Checkatrade.com Reviews

Name: Checkatrade.com
Rating: 2.01

2.0 Rating 544 Reviews

25 %

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01243 601234

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5-6 Sherrington Mews, Ellis Square, Selsey CHICHESTER
PO20 0FJ

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Checkatrade.com 5 star review on 21st October 2024

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Checkatrade.com 1 star review on 30th September 2024

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Checkatrade.com 1 star review on 25th September 2024

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Checkatrade.com 1 star review on 25th July 2024

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“Poor response to queries. Do not resolve issues. Charge a lot of money and the accounts department can't sort No account support, just take your money each month with no review of the account. Very disappointed in the service”

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Posted 3 years ago

“We left a polite and informative negative review about a trader who provided a very poor service. The website confirmed my review had been received and would be published. Soon after, an email from checkatrade stated: "thank you for confirming you do not wish to have your review published". Out of curiosity, I looked at the 168 reviews for this particular trader, and not a single one was negative. I read through a number of reviews on trustpilot and here on googlereviews, and it is clear that legitimate negative reviews are not published by checkatrade. I cannot trust checkatrade and do not recommend using them.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Checkatrade so called 'Traders' do not reply. Most of the trades in my area are working for Wickes or similar, assembling flat pack furniture. Any professional trader would always reply to a quote request. Poorly trained cowboys don't.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“WARNING FOR THE PUBLIC DO NOT INGORE!!! We got a builder on Checkatrade website in 2013 called APF Builders trading in Mitcham (Paul Jones and Peter Fleckney we’re the builders names they quoted us £37,000 for a single ground floor extension I was building for my elderly mother with disabilities. The builders keep on asking for cash payments and making so many excuses about why they need money for my build which was complete lies!!! I came to find out. In total the builders ripped me off and took £25,000 in cash and ran!!!! We trusted them as they were on CHECKA TRADE!! Check a trade advertise builders you can trust and are vetted absolute b***s*** Check a trade are not to be trusted whatsoever they didn’t even gave no care or consideration for us when contacted. CHECK A TRADE IS FULL OF COWBOY BUILDERS AND THEIFS!!! POSING AS TRUST WORTHY BUILDERS!! STAY AWAY YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Terrible since they've been taken over”

