Airtasker Gift Cards have just launched last week, and Woolworths are offering 20% Off.
Airtasker is a local services marketplace, where you can get anything done! (Think cleaning, handyman, delivery or furniture assembly).
These are great gifts for Christmas for friends and family. It's like giving the gift of time.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca8qIcOGzmU for more information
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A ha! Thank you.
So, answer is yes?
When a handyman comes, I am sure they will have all kind of excuse to charge you more. These kinds of local services never have a fixed price!
They can't charge you more. You don't give any cash to the handyman - it's all done electronically. They are paid after you log into the site and 'approve' the payment. If they try to ask for more $$, tell them to F-off and then give them a 1 star rating. LOL.
These are great gifts for Christmas for friends and family
Great timing. I was thinking it might be nice to hire some friends and family for christmas.
Nice find thanks OP. I am organising an end of lease clean, carpets and pest control and hadn't even thought of using Air Tasker. Now I will potentially be saving over $100 once I buy enough gift cards tomorrow!
As someone in the service industry (computer tech) I can tell you I hate these kind of sites/organisations. Either they're subcontracting you and always trying to screw the price they pay you down, which means you aren't able to do a good job - or they just get in the way and add unnecessary expense/people to be paid for into the mix.
Let me tell you how it works - you pick a big organisation with flashy ads or full page yellow pages ad. Supposedly a national company, so they must be good, right? They advertise a fixed fee, or low hourly rate. You ring them, book the job.
They sit in an office in Mel/Syd then get on yellow pages.com.au and find the nearest independent person that does that kind of work, ring them and ask if they are available and what would you charge? Then "can you do it for $xx less"? "I'll check with my supervisor if we can do that". I have never been asked what experience I have or how long I've been doing it. Only ever can you do it now and for minimal money. They always promise this job will lead to lots more (they don't).
So I stupidly agree to do the job. I find out the exorbitant rate the client has paid, mentally roll my eyes, try to do as good a job as I can for the little money I get, then try to advise the client how best to do this in future.
Then I have to submit loads of paperwork and wait while they 'forget' to pay me - and finally after a few months they actually do pay me.
All in all, it's bad for me and a bad deal for the client. There is no guarantee of quality for them and it's certainly not cheaper.
Wait, what? I'm confused.
Isn't Airtasker exactly the opposite of what you're complaining about?
You post your own services and you only accept the jobs which you think are good value, right? You could factor in their 15% cut to your fee.
Doesn't matter anyway, there's only 2 tasks posted in the whole of Australia! 370,000 my foot.
There are a lot more than 2 mate.. not sure where you are looking. I do get your points though but you can't undercut as only you know what you have quoted to do a person's job.
For a task I had going I got four quotes, I chatted to the two that I thought were the most competitive and read through their client reviews and company info (as one had their own business whilst the other took side jobs for the business they worked for).
After getting many quotes for franchises and what appeared to be sole traders, the quote I got from the airtasker takers was more competitive. In the end it was around $70 less but with the 20% off the gift cards I saved $120 just off the quote given not factoring in that $70.
Remember airtasker is not just for run of the mill jobs. Need a logo designed? Need a couch moved from Brisbane to Sydney? Need an article written for a blog or just someone to review your website?
It may not be for all, but it acts as another platform to promote your service or request a service.
I looked on the map on the site and it only had 2 little logo's on it, but I must have misread how they show on the site. I was thinking each task would have the logo on the map. Ok, worked it out - they only show after you click 'Open Tasks' or 'All Tasks'. Still only seems to be about 20 (however it does say to join to see more tasks) - and they're all in Sydney. None anywhere else. So I don't see the 340,000 they BS about. Maybe that's worldwide (heaps from India no doubt).
Right so I signed up just to see all these millions of tasks - only in Sydney, quite a few, but really only rubbish cash in hand stuff. Good if you're on the dole I suppose, but strictly crap jobs for the majority. I'll pass.
I do notice that any task that can be done online gets assigned pretty quickly, but the ones that require a body present in real life can take a while (some pay badly - I mean $50 for a 'clean my house'?). The online ones presumably go to cheap workers OS.
Look for menial tasks it seems an ok idea. We might even get to the US system of loads of of underground, cash in hand, illegal immigrant workers. Create a whole underclass. Then we can lord it over the peasants.
Definitely a few around me in Brisbane. The amountsecond you see are what people offer to pay. For some tasks they are kidding themselves for what they offer to pay as like you would know, some are no where near what the job would actually cost.
Mine for example had me offer a realistic amount that was shy of some real quotes (from actual companoes). In the end the offers I received to do the job were pretty good and competitive.
So of them offering $50 to clean their house they maybe quoted $150 to actually do the job.
There would be some people who put tasks on that won't budge from their meager price points.. but those are the ones nobody quotes against as they are unrealistic.
I got four quotes from mine. So I was happy.
But hey, each to their own.
If you can do a couple $250 jobs a day.. that's 500 a week.. all add up. Like the pick something up and deliver jobs. If you drive that way each day in an empty van, why not do it for an extra $50 in your pocket.
It's actually quite similar but not the same.
I'll describe as follows from what I know about similar company structures.
Instead of the can you do it for less, you are basically bid down by inexperienced workers. In effect the client gets burnt once by someone who undercuts your own bid and lodges an unsatisfied with work review. This client no longer has confidence in other taskers who should have been easily able to perform the task that was required by the client.
Clients won't pay after you have completed the work and you don't really have. This can go both ways, sometimes the tasker runs off with the cash and doesn't complete the work.
In many ways this subcontracting structure is almost the same, but unlike being undercut and being convinced to work for less, like 1; You automatically lose 15% of your potential revenue. If you have your own ABN and/or registered company, usually they would have come to you in the first place as you are local, rather than bounce the request through another firm to bounce it back to someone local.
Sometimes there is a minimum payout or they will only pay at the end of the month, after lengthy verification. Some freelancer type companies will also make you wait up to 90 days for any disputes to come around with the work you have completed…
http://www.productreview.com.au/p/airtasker.html
So, similar but not the same. Very similar in fact, almost shockingly, for most who have worked for Airtasker competitors. There is basically not much differentiation between Airtasker and its competitors.
Yes, there are quite a few variations, but basically it involves making it appear more professional and cheaper for the client - and easier to find clients and more steady work for the provider. What it actually turns out to be is a way for some Johnny slicko type to sit in a cafe drinking lattes while skimming xx% off all the work. The client usually pays more, or gets worse service - and the provider badly paid (or paid late) and stressed because they want to do a good job (at least I do).
Just look in the Yellow Pages or on Google (even signs stuck up in shops) - the same way these big companies do - and get yourself a better deal.
What's the point of the map? It doesn't show where jobs are. The job list on the left doesn't change when you move the map.
What's airtaskers cut? Can I buy these and pay myself?