What's hilarious (in a not-funny way) is that the TT people think that their "budget" system fixes the problem of mystery charges. HA - it does nothing of the sort. I have to set my "budget" unnaturally high because i have no idea how much i'd be charged in a given week. Any one of the mystery charges could be a large fraction of my total take on a job & i wouldn't know that until it was too late. But if i set my "budget" based on what landing one job is worth to me, i couldn't answer more than one request each week. I guess if TT actually told me up-front how much i'd be charged for a quote answer, they'd be afraid that they'd scare me off. And they would be right. All their "budget" fix has done is angered their own customers (namely, the Pros). Ticking off your customers is never a good business model. The unfortunate part of this is that consumers use the platform. At least they will continue to use it as long as there are still Pros around to answer quotes. Once the Pros disappear, so will the consumers. Should we take up a collection and send the TT leadership to remedial business school? Or just wait a couple of months and the problem will fix itself (because TT goes defunct)?
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