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Thumbtack has a rating of 1.6 stars from 1,562 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Thumbtack most frequently mention customer service, credit card, and phone number problems. Thumbtack ranks 128th among Local Reviews sites.

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    281
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    159
  • Quality
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Top Positive Review

“Excellent Job! We were very pleased.”

Debra J.
2/15/17

Cutting Edge Home Improvement, LLC team has done several jobs for us and we liked their work so much my husband and I kept calling them back to do more! We were very pleased and would recommend this company. With many years of experience, they were very knowledgeable and it showed in their work. From a major job like a deck to smaller jobs, you won't be disappointed.

Top Critical Review

“Poor service. SCAM!”

Hans B.
10/1/24

They charge for every "lead" they give you. 90% of the "leads" are fake and are probably created by their own bots. It's a total scam, and customer service is practically nonexistent! They are charging more for leads than the revenue you will get. For example $68.00 for a fake lead that might have netted a total of $390.00 if it were real. It's a total scam!

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August 23rd, 2016

Mark@ US Pools maintains my pool for the last few years. He is very knowledgable and gives me a reasonable price. I definitely recommend him to others.

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January 14th, 2016

McDonald's Assemble Pick up and Delivery Did an amazing job Moving my friends pool table. Also very quick with disassembleing it. We love them. Thank you.

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November 8th, 2018

MY HUSBAND AND I NEEDED TO HAVE A SOFA AND A LOVE SEAT MOVED FROM MY GARGARE TO MY LIVING ROOM WHICH IS ON THE SECOND FLOOR.THE WAY THE APARTMENT IS SET UP ITS VERY LITTLE WIGGLE ROOM FOR MANOVERING BIG FURNITURE. ALL THE HELP WE HAD ENLISTED FAILED SO WE DECIDED TO GIVE THUMBTACK A TRY AFTER READING SEVERAL REVIEWS. MARCUS REACHED OUT AND ADVISED HE WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ASSIST. MARCUS IS THE MAN IF HE CANT DO IT NOBODY CAN, HIM AND HIS CREW ARRIVED ON TIME, THEY WERE SO NICE AND KIND AND PROFESSIONAL. THEY WERE ABLE TO MOVE BOTH PEICES WITHOUT ONE SCRATCH ON MY WALLS. IM VERY VERY PLEASE WITH HIS SERVICES WE WOULD RECOMMAND HIM TO ANYONE, HE'S YOUR GUY! OH NOT TO MENTION THEY FINISHED THE JOB IN NO TIME...

THANK YOU
MR & MRS RODGERS

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November 15th, 2022

Thumbtack disappeared after charging $300. Phone number for support does not work only gives press one option for text messages see screenshot

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Thumbtack-Support -. – Thumbtack Rep

Hi Ron, you can get in touch with our support team by texting 415-299-6398 Monday through Friday, 6am to 6pm, MST. You're also welcome to email us at support@thumbtack.com.

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2 reviews
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December 8th, 2022
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I considered signing up for thumbtack and started the online process and selected a package they offered during Black Friday. Before completing, I paused the process to read some reviews and decided I did not want to continue. I deactivated my account and contacted customer service to inform them that I did not complete the process and do not want my cc charged for the package. They responded to me informing me that they have charged my cc and will not offer a refund. The extract response received " As it states the purchase is nonrefundable prior to selecting a package and making the purchase, this is not something we may refund. Although I understand you've decided to close your account, this is not something we may reconsider. The credit will never expire and may be used should you decide to use it prior to closing your account, or later should you return.I know this is not the answer you hoped for however I appreciate your understanding. If you need assistance reactivating to use the remaining credit please let me know, otherwise I wish you the best and thank you for your time.". The reviews are accurate, customer service is terrible and several people say the leads are fake and will not get you any business. Hope this helps someone else considering helping this company make their $3.2billion dollars.

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September 28th, 2015

I started my Housekeeping service on $ 60 in cleaning supplies and $20 for my first credits, that was 2 years ago, I have had nothing but success with Thumbtack. For those of you having issues about not getting jobs from the leads you spend your credits on you first need to look at your reply message, then you need to pick and choose the jobs that are benificial to you, then when you do get a job you need to be dedicated to giving the best service you can offer. After a job have the client give you feedback about what you have done in case you missed something. If they are happy ask them to please give you a review when they are sent the link for it. I can say this because I am their top pro housekeeping service in Charleston SC, I won the 2015 Top Housekeeping Service Award for Thumbtack because of my reviews. Don't blame Thumbtack for your shortcomings, they are a great tool for your business, you are the one that makes or breaks your business and remember one other thing you have compitition out there so don't over charge for your service. Also on the client side of things if they want to pay cheap and you go above and beyond to do the job, don't waste your time, your worth more then that. But there is room for you to lower your price for someone that really needs your help, even then you do a top notch job. You make your business from the way you present yourself, the job you do and earning the great reviews that you work hard for.