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Posted 3 years ago

“We are a company registered on Check a Trade and what we have found recently is that Check a Trade are not getting enough reviews hence why they are slipping down on their position on Google. Now, they have fallen into an all time low by sending out to Tradesmen fake negative reviews that they themselves have made up. Also, they allow anyone to put anything on, whether it was from a real customer or not. We had one sent to us at the end of last week. We did not do any work for that person. Check a Trade still published it because they want us to go and get more reviews to pop their website up. This is a very sad practice that they have now taken on because of ratings and greed of money. The staff are quite arrogant and condescending as well. As a customer of Check a Trade we can confirm this. Think twice about joining them.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Clearly don’t check very much at all we searched a trade via checkatrade and we got a recommended a cowboys company. We got rid of them after day 1 as the work was so poor”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I have used them twice but never again. You can only trust recommendation by someone you know.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Absolutely SHOCKING. I was missold membership. I was GUARENTEED an average of 4 calls per month. I have so far received ZERO. When I complained they simply said I cannot cancel and I'm committed to a 12 month contract and I have to pay £40 per month till the end of 12 months. I now have requested the recording of the sales call and will have to waste my time going to the Ombudsman to get me out of the contract (even though they have breached this contract) They promise you the world and deliver nothing!!! AVOID AT ALL COSTS”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Today I had my carpets cleaned by a company called Valet. Paul was really friendly and nothing was a problem for him. Would I use this company again? Absolutely!! The carpets smell fresh, really clean and absolutely painless. This is the firm for me in future, excellent.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Tradesmen avoid this company,if you get a negative review ( I did which was packed with lies)Checkatrade will back the customer completely.Avoid like the plague”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Well here I am again just letting other members of checkatrade know what happened about my complaint from someone that called me and I declined to do the job and that someone left me a score of 1 on my checkatrade profile so I sent a email to CEO Mike Fairman of checkatrade and also checkatrade complaints team but never got a response back from either so I've cancelled account with them which they have accepted by email also the 6 other tradesmen that I recommended to advertise on checkatrade over the last few years were thinking about leaving already because of the price increases so as a full team of exerlent tradesmen we are all going to join trustatrader WHAT A SHAME THAT CHECKATRADE DOESN'T LISTEN TO 5 YEARS +MEMBERS SO 7 MEMBERS LEAVING THAT PAY ABOUT 2 GRAND EVERY YEAR THAT IS A LOT OF MONEY TO LOSE WAKEY WAKEY MIKE FAIRMAN SORT YOUR TEAM OUT”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I received a leaflet from Checkatrade and out of the 60 ads, they all contained the same area code - not one mobile number. Then I noticed that 57 of the ads shared only 2 district codes. I smell a rat, but I won’t be phoning Checkatrade for pest control. It’s obvious that these are different extensions for the same 2 numbers. I wanted a quote for fitting a water pump - labour only - and I would supply the electrical feed. I was told it was a 2hr job and £150. It’s a 30 minute job - max. Incidentally I was previously looking for a TV aerial installation and had a reply from a shuttering carpenter!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Checkatrade has been going downhill for a while. My negative review on a company didn't get published, they still have five stars, but it's not true. You can't trust their recommendations. Always go with recommendations from friends or neighbours.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“After speaking to someone who called me asking whether i could do a emergency job for them which After explaining the job to me I declined to do as I was too busy this person which I have never met or been round to his property he left a bad review on my website with a score of 1 out of 10 so with 142 other reviews on my checkatrade website all with 10 out of 10 scores this person has totally ruined my profile after speaking to checkatrade they said that people can do this so after paying checkatrade over £2000 every year for 5 years as a member I've decided to leave because if anyone that one of its members doesn't know or worked for can do this personally I think that it is very wrong so hopefully checkatrade might be able to get in contact with the person that left this review on my website and ask him to join and pay £10000 over the next 5 years which they will not be getting from me SHAME ON YOU CHECKATRADE LOOK AFTER YOUR MEMBERS FIRST NOT JO BLOG'S THAT MIGHT HAVE CALLED ME FROM A PHONE BOX BECAUSE YOU WON'T PROVIDE ME WITH ANY DETAILS ABOUT THIS PERSON”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I have left 2 mediocre reviews for 2 tradespeople of which check a trade say after they will contact me to verify my review before they publish them. They never do. Customer service are useless as just say someone will be in touch but no-one ever is. I believe they only publish good reviews to keep the paying tradespeople happy who have business accounts with them and don't bother following up the poorer reviews.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I've been a member of checkatrade for 6 years now and they have been exerlent polite and very helpful I've got a ten out of ten score rating but today I've just received an email from them saying that a customer called me and I declined the job that they wanted done and the customer wants to leave a bad review score of five out of ten HOW CAN THIS BE CORRECT BECAUSE IF I HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN TO THIS PERSONS HOUSE HOW CAN THEY EVEN LEAVE A REVIEW ABOUT ME SURELY ITS UP TO ME TO DECIDE TO DECLINE OR EXEPT WHATEVER JOBS I TAKE ON I'm going to call checkatrade tomorrow morning to get this resolved if they decide to leave this persons review on my website im definitely going to leave them if checkatrade decide to find in my favour then I'll leave another review on this website giving them 5 stars for backing me up ALSO WAS JUST WONDERING IF ANY OTHER TRADES HAVE A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE”

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Posted 3 years ago

“You did not post my review regarding your member, but this is the type of poor workmanship and paint mess they leave on a newly renovated house! You obviously think this acceptable, as you sent my review to your member to comment on and decided to believe her over a customer!!! She has a contract with us and has been overpaid to value of works completed. She left the site because she was unwilling to discuss and negotiate variations, that were not variations but part of the original contract!! Last time I use your site and I will be posting reviews about checkatrade on any blog or review site that I research! I have been building for over 40 years and Jess Sherry Painting is the worst and messiest painter I have ever experienced.”

Checkatrade.com 1 star review on 27th June 2021

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Posted 3 years ago

“I recently put up a review for their painters and decorators. This review was quite negative but honest, as I have been building for over 40 years and I know good trades from poor trades. Non the less, the painter quoted our decorating works for a fixed sum and was given the go ahead. They left the job unfinished and in a mess although they were paid up to date. Even though it was a fixed price, the painter tried to add many many variations as well, which most were already included within the quote! Checkatrade did not publish my review and then sent the painter a copy of my review! The painter then messaged me, abusing me and calling me a liar etc etc!!! Checkatrade are obviously filtering and covering up bad reviews for some of their members and not publishing the truth!!!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Hall Electrics 01903 257919 on Checkatrade, 01903 266611 (unobtainable) on Google. Appointment for today, no show, no call to cancel.... wasted my time. Sick and tired of being let down by companies on your advertising flyer. The term 'no job too small' should add 'unless we get more lucrative offer or can't be bothered out butt to fulfil our promise'!!! You're flyer is a complete waste of time!”

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Posted 3 years ago

Checkatrade.com is rated 2.0 based on 544 reviews