Rated People Reviews

Name: Rated People
Rating: 2.37

2.4 Rating 225 Reviews

34 %

of reviewers recommend Rated People

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2.4

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Rated People 1 star review on 18th September 2024

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“Cowboy builder butchered my bathroom which was left for 3 weeks and never finished. Had to get another tradesman to finish job through a friend. Also left an elderly disabled lady in a builders mess for a month and never finished job! Dreadful site!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I used rated people for a year when I first set up my business. I received a phone call one day and the chap from rated people persuaded me to join a £24 a month contract to use on lead credits, cancel when you like. After 12 months rated people continued this service without my permission, which is apparently in the small print that they can do as they please. I tried cancelling before and after the 12 months but they refused. They have threatened to take me to court if I don't pay. I no longer run my business so I no longer need the service. I have never missed a payment. Rated people is a good idea, but I would advise against taking out a contract with them as it is almost impossible to get out of it.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“SCUMMERSSSSSSSSS”

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Posted 7 years ago

“I find it’s the arsehole customers that are the pain Every one checks the tradesmen out but not the customer Most have no idea what they want or even how much things are The only winners are rap I could say more but probably wouldn’t be allowed”

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Posted 7 years ago

“We've used these before and have been satisfied. However, this time we had a tradesman who simply didn't do what was agreed in his quote and he refused to return to finish the work. He charged a huge amount for so little work. We are at present taking him to Court. Rated People were not prepared to put our review onto their site as they said it didn't conform to their T's & C's. They make you water it down so much it doesn't reflect how bad the trade person is. In short, you cannot get any idea of what the trades person is like, as they basically only allow good reviews which makes their system absolutely pointless. At the end of the day all you get is a name and you may as well ignore any reviews.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Tradesmen !! Stay Away !! I was on this site for a few years and built up a good profile with all 5 star ratings and just one 4 star. Then i bought a job lead, booked it in, carried out the work. It was to move a pipe, It took an hour. The customer was really happy and paid. However they didn't rate me. Then the customer phoned me the next day and asked if i could quote for some towel rails to be fitted. This was a big new build house with 6 bathrooms. I gave them a quote, they excepted. I carried out the work. Then when i came to get paid , he didn't want to pay me the amount i quoted. I refused as this is not fair and the price was right for the amount of time i spent on site. His wife ignored him and payed me and said thanks. Then he left me a really bad review on Rated people. I couldn't get hold of rated people to tell them he's a cowboy customer. I phoned the customer up and tried to reason with him that this job was nothing to do with rated people as the initial job he was happy with. He was having none of it, and just kept saying "well you should of gave me a discount. " We had strong words with each other and i had to hang up. Then the next day i was removed off Rated people with no warning , no chance of explaining any thing to anyone. That was it! I don't know what he told them , but it was obviously lies. 2 years of being a squeaky clean good plumber with good ratings and one cowboy can do that. Theres no protection for good honest hard working trades men.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“These people are con artists the whole company is designed to get money out of you. I have bought no end of leads, 80% of the leads don’t get back to you and rated people refuse to refund. I’m now tied in to a contract. Use my builder it’s loads better”

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Posted 7 years ago

“BEWARE - Waste of time I used Rated People to find a tradesman to carry out some work on my property, I had numerous problems with the tradesman (bill harding - harding construction) and he ended up walking away with close to £9000 leaving my property half finished and a total mess. I contacted Rated People for assistance in tracking down this tradesman, I was only provided with a phone number and email address and this was no enough to summon him to court. I asked Rated People to provide me with his details so I could send him court letter. I was told that this was something Rated People could not do. I used their service because I believed they were safer than traditional methods, this is obviously not the case and when something goes wrong they leave you high and dry.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Im a tradesman they charge huge fees for average jobs do not vet timewasting homeowners then if someone pulls out of a property sale so there is no job to quote on they do not give you your lead money back morally wrong. Would anyone pay £50 deposit for a car then when you turn up there is no car you would demand your deposit back surely. Terrible customer service legalised daylight robbery”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Make bogus jobs up charging £55 +vat plus for a so called customer you can never get hold of. Leads are double the price compared to sites such as my builder and customer services is poor . Claim they never cold call to get you to join but the last 6 months call continuous to get x customers to return as they have lost all the tradesmen Job leads are becoming lower and lower as homeowners use better websites such as My builder, trustatrade and bookabuilder”

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Posted 7 years ago

“don't use this website, if you buy the lead and you don't get the job , THEY WILL NEVER REFUND YOU THE MONEY TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT , it will go to your profile on ratedpeople as a credit , hence the leads prices are too high , SCAMMERS”