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March 10th, 2016

Please never ever choose Lake Houston Property Mainteance for any work, they are registered with Thumbtack and the company is fraud. The owner Jason Antinori charged $1500 for some few home repaiors but actually did NOT do the work, my real estate agent confirmed Jason did not do the carpet shampoo nor the ac/dryer vent cleaning. The worse part is the guy stole our paver bricks from the garage, concrete bags and tiles from our attic. HE IS A THIEF, beware I have been trying to reach this guy and texting him, but no resposne

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March 22nd, 2022

Horrible customer service. They treat the Pros who use their service like crap!
I do not recommend using this platform.

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Don’t waste your hard earned money on this site! They take advantage of their Pros & offer zero help. They will not even allow you to talk to a live representative over the phone at Silver tier, only SMS! You must dump a lot of money to move to Gold & Platinum tier to then have the honor of talking with Thumbtack Support Royalty! Totally ridiculous & I’m sorry I ever used their site.

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Thumbtack-Support -. – Thumbtack Rep

We're sorry to hear your feedback, and that you weren't provided the support you were looking for. We understand if you're moving forward with your business, but if you have outstanding concerns please send us a DM on social media so that we can follow up quickly.

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January 27th, 2022

I hired shine depot to deep clean my house. Marcia and lu did an excelent job. They went above and beyond tto clean even hard areas to reach. I am now using them on a regular basis. I DEFINETLY RECOMEND SHINE DEPOT. Rick in summerfield

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Thumbtack-Support -. – Thumbtack Rep

We're so happy to hear this, sounds like you had a great experience! Thanks for taking the time to leave a 5 star review and recommendation. We hope you'll continue to utilize Thumbtack for future projects.

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April 9th, 2022

I would not recommend Thumbtack. I had a horrible experience with a "pretend" pro named Lexus Mathew's doing business $#*! Famya Divine. She was kicked off of on Thumbtack for not honoring her contract. She's also on Etsy, Instagram and other social media sites pretending to be a Muralist, she accepted the money and never did the job because she is inexperienced. Thumbtack got involved but not helpful. They say they vet all of their pros but they do not- these people are not really pros, Thumbtack only do a criminal background and hire anyone who passes. Thumbtack is only a marketing platform and they do not hire really eat these folks, meaning they do not have the real skilled people and anyone can use this platform. I had to file a "theft by taken" warrant on the pro. Please don't believe anything that the marketing teams says or responds to about my truth. They have done very little to help me in this case and the platform should be canceled. There's no manager, this is a platform where you hope and pray things will be right.

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Use a real company or referral. Stay away fro
Thubtack

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Thumbtack-Support -. – Thumbtack Rep

Thanks for working with our Trust and Safety Team on this, we're really sorry to hear about your project. We were able to locate your case, and it looks like there's been some updates since you initially shared this review. We can confirm that you were issued reimbursement from Thumbtack, as the pro failed to provide a resolution. We understand this doesn't change your experience, but we hope you'll be able to use the reimbursement to move forward and get your project completed. If you still have outstanding questions or concerns, please respond to our team's email from May 10th. We also recommend you review our Safety Page for helpful tips during the hiring process: https://www.thumbtack.com/safety/.

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2 reviews
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May 4th, 2016

As a contractor I love Thumbtack much better than Angies Home Advisor YP Yelp Fixr Smith Contractor, com and a few others in that crowded field They arebetter than all of them. Very specific as to what the customer wants and very reasonable cost for the lead I have had great customers and I have great reviews by customers on Thumbtack Here is hoping they remain the leader in contractor lead generation.

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1 review
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May 8th, 2018

Thumbtack is a terrible company to do business with. Do not sign up with them. Do not offer your services nor build a profile on their webpage, because you will only encounter terrible customer service and experience the bad business practices they follow once someone contacts you for a service. I'll share my experience:

Thumbtack knows my availability because I put it in my calendar. Someone messaged me for my service at a time I was available only to ask "are you available on my date" and Thumbtack charged my card. Because that client already sent out 4 similar messages to other pro members, we all got charged on our cards despite the lady getting the deal with another pro member. So basically... I got charged $13 just for a lady to ask me if "I was available" when clearly, I let Thumbtack know my availability through their system. This happened several times with other cleints that fell through as well. They would simply ask "Are you available?" and I would get charged $13 every time...

I called to complain and explain that Thumbtack KNEW my availability and explained to them that I shouldn't get charged for the lady asking me if I was available. Their customer service is the WORST. I spoke to a representative on the phone and she said I would get a refund. I told her I wanted to make sure it was a refund back to my credit card and not as "credits." She confirmed over the phone that I would be refunded to my card. Then... she emails me an hour later saying she cannot refund me to my card. Absolutely TERRIBLE customer service.

