r/TaskRabbit

I booked a tasker for a cleaning today and she’s at about $26/hr ($36/hr with the app fees) and our appointment was at 10 am but she didn’t show up until 10:47, it’s currently 2:35 and she originally told me she’d take about 2-3 hours and that’s fine because that’s what I budgeted for, but she is estimating needing another hour or so when I reached out to her. Is there a way in the app I can let them know she showed up late and not be charged for that time she wasn’t here? I budgeted $200 for this and I know it takes time to clean, but this is a move-in clean, my landlord “cleaned” before I got the keys this week (dust, dirt, hard water stains, dead bugs) but it wasn’t up to my standard and all my cleaning supplies are boxed up for my move so I thought I’d try this app out.
She messaged me this morning and asked if I would want her to bring someone else to help her out today and she’d want me to pay them her rate with cash or Zelle, I told her no & not to bring anyone else because I don’t have the budget for 2 people but she showed up with her daughter anyways so now I’m nervous when it’s time to go that it’s going to be uncomfortable if they try to shake me down for money I don’t have.

EDIT: everything ended up working out, she only billed for 5 hours so it was still within my budget and I tipped $40 cash. I guess I was just overly stressed out and overthinking it.

I just got signed on for Wayfair Servicepro atter two years of waiting, and let me tell you, if you think Taskrabbit adding their % fee is bad, you would loathe wayfair’s pricing. I did my first two jobs today and I asked one of the clients how much she paid.

For an outdoor furniture setup, she paid $120. I received a grand total of $51. I got that thing knocked out in an hour, but oh boy😂 that ain’t even 45%. I probably would’ve charged $70 on a direct call.

So yeah, if you’re a client, forget these apps and just start getting in touch with local handymen or your most recent Tasker. These apps are super greedy.

I mostly do wall mounting in a major metro and my recommended search position is currently 56th (on the fourth page of results). No client is scrolling that far 😅. I’m normally in the top 5 or 10, and understand reasonable fluctuations, but this seems unusual.

I also recently had a client bark at me for expensing wood shelving when they wanted wire shelving (they were traveling and asleep so I couldn’t reach them for approval) so I’m wondering if they maybe complained to customer support and hurt my account standing somehow.

Any ideas??

Hi everyone !

I’ve had taskr app in my back pocket for a few years now. Used it a bit in college when my parents didn’t allow me to get a job.

Now, I’m back at it to make up some hours since my main job cut my hrs a bit.

How can i optimize my bookings and earning ? For example, i have a brand ambassador task today for 2.5 hrs paying $67 total. How do i get to the point where i can fill my weeks with tasks and have an $100 minimum for tasks .

Also, i do not offer handy tasks. I am more vending at events and flea markets for companies or personal assistant/ small admin work.

I know there are folks who have had great experiences with TaskRabbit, so when the kid that usually mows my lawn went to camp, I decided to try it out. I just needed my lawn mowed front and back with edging on the sides of the driveway. It's a 1200 sqft house with your average sized lawn. I was asked for my estimate of how long the job would take and I estimated an hour, which was far less than the kid who usually mows my lawn takes. I pay the kid $40. I was not home the day the task was done. The guy said he spent five hours on the job at $50 an hour! I was honestly shocked! Even with the fees I did not expect to pay over $100. I have pictures of the yard that show it is just a lawn that was mown and edged. I was charged $250!!! TaskRabbit asked me to prove that the guy did not take five hours to mow the lawn. I asked them to look at the pictures of the lawn and to think about how long it would take to mow that lawn. In the end, they offered me a $70 credit toward my next service, as if I would use them again. The person ripped me off and TaskRabbit did nothing to resolve the issue.

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Hi everyone! Does anyone have the links to the old and new IKEA Italy portals for Taskers?

The portal I was given currently shows zero tasks available across all of Italy, which seems strange. I’m trying to understand whether I have the correct portal or if there is a different link for the old/new version.

