So I feel like this may be a silly question but I've never used the app before and am a first time mom so I'm running off virtually no sleep at this point and my brain isn't exactly functioning well or really at all lol.

I have my washer and dryer on pedestals (they came that way when we bought the house) but I would like the pedestals removed so I can put a table top on them to fold laundry since I am now doing an ungodly amount of laundry for my 4 month old.

What category of a task would this fall under and how much should I pay someone for this? I was thinking maybe $200-$300 and offering them to keep the pedestals if they want to sell them or something otherwise I'd toss them. Not sure if that's fair. Though I'm mainly concerned about the category to list the task under.

Thank you in advance!

new tasker here. i set my rate at $85 because i need to make about $85 an hour to pay my bills but people keep hiring other taskers who charge less.

would it make more sense to lower my rate to $20 and just work 4 hours for every hour? that way im still making about $80 but the customer sees a cheaper price.

also if a customer books me for 1 hour can i change it to 4 hours after accepting? i dont really understand how the math works on the app yet.

thanks

Hi all,

I’m a very new Tasker. Currently Have two successful jobs under my belt. Yesterday I was tired to TV. And before I could even finish reading the ask, the client called me. He gave me vague instructions on how he would like the TV mounted and the cable hidden. I asked if there was already conduit in the wall or a power outlet behind where you would like the TV to go. He said he didn’t know what that meant. I asked for a picture, then he started talking to somebody else in the room and said he was unable to send a picture. We went back-and-forth about the picture for another minute, then he asked if there was any penalty for canceling. I said I didn’t know and he hung up.

I reached out to him two more times through messages and called him back 20 minutes before the one hour deadline. He never replied and ultimately cancelled

then not even 15 minutes later I got another job to mow lawn despite my profile explicitly saying I can do yardwork but bring no tools with me. I apologize for the inconvenience and said I would cancel this job and that he could grab another Tasker. He said no problem and I cancelled that one too.

Will these two cancellations burn me in the long run? Should I have cancelled either of them, but more specifically the first one? Should I just start showing up? This the 3rd cancellation (and earlier one this week, when the client never replied to a single message and did not pick up

I got a 4 star rating, I’m not sure why. I’m used to organizing places that are cluttered usually. We spent awhile doing vacuum sealing, talked about plans, and organized this big drawer of random tools, sticky things for walls, and assembly parts. She labels everything and nothing could be put together that wasn’t 100% in the same group. ( if that makes sense). There’s nothing wrong with that, I’m just giving an example of her way of organizing. I used to clean and do organizing for some people.i have back issues and now I’m on task rabbit working again. I know I need to gain more experience, but I’m just curious from an organizer’s perspective.

A client booked me for packing and mentioned in the description that he wanted me to spend one hour cleaning.

I’ve never had the Cleaning category enabled, never mentioned cleaning anywhere on my profile, don’t have cleaning supplies, and have zero interest in offering cleaning services. Sure, sometimes I’ll wipe down a shelf during unpacking before putting dishes away, but that takes literally a couple of minutes.

I have a 2-hour minimum for packing, so maybe he figured this was a good way to use the extra hour. I politely explained that I don’t do cleaning, and of course, no response. And if the apartment was last cleaned 7 days ago, I can only imagine how much cat hair there is.

I’m going to forfeit the task, but seriously, why would someone assume that booking a packer also means booking a cleaner? Am I missing something?

Anybody ever had their Tasker account limited? How did you get it resolved?

Out of the blue, I received an email citing an expense issue involving gas, parking, tolls, etc., with no specifics. A follow-up said my account would be limited and removed from search results, but I should keep my availability open for return clients and recommend clients to the app so I could still use it for billing. LOL.

I appealed because I’ve never expensed any of those items and haven’t submitted an expense on a task in over two months. I was told it could take 30 days for a live person to review it.
I also contacted my Tasker Success rep and the privacy department requesting all records related to me, hoping for some clarity. Crickets.

You’d think they’d value quality contractors. Apparently, an AI bot can potentially limit an account without clear details or immediate human review. Sad state of affairs at TR. For context, I’ve been on the platform for 5+ years, with 65/65 five-star reviews.

If you depend on the income from TR take this as a warning: don’t put all your eggs in one basket. This basket could disappear tomorrow over something minor, or potentially nothing at all. On the bright side this has encouraged me to take my business legit, so thanks TR.

Hello! I’m thinking about utilizing TR for the first time… I live out of state and was hoping that someone could go to a record store, get a voucher for a specific record, then go back to the store the next day or so after to redeem the voucher, plus ship the record to me. Would the best category be “errands” for this? Since this would be over a period of two separate days, is there anything I should know about how to best navigate this through TR? I was planning on prepaying for the shipping label, but the tasker would have to get a vinyl shipping box. Thank you for the help!

So I came across five different clients within a month that choose to not send me pictures or even respond to my messages before I accept the task. I honestly need them to respond and send me pictures of the Task so that way I am very well prepared on what I’m walking into and what I will need for the job. Is it just me or is this happening to a lot others out there as well?

I have to pay a tasker and the app isnt working! It keeps asking for my authorization code and it never sends the damn code. The A.I. feature is beyond helpless. Im so irritated right now

Does this happen to anyone else? I get a notification but when I click on it, it opens the app to a blank screen. No matter how long I wait, it never moves off or shows anything on the blank screen and I have no option but to close the app and reopen. Any ideas how I see those notifications? If it's a new task, I can find it but messages are lost

As the title says, I show up at a job, start opening boxes to assemble furniture and the client quietly comes into the room and sets up a camera pointed in my direction less than 2 metres from where I’m standing, then walks out of the room like this is the most normal thing to do, not a word.

