@MichelleT @Meckell. THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS  Im quoting blind because we dont know the budgets, so this "leads" are replying to me"t he fee is too far outside my budget" or asking me How much do I charge, when my fee is stated on my orginal message. And when I tell them again, my fee no more contact.... (out of the budget) he fee is too far outside my budget, so I speak with Support Team,  (They removed my Pro Assitant) ""Hi Diego, Thanks for reaching out to us regarding your quotes to Albert, Merry, Tina and Jacquie. I'm so sorry these jobs haven't  work out for you. Here at Thumbtack, our job is to introduce you with customers in your area that need your service. Once we have made a successful introduction, it is up to you to speak with the customer, negotiate price, and win over their business to get hired. I do understand from you feedback yesterday your prices are not like others who use our site and have experience that they might not.  I wanted to give you a little insight into the messaging between each customer: Albert: looks like you could send a second follow up see if he is interested.  Merry: conversation started yesterday and I recommend a follow up. Tina: She stated she wanted email follow up to you estimate. Jacquie: stated budget was too high but there was no follow up with finding a common ground for pricing.  We do leave it up to you to win the job and discuss pricing with the customers in order to get work. I am noticing once a customer stats that your prices are too high there is not a follow up to what is a price they are willing to pay. For now, I cannot offer refund, but I am willing to offer a refund for Jacquie and Albert once there is follow up with all the customers. These customers are showing interest in your work but I am not seeing any negotiation. "" SO NOW THUMBTACK is asking to LOWER OUR FEES......  How about if you THUMBTACK, lower your fees?  I dont tell you to charge less, dont tell me to lower my fees to the crapy leads......     THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE YOU REMOVED THE BUDGET BOX.  Its very clear now, that you are not here anymore to help us, you are only here to take as much money you can before we all leave TT. I WANT TO SPEAK WITH SOMEONE    DIEGO CAPPELLA ... View more

@DefiningImagery  Where is this new budget option thing? I went thru the whole process and I didn't see anything. Do you have a screenshot?  thank you. ... View more

@Meckell @jdpage   @hoosierok   @TTP   @Candi   @DCFGCatering   @mm   @ChefPaulStaley   @silverlinevideo   @ChefZacki   @Vensent   @g_yurk   @emcphoto   @Chefnikki   @JohnGoerner   @PSPhotography   @HansenJC   Thank you for your message, but I guess you didn't read mine since I was replying to Michelle's post. Small recap: - You don't want users to set a budget, because "WE MAY RIP THEM OFF (?), but you want US to give you a weekly budget...... - You want us to work with "Price Packages" but you are no longer offering packages to us....  You are not treating us as your CLIENTS,  you think users are your clients, but WE pay the bills. Thanks Diego   ... View more

@MichelleT Yes, you owe us an apology big time. We are loosing money since all this start. And you double your earning on us.  Check my stats. Its a fact. Im spending MORE for LESS. Not to mention, the time I spend complaining with my Pro Assistant over the phone + the emails I have to send. You keep talking to us as we are your employees, and you talk about USERS as your clients.  WE ARE YOUR CLIENTS, WE ARE PUTING THE MONEY. So If you think budget is not important, WHY you are asking us a WEEKLY BUDGET???? If we follow your logic, that we raise prices if we know the users budget,  WE CAN THINK YOU CHARGE US MORE, BASE ON OUR WEEKLY BUDGET!. Many figured out what was going on and set their budgets lower as a negotiating tactic.  THEY KEEP DOING THAT, BUT NOW  WE HAVE TO PAY TO FIND OUT THEY WANT TO PAY $300 FOR A FULL DAY PHOTOSHOOT! People who weren’t sure just picked the lowest option by default. - Well you never give them the option OTHER where they can write their own budget or explain that they cant figure it out. PACKAGES PLANS NOW???? So now we have to change the way we do business and offer PACKAGES??   YOU DO NOT OFFER PACKAGES ANY MORE!!! we use to buy credit on packages and you took that away, but now you are planing for us to use it????? WHY???? You give me package to me then. Thumbtack you didnt see the real problem yet. you are thinking on the USER as a customer, while your REAL CLIENT (us) is treated as an employee. You are deing so stubern, ALL PROS are asking for something and you can admit you were wrong.... the only thing you think you did wrong is not giving us enought notice.......   thank you (i guess) Diego ... View more

You are not alone @PSPhotography this changes are killing us.... And TT is looking the othe way and not lisetening to their real clients. ... View more

All these modifications on TT system are getting worst... They claimed is better for "US" (?) Since they deleted the field for users to show their budgets we are having more crappy leads, because we can not filter good leads from bad... Now, I displayed my Fee, nice and clear.... they user liked my portfolio but he wants to pay less and replied trying to bargain my price... I said NO..... and guess what TT did? CHA-CHING!!!!! $30.00 These are their responses to me: Any sort of bargaining or price negotiation is something you'll need to address with the customer. This is a common occurrence in a business transaction and wouldn't affect the cost or validity for this particular contact. At this point, it's up to you to sell the customer on your services and show them the value of your work, which I'm sure you'll be great at! ------------ Again, customers discussing the price with you and negotiating is a common occurrence. This happens on or off Thumbtack, and the fact that this customer is engaged in conversation with you qualifies it as a valid lead. We facilitated this connection between you and the customer, and now the job is yours to win! We realize that some jobs are more valuable than others, so we try to make the price you pay for each customer contact reflect that. You pay a different amount for each contact based on whether we believe the job is more valuable or less valuable. ------ I'm sorry about your frustration, Diego. Our goal is to make the price of contacts match the value you get. We’re constantly listening to your feedback and evaluating prices to make sure they're fair. Sometimes we find prices are too high, other times they're too low. We want the price you pay to match the value you get, and we’re working hard to make that happen. I’m going to share your feedback with our team. We’re working to improve our pricing, and your feedback is an important part of getting it right.  ----------   They are NOT thinking about US as their clients..... they are only using us to increase their profits without providing the service they used to give us. Since you change your logo..... everything is going down the hill, I hope you can get this back in track.....     ... View more