If anyone can share the correct links or point me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!

Apparently there is no way to leave a review unless a task was completed.

Waited outside for tasker who was not responding to chats. Didn’t want to cancel as I wasn’t sure how it would affect my deposit. After an hour and fifteen minutes past the scheduled start time, tasker responds saying he won’t be able to make it because his car is in the shop. Said he ‘meant to let me know earlier but the day got away from him’.

I was hoping to leave a review simply stating that the tasker was a no show and there was no communication but I can’t because the task was not completed. I reached out to customer service but there was really nothing they could do. I just think there should be a way of noting these kinds of issues.

TL;DR - Should be able to leave review for no call no show tasker.

So I need a bunk bed disassembled, moved to a different room (one floor down via stairs) and then assembled back. Is this something I can book on Taskrabbit? What would the price be very roughly (I’m in London UK), and is it reliable? I’m kinda nervous if it’s not assembled back properly, for obvious safety reasons. I also of course don’t have instructions from the bed anymore…

If it’s not reliable would be really grateful for any other company recs

Hey All,

Made myself available for the last few days and noticed that in comparison to the last few weeks, it was exceptionally quiet. This came to light when a client tried to book my services and couldn’t see my profile or my availability. Then came to the realisation that even though I’ve made myself available for the week, TR has not got me anywhere in their full listing for my area even though I’m ranked quite high.

Has anyone else experienced this and what’s the reason behind it? Just doesn’t make any sense but am sure that when I speak to TR, they’ll just blame the algorithm or similar…

Thoughts…

Just curious

I’ve been doing this for years and lately I’m just exhausted by the lifestyle that comes with it. I work basically seven days a week because if I want to maximize my income, I have to keep my schedule open and take same-day jobs when they come in.
I try to pack a lunch and eat healthy, but half the time that goes out the window because a job pops up and suddenly I have 30 minutes to get across town. So I’m grabbing whatever food is nearby, sitting in traffic, putting miles on my car, getting home exhausted, and doing it again the next day.

The part that gets to me the most, though, is how dehumanizing it can feel. I’ve had plenty of great clients, but sometimes I don’t even feel like I’m being talked to like a person. I’m just the guy with a drill who showed up because someone needs something done. Some people barely acknowledge you or talk to you like you’re just there to take orders. After years of that, it really starts to wear on you.

Then there’s constantly thinking about the algorithm. Keep availability open, take same-day work, work weekends, fill empty spots in the schedule. You’re supposedly self-employed, but somehow your entire life starts revolving around when other people need something done.

The money can be good, which is obviously why I still do it, but I genuinely wonder how people do this long term without getting completely burned out.
Anyone else who has been doing this for years starting to feel the same way?

First time task rabbit user and looking for advice. I'm buying a couple of things off Facebook marketplace (dresser, table) and need help moving them. I have a Ford F250 that I can use. These are my questions:

• Would I select "help moving" or "heavy lifting and loading"?
• Is it better to ask the person to meet me where the furniture is located and then I drive the truck to my home while they follow or ask them to meet me at my home and we drive together?
• Is it better to hire one person for the pick up location and one person for my home location if it is more than say 30 minutes travel time? (from their perspective)
• Do I pay the person for their travel time to/from the job? (i.e. to get from where they live to the job site and back home)
• How much should I tip? Is it generally a percentage of the task cost or a certain $$ amount per hour?

Thank you very much if you read this far and I really appreciate your help.

Has anyone ever gotten their account back to normal from an account limitation (direct link hire only), after one year of banned?

It’s been well over a year for me and my account is still limited, policy team unwilling to enable my account and yes I know the top comment would be to start your own business, which I’ve done but I’m just curious.

It’s very simple: They need IKEA jobs done, but don’t want to pay enough to get Taskers to take jobs outside of their set available hours. So they send the jobs anyway, knowing that Taskers don’t want to take a hit to their algorithmic reliability score. Taskers are then forced to either take the jobs outside of their set availability, or risk not getting more jobs offered to them in the future during their available hours. 

