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Hi everyone! Does anyone have the links to the old and new IKEA Italy portals for Taskers?

The portal I was given currently shows zero tasks available across all of Italy, which seems strange. I’m trying to understand whether I have the correct portal or if there is a different link for the old/new version.

If anyone can share the correct links or point me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!

I know there are folks who have had great experiences with TaskRabbit, so when the kid that usually mows my lawn went to camp, I decided to try it out. I just needed my lawn mowed front and back with edging on the sides of the driveway. It's a 1200 sqft house with your average sized lawn. I was asked for my estimate of how long the job would take and I estimated an hour, which was far less than the kid who usually mows my lawn takes. I pay the kid $40. I was not home the day the task was done. The guy said he spent five hours on the job at $50 an hour! I was honestly shocked! Even with the fees I did not expect to pay over $100. I have pictures of the yard that show it is just a lawn that was mown and edged. I was charged $250!!! TaskRabbit asked me to prove that the guy did not take five hours to mow the lawn. I asked them to look at the pictures of the lawn and to think about how long it would take to mow that lawn. In the end, they offered me a $70 credit toward my next service, as if I would use them again. The person ripped me off and TaskRabbit did nothing to resolve the issue.

Apparently there is no way to leave a review unless a task was completed.

Waited outside for tasker who was not responding to chats. Didn’t want to cancel as I wasn’t sure how it would affect my deposit. After an hour and fifteen minutes past the scheduled start time, tasker responds saying he won’t be able to make it because his car is in the shop. Said he ‘meant to let me know earlier but the day got away from him’.

I was hoping to leave a review simply stating that the tasker was a no show and there was no communication but I can’t because the task was not completed. I reached out to customer service but there was really nothing they could do. I just think there should be a way of noting these kinds of issues.

TL;DR - Should be able to leave review for no call no show tasker.

So I need a bunk bed disassembled, moved to a different room (one floor down via stairs) and then assembled back. Is this something I can book on Taskrabbit? What would the price be very roughly (I’m in London UK), and is it reliable? I’m kinda nervous if it’s not assembled back properly, for obvious safety reasons. I also of course don’t have instructions from the bed anymore…

If it’s not reliable would be really grateful for any other company recs

Hey All,

Made myself available for the last few days and noticed that in comparison to the last few weeks, it was exceptionally quiet. This came to light when a client tried to book my services and couldn’t see my profile or my availability. Then came to the realisation that even though I’ve made myself available for the week, TR has not got me anywhere in their full listing for my area even though I’m ranked quite high.

Has anyone else experienced this and what’s the reason behind it? Just doesn’t make any sense but am sure that when I speak to TR, they’ll just blame the algorithm or similar…

Thoughts…

Just curious

First time task rabbit user and looking for advice. I'm buying a couple of things off Facebook marketplace (dresser, table) and need help moving them. I have a Ford F250 that I can use. These are my questions:

• Would I select "help moving" or "heavy lifting and loading"?
• Is it better to ask the person to meet me where the furniture is located and then I drive the truck to my home while they follow or ask them to meet me at my home and we drive together?
• Is it better to hire one person for the pick up location and one person for my home location if it is more than say 30 minutes travel time? (from their perspective)
• Do I pay the person for their travel time to/from the job? (i.e. to get from where they live to the job site and back home)
• How much should I tip? Is it generally a percentage of the task cost or a certain $$ amount per hour?

Thank you very much if you read this far and I really appreciate your help.

Hello everyone, I had a job booked for tomorrow and the client canceled? I got notified of a cancellation fee but now nothing is showing up on my profile? What happens now?

It’s very simple: They need IKEA jobs done, but don’t want to pay enough to get Taskers to take jobs outside of their set available hours. So they send the jobs anyway, knowing that Taskers don’t want to take a hit to their algorithmic reliability score. Taskers are then forced to either take the jobs outside of their set availability, or risk not getting more jobs offered to them in the future during their available hours. 

In short, TaskRabbit is treating Taskers like employees, coercively setting their schedules. This is arguably illegal, as TaskRabbit legally deals with Taskers on a contract basis— Taskers have none of the legal protections in the jurisdictions TaskRabbit operates in that an employee would have.

I’m not a lawyer, but I know gig economy companies have paid out huge legal settlements in the past over similar practices. I wonder whether IKEA/INGKA, who owns TaskRabbit, knows that this is happening, and whether they are legally liable for this behavior, as the owner and as the beneficiary of the lower cost of assembly of their goods.

Has anyone ever gotten their account back to normal from an account limitation (direct link hire only), after one year of banned?

It’s been well over a year for me and my account is still limited, policy team unwilling to enable my account and yes I know the top comment would be to start your own business, which I’ve done but I’m just curious.

I'm a cleaner and I have my own housekeeping business as well.

I make it very clear in my bio I don't organize or declutter and that the house has to be picked up before I arrive. My basic scope is dusting, kitchen/bathroom, vacuum/mop and other deep clean tasks if requested like interior oven, windows etc.

I still get tons of people who book me and say "yes I need you to pick up all my kid's stuff in the living room and bedroom and also do my dishes and also reorganize something or another".

I also get lots of requests from people whose houses are straight up biohazard looking when they request which frankly, I don't deal with. Like hoarder level.

So I forfeit a lot of tasks. But then I saw somewhere cancelling too many tasks can get you booted from the platform. I never cancel tasks, I forfeit before I accept.

