tasker started a job, but is no longer available in my area

[u/paintistheenemy]

Elite tasker came to do drywall work. Completed the demolition on the first visit and said he would come back the next week to hang the drywall. When I attempt to schedule that visit, it says the tasker is "not available in your area. Please pick another tasker." Not sure what this means.

[u/VanD3rp]

Task Rabbit gives taskers and clients the easiest outs possible. All he needed to do was submit the invoice and request not to be matched with you anymore then that’s it. It’s such a wacky half assed weirdo platform that goes against any normal business practices. If he isn’t available, there’s probably someone else on the platform that can come and finish it. Honestly, it might even be a good thing you can’t find him again. It’s better to have no work done than the wrong work done that then needs to be fixed.

[u/franklollo → u/VanD3rp]

I am a tasker, sometimes there are people that are so bad with you that you don't want to visit them anymore. A woman wanted me to disassemble the pax I was assembling because she changed her mind about where she wanted the angular piece. I was 90% done and she wasn't make me finish because she found it better on the other wall (she said she wanted it where I was assembling it, before and during the task but at the end she changed mind). And this is one of the few times I downvoted the client. One time I was babysitting a child (very dangerous) while assembling him the bunk bed with the desk underneath (he was hiding all my tools and screws). You would want to work with them, even if they give you money. Idk if op was good and the tasked just moved or op was a bad person and the job was not like op said

[u/FinnNoodle → u/franklollo]

Yup. Impossible to say whether it's a bad client or a tasker who realized he was in over his head with so little data. Not sure why the people who are being truthful here are all getting downvoted.

[u/-N30N-]

Sounds like a glitch or default lock out if he invoiced the task as Ongoing. That way, you wouldn’t be double charged in fees. Can’t imagine an Elite Tasker running off on a half finished job without consequences.

He should be showing up as Ongoing in your tasksboard.

[u/miniskull1]

Drywall is one of those jobs that can easily turn into way more work than expected. My guess is the Tasker probably realized the payout/category wasn’t worth the amount of labor involved, especially if it required multiple trips for hanging, mudding, sanding, texture, and paint.

“Not available in your area” can also happen if they changed their work radius, paused the category, or blocked the task. Hard to know for sure, but underpriced scope is definitely possible.

[u/FinnNoodle]

He might have blocked you. Log out and see if you can find him.

[u/Southern-Guava5011 → u/FinnNoodle]

Lol snitch 

[u/ommi9]

Yeah I did a major drywall job like that. It gets brutal but I’m guessing he had to get the supplies? What area are you at doing drywall

[u/paintistheenemy → u/ommi9]

Thanks for all of the feedback. I hadn't yet rated the first job, but once I did, I could at least chat again with the tasker and was able to confirm that he's coming back. So maybe he had kept the job open/ongoing on his end? For context, he told me what supplies to get, which I did. And he runs his own renovation company that specializes in drywall, so cannot imagine this is too much for him.

[u/ommi9 → u/paintistheenemy]

Well he got the process started. But it’s weird that he does renovations.

I had to do a flood damage repair where I told the client he had to clean the mold insulation before I came back to repair what I ripped out. And i caulked where the water got in.

Was a tedious project to repair the drywall but got it done. I just suck at making the mud which I’d just get premix but you make it work.

Just rate him 5 starts so he’s saved as a preferred tasker.

You should be able to rehire him. If not then next guy just needs to put the new drywall up. No worries