Angi Reviews

On the main page (non-subscriber) when looking for carpet cleaners in Grand Junction, Colorado at the beginning of the page they show 34 "CARPET CLEANERS TO AVOID", and 17 "TOP RATED CARPET CLEANERS" (they list only how many, not the names) which totals 51. Toward the bottom of the page in green print they have "ALL CARPET CLEANERS IN GRAND JUNCTION, CO" with the total being 51. Webster defines "all" as "The entire number of." I know for a fact not "ALL" Grand Junction carpets cleaners are listed. Therefore, their claim is FALSE! Called customer service/member care and got the run around speaking to about 4 different customer care reps. and 3 supervisors. Was hung up on a couple of times and had to call back. I was on the phone with them for over 1.5 hours. They refused to answer all questions: such as "What does ALL mean?" And claimed: "All" is for just the ones they list.

I tried Angie's List in 2013, they charged me over twenty dollars and I received nothing but bothersome spam and ads I can't get rid off... Now they just put another charge through on my card out of nowhere!!! They are thieves, CROOKS!! BEWARE!!!

I had an issue getting membership price through their website and had to call. Rep did NOT confirm authorization with me before authorizing my card. Bad experience with rep I spoke to. I won't recommend Angie's List to anyone.

I impulsively subscribed to Angie's List because I'd heard good things, and I wanted to check local reviews. After paying, (I never established a password) I clicked on an entry. The free reviews I'd seen online were far better, and Angie's List was showing me hair salons 40 miles away. I immediately tried to cancel. I was given a cool polite offer to cancel my membership for NEXT year. I did this twice with the same result. I had only had the subscription for a few minutes. Then I posted their quote: “If you purchase a year membership and are unhappy with our service, we'll refund your purchase - 110%. It's our goal to make our members happy. :)” Funny thing. My refund came through immediately. I consider this deceptive. My advice: Check reviews for Angie's List online! And use the 110% promise if you're not happy.

I posted a negative review of Las Colinas of Westover Hills in San Antonio, Tx. A rip-shod medical rehab facility. Days went by and all I could see on Angie's List was the name of the company. No grade was posted and the review count was set at 0 - why? People searching the list would see no grade & 0 reviews and move on. I kept writing in to customer service via their web site and also made calls to their toll free number. Was told that it would take time for the "review" team to analyze. I paid $29.99 for