“Rip off in every sense for the professionals, you have to pay up to £6 a bid . It's basically a gambling system taking advantage of freelance professionals. They also constantly phone you to try and get you to bid more.”
“I've been able to find a good number of customers from this app. I check it every day for new jobs and quote right away. Highly recommend for cleaning jobs.”
“Bidvine work best for the client , not so well for the you as every time you have to pay to bid for a job. If you want a potential clients number you also have to pay. Some time the jobs sound exactly the same as one that was sent to you 5 weeks ago.”
“I started using Bidvine 6 months ago and felt like a lot of these people giving 1-2 star reviews. I spent about £40 and didn't see much out of it. But then they gave me a ring and talked me through how I could get more customers to get back to and hire me (like getting reviews and adding some photos). They also helped me out by adding some £ on my account. Now I've won a handful of clients and some are now regulars. I've learned that this is a good app...it just takes a bit of work.”
“Love it! I've used it occasionally over the last couple of years for things around the house. All the people that have come to do the work (painter decorator, handyman, rubbish remover) all did a great job and they were easy to find.”
“I've been on Bidvine for almost half a year. My profile is full of images and videos to represent my services but had no clients interested. They just look at your profile, rarely a reply, just money down the pipe. Everyone is just window shopping.
Waste of time! Don't bother!”
“I have been using Bidvine for a couple of years now and got a lot of new decorating jobs from it. You just need to stick with it and make sure you have good reviews.”
“Waste of money and time some people just look to find the price and then search on Google and the find Bidvine and then "some one it's gona contact you "
I find the bid I put my money example for Plastering £4.80
Went I contacted the person hi told me "o I just wante to know the price for that sorry"
---'xxxx A lot of money spent
It's not great for throwing you money???”
“I have used one bidvine professional and I had an awful experience. This is my review of Marius Mihaltan, who works at solidwoowork.co.uk and also use bidvine.
Marius, who works for solidwoodwork.co.uk, kindly accepted to come to mine to disassemble and reassemble a wardrobe. I booked another contractor to fit in with Marius' time, Marius even suggested the time the other contractor should come. I sent a message the day before to confirm his attendance and he didn't reply to me. I didn't think any of it and just thought he had a busy day. Come the day, Marius is a no show. Not only is he a no show, he doesn't even bother calling me. And when I try to reach him all morning Marius avoids my calls. I therefore call his brother, Florin, but he does the same and do not pick up his phone. I also message them but no reply.
Marius Mihaltan and Florin Mihaltan bidvine description, states that they are thriving on building long term relationships with their clients, that they are punctual etc...clearly this is not true and when they agree to a job and eventually decide that they cannot be bothered to attend the job anymore, Marius and Florin Mihaltan don't even have the common decency and professionalism to pick up the phone to let their so-called important client, know.
But this is not the end of the story. The wardrobe in question had already been disassembled and reassembled during a previous job by Marius's brother, Florin and one of his colleague. While the wardrobe is reassembled, the doors are not closing properly because of the way they reassembled it. That time, I was really distressed about it (it is an expensive wardrobe) and they both assured me that next time, Marius Mihaltan would come over to fix those. Marius even called me that night to reassure me and promised that he would fix this. They also left some marks on my wall when they moved the wardrobe and Marius also confirmed that he would rectify that. I have all the pictures and his written confirmation of this. As you can see a man of his words. But now I realise that the only real motivation to this call that night, was not because he cared about the standard of his job or me as his client as I thought, he only really wanted for me to pay his brother and colleague for the poor job they did and I foolishly did because when Marius confirmed on the phone he would fix this, I absolutely trusted him. I cannot believe I paid full price for what they did because I trusted them. And I know it will be impossible to get anything back because they have been avoiding my calls and messages, like any rogue traders do.
I would also like to add this word of warning for people who are thinking of re-hiring bidvine traders that did jobs for them before. Always do so by posting a job and having him officially accept the job on bidvine. My agreement with Marius Mihaltan was done via the bidvine chat. The reason I didn't post the job was because I absolutely trusted him and by agreeing to do my job, he entered into a contract with me, so I thought I was protected. However, it turns out that if you don't post a job and officially hire the trader, you cannot write a review of them. Bidvine have very kindly accepted for me to change a previous review of Marius Mihaltan, because they understand that my awful experience with this trader would be beneficial for the bidvine community to see.
Another anecdote about Marius Mihaltan is that when I realised that I couldn't write a review because I hadn't posted the job and officially hired him, I sent him another message explaining the situation and asking him to do the right thing and officially accept the job I had finally posted, so that I could write a review of my experience with him. Of course he didn't. This shows his level of professionalism and care for his clients.
I really hope this review will help the community avoid similar experience and please reach out if you have any questions or even advice as to how I can get reimbursed for the previous job they did.”
“I have been using Bidvine for a while as a professional photographer and filmmaker
I am sure it is good for service seekers but clearly not for professionals. I pay every time you contact someone and often no answer or worse the jobs cancelled that's happened 8 times no reason given no refunds for most of thrm. Professionals do all hard work by placing their profile, certificates, reviews, service seekers use this app to get a price guide for other people in other apps. No screening and refunds should be given. I even think there are bots to keep you interested in the app as there are not that many people on thsi. Many people don't bother even to answer to a message which is paid by professional. Frustrating! Don't bother”
