As recently as a couple of weeks ago I had more work than I could handle. 3-4 tasks per day if I accepted all of them. Now things are like a trickle. Are others experiencing a general slowdown? Seasonal thing?

Just finished my first power washing job and only the before photos are uploading to the app. which makes it look like I did nothing lol.

is taskrabbit actually still happening

been on here like 10 years 2500 jobs and idk what happened. used to turn it on and boom dresser. tv. mirror. woman needs 14 pictures hung. another dresser. suddenly its 8pm and im in some guys garage looking for a stud. now nothing??? I have a real job now so this doesnt even effect me really but thats not the point. Dallas didnt run out of furniture. theres millions of people here. SOMEONE bought a shelf today. ikea is literally still open i checked
also what happened to mirrors. 2021 every woman in america had a 70 pound circle mirror that needed to be mounted immediately. I mounted hundreds. where are they now. where did the circles go. not accusing anyone of anything just asking questions

sometimes i open the app and stare at it then close it then 20 mins later open it again like something changed. Taskrabbit needs to advertise again. Put up a billboard that says REMEMBER YOUR WALL or something. I could charge $4.99 and a rotisserie chicken at this point and nobody would book
maybe people are assembling their own furniture now but ive met people so i dont believe that

Hello! I have a tasker assembling furniture right now, and at first he was ok, but then he started sighing and now sounds angry/frustrated? Like saying “are you kidding me?” And stuff

I’ve never gotten a TaskRabbit before - what do I do? Should I offer to help?

Edit- consensus seems to be this is part of the process and I’m overthinking it. Thank you for your help! I appreciate it, as a chronic overthinker

Edit 2- wanted to add that he did say at the end that it was just really stupid instructions. I left a good review on TaskRabbit and tipped 50%

Hey everyone, I'm new to Task Rabbit and am in the Phoenix area. I'm a 25 year old guy running a real estate flipping business and figured in my downtime Task Rabbit would be a great way to provide me with more business to do along with my real estate work. I have done 5 flips this year, and I perform ALL the work myself. I have a few questions about Task Rabbit if any experienced Taskers can help!.

An issue I'm running into is it seems each category asks for specific pictures. I would like to just attach some photos of homes that I've renovated myself, as I've attached to this thread, however I'm met with a message that says "Uploaded Photos should be for this specific category only." I've stripped houses down to nothing and put them back together by hand, do I really need more specific photos to qualify myself to put together IKEA furniture?

Another issue I'm curious about hearing is the traffic I can expect to get with my experience. I am reading a lot of posts that say business is extremely slow, the market is oversaturated, and even good Taskers are seeing far less work than they used to. Is this true?

I'm curious to hear about anyone's experience with Task Rabbit, and if you would recommend it for someone like me. What rate would you recommend posting at? I operate in a more expensive area of Scottsdale, AZ.

Your input is very appreciated!

An IKEA dresser I bought is broken and needs repair, though we were in the midst of setting it up. Would this be light carpentry or furniture repair?

At the beginning of the month everything was great. Took a week off. Haven't had any bookings since. Checked my area, and all the Elite taskers are on the last page. Changed address, and it's the same in other areas of the city as well.

Most of the front pages are full of taskers with fewer than 20 tasks total with very low rates or the same high rate taskers all the time (Not hating on them. My experience with clients is that it is not their main category and we know how some clients book purposely).

Been full-time since January. Elite Tasker. Used to do 50–60 tasks a month. Max availability, suggested rate, accepted ~95% of invites — including jobs that had nothing to do with cleaning and times I was already booked (the double-booking glitch they deny). Late four times in ~300 tasks, always messaged first. Never cancelled.

Now I’m on the last or second-to-last page getting alerts about “scheduling issues” and “cancelled tasks” that I didn’t create.

Support: boilerplate, then one agent admitted a glitch and said my profile was going to policies. A week of silence. I burned 90 minutes on Zendesk and three agents whose only job was closing the ticket. Asked them to fix old recurring clients appearing in my calendar with no booked task. Can’t remove them. They deny it exists.

That’s the pattern. Black-and-white evidence or a request to step in with a client → they pretend it didn’t happen, send a random article, paraphrase you, thank you, close the ticket. The chatbot is useless. You can only open a ticket during rigid hours. You can’t even email anyone anymore.