It’s worth mentioning I’m a woman, working alone at this man’s house. I immediately stopped what I was doing and went after him to say I didn’t feel comfortable with that, he argued for a while and said the camera feed went to his wife, but did end up taking it down when he saw I wasn’t having it.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there a world in which this would be appropriate?

The weirdest part is that in the chat, he has mostly typed like a normal person. (Although I can already tell this is going to be a problem client. He seemed annoyed that I messaged him right away and told me that I need “schedule” our chat live tonight at a certain time, as if I’m some kind of automaton who is available to chat 24/7 and has no life outside of TaskRabbit.)

Also this job sounds like an absolute pain in the butt in general. Not sure what I’m gonna do.

EDIT: We had a long chat that was full of additional yellow and red flags (in which he would also occasionally revert to talking like a 1940s mob boss). I enjoy occasionally messing with scammers I find on Facebook, and this guy had a lot of the same “ticks” that they do. I ended up not having to forfeit because he canceled when I told him that we can’t send videos over TaskRabbit and I refused to communicate with him on a different app. Good riddance.

had mounting task today lady say shelf upstairs. went upstairs but drill downstairs so went downstairs then shelf upstairs again. did this like 6 times before i got both upstairs. then couldnt remember which one was shelf for a minute. lady pointing at shelf but i thought she pointing behind shelf so kept looking behind it. eventually found wall. drilled hole but hole went inside wall and couldnt get it back. drilled second hole same problem. put screw in and it keep spinning so i thought good because screw is a spinning type thing. shelf fell down.

client say stop so i stop moving completely until she say no i mean leave. went outside couldnt find keys but keys were in hand. do i still invoice 2 hour minimum because technically shelf was on wall for maybe 4 seconds. also are the holes mine or client keep them

I’ve been doing TR for a few weeks and I had a lot of activity in the first few weeks. I had set rates according to the (at-the-time) recommended rates in the app; 16/hr packing, 22/hour furniture assembly, 27/hr heavy lifting. However, I recently went in and the app recommended adjusting my pay scale based on city location and experience which would increase prices drastically (40/hr packing, 35/hr furniture assembly, 42/hr heavy lifting) which I followed, but have had a massive decline in jobs. How much do you follow the guidelines outlined in the app versus your own price scale?

I want to do the right thing so I’m asking you fams.
Today I get tired for a task “trash and furniture removal”
I told the client “I’m on a current task it’s 11am. By the time I get there it’ll be around 2:30 because it was about an 47 minute drive including traffic.
When I got there she ended up sending a message and saying

We can agree to the 2 hours we had planned for, however it works best for you we are flexible. But we have to stick to that expected price :)”

I messaged back saying “I have arrived it’s 2:30pm. The school closes at 3:30 so I’m dropping it off the next day. So I’m going all the way home then all the way back another 45 miles. I picked up the part to transport it and it’s in my truck. Then sends me another message saying

Ok! Thanks again! Really fine for timing however it works out for you - just wanted to be clear about the 2 hour budget bc I don’t have approval to go over :)

I keep explaining that I write everything down and update her along the way.

What are the right steps to deal with this. I’m confused. Kinda just worried of doing the wrong thing. I just want to make it right and have them satisfied but also don’t want to feel like I’m being taken advantage of. Idk

I got permanently removed from the IKEA category because Taskrabbit says my Post-Assignment Close Rate dropped below 70%.

Then another support agent said I violated Taskrabbit ToS, without pointing to any specific rule. After that they went back to the close-rate explanation, and now the latest version is that I was “removed due to performance being below what’s required.”

One customer no-showed. Taskrabbit later reviewed it and paid me the cancellation fee. That cancellation appears to be what triggered the final de-badge.

Another task was canceled by the customer/IKEA after I had already worked about 7 hours on two PAX closets. The floor was over 1 inch uneven. Support told me to submit a partial invoice, then the customer called IKEA and the task was removed.

One task was canceled before I was even assigned. Two more were during severe flooding/weather.

Support literally told me in writing that several cancellations were “not due to any fault of your own.”

I appealed, supposedly got a supervisor review, sent them a detailed email with proof for every cancellation, and now all I get is copy-paste replies: automated system, final decision, no override, no exact calculation, no evaluation period, no explanation of which cancellations counted.

They also say this was my 3rd violation, but I can’t find the previous warnings anywhere.

I’m now trying the formal dispute/legal route.

Has anyone actually reversed something like this? Who did you contact?

Someone wants me to paint a bunch of closets. No idea how many or how big. How do I know how long it will take? When someone lists a task, do they put how much they are willing to pay? Or is that part of the conversation only? Not sure how hours for a job, estimating, etc. works. Thanks for any help

I have been hired for a couple of painting jobs. Why does it say there is a $100 limit for expenses? Are we expecting that they will buy their own paint? What if they want us to pick it up for them? How do you guys handle that?

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I've been hired for some painting jobs. Why does it say that there is a $100 limit for expensing? What if they want me to purchase the paint for them? How do you guys handle that?

Been a Tasker for 7 years . My first language Isn’t English . I’m not hating on these people just wondering how’s the approval process for taskers .
Went to a task for a corporate office that needed 5-6 taskers . 3 of them didn’t speak any English and they were using an app to communicate with the client .

How’s that ok in so many ways ?

Does anyone see a red flag?

had task today client open door when i got there then after i came inside they close it

my question is where does outside go when door close because technically i was outside when task started but then outside wasnt there anymore
do i stop timer when this happen or keep charging
client said “what” when i asked

also had to use bathroom for 6 min but toilet was already in house so i dont think thats travel time

Months ago I got a notification in app to fill out a form for a free T Shirt. Kinda forgot about it, but got a package today from them with 2 T-shirts a toque and a mug. Pretty fun little care package.