In short, TaskRabbit is treating Taskers like employees, coercively setting their schedules. This is arguably illegal, as TaskRabbit legally deals with Taskers on a contract basis— Taskers have none of the legal protections in the jurisdictions TaskRabbit operates in that an employee would have.

I’m not a lawyer, but I know gig economy companies have paid out huge legal settlements in the past over similar practices. I wonder whether IKEA/INGKA, who owns TaskRabbit, knows that this is happening, and whether they are legally liable for this behavior, as the owner and as the beneficiary of the lower cost of assembly of their goods.

I have a question. I hired people through taskrabbit to help move my house, and instead of taking the stove door off to get it out of my house, they took it apart completely.

They showed up to my house with a panel of glass and all the seals and heat resistant materials in a pile. When they started trying to put it together I stopped them because it was clear they had no idea what they were doing.

I had no idea they were going to take it apart. It's just in pieces now. Hopefully I can hire someone to put it back together, if not my $900 stove is ruined.

What do I do? What recourse do I have through taskrabbit? I'm so sad and upset. I love my stove. It's only 2 years old and I saved to get a nice one.

I’ve been on TaskRabbit for 5+ years, done 2,500+ jobs, and currently make around $8,000/month. I want to get that closer to $12,000, but this app seems determined to put a ceiling on how much you can make.

I’ve raised rates, use minimums where appropriate, keep broad availability, offer same-day, and focus on higher-value categories. Raise rates too much and bookings disappear. Lower them and you’re working constantly for less money.

For Taskers actually making serious money, what am I missing? Rates? Categories? Scheduling? Minimums? Repeat clients? I’m not looking for “get good reviews” advice. I want to know how you maximize revenue without just working yourself into the ground.

Why is squeezing another $4k/month out of this stupid app so difficult?

Heading to a location and the client says they "...believe they have another item to assemble...hope that's ok?..."

How do you all handle this situation and what's the best to not set a precedent? Feel like I'm being taken for granted here...is this normal? How do you stop it? By the way, this is isn't the first time...

I'm a cleaner and I have my own housekeeping business as well.

I make it very clear in my bio I don't organize or declutter and that the house has to be picked up before I arrive. My basic scope is dusting, kitchen/bathroom, vacuum/mop and other deep clean tasks if requested like interior oven, windows etc.

I still get tons of people who book me and say "yes I need you to pick up all my kid's stuff in the living room and bedroom and also do my dishes and also reorganize something or another".

I also get lots of requests from people whose houses are straight up biohazard looking when they request which frankly, I don't deal with. Like hoarder level.

So I forfeit a lot of tasks. But then I saw somewhere cancelling too many tasks can get you booted from the platform. I never cancel tasks, I forfeit before I accept.

I understand that hurts my metrics -- that's fine, I still have my own regular clients.

But am I am risk for being DEACTIVATED for forfeiting too many tasks?

Thank you!

I typically do have great clients especially at worthwhile rates. But as a black man I have been treated better by my white American clients that my black and foreign clients. Typically I’m offer water other beverages treated more like a person no push back on 2 hr minimum even if job takes 10 minutes not adding 20 more things to fill the 2 hours. Some of black/foreign clients offer no water no break after working extremely hard in the harsh sun no mention of lunch offering push back on hours (Work 4hrs 50 minutes complaining about me charging 5 hours) And I have had great black/foreign clients that have been wonderful but just as a hold it’s a few.

I don’t know if it will be rude to create a task to talk to someone to see if they are able to remove curtain rods, and fill in the hole they leave behind on the ceiling which has popcorning on it, so the holes need to have popcorn also.

I want to ask to get a price basically since I am not sure how hard that is to do, so not sure how long or expensive it will be.

Is this a hard task to do? About how long does it take? Thank you