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3 reviews
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November 2nd, 2021

After using Zarichta Sevices LLC (Josiane and Gustavo) cleaning services I noticed that some items are missing from my house (the whole version of my review is posted here on Sitejabber under the title Zarichta Sevices LLC). I let Zarichtas go for good and wrote a review describing this coincidence between the time they were cleaning and the disappearance of my stuff on the Thumbtack website. Thumbtack deleted my email and sent me one of the most crafty examples of the "lip service" messages. For them to investigate, they ask for the documentation (including videos) supporting my story. With the video, I will be filing the case with the police! Who follows cleaning people with the recording camera around the house?! I was working on Zoom in my office, while Zarichtas have been cleaning.
To this end, I was wondering if Thumbtack keeps the scores of their pros high by simply deleting negative opinions. It's one way of doing business and convincing the customers that the pros' background has been checked.
It was my first experience using Thumbtack. I will never use their services again and advise all of you against using them.
Thank you for reading my review.

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Thumbtack-Support -. – Thumbtack Rep

Thank you for your review, Victoria. We appreciate the detailed account of your cleaning projects with this pro, and we're sorry to hear that things didn't go well in the end. The information you've shared is concerning and we want to step in and resolve your concerns, as well as prevent this from potentially happening to other customers. Please provide more information to our team through this link: https://help.thumbtack.com/report-a-concern. Our Trust and Safety Team handles these types of concerns, they'll look further into your case and reach out to you directly. Once a specialist is assigned to your case, typically within 2-3 business days, you're able to communicate via email or schedule phone calls to talk about how you'd like to move forward. We really hope that you'll reach out to us and give us the opportunity to make things right. If you have any questions or concerns before submitting your report, please send us a direct message on any social media channel and we'll walk you through it.

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1 review
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October 10th, 2018

Seth Zocholl and Monica Padilla over there at Thumbtack are a bunch of unprofessional, lying, theiving, conniving scumbags. I am absolutely disgusted with the incredible lack of communication skills and the piss poor customer service displayed by Monica Padilla. These people are a representation of the worst of our society at this given time in American history. They are basically a large group or worthless, untalented millennials who have no REAL skills and they serve no REAL purpose, hence the reason why they are all employed under the same bul$#*!t organization. Typical of worthless millennials and true to form, they take and take and take and want your money, they make promises that you will get something in return but it's all a lie. They have nothing good to offer. I own and run a local plumbing company in the central Texas area and was fooled into using them as a lead generation resource. Thumbtack has been anything but a lead generation source. They are essentially a large vacuum full of useless eaters' (the most unconscious and undeserving) of our society, and they will try to pull as much money as they can out of your for nothing. And then once you walk your money back and need to cancel your service with them, they ghost you. Completely fall off the radar and disappear. I really hope those idiots in charge over there read this review and call me ASAP to get my situation with them all sorted out so that I can just wash my hands of them and move on.

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November 6th, 2019

Pros please don't use this service! They will stoled your money! The most leads you will have are fake and the "fake customers" will never responce you! But you will be charged for a lot of money!

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July 25th, 2023

I hired a worker from Thumbtack Carliss Moore for Carliss Moore for less he is a racist and a danger to women, he called me a lot of racial explitics name and also coned me out of money Thumbtack does not screen there people they just list them.My job is worst now than it was before they started, according to the 3 estimated contractor thumbtack requested I am a widow of a retired veteran and have to children serving in the military and this is how thumbtack does there military families in my opinion BAD They took out my tub and shower and know I have no money no shower no tub, and Thumbtack turned there back on me and with my chronic illness i used my tub for therpy and my condition is getting worst and Thumbtack doesn't care.

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September 20th, 2023

JJM Construcion was a pleasure to work with. Their manner was very professional. The quality of their work was exceptional. Very clean. Stephanie was great from start to finish. Thank you! Dotty D

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March 15th, 2018

This company is a total rip-off.
They claim to have legit leads and they charge you for leads that has no repsonses.
Leads have no phone number to reach the clients.

BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL.! They place fake ads to allure you to respond and they pretend by responding to your email and charge you for each leads that so called respond.

Try to ask the lead to give a number to call to confirm theyr work request no telephone number given.
If someone really are looking for a handyman, interior designer, photograper for their projects they will give you their number so they know who are dealing with.

In this case Thumbtack is not giving clients phone number because of so called privacy policy.
If a client is looking for a pro they should be able to to be reached so we can offer them our services.

When chatting online with them the response you get is with a link to their policies and they do not respond to you after that.

When trying to dispute the charge with my credit card company they state it was valid since I gave them permission to charge.
Yes I gave permission to charge for real leads not fake leads.

To all that have been scam by Thumbtack class Action Lawsuit has to be initiated with the company/owner.