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Posted 7 years ago

“We used a company called www.dampworx.co.UK they came to do our damp proofing went through a water pipe which they never mended properly. Took our money refused to give us a receipt or a certificate for the work. Pipe then burst refused to answer our calls or messages and e.mails sent. Had to call out a plumber to fix it who had to remove some of the damp proof, have tried again and again to get in contact, just completely ignored us. So avoid at all cost and would not recommend this sight at all if I could of given no stars or even minus I would of done. You think your doing the right thing by using this sight and all we got was conned it leaves a bad taste in your mouth for being so gullible.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“RESEALED MY NEW BATH AND TILES TERRIBLE JOB WHICH I PAID WELL OVER THE ODDS FOR. LEAKS THROUGH BATHROOM CEILING INTO KITCHEM. CRACKED TILES AROUND THE BATH AND GROUT LEFT EVERYWHERE ALL OVER THE WALLS AND MY POLISHED WOODEN FLOOR QAWFUL JOB DONE BY AMATEURS AVOID AT ALL COSTS ! MUCH BETTER SITES TO USE”

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Posted 7 years ago

“They came, the son and father. They got on with the jog of giving me new fencing and were quite helpful but they missed one fence out saying they would come back on Wednesday but as we see later Wednesday never came. As I trusted them I offered my cheque but the father said he does not accept cheques, only cash. Although I was taken aback but pleased with their work I accepted the offer of his son taking me down to town to draw out the money causing me some problems along the way.By then being 74 I was under a bit of stress. When we were finally back at my house I sorted the money out with them. Before I had got back my breath they disappeared with the money without giving me a receipt. they never came back on Wednesday so I rung them up and they replied promising a Friday visit which again never materialised the same of further visit offers.. I have been extremely disappointed with their behavior.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Hired Allan pugh a so called painter and decorator through rated people . He gave us a quote to paint our kitchen and utility room tried to charge us extra for a small amount of filling which was included in the original quote. Eventually asked him to leave. The work he did was very poor when I gave a second coat the paint peeled off due to newly plaster walls not being prepared correctly. Gave a negative review to rated people but it was now published.”

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Posted 8 years ago

“ashwood trees did not complete the job for the lady in Bitterne,Southampton that i do gardening for.They did not remove/clear away all the tree debris.They said they would call back "tomorrow" to finish the job but my Friend paid in full trusting him to keep his word but "tomorrow" hasnt arrived yet.They left tree debris all over my friends lawn.drive & garage roof which they have left holes in.They have left this lady very distaught especially as she is a full time carer for her husband so £200 paid for an uncompleted job is a disgrace.She has tried contacting Ashwood trees to no avail”

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Posted 8 years ago

“I have been a builder/joiner for many years and decided to go onto rated people 8 months ago after cancelling my yellow pages ad, making this my main source of advertising and link to obtaining work. In the past 8 months I have had all 5* reviews and never had any negative feedback. On Friday 6th of May I received an email stating I was being removed from their company website has I didn't adhere to their high standards!! this come has quite a shock as I didn't understand why?? I have tried numerous times to speak to someone there and they will not speak to me. I feel very upset and disappointed with this and feel I should have an explanation. To top it off they have also been in contact with a customer who I was going to be doing a job for next this week, saying that they had removed me as I hadn't adhered to their high standards (embarrassing) and also giving my company and myself a really bad name and impression where are my rights as a tradesman......”

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Posted 9 years ago

“My first and only experience of rated people has not been good. My partner put an "ad" on at 10pm one evening and at 9 am two men knocked on my door totally unannounced and had not gone through rated people (they got it from just my postcode and chanced their luck)! I am a middle aged lady with a toddler and had two men who I have no idea who/where from etc are and proceeded to give me an extortionate quote which was beyond ridiculous when the materials would have cost them £200 max and I was quoted 8k for not much work. I asked for something in writing or by e mail and it has never arrived but they continually hound me by text! These two builders from Doncaster were con men without a doubt and I was stupid to even let them over the threshold. This is a shame as i am currently waiting for a company from Nottingham to turn up at a specified time. He rang beforehand to arrange a time and date and I have been a able to research them on the Internet. Maybe it's just the two other guys who give honest builders a bad name.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“i am a tradesmen,i have done many jobs on rated people and had full 5 star overall rating from all previous customers apart from the huge lead fees and cheap skate home-owners i got by using it,my account was getting used by some1 else (hacked)and when i called them up to question this they just didnt not help at all i verified my identity and original account details and even scanned them my driving license and bank and they would not alter the account as the name on account and bank details dont have to match which is so dodgy this allowed my bank details,address and details to still be used by the hacker they do not have the resources to check anything or brains just want money from lead fees do not use tradesmen and homeowners especially if the tradesmens details dont have to match anything very risky for every1”

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Posted 9 years ago

“owain lloyd morris. malltraeth, anglesy (alleged builder) did a garage rebuild for us. The dimensions were much smaller than specified and the general workmanship was poor.”

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Posted 12 years ago

Rated People is rated 2.4 based on 225 reviews