Bark

So I called in to see what Bark.com's "money back" policy if not successful in getting leads was all about. After speaking for a while, I thought this was a great way to do business and not just scam small businesses like a lot of other online services I heard about. This person with an English accent said to me "if you do not get a job in 10 days call us back and I will credit you your monies paid". I signed up based on this as being a fair shake knowing if no results, I would get my money back. That was the easy part. I paid $132 plus an ISA fee of $3.96 for total charge of $135.96. I was funneled lots of leads and responded to them all by emailing these leads in a very professional basis with even my website reference. All these leads had a cost based on my purchase of their bidding system. I blew through my $132 in no time, and they charged me for another $132 of which I called them immediately and said "no way did I sign up for more than $132". The second person I spoke to assured me if none of the leads come through, to call them back and they will "get you a credit". I said great and put on my calendar the 10 day alarm to call if no leads materialize. Well 10 days did go by and I called them again and they said that it will be "credited to you" immediately. I waited 3-4 days to see my bank account and no credit. I waited another 3 days and still no credit. I called the once again and asked where my credit is. They told me that the credit is NOT refunded to your credit card, but they said they have provided me with $165.00 of Bark.com 'bid monies"! WHAT A SCAM! Was not what the sales people told me. Now I am disputing this for false advertising. THESE PEOPLE ARE SCAM ARTISTS AND MAKE A LIVING OFF OF HARD WORKING SMALL BUSINESSES AND HAVE NO ETHICS!

If you are a postng a job his review isn't for you.

Make sure you understand how Bark wokrs, before you start using it as a Seller. The way Bark is setup is very bad or extermelly anti supporitng people who offer their service. As a proffessional you will have to buy Bark credits and use those to send quotes to any one posting a request.

When people post a request there is no charge to them, but if you want to send a quote it will cost you between £8 - £14, even if the buyer doent look at your quote. You will also have their email address and phone number. But call and email all you want there will be no reply!

It seem slike their site is filled with bots. I sent over 25 quotes and didnt get a single job out of it. I even for the sake of it quoted on the lowest end of price for few jobs.

Also don't be fooled by their 'GHG' scam. They wil oficurse refudn your pack in Bark credits once, but if you still (which is will be most likely the case) dont get any job out of it thats all you loss.

So Bark has no cost to them but they charge you alot for nothing!

I've been with Bark.com for a few months now as a business seeking clients. I have spent hundreds with them and have answered many potential client requests, I even received some inquiries that said they asked for me and my business personally! Sounds great right? I replied by email, phones, texted, and followed up by email, however, I never bothered with a ton of contact, I'd give a day or two between. I never heard back from one! Not even the ones that requested me personally, supposedly.
In fact, upon contacting some of them, they immediately closed their request.
After months of buying credits and contacting these apparent "hot leads", I haven't even received an email back saying "thanks but no thanks" from these "HOT LEADS".
I even asked at this point, Bark, if they were a scam, and were these leads rubbish? They insisted they were not.
Then one day when I was buying a package of points, or whatever they call them. As I hit submit to buy, a box popped up and it appeared to be the typical box, you're about to make a purchase, get 10% off. Sure, that sounds good since this business has given me nothing so far. I had intended this to be my last purchase, if no lead came through this time. As it turns out, it's a bait and switch box. In tiny weenie letters, it might say something, but I wear glasses and I didn't see anything, other than the % off, which I thought was for being such a good customer.
Nope! Instead, I not only bought my $50 of credits but another $45 of credits. SUCH A BAIT AND SWITCH SCAM. THEN THEY REFUSED TO REFUND ME BECAUSE I USED THE CREDITS MAYBE? I don't know how this site can even live itself really. It's a great business model for the customer because trust me, the businesses on here, are desperate to get a close. But for businesses to be on here, it's a bad purchase. You will waste your money and only get looky loos, non motivated buyers, and people that don't even want an email from you as they will close their account as soon as you reach out to them, to see if you can help them.
When I got suspicious, and I started to research on BBB and other independent review sites to see if my suspicions were real. They were, random sites, I am not the first one and I won't be the last.
SCAM, STAY AWAY.

Stay away from this company...they take your money for credits and ban you from it and do not refund you the credits...AVOID AT ALL COST!

First became aware of this company when they started spamming our website contact EMail address, with daily (or sometimes multiple spam per day) claiming to be sending us leads for people interested in the services we provide. The only real difference between Bark & most garden-variety spammers is that Bark doesn't lead with their sales pitch - but it's obvious that it is a sales pitch if you try to actually respond to any of the leads they send you, because that's the point where they ask for payment.

The traditional definition of spam is "unsolicited commercial email" - and the the EMails from Bark clearly meet that definition. They are both unsolicited (we never subscribed to mail from them or requested the messages in any other way), and commercial in nature (by being advertisements/sales solicitations for their services).

It also appears that they are making no attempts to comply with federal anti-spam laws, at least here in Canada where we're based - and in our case, their spam was sent to a. Ca domain name, so it's not exactly rocket science to figure out where we're based. CASL, Canada's federal anti-spam laws, requires senders of "CEM" (commercial EMail marketing) - including Bark - to obtain explicit, opt-in consent from the address owner before sending marketing EMail to that address. In our case, since they started spamming an address that they'd scraped from a website, they didn't even make an attempt to give us the opportunity to provide (or decline) consent - let alone actually obtain it.

If you're in Canada and receiving spam from Bark, then the best solution is probably to report them to the CRTC - the federal agency responsible for enforcing the anti-spam laws.

Very proffesional company and service for costumers. Hi quality jobs done,ressonable price. Highly recommend.