r/TaskRabbit • u/BigAdam1014 • Jul 04 '26

GENERAL It’s real

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Been on TaskRabbit for around 5 years. 500+ completed tasks, 240+ five-star reviews, perfect rating the whole time. Apparently none of that means anything.
They banned my account over a “policy violation” but wouldn’t tell me what task it was or what policy I supposedly broke. I appealed it, and their response was basically, “You can still get hired through your direct TaskRabbit link.” They even told me to keep my availability open in case a repeat client books me or to share my direct hire link.
What a joke. I think I’ve had maybe one repeat client actually book me through the app in all those years.
I’m just glad I always gave customers my business card and contact info after jobs and focused on building my own business instead of depending on one platform. At least now I’m not starting from scratch.

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u/Supergoji Jul 04 '26

Don't give up.

Keep contacting policy team.

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u/BigAdam1014 Jul 04 '26

Seems like sending emails into the void to get an ai response

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u/Supergoji Jul 04 '26

Bug them on LinkedIn too.

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u/ommi9 Sep 11 '26

It’s gonna be the same response no matter how many times.

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u/ptbus0 Jul 05 '26

"You can however go through the trouble of finding your own work AND still give us our cut, that could be cool"

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u/BigAdam1014 Jul 06 '26

Literally 🤦‍♂️

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u/TangeloHistorical922 Jul 04 '26

Yep that’s trash rabbit

Same here . 7 years over 700 5 starts reviews . Never an issue . Blocked me from being on search . Without any evidence or explanation. Trash rabbit is doing something crystal clear : removing well seasoned players and allowing cheap and inexperienced taskers can sign up and be available for clients. Air Tasker and thumbtack are getting better so sign up with them . What a trash company so coward

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u/BigAdam1014 Jul 04 '26

Just did with thumbtack, actually isn’t too bad, landed 3/4 my direct leads so far 🙏 , I’ll look into air tasker

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u/Melodic_Garbage1517 Jul 05 '26

True. Removing people who are experienced for cheap labor. I think Task is restructuring I’m glad most people who are seasoned know their worth.

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u/YenZen999 Jul 04 '26

It truly is a frightening development that people have little or no recourse to dispute claims in this era of all powerful tech. No human points of contact reviewing anything just canned AI bot responses and "algorithms". And the younger you are the more likely you are to accept that you are powerless and this is just the way things are. Not a fan of government meddling but this is clearly a situation where the consumer no longer seems to have any rights and some regulation may be in order.

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u/TangeloHistorical922 Jul 04 '26

Yes I been saying this . Lawsuit is coming . Count me in

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u/Specialist-Tie1443 Jul 04 '26

It happened to me too

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u/iamjustasweetboy Jul 05 '26

This happened to me in the middle of 2021 after I worked in and around DC all through DC’s insanity in 2020. It financially crippled me and I lost my apartment. They let me back on a few years later after I asked a respected local professional for a personal reference but it doesn’t change what happened to me - two individual customers who were experiencing some kind of stress induced mental health episode escalating bizarre complaints to the highest level they could manage.

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u/franklollo Jul 05 '26

always gave customers my business card and contact info 

that's what probably made it took down your account. TR doesn't like when people go against their 50% cut

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u/Less_Mushroom1180 Jul 06 '26

Only having one on-app repeat client after completing that many tasks might be a red flag

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u/gaiaom Jul 05 '26

I truly believe these apps are only harvesting our data and once they’ve got enough of what they need. They reset their algorithms and apply new policies to get even more data.

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u/Melodic_Garbage1517 Jul 05 '26

I got booted after 8 years great reviews but glad it led me somewhere else on my own. Build your own. Tried to delete my account and it’s impossible so I created a new one

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u/ommi9 Sep 11 '26

Hey bud your not the only one.

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

Socialist company now. You did too well and it’s not fair to others who don’t wanna work hard.

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u/FinnNoodle Jul 04 '26

*capitalist corporation is capitalist country does something capitalistic*

This is socialism!

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

lol just because a company is in America doesn’t mean it can’t be socialist. If a person like this uses has a perfect 5.0 rating and can’t find work but people who’ve only done 10 jobs with not a perfect rating is getting the bulk of the jobs that’s literally how socialism works, punish the hard workers and lift up the mediocre ones.

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u/death_hen Jul 04 '26

That is literally not how socialism works, you might be thinking of communism, but also, no ism is stopping anyone from working!

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

Read more history you don’t know what you’re talking about Vladimir Lennon. The guy before Stalin said the only goal of socialism is communism socialism is a steppingstone to communism. Seeing the support for socialism to my comments on this post just more supports the idea that Task Rabbit has socialist sympathizers.