I understand that hurts my metrics -- that's fine, I still have my own regular clients.

But am I am risk for being DEACTIVATED for forfeiting too many tasks?

Thank you!

I don’t know if it will be rude to create a task to talk to someone to see if they are able to remove curtain rods, and fill in the hole they leave behind on the ceiling which has popcorning on it, so the holes need to have popcorn also.

I want to ask to get a price basically since I am not sure how hard that is to do, so not sure how long or expensive it will be.

Is this a hard task to do? About how long does it take? Thank you

Heading to a location and the client says they "...believe they have another item to assemble...hope that's ok?..."

How do you all handle this situation and what's the best to not set a precedent? Feel like I'm being taken for granted here...is this normal? How do you stop it? By the way, this is isn't the first time...

I received this FA request for 2 7-drawer Hemnes dressers

Just thought it was funny …. When they estimate time.
Additionally, he has other items, but told me his budget for 2 dressers, 8 drawer vanity and 3 king bed frames was $300 😩

Hello everyone, I keep having issues with my app. It won’t load my homepage or the map. Any help would be appreciated, I have tried signing out and back in again as well as deleting and reinstalling the app. Thank you in advance

So I got an Errands request from a potential client to buy season tickets on their behalf (NOT with my card, obvs) since they live out of state. Is this something we can do? Has any other Tasker here done something similar?

Hey everyone,
I’ve been using the app for about 2 years now, but I honestly don't get a ton of job requests. It feels pretty slow most of the time. On top of that, it seems like if you ever have to cancel a job, the system pushes you way down the list and you stop getting calls altogether.
For those of you who do this:
Are you able to pay all your bills and live solely off this app?
How do you deal with the algorithm penalty after canceling a job?

Hi friends, don't kick me around for my rookie question here: are we to confirm the 2-hr min in the chat? I've not tasked for several years and don't want to get dinged right off the bat.

Thank you

New Tasker here. Got my 3rd task for furniture assembly, building 2 cabinets. Only thing is the starting time is 6pm? I don’t mind being there late but since they are pretty large pieces of furniture it may take a while to do.

Is there a hard stop time or can I work till it’s finished?

I presume I should check with the client they are okay with me coming that late as I have a 2 hour minimum also.

Has anyone else been in this situation?

I just signed up a few days ago, my background check was fine and I'm pretty sure that I filled out everything correctly, I haven't completed my zoom meeting yet. I haven't received any job offers, I live outside of Dallas and according to the maps it's busy here. Could anyone tell me what might be wrong, do you have to complete the zoom meeting before receiving offers?

I have two IKEA pieces of furniture that I would like assembled but want to take the best approach to ensure I get matched with a tasker and don’t have a cancellation. It’s just for these two pieces (9 drawer Alex) and will not be adding on any extra last-minute request that I know some people try to make. What’s the best way to book it and as a task, what would you be most likely to take the job?

I’ve been on Taskrabbit for about 2 years and primarily focus on Furniture Assembly and Personal Assistance tasks. I’ve slowly been adding new skills over time and am wondering which ones in the Home Improvement category would be a good starter point/ low risk/ low entry cost to build into, stuff that I could experiment with around my apartment first.

I dabbled occasionally into a few home improvements type tasks but nothing really in depth.

For instance, with stuff like “Minor Home Repairs,” what does the average task look like here? The category description is a bit broad. “Smart Home Installation” seems like another simple one but I don’t know of the demand for this.

Just curious to know, does anyone film or timelapse their builds at all? Not for a fancy montage to edit later but purely for security a d protection purposes.

We're in a world where it's a "he said,they (she) said" environment we enter into and it's evident that TR takes the side of the client and not for the Tasker so much.

I've been thinking about setting up a camera and obviously asking for permission, to film myself taking care of tasks. Hopefully the client shouldn't really refuse and if they do that would be seen as a red flag in my eyes.

Thoughts on this please. Are some of you out there ready doing this? What about the female Tasker's who go into homes, how do you protect yourselves? Has anyone had an incident where they wished a camera was setup to motior and document a previous problem? Thinking of using a GoPro or even an Insta360 but if anyone out there is recording what are you using? I imagine even an old iPhone from the drawer could suffice.

Thanks for reading and stay safe and protected out there...

I’m moving in a week and need to get rid of some segments of a sectional couch that I am no longer needing as the new apartment is smaller than current.

I tried booking some guy yesterday morning for afternoon work today, the guy never responded to my chat (I initiated with images of the furniture to be removed and asking about associated dump fees) and then later yesterday evening denied the task. I then rebooked the same task with someone else.

He actually responded to the chat and then when asked about dump fees gave me some number that is 3x the actual rate when I looked it up. I kind of just assumed the rate was including his mileage and wear and tear, realized I was in a pinch and accepted I was going to be fleeced and said yeah whatever, just submit the dump fee receipt for the expenses.

He canceled the task this morning…

Is this normally how this app operates lol

I am not understanding the value and money saved when after the hourly rate and high dump fees versus just calling 1800 GOTJUNK saves me negotiations with people. At least they are up front about high fees

I'm exploring moving options and wonder if a tasker can be helpful.

I live in a 2bd/1.5bth apartment--third floor walk up. I'm renting a POD and would like a tasker to help load the POD for later transport. They do not have to do the transporting. I'm thinking just the manual labor of moving items from the apartment to the POD.

Would I need to provide tons of materials? Straps, moving blankets, etc.? Or are there movers who can provide those and bill me for them?