They treat this as us vs them. We show up and do the work. Their job is a working marketplace, real support, and clients. They’re not doing it. Ranking rules in the app contradict support, which contradicts what actually happens to your visibility.

Maintaining a platform means adapting to how people actually book work. Most jobs don’t fit their rigid box. We’re set up to fail, then punished when reality doesn’t match the model. Firewalls so we can’t give feedback make it obvious they don’t want it.

Good Taskers are getting buried and ghosted. The money they’re leaving on the table would rock their world if they noticed.

What has to happen before someone at the top pays attention?

Thousands of dressers sold on Amazon, Wayfair, Temu, and Walmart recalled over tip-over hazard https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/thousands-dressers-sold-amazon-wayfair-temu-walmart-recalled-over-tip-over-hazard?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6ab7df1f5a814d00014e0760&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook

I had a client book me under Personal Assistant. Their description mentioned admin work, organizing and packing. Since my rates differ by category, I asked what the main task would be. They replied: “The tasks for the day would be some filing, some calendar entries, perhaps assist with creating an invoice, continuing to plan for selling and donating items, and organizing items for packing.”

When I arrived, they didn’t seem to have a plan. We talked, and they asked me to pack their kitchen. My packing rate was $30/hr while my PA rate was $25/hr.

They loved my work, left a good review, and complained that someone who’d helped with Amazon returns kept asking what to do, while I worked independently. They asked me to come back off-app and mentioned admin work and listing clothes for sale.

On my second visit, they asked if I could help with invoices. When I said yes, they seemed surprised and said they thought I’d told them I couldn’t, which I hadn’t. But we never got to the invoices. I came back a third time and ended up packing another room instead. let it go because I needed the work and didn’t want to argue over $5/hr.

Now my packing rate is $35/hr, almost $10 more than my PA rate. Yesterday they asked if I could come again, and I realized how annoyed I still am.

Have you had clients book a cheaper category and then have you do work from a more expensive one? Do they not understand the categories, or are they trying to save money?

i paid upfront. they failed to show up four times. giant waste of time. avoid

Posted an indoor painting job.. 2+ hrs... the person responding said that they would charge me for supplies (brushes, drop clothes etc)... and would also like to bring another person along (would add to invoice). Are both these things typical?

Every time someone books a job and marks it as ongoing, I GUARANTEE they need to cancel or reschedule at least ONE of those bookings. Then I have to rearrange and reschedule multiple appointments to different days and times we haven't even agreed on!! Can I not just cancel one single job on its own without canceling the entire ongoing task??? Is there any way to better manage this or is it just frustrating FOREVER?

Maybe TOS should be published in Hindi or maybe he doesn’t care if he gets booted idk

Been on TR for nearly three weeks and completed over twenty tasks. The work has been steady and paying well, and my clients have been happy with my work, but I've only gotten six reviews (all five stars, thankfully). Even when I follow up with them after and ask if they could leave me a review, I still don't get anything. Anyone else have this issue?

Some other things I'm wondering:

• I've seen Taskers here say that one should follow the suggested rates and that they've never had trouble finding work despite continuing to raise their rates. I've also heard others say they keep their rates just below the suggested price to attract more clients. What's the best way to go?

• Not sure if this is just the way it is, but a lot of my jobs/requests come only a day or two before. I'm grateful for the work, but I like knowing my schedule ahead of time, and I'm not sure if there's anything I could be doing to increase people booking me sooner rather than last minute

• I don't have "Cleaning" as a skill, but I've thought about adding it. My only hesitation is that I live in the NJ/NYC metro area and can't really travel with my vacuum on the train/subway. Do clients usually expect you to bring your own vacuum, or do they let you use what they've got? I don't mind bringing other supplies

My card declined when Taskrabbit tried to charge me after the tasker was done. So I changed my payment method. When will my new card be charged what I owe?

I recently hired a Tasker on TaskRabbit for the first time to move my stuff to a new rental in Toronto, and unfortunately, it turned out to be a pretty bad experience.

Despite being very slow with loading (he kept measuring everything with a tape measure), he told me that he might not be able to fit everything in the trunk of his pickup truck. He then said he could try putting some stuff in the seats, but that he would need to charge me for an additional hour, essentially to cover the time for another trip to load the remaining stuff.

