent kind of service for car repairs, which offer to
book an MOT for you/find the cheapest/etc. But it'll probably end up
sending you somewhere that saves 5 pounds on the MOT but invents 500
quid's worth of work.

In that kind of field you can't beat recommendation and word of
mouth, and I suspect it's the same for tradesmen. And generally
online reviews are a poor substitute.

I advertised for a short with a bunch of crooks who promised at least 12
jobs a month. They had an online review section, so I simply asked a few of
my delighted customers to write reviews. If I had a significant number of
unhappy customers I wouldn't have asked them to write reviews would I?


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk