"High Value Job" is $250?
I'm being genuine and honest as I continue to learn to navigate Thumbtack after a year. Today I paid $107 for a direct lead for a "High-Value Job" according to Thumbtack. But the max budget was for the job was only $250. How is $250 a High-Value Job?
Are there settings to avoid this? This awful lead destroyed my budget for the week. I'm honestly having a bad few months on Thumbtack since becoming a Top Pro. It seems like the status is hurting me. Is it because I'm now competing directly against other Top Pros? I've just been burning money on Thumbtack since upping my lead cost and budget.
Thank you for any insight.
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Honestly Thumback needs to do better about vetting clients before hand about how much they have to spend. A lot of tire kickers just reaching out to get quotes and never follow up after since the job was too expensive.
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I've never had a job come through that was not touted as a "High Value Job". Even the 1-2 hours after I set a 2-hour minimum, since a 15 minute job would result in a 2-hour charge. BTW: I don't actually enforce this, it was something I did to keep the tire kickers at bay. It helped a little bit.
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Had to dig a recent "High Value" one out.
This "High Value Job" was to assemble a porch swing.
It consumed 1.74 hours of travel, 0.8 hours of employee time. The customer was billed $93.50 resulting in a net of $51.76 or an hourly rate of $20.37 after expenses. Now, had I charged the 2-hour minimum like my profile says, that would be $119.00 an hour and I'm sure the review she left the same afternoon would have been very different.
Final query, why would someone be encouraged to request service from four different people for a job that takes 50 minutes in labor? Because four times $7.44 is $29.76. That's why.
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