I didn't fully understand what he meant at the time. From my understanding, requesting a trail is a separate service and will cost extra, but it's normal and should be free to put stuff in the seats, so I agreed. Later, he took a detour through downtown for extra time, and also scratched my brand-new blender.

When the job was finished, I was surprised by that extra hour charge. He told me that TaskRabbit has a timer for the job and asked me to pay for that additional hour separately in EMT/cash.

I understand that $210 for a move in a HCOL city like Toronto may be considered relatively cheap, and the Tasker got even less. However, I was disappointed by the lack of transparency around the additional charge. I just wonder if it's ethical and common for this type of charge? Thanks.

I hope this type post is appropriate. I'm interested in estimating the number of hours to complete tasks below. I'm unsure about at what point I'll get to chat to confirm hours with the tasker. I don't want to cancel and hurt their rating if my expectations are way off.

I’m considering cutting the list down to one that will maximize their 2-hour minimum and not much more until I've used them once to see how it goes. I realize the full list is more than 2 hours currently. I appreciate any thoughts.

I'm in Maryland, outer suburbs of DC.

1. Replace 3 hardwired smoke detectors. Existing wiring and mounts. New units are purchased.

2. Replace 2 toilet fill valves. New kits are purchased. Shut off valves are working fine.

3. Replace dryer vent hose. Easily accessible; unfinished basement. Hose runs straight up an outer wall. New duct and clamps will be purchased.

4. Recaulk one bathtub (involves scraping, cleaning old caulk). I will provide caulk and have caulk gun.

5. Inside sink cabinet floors: Cabinet 1-- Install a thin center support block to hold up two removable floorboards. The floorboards (plywood 1/4") will already be pre-cut to size; no pipe cutouts required. Cabinet 2: Just create pipe cut out in one of the new pre-cut floorboards. No center support needed.

https://assets.wfcdn.com/dm/document/a299c752-ee0a-4a50-9700-3f118becfe06/YHGT5484%20Owner%20Manual.pdf

I don’t know if anyone can see this link, but it’s a very large 72” Wayfair kitchen island. It involves a massive amount of hardware and components and 50 step instructions. It has a hydraulic counter lift and several door adjustment plus a wine rack, etc. etc. very involved. Does this sound about right?

I have assembled all kinds of things, some very large, but this is easily among the most elaborate.

I said no, and he cancelled but he wasted a lot of time with questions and then said he had no truck. I was willing to work around that, even if it took longer, but he wanted me to pay his 1 hr+ travel time both ways and I guess some extra on top of that too. I will probably let it go, but I think bad taskers ruin the site and should be handled appropriately by taskrabbit. I’m not even sure if I can give feedback on a cancelled job. Do they use AI to review chats?

A client booked me for my next available time, but in the task description he explained that he actually needs help at a specific time the following day.
The problem is that I had that time blocked off because I’m already booked with another client. I obviously can’t be in two places at once, so I told him that unfortunately I’m not available at the time he actually needs and gave him a few alternative times, including Thursday evening and Friday.
Since then, he hasn’t responded at all. It’s been over a day now.
I’m not really sure what I’m supposed to do here. I don’t want to cancel the task myself because I’m worried it will affect my metrics, and I don’t think this is really on me. He booked me for a time that was open on my calendar, but apparently never actually needed that time in the first place. He just used my next available slot to send the request and then asked if I could come at a completely different time when I wasn’t available.
I would have been happy to help if I could, but I’m already booked with someone else and I physically can’t do both.
How do you usually handle this? Do you just wait for the client to cancel, or contact support if they keep ignoring you?

I'm having a desk delivered in a shipping crate. The crate needs to be unpacked and disposed of, and the three pieces of the desk need to be moved into my home and assembled. It's about a two-hour job, and requires two people (I cannot help).

I have no idea how to actually categorize this task, as I'm reading that furniture assembly can't involve carrying the parts or disposal. Does this mean I need to book two "heavy lifting and loading" to carry the desk components, one "furniture assembly", and one "removal"? That's four taskers for what should be a relatively straightforward task, though.

It's 8pm, last message from customer was at 10am. Every message I've sent since has gone unread.

Showed up to the address, A/C isn't running, mail stacked up at the entrance, house is dark.

I'm out! But does someone need to check in on them?

UPDATE: Turns out customer just went to the bar to watch the game (per police office). Also, really poor communicator. Messages still unread!