We Spend £730 in credit packs just to get hired only 16 times that's a less than 1% conversion rate & £45-£50 per lead, this is a gambling site where they steal traders money by mixing real leads with fake ones
they also hire there own staff to post & pose as fake leads to try and make you spend your credits quicker..
This company needs to be investigated for illegal online, gambling & Racketeering. they have regularly ignored their own credit returns policy when contact details are invalid..
I have caught out several ppl as bark employees. just need to get them on recording...
customers not answering phone calls or emails is a clear sign of bark employees posting fake jobs to game traders into wasting credit packs quicker, so they are forced to buy more credits...
Unlike bark i can provide full documented evidence of the suspect nature of their leads.
jobs are not worth the value of each credits spends
1 credit per job is the true value but they charge 5, 7 & 10 credits for jobs that don't even cover the cost of credit packs
Avoid this scam company they don't care & they just steal your money
see previous review below
I have been using Bark for about three months, I have had only 6 jobs after making 42 phone calls estimates & emails, the six jobs I got barely covered the money spent on three credit packs.
The problem here is that bark mixes real leads with fake ones, while ignoring ppl who complain that they are actively faking their leads, using there own employees to do it.
During several a phone calls to ppl who i thought were proper leads for jobs, that i had spent credits on to contact, it become very clear during those calls, that i was actually talking to a bark employee, whom was pretending to be a customer, i could even hear a male voice in the background telling the person what to say to me.
Obviously I complained but was ignored & they soon tried to pull down the leads in question, to hide them, but I had already recorded all the contact data & screenshots so they can not worm their way out of it.
I have assessed barks current model & found that they are not a proper lead generating company & by mixing fake leads with real ones, they are deliberately frustrating business owners, into spending money on credits before they would otherwise need to.
to assist this they allow up to five ppl to purchase the lead making any genuine lead a 1 in 10,000 gamble that it will result in a job being taken by the lead.
so to round off after having used the site three times to purchase credits, i have found that the site operates like an unlicensed gambling site
In the first instance it's a gamble that the customer even reads BARKS emails
In second its a 1 in 5 gamble that your quote will be accepted.. because you allow five others to reply to leads purchased by me..
In the third instance it's a gamble that there is even a job there and the customer will reply to messages of contact or phone calls
In the fourth instance it's a gamble that the customer even has an intention of making a purchase & IS NOT PRICE SHOPPING TO WASTE OUR CREDITS
In the fifth instance it's a gamble that the ad posted is not a fake profile used by bark employees to artificially post jobs that don't exist.
In the sixth instance it's a gamble that the job on the lead purchased has not already been carried out weeks ago, and you effectively purchase a lead that had not been taken down.
They will try to reply to this with the same old robotic reply, but the truth is laid bare for all to see do not give these ppl your money, they are a gambling site & it is a matter of time before they are shutdown
reply to barks reply
Yes you do create fake leads, we have proof of you doing it, we have even done all that you suggested and were ignored despite providing said proof screen shots copies of messages..
So clearly your reply is just another scripted lie, ppl will never use bark now they know your leads are fake..
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