Home Advisor Angies List Home Advisor steals your money with fake leads golden colorado

After being a pro with HA and paying their $350 setup fee, I was given lead after lead to people who do not call you back.

Each one of these leads cost me $80-120.

You can request a credit (they stopped issuing refunds) for more bogus leads but once they issue too many credits they will only manually check each request. If the phone rings, you are denied a request. They do not have to talk to anyone and have now changed their policy to not give any credits or refunds regardless of if you can get a hold of the random person that filled out the few lines on their form that HA gives out to a handful of professionals in the area.

Every time I got a "lead" that went no where, HA made $300 - $500 from the pros, who more than likely got nothing in return.

I had just over a 10% contact rate for the "leads" they sent me. So the few people I actually talked to or met cost me $800-1200.

There is no recourse at all.

You can "pause" your leads, but only for 2 weeks max at a time.

You can cancel the account and then they wipe any trace of you off their website, including your reviews and you kiss the annual $350 fee goodbye.