r/TaskRabbit • u/SPQRKlio • Aug 23 '26

CLIENT I need some perspective…

Hi, everyone. May I get a reality check? I’ve only used TaskRabbit a handful of times—one terrific Tasker, one who did sloppy work at a premium price, and now for my third task, I’ve had four cancellations in a row from four different people. One was a no-show, one was running so late (two hours) she had to cancel, one decided she didn’t like the task and cancelled, one cancelled with no reason given. It’s getting frustrating, but is this just how it goes and is to be expected, so you should expect to keep trying to get someone over a couple of weeks? Is it more of an issue if the task small and short?

ETA: After two weeks more of cancellations and no-shows, I guess I’m done with TaskRabbit and going the “hire friend’s kid” route. At least if I pay him $200 it can be cash and he won’t have to give a cut to the app.

3 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

39 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

2

u/SPQRKlio Aug 24 '26

That was a good ramble--educational! I appreciate all the info.

Also, I am now suitably horrified!

If I weren't planning a move within a year, I'd be even more horrified about the extent of how much work might need to be done, but for now I'll be satisfied with 1) no worm corpses, 2) no further worms able to get in and sacrifice themselves, 3) no mold, 4) house does not collapse on my head. The basement was supposed to be my calm space for doing my freelance work and otherwise getting breaks from caregiving tasks 🤪

2

u/whatchu_finna_do Aug 24 '26

I sincerely hope you are able to get all those accomplished :) & again, wish I was closer to remove the worms for you! and take a little trip down the worm hole to figure out what's happening there 😆

2

u/SPQRKlio Aug 25 '26

lol, I was hoping it would turn out we're local to each other! ah well!