This is very dishonest business practice.

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June 12th, 2016

I am very happy with service. Call Jacome and ask if can come to my house to help with my woods floor. He repair my floor and refinish. My floor feel and looks like new thank Jacome...

Mrs. Maybin

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April 20th, 2016

Charlene Chartier is a great massage therapist. She really knows what she is doing. You can tell she is very knoweledgable and experienced. Great experience.

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November 29th, 2023
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I have finally figured out how they generate the fake leads, (I also called them ghost leads) yet technically Thumbtack can say they are not fake. When a customer goes on the site and chooses the pro that they want, in order to proceed when that Pro responds, Thumbtack forces the customer to choose two or more other Pros to contact first. Unfortunately those other Pros are now paying for a lead that will go nowhere and the customer is being hounded by Pros that they were not interested in. I have confirmed this with some of my customers and seen a customer review online that echoed the same experience. The only one that wins here is Thumbtack. It's even worse now that we are forced to accept instant bookings against our will. I had someone view my account as a customer to see if all of the options...instant booking, request a quote, check availability, were showing. Funny thing is that instant booking is really the only option easily available anymore. Go figure! So instead of just being honest and saying they're going to up our lead prices, they pretend to give us an option that doesn't work for everybody so that they can double or triple the cost of leads now. So now we're getting fake leads for double or triple the cost of the previous leads. And if the lead is fake and it's booked on your calendar you cannot get it unbooked and so therefore no one else can book on that day. This whole system is a huge mess.

I have had some really great customers come from this site but that does not justify the amount of money that, in my opinion, has been stolen from me from these unethical practices. It's such a shame that somebody cannot take this over and run it right. It really could be a great platform for small businesses but I do think that many will leave with this instant booking nightmare that they have forced up on us.

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March 7th, 2022
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When I was first on Thumbtack I used to get about a hundred views a week. When they changed to this new system of paying for higher amounts for leads it suddenly dropped to about under 15 views per week, and I've been hired many more times and have many more reviews and when I first started so that doesn't make sense. Whoever came up with this new system is really hurting my business. I don't know why they would do this. I even upped the leads cost I am willing to pay but no change in views. Customer service has always been very helpful but even they cannot really explain it.

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1 review
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April 21st, 2017

You as a pro sign up for this company hoping to get leads that will get you some work. You pay for some credits starting at $69 and then you get a lot of leads in your email. But here is the catch, you have to response lickety split. Fast in under two minutes, if not you will be beaten out by 5 other suckers(pros). They only allow 5 suckers(pros) to bid per lead. If you are too slow it will save you money, because as soon as the so call customer (which I feel is not always real customers but the workers who create phony profile) open up your bid you are charge some credits which is in other words money. It similar to paid per click, depending on your quote for the job you can be charge a lot of money for someone to just look at your bid. When I realise this I asked for my remaining balance and to close my account. They do not refund you unused money saying it is now credits, which are non refundable. So I am forced to bid on bogus customers only to be out bidded by my fellow pros or if I'm lucky enough to make the top 5 pros they will take my money and I will not get any work. I will dispute this with paypal and see how it goes. But I do not advise anyone to sign up as a pro with this company. THEY ARE A HORRIBLE, AWFUL AND DREADFUL COMPANY.

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July 27th, 2023

We joined back on April 2023 and I still haven't had lead from thumbtack and what's worst you could never speak to a person there.

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February 11th, 2020

Been using Thumbtack for years at first it was great till they start bagging your bank account for fake leads... I spent on average $5,000-$6,000 Easily... if not more a year. They change there policies at there liking. 75%-80% of leads are tire kickers people with poor communication and not willing send over contact information. Not a phone number nor do they want to meet in person. Thumbtack polices protect them selfs from refunding money base on them not refunding people's hard earned money when there marketing is bogus 80% of the time. Simply on bases if the client does not provide a good phone number to reach out to them they can't not use there service.

They take money to use there platforms in which due not work now you pay for dirt more than 80% of the time. I feel that they are charging small businesses and not returning money for quality leads.

I don't mind spending $50-70 per lead if it was quality. But I have seen leads upwards of $90 and the client is not willing to give a phone number. BIG PROMISES LITTLE RETURN. SMELL A BIG LAWSUIT COMING THERE WAY ONCE AGAIN.

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September 27th, 2015

She's very Thorough, knowledgeable, Professional and friendly... her speedy service landed my spouse a job right away!

Thank you Aneesah!
Pamela & Dewitt

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Thumbtack is a technology leader building the modern home management platform. Through the Thumbtack app, people can effortlessly care for their homes — confidently knowing what to do, when to do it, and who to hire. Bringing the $500 billion home services industry online, Thumbtack empowers millions of people to fix, maintain, and improve their most valuable asset. The company’s investors include Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Venture Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Capital G, among others.

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