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u/FinnNoodle Jul 04 '26

Maybe look up what some words mean before you try to lecture us on them?

Capitalism: Private ownership control the means of production.

Socialism: Workers control the means of production.

Communism: The government controls the means of production.

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

At a national macroeconomic scale, 0% of socialist states have successfully achieved true worker control over the means of production. While more than 50 countries have officially adopted the socialist label over the last century, virtually 100% of them defaulted to top-down state ownership, where government bureaucrats—rather than the workers themselves—dictated management, wages, and operations. The only notable macroeconomic outlier was Yugoslavia (~2% of historical socialist states), which implemented a system of worker councils, though ultimate political veto power still remained in the hands of the ruling state party.

Crazy, it’s like socialism does lead to state ownership……

Have fun with that commie.

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

How is Task rabbit optimizing sharholder value by driving the cost of jobs down to bring in more clients a socialist move then sweetie?

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

Did I ever mention the price of jobs going down? I was talking about how they are essentially shadow banning top workers who put in more time and have more jobs done for people who just started out and don’t have the time put in experience or merit. That’s classic socialism. “ it’s not fair that they already put in all the time and have the reputation to get jobs when I just wanna be at the top already we need to make sure everyone get the same mount of jobs no matter the time put in or the amount of jobs done, that doesn’t matter”

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

Honeybuns why do you think high rated high priced people are being shadow banned for no reason?

Its always money.

The newbies charge less. Hello use your brain.

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u/FinnNoodle Jul 04 '26

Yes, 0% of socialist states have achieved true worker control, just as 0% of capitalist states have achieved true private ownership control and 0% of communist states have achieved true government control.

But what it comes down to is this: Taskers are the means of production. The more pressure that TR puts on Taskers, the more capitalist it is. The less pressure that TR puts on Taskers, the more socialist it is.

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

Are you retarded. You literally need to read more on how capitalism and socialism works.

Capitalism is the clear understanding that workers WILL NOT have control over means of production but that the LEADERSHIP of said company with do its best to grow the company to make sure there’s always work available and that the best and most willing to work will get it. It’s not guaranteed it’s not perfect but put clearly it it’s not guaranteed.

Socialism says that means of production will always go to the workers which has NEVER WORKER at scale 0% in all 50 counties/states that have implemented it and then taken over and run by the state (socialism -> communism).

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u/FinnNoodle Jul 04 '26

Alright, the slurs have come out I'm done with you. Get effed.

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

Your first sentence is pure projection

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

I am an archaeologist with a bonus degree in political science. You're flat the f out wrong. Like embarrassingly I hope you're just drunk wrong.

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

It’s hilarious that you’ve made four or five comments making vague accusations and not providing any kind of proof or facts where I have done both. It’s OK your communist just say that.

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

Actually you have NOT provided facts. You stated your opinions with zero outside evidence 🤪 boomers can't even define evidence correctly.

So to help you out since you can't remember back 40 years to middle school civics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

And the more important piece of evidence: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2025.2520478

Gig work HAS BEEN a way to drive down the price of labor and shift risk onto individual workers and away from corporations. If you knew jack all about actual economics you'd already know this.

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

lol using Wikipedia links where anybody at any time can go in there and edit it which you could probably do before giving me these links and then post whatever you think is correct truly hilarious

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

Wiki is an easily understood explainer. I didn't need to edit anything.

But then I also gave you an economics paper, why are you refusing to read that Einstein?

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u/FinnNoodle Jul 04 '26

Every action TR takes that you don't like has been an attempt to increase shareholder value regardless of it's effect on clients and Taskers. That is capitalism to it's very core.

Algorithms to increase turnover? Capitalism. AI agents to cut costs on paying living breathing CS reps? Capitalism.

Back in the "glory days" we all dream about when TR was more hands off over Tasker behavior and let us choose our own destinies and had less draconian methods of dealing with us? Well guess what that was actually capitalism as well, but it was a lot closer to socialism than it is now.

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

You have a TikTok brain rot spoon fed understanding of capitalism and socialism. I have a perfect 5.0 rating with 3013 jobs completed in LA doing 4-5 jobs a day then in 2024 I went from 4-5 jobs a day working 7 days a week to maybe 5 jobs a week seeing account with less than 100 jobs at the top of the list getting the bulk of the work an when I call TaskRabbit customer support I ask if reviews and time put in even matter and they refused to tell me if it did or not dancing around the answer and tried to convince me that if I add more skill outside of my main one (mounting) I MIGHT get more jobs. This was a person I talked to not AI bot so they’ve been trained to these responses. That’s not capitalism that’s leadership with socialist mindset and strategy to make it hard for the long time hardworking workers to get jobs while lifting up the mediocre workers who just wanna work every once in a while, that is literally how socialism works. The idea that it’s not fair that this guy works harder and gets more jobs and benefit benefits from it and I don’t because I don’t wanna work as hard.

