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“ hi there my name is Haris, im a carpenter/foreman and have plenty of experience. im based in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, but dont mind traveling depending on the work.”
We had the bad experience with Airtasker a carpenter called Haris D at Airtasker seems to have brilliant reviews on the website, however our experience was not positive as he failed to return telephone calls or reply to SMS messages and was supposed to come at 10 am to install a door for us … what a waste of our time … surely, if Haris was half decent and walking in our shoes he would have rung or email or sms us to let us know that he cannot make it on Saturday at 10 so not to waste time of so many people… and now the coward even blocked his mobile number!
Strange behaviour for allegedly French Canadian national
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Please don't use this company
Please don't use this company. Terrible experience. Just now was chasing a tasker who didn't turn up and didn't bother to tell me. This is the second time I try to complete a job with them. The 1st person after agreeing to a job for £77 suddently doubled the quote after I had booked the job with my credit card number. I am now strugling to get the payment back...
Globally Airtasker is getting bad reviews
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Sadly for us Haris D was anything but awesome …
5
"Haris did a great job with the door (he was very careful to make sure the job was done well), was on time, courteous and friendly with the pets. Thanks for your work Haris."
16 days ago
5
"Haris was super efficient and lovely to deal with. Highly recommend."
19 days ago
5
"Haris was friendly, on time and the work looks good."
24 days ago
5
"Haris is awesome. Professional, efficient and top quality finish. Provided a solution to every problem on the job. Great comms and responsive. Top bloke who I would gladly recommend and go back to in the future."
28 days ago
Hi …, generally, when an assigned task is canceled, your payment may be returned as Airtasker credit and you are sent an email letting you know. If you would prefer to have the payment returned to your credit card, you just need to send a quick reply to the cancellation email and we will be happy to do this for you. Hope this helps.
WASTE OF TIME
A very negative experience with AirTasker. Listed a task on Monday to have blinds hung, immediately a gentleman accepted the task and it was due to be completed Wednesday. He then cancelled Wednesday morning and asked to reschedule to Saturday. I agreed. Today is Friday and he has now blocked me and also requested to cancel the task. I have tenants moving into my home on Monday and need this job done. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THESE PEOPLE. You can't even leave a negative review for a Tasker who doesn't turn up or complete your job. Now I will need to organise a tradesman for the weekend to install them. If you need something done properly and its time sensitive AVOID using AirTasker and go directly to a local business or local handyman.
BEWARE! BEWARE! BEWARE!
Airtasker will take your money and provide no support whatsoever even if you get completely scammed or incur damages or real losses by any of their taskers.
Airtasker simply does not care less whether or not a task is done or not. They take absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for any tasks, work or repairs you have done.
So, if you use Airtasker and have any problems at all you are on your own and will suffer the consequences.
My Task
I had some cracked walls to repair and paint (it cost a couple thousand dollars). The guy came out and did the job and said he guaranteed it will not recrack or he'll come and redo it. Sure enough it all started cracking again within a couple of months and the paint is all lifting off (not done properly but no way of knowing at the time). So, I politely asked for him to please come and take a look and when he finally got back to me 2 weeks later he says nah they're other cracks, get someone else to do it I don't have time and just hung up.
Such a ridiculous lie and situation. So, I lodged a dispute with Airtasker with lots of photos to prove my very clear claim. Airtakser says you paid him and the task is closed, it's your problem now. All I have is his first name and a phone number which just goes to voicemail.
So, I have no way of taking this further and Airtasker refuses to do anything about it.
Such a scam!
Airtasker should be banned in Australia if they cannot make sure their users do not comply with consumer law.
Tip for consumers:
How dishonest and deceitful Airtasker is
Reply from Airtasker
I posted a job a couple of weeks ago
I posted a job a couple of weeks ago. Airtasker took my money. It's not pending! Job was supposed to be done this morning. Many communications between tradesman and myself. Tradesman contacts me 90 mins after supposed to be here via airtasker saying he no longer wants to do the job. I either accept cancellation or reject. I would not want someone here that doesn't want to be here. I accept cancellation. I have to wait for refund obviously. Airtasker does not give me option of reviewing tradesman. This is not fair as I would Iike to leave him with a one star review for messing us all about. No doubt he has a better paying job today as he has many excellent reviews or perhaps he has great reviews as he cancellation and those left in the lurch cannot tell the airtasker world. My biggest gripe here is I am not able to leave a review when I have been cancelled on!
Reply from Airtasker
Terrible Support when things go wrong
I wont be using this site again. You practically can be scammed on this site, and Airtasker wash their hands of it. People can come to your property, damage it, and if the damage is too low in value, there is nothing you can do. They even take no responsibility for the insurance policy, and just offload to a third party and say "good luck to you".
I'll be shutting down my Account, and will be telling friends and family to never use the site as well.