bark Review

PROS: The idea of the product is the best, but what really matters is how you execute it.

CONS: Hello, I am not normally one to review, but this company is a money hungry company that will fight you on every dime. Find other freelance sights. I have had good relationships with Wedding Wire, The Knot, Honeybook, and Fiverr. I have actually made good relationships and money on Fiverr. I have also freelanced a lot of work out through them as well! Let me explain some issues I have had below. 1. They do not stand behind their products. If you read all of the fine print, and I mean EVERY WORD you will soon see that they cannot guarantee that you will be hired. I am new to the wedding video business, and I first saw that they had a guarantee, so I was not afraid to spend a good chunk of change to hopefully book one client. The tricky part is they make you wait 7-10 valuable days for the second round of credits, and then they will only give you a second round after you jump through all their hoops. Oh and don't even try to disable the auto credits (auto charge), because that will take a few days to figure out. 2. Okay lets talk about what really matters. How is the prospect client relationships on this site? Simply put very poor. The site will normally charge you over $10 per lead, but most leads are shopping around and some aren't even looking to buy. On fiverr I easily convert over 50% of leads maybe over 75% of leads. 3. Now for weddings. I Have had a horrible experience on this site. But is it just me? No. I have had great experience on other sites, and feel like I have just waisted tons of time trying to communicate with the "customer service agents", and even trying to set up a store front. I hardly set one up on Honey book and I have already received more clients. Guess what I am paying? $1 per month for the first 6 with no commitments. I will be spending much more on that kind of service after the first 6 months. I don't try to normally be an angry person, but this was one of the biggest waists of time and money I have ever spent, and I don't want anyone else to experience this.

PROS: Ok honestly I thought I would give this a go despite reading bad reviews, I have spent £1596.63 on leads over the last two months I've gotten in £1950 paid for work not a lot of profit The problem with bark is it SHOULD work but people are horrible when they can hide. Like the people who reach out to my full 100%profile (it's a bark thing) for a quote then don't answer the phone or respond to the email after me spending up to £28.00 on an aerial photography lead, this is soul destroying or the examples of people I phoned ten minutes after the bark has gone live, and the jobs went already yeah someone else is doing it for me sorry I forgot to cancel the bark . Do you get a refund of your bark credits no, no you don't because the phone was answered and the person who requested the bark has no culpability. Credits!!!! that's another thing you buy credits with hard cash and you bid for jobs using credits each credit cost £1.20 so you get the bark and have to spend 28 credits to answer it that's actually £33.60 to spend on a job no-one will pay you more than £250 for and even if you can get that much just bid with pounds credits is a crap system trying to disguise what people are actually spending. and its a lot What is a job worth???, this is another thing wrong with bark they have a suggestion of most people pay £???? for this, that is way under what I would charge as a photographer this section sets up a race to the bottom if people read that and set up a request they expect to pay a figure no-one wants to work for, that figure just makes suppliers angry and we then have to defend our craft overall its been a fair experiment I'm a good salesman and can talk people into things on the phone if you are weak in this department you will not make money I knew I would break even I even hoped it could work but it can if you add up my time and petrol and another expense BARK.COM hasn't made me a penny so ill leave If you are going to go ahead be warned its not a great model it could be so much better if you only paid for jobs you won but that would be too much to ask from bark i think Craig Lonie

CONS: stop charging people up front charge for jobs won

PROS: THIS PLAT FORM SEEMS TO WORK BETTER FOR CREATIVE AND TECH BUSINESSES

CONS: THE HIGH COST OF CREDITS. THEY COULD LOWERE THE COST OF CREDITS FOR THE BUSINESSES JUST DOING A TRIAL RUN OF THEIR SERVICES. WE SELECTED BARK AS AN OUTSOURCE LEADS SERVICE BECAUSE OF THE FREE ACCOUNT AND THE FREE TRIAL OFFER. ONCE OUR FREE ACCOUNT WAS SET UP WE FOUND THAT TO REACH OUT TO LEADS, YOU HAD TO BUY CREDITS, WHICH WAS FAIR. HOWEVER, THE COST WAS ASTRONOMICAL! IT WILL COST YOU OVER $200 TO GET ONLY 180 CREDITS. THIS PLATFORM IS A GAMBLE WHERE THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS. THE LEADS ARE NOT ACTUAL LEADS; MANY LEADS WERE NOT LEGIT. MEANING WE WOULD CALL, TEXT, AND EMAIL THESE POTENTIAL LEADS AND GET NO REPLY. IF YOU ARE A SMALLER COMPANY, THIS WILL NOT BE THE BEST FIT FOR YOUR BUSINESS. THIS PLATFORM REQUIRES CONSTANT TIME AND RESOURCES. I CAN GRANTEE YOUR MONEY WILL BE BEST SPENT ELSE WHERE. PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE PAYING FOR ANY CREDITS. MAKE SURE BARK HAS LEADS THAT PERTAIN TO YOUR SERVICES. IF YOU ARE IN THE ACCOUNTING PROFESSION, I CAN TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE AND RESEARCH THAT BARK IS NOT FOR YOU. UNLESS YOU PROVIDE TAX SERVICES.

PROS: They are fake. So there aren’t any best aspects of the company.

CONS: Nothing can work when it’s not genuine

PROS: NONE - this is a dodgy company so my advice is not to use them

CONS: The management do not care about customer resolution and I had my account cancelled for complaining to them

PROS: None at all terrible product and everyone should avoid.

CONS: Automatically billed me, when I complained 10mins afterwards when I realised the error they refused to give me my money back. They have also not responded to my request for my details and to speak to their GDPR officer. Closed my account after I complained and "bought" leads Spam email, poor customer service. Avoid at all costs.

PROS: The only good thing is the ease of signing up and setting up a profile.

CONS: I spent $110 in 5 minutes and was only entitled to send out 4 proposals. I waited 12 days and received zero responses to these 4 proposals. Bark.com does not even respond to my inquiry asking about their promise to provide credits on initial charges. This is a money pit service to say the least.

PROS: Nicely designed website. Reliable emails. One touch payment system

CONS: Money back guarantee, relations with sellers