OP
rocker
As I've posted in another post somewhere, I'm a silly mug who bought an 'obligation free' 3 month membership, and am having a hell of a time cancelling it before I do have any sort of obligation i.e. a 12 month contract. To be fair when I put myself on there it said I had to send them proof of qualifications, but it did let me trade for about a month without doing that, and what would stop me closing my account and starting another one every month??
Went on there for a while as a basic free member and got one or two jobs, but found that there were a lot of 'premium members' sending private messages to jobs that I was quoting on (something basic members can't do) and once the job 'auction' ended and my quote won, the customer didnt contact because someone else had aready priced up and done the job! Got this premium thing (£60 plus vat for 3 months) when I was really hard up for work and I find that people are quoting ridiculous prices (£800 for a three storey rewire, the person quoting would also have had to travel 70 miles to the job and back every day, yea right), they are obviously cowboys, rip off merchants or are drasticaly inflating their quotes when they see the 'extent of work'. Also loads of people without quals - as you said it looks like myhammer will let you continue trading as long as you have a qual, and that doesn't have to relate to the job you're quoting on so you get FENSA guys doing boiler works and chippies doing sparks. Total load of rubbish, and now I've sent them loads of emails to cancel membership which they haven't answered so now I'm going to have to ring their premium rate phone number. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Oh and the couple of jobs I've got since having the expensive membership were done with basic quoting which I would have won with basic free membership.
Went on there for a while as a basic free member and got one or two jobs, but found that there were a lot of 'premium members' sending private messages to jobs that I was quoting on (something basic members can't do) and once the job 'auction' ended and my quote won, the customer didnt contact because someone else had aready priced up and done the job! Got this premium thing (£60 plus vat for 3 months) when I was really hard up for work and I find that people are quoting ridiculous prices (£800 for a three storey rewire, the person quoting would also have had to travel 70 miles to the job and back every day, yea right), they are obviously cowboys, rip off merchants or are drasticaly inflating their quotes when they see the 'extent of work'. Also loads of people without quals - as you said it looks like myhammer will let you continue trading as long as you have a qual, and that doesn't have to relate to the job you're quoting on so you get FENSA guys doing boiler works and chippies doing sparks. Total load of rubbish, and now I've sent them loads of emails to cancel membership which they haven't answered so now I'm going to have to ring their premium rate phone number. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Oh and the couple of jobs I've got since having the expensive membership were done with basic quoting which I would have won with basic free membership.