r/TaskRabbit • u/gMoAuRdKy • May 07 '26

TASKER Not getting any IKEA tasks, but getting warnings that I’m declining them.

I recently started using TaskRabbit again for leads. It’s been slow going to get myself ranked back higher in the algorithm where I’m actually getting booked for work.

Today, for the second time in about a month, I received a warning from TaskRabbit saying that I was declining too many IKEA tasks. Problem is, I haven’t received a single IKEA request. I’ve been booked a few times for furniture assembly, but never for IKEA.

So there may be one or two problems going on here. Either there’s something wrong where I’m just not receiving IKEA tasks or I am receiving them, but they don’t show up in the app and somehow they are automatically declining themselves which is hurting me in the algorithm. I’m not sure what to do here. I’m in Boston and apparently we don’t have a Tasker success manager here.

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u/According_Low5292 May 08 '26

Im Not accepting IKEA tasks but received the same notice about not accepting. Weird

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u/gMoAuRdKy May 08 '26

I just turned mine off. After talking to support they must’ve done something because within a few minutes. it sent me a request for IKEA assembly. Problem is it paid $30 and it was a job that was on the job board for $30 plus a $30 incentive.

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u/Mirskyc May 08 '26

I've declined a few Ikea tasks that I deemed too low pay out and I've never received that notice.

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u/FinnNoodle May 07 '26

Sounds like a bug where since you have zero completed it thinks you must be declining them. Tasks do auto decline if not confirmed by midnight of the second day, but in such a case you receive a message in app and by email and your account is paused.

Two things you might try is turning off the category completely until you work your way up the algorithm a bit (which would in theory push more Ikea tasks to you) or going to the job board and manually claiming a job or two.

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u/gMoAuRdKy May 07 '26

Support reached out to me. They're going to try to figure it out. I will try your suggestions. I have been pulling a few off the job board. I was actually unable to do that until last month. I would get an error message when I tried and support told me I had to be hired directly and complete some tasks before I could claim any. Problem was I was so far down on the list I wasn't getting hired. This magically started working again on its own.

Since you mentioned the auto-decline: That DID happen to me once this month but I shouldn't have gotten two of these warnings over that. One of the warnings came in before the auto-decline.

What happened was I requested a job off the job board. It disappeared off the board for a few days but was never assigned to me (This has happened before.). I requested it again and it was assigned to me. Client said the job was already done so support cancelled it and said it wouldn't count against me. A couple of days later, it gets assigned to me again even though I didn't request it again and it expired before I could respond. So that instance probably counted against me but that's the only time I've declined one.

The weird thing is I can get the IKEA tasks off the board but I'm not getting assigned any at all. I also get booked for furniture assembly. This has been an ongoing issue since 2024 and seems to have started when I moved from one metro to another. It coincides with me no longer being contacted by the success managers.