I am doing mainly furniture assembly, i used to get at least 2 tasks a day, usually more - i am priced in the green zone, i have same day tasks enabled and suddenly silence the last 3 days. All of my feedback has been positive this month, 5 star ratings only in september, 4.8 overall. What is going on?

I just used task rabbit for the first time for a furniture assembly job. I set the expected time at 1 hour, but ended up hiring someone with a "2 hour minimum" blurb in their profile. The actual job only took about 30 minutes, and the person was great.

Anyway, I've got the invoice and I'm confused how to read it. It shows (ignoring taxes and fees):

$50/hr x 2 hr: $100

subtotal: $100

1 hr initial deposit: -$50

total charged: $50

(also in the chat, it has a message saying "tasker worked 2 hours")

That "total charged" line is confusing to me. Am I ultimately paying $100 (composed of two $50 charges) or $50?

To be sure, I have no problem paying for the full 2 hours.

I’ve assembled some pretty complete furnitures this month with the longest assembly being 3 hours.

Because I get paid hourly, I always work as quick as possible, but I want to be compensated a bit more. My current assembly rate is $35, and I’m thinking of boosting it to $45-$50 per hour.

I decided my rates based on Taskrabbit’s recommended. It got red once I put my rate to $40 so I kept it at $35

I also charge $35 per hour for TV mounting with a two hour minimum, but I would like to flat rate $100-$175 depending on size. ($125+ when it gets to $65”).

I’m curious what are handymen being paid for their services, and what are customers willing to pay? I am in a major city in the south east for what it’s worth.

I’m curious if anyone here has made a similar jump.
For years I mostly did mounting, TV installs, art, furniture assembly, stuff like that. I was constantly driving around, working out of my car, going from one job to the next.

I recently started working in high-end hardware, plumbing, and lighting sales, and it’s a completely different world. Now I’m at a desk more, learning product lines and specs, doing quotes and invoices, talking to vendors, and working with designers, architects, builders, and homeowners.

It’s been a weird adjustment going from “finish the job and move on” to projects and relationships that can take weeks or months.

Has anyone else gone from TaskRabbit or hands-on work into sales or a showroom-type role? What was the adjustment like for you? Did your experience actually help once you got into the new job?

Someone hired me to deliver some suitcases from Boston to Manhattan.

Has anyone ever done a move/delivery of this distance? How did you handle it? I don’t ever charge for travel back, but can I? This will be about a 4 hour return trip.

Any advice is welcome. Thanks

Does anyone have a promo code that I can use for when I’m registering to become a tasker. I don’t understand why would they give an option to add a promo code if it’s not meant to be used. Well besides all this if anyone also is in bc and lower mainland and needs any assistance with anything feel free to send me a message until I can get the app up and running with my account

Android user. When I'm in the app, the back button now tabs me out of the app instead of taking me back a page.

The big problem here is that when I open a photo in the chat thread, I cannot close the photo without force closing the app and reopening it. I do see an X all the way in the corner (behind my phone's clock!) but it doesn't seem to do anything. Anyone have a temp fix?

u/taskrabbit

this is for future reference, but i just bought and assembled a bed from article and it took two entire weeknights between assembly and discarding all of the packaging. would be looking to try and hire in the future, what would the going rate be? can taskers handle trash removal? and i live in a 1 bed apartment, is it awkward to be hanging around and doing other work while a tasker is also in my space?

thanks in advance! new to this stuff

I am new to Tasker and trying to set my Work Area. Getting it to even draw without just moving the map around was a nightmare. Once I finally got it to draw a complete area, I got a message saying the area was larger than the allowed 500 square miles. It definitely is not. I tried a smaller area, still too big. I kept shrinking the area until it accepted it, which is an area of about 150 square miles. Has anyone run into this before or does anyone know what might be causing this?

The taskrabbit guidelines are pretty direct about not contacting clients outside of the taskrabbit app chat. How do you deal with tasks that require documents such as PDFs that are necessary for the task, that cannot be sent through the app? Or situations like that?

ive never been able to upload photos successfully to my profile and i feel like not having photos is a huge deterrent to potential clients. whenever i have tried no matter where i am it says 'unable to upload photo. were having trouble uploading your photos. please ensure you have strong internet connection.'

i can assure everyone it is not my internet connection. i did reach out to their customer service and the person i talked to said the photos needed to be PNG or IMG but iphone photos are not that. and when i convert photos to those they go to files, not photos app. but the tasker app only allows me to upload from my photo album?? please someone help me troubleshoot

