bark.com

[Bloom]

Hi

 

Anyone had any long term experience with bark.com? I read a couple of threads from 2015. I've just starting getting emails from them this week. I hadn't signed up to the website. Jobs where basically anything to do with gardens but I changed the settings to only tree work. You pay to receive potential customer's contact details, but I must have got a few free credits, so I got to quote for free and have got a days work booked from it. However, now I have to buy credits to 'see' customers details so I can arrange a quote. Ranges from £3-£5 per customer, but you buy a pack of credits at about £30.

 

 

[Steve Bullman]

I just can't see this working in this country.  Its a very American method of winning work and is used a lot out there from what I can gather

[Mark Bolam]

I thought it was a dating site for dogs.

[the village idiot]

7 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

I thought it was a dating site for dogs.

Presumably on the hunt for a Pedigree Chum.

[Mark Bolam]

I never signed up but they used to send me emails to try and entice me to.

'Mr. Trumpington from Oak Road in Eastbourne would like his box hedge cut'. Eastbourne is 90 minutes away from me.

 

Fail.

[josharb87]

Similar things here in Sweden. 

 

Its a a race to the bottom though, cheapest price wins, “limited” to 10 company’s able to buy the details. 

[Dan Maynard]

Also interested in this, nearly wrote the same post as you as I've started getting emails too. I reckon they've got data from Facebook as I don't even have a proper website. Like you I'm following the free credits to see what happens.

Compared to using something like Checkatrade it is much more attractive to me as you get a reasonable description of each lead before you pay anything. Also the rate it generates leads is controllable so it's kind of ideal marketing/advertising spend compared to chucking out wedge of cash and hoping.

In the long term I guess it depends how many people want to use bark to get work done and that's difficult to second guess.

[john p]

I’ve had about £5000 of work from bark, cost me about £60 to make contacts, there are a lot of time wasters on there but 70% worth following up. It’s worked for me anyway.

[john p]

Value wise it’s much better than Checkatrade (which I’m also on)

[GazN]

I can see it working in some areas but for me in N Wales, as the crow flies I'm not far away from Liverpool so they sent me loads of notices there, not worth the travel to trim a small hedge.