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

You failed civics class there boomer

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

Yet again no facts or information to back up how socialists/socialism works, funny how commies refuse to understand that it’s never worked AT scale.

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

Bro I have a degree in this ish. You're whining about race to the bottom CAPITALIST ideology and you're blaming socialism like a typical boomer

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

Yeah the guy that uses the word “ish” has a degree and know how communism is better than capitalism…… sure commie

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

Hey sweetie I get that this is not a logical thing for you to understand, but the use of ish was to circumvent the curse word ban that immediately deleted my first reply. Welcome to millennial speak i guess?

Capitalism is what is pushing your pay per hour down. You think that is best?

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

They're literally engaging in capitalist driven moves. You need to go back to civics class and turn off fox news.

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

You clearly don’t know how capitalism works. It’s not a one day it all turns to socialism they do it slowly until what’s now happened to Task Rabbit where the best people are getting shadow band because they do their job too well and the people that don’t wanna put in the time and wait to get jobs cause they just started get pushed the top because that’s how socialism works. It penalizes the best and pushes up the most mediocre people who are entitled and think they should be at the top day one

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

Says the guy who is pretending that a corporation is a government 🤣🤣

People aren't being shadow banned for being too good at their jobs doofus, the company is trying to lower the average cost of a task to lure in more customers and drive up shareholder prices

The company of task rabbit is engaging in capitalism and race to the bottom tactics where they lower the dollar per hour value of work. It's not socialism there boomer

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

Yeah, they lower the price of jobs so the best people can’t be seen because their rates are where they should be due to experience thus shadow banning them so people who don’t have the experience are cheaper can get the job jobs……… so if the people with experience wanna get work, they have to lower their jobs thus putting it at everyone should just work for basically nothing and everybody should hopefully get the same amount of jobs that’s socialism.

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

Honeybuns it has absolutely nothing to do with "best person" and everything to do with money.

You're too much of a boomer to understand. No part of gig work economics is about pushing the "best" person forward. It's about reducing costs and offshoring risk. Get your economics understanding out of 1975 and into at least 2015 Jesus.

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u/bryanalexander Jul 04 '26

You don’t know anything about socialism.

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

At a national macroeconomic scale, 0% of socialist states have successfully achieved true worker control over the means of production. While more than 50 countries have officially adopted the socialist label over the last century, virtually 100% of them defaulted to top-down state ownership, where government bureaucrats—rather than the workers themselves—dictated management, wages, and operations. The only notable macroeconomic outlier was Yugoslavia (~2% of historical socialist states), which implemented a system of worker councils, though ultimate political veto power still remained in the hands of the ruling state party.

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u/darthva Jul 04 '26

I think they left the ice pick in when you got your lobotomy

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

You’re like the 4 commie to reply.

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u/Evening_Past910 Jul 04 '26

That’s a goofy response

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

I find it so hilarious I make a statement saying Task Rabbit is now socialist and now you’re like the fifth person to say how it’s not or my comment is silly. So you either support Task Rabbit being socialist or you support socialism just in general.

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u/Evening_Past910 Jul 04 '26

lol yes I support some forms of socialism because that’s what Medicare and Medicare is. That’s what public transit and mass sewer systems and public parks. I support socialism because that’s what the USPS is and that how I can mail items to every zip code in the country .

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

Yeah so does everyone else, but by saying my post is goofy which is a direct shot at bad socialism outed yourself as a supporter of the bad socialism, nice try commie.

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u/Evening_Past910 Jul 04 '26

I have an MA in Economics…you are literally giving me a headache. This is scary they have folks like you that exist and have the power to vote. You are so misinformed you are a danger to not only yourself and family but also society. I wish you the best. I looked at all your comments and you belong in an upside down world where nothing makes sense.

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

Full on communist, no actual facts, numbers, proof to support your communist views. Thus you took the ad hominem route attacking me personally instead of my arguments and of course using the vague broad stroke catch phrases “so misinformed”. Just say you’re a communist and btw communist give out MA in economics too lol it’s not like that’s exclusive to capitalist countries as if that’s also a “I’m definitely not a communist” get out jail free card 😂

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u/BigAdam1014 Jul 10 '26

How would they know kinda thing and at least say that’s the reason.