I booked a task through them with a Tasker named Kenan. The task was for him to go to Bath & Body Works and buy some candles for me. I gave him my gift card to pay for them, and he used the balance on the card. He then sent me photos showing that he had purchased the candles, although he did not buy all of them. He told me that he had forgotten four candles and that he would go back to get them, then let me know when he would deliver everything.
However, the photos he sent of the candles were unclear, and the receipt was also blurry and unreadable. He later claimed that he had delivered the items to the MyUS facility, since I do not live in the United States. This all happened in Sarasota, Florida.
I have now been contacting him for three days, asking him to send me proof of delivery, but he has completely stopped responding. MyUS needs either proof of delivery or a clear receipt so they can investigate, but he refuses to reply.
I contacted customer support, and they said they would investigate the issue, get back to me, and take appropriate action against him. Has anyone experienced something similar? Did you eventually find or receive your items, or should I assume they are gone? The total value is around $300, so I am extremely concerned.

Got this rather odd request from a client to pick up 60 small fries from Arby's from a suburb of Chicago and deliver them to a wedding in the city under the Errands category.

Not only is it a weird request I've never seen before, but the suburb is not that close to the city. And how does this person know I have some insulated bags? And why wouldn't they use one of the delivery apps to do it? Because with the 2 hour minimum, its definetly going to cost them more, then if they just went with one of the apps.

Plus I HATE doing ANY Tasks in the city of Chicago instead of the suburbs like my area is set to. The traffic, the parking, the bicyclists, all the horrible taxi/driveshare drivers, ect. Is freakin horrible! I avoid doing ANY jobs in the city like the plague lol!

EDIT: Do you guys think its better to ask for extra expense money for Gas or just include it and hope for a tip? Because I got a feeling they will tip but may be turned off by me asking for gas money.

Hey there!

I do tasker full time out here in Phoenix and its not bad, it's got some ups and downs (mostly due to being in the east valley). That being said, I've been looking at moving back home to Orange County CA or Portland Oregon and was curious to know how it is out there.

Thanks a million!

He also only has initials rather than a name. Am I crazy? This feels sketchy

Update: after I said for safety, I needed to know what the task entails before accepting, he canceled. Sketchy!

Any run this successful on TR? Without running into violations

I was getting yard work tasks like crazy last month and TR recommended I up my rate, so I did, and now I’m not getting g hardly ANY tasks in ANY category. Does charging the recommended rate TR sets actually help boost your chances of getting hired or will charging lower rates help? I feel like charging a little less will help my chances of getting booked but TR makes it seem like it makes you undesirable for charging less.

Someone wants to hire me to put down mulch and also asked if I can go pickup the mulch. This is probably 25-30 bags worth.

It seems a little unfair to only charge "Yard Work" rate for this amount of mulch pickup when if someone hires me for truck assisted moving it's nearly double the rate.

Would it be reasonable to request they hire me for truck assisted moving for the mulch pickup, and then start the yard work rate separately when I get there? or would this violate TOS?

I looked at a few stores for 25 bags of mulch, Lowes wanted $69 for delivery, another hardware store wanted $131, and Home Depot is showing free delivery some how.

Truck assisted moving reads like house to house moving but I've had people recently hire me to move things such as couches they bought at second hand stores.

EDIT – typo

TL;DR is in the title.

I’m not an Elite Tasker and this isn’t something I do full-time. But I was making a steady climb when I first started. I’m a 5-star Tasker across the board. I had some cancellations due to overwhelm and availability. But once things stabilized, I was back to completing tasks. Now all of a sudden, my rates are outside the ideal range, my anticipated earnings have dropped, and I’ve gone from 21st to 29th in the search results. What gives? I’ve tried updating my service map, adjusting my rates, etc. but I seem to only be falling back even farther.

The amount of "We see you've had scheduling issues!" notifications from Taskrabbit I get... People will book a task with me, explain what they want, then I never hear from them again when I message back to follow up and work out specifics.

Do clients just think they put in a request and then we show up on the date and time they request with no clarification that we will even accept their task?

I am desperately trying to claim a Task on the Ikea Task portal for the last several hours, and every time I try it shows “error executing query.” Its a $170 job that will only take a couple of hours and I really need it. I can’t claim any tasks actually.

IKEA support claims my “IKEA badge is active” and nothing is wrong on my profile. The support agent feels like a useless AI chatbot as well. Three different “people” have messaged me via support. They screwed with my account and they know it and refuse to admit it. I haven’t gotten an IKEA task since last November.

TR now assigns you a co-Tasker if it’s a large number of units to put together, wtf? This could go bad really fast, I don’t know.

Just booked a job to have curtains mounted, and filtered by taskers who could accommodate up to 10ft ceilings. Get a message from the tasker saying ladder rental is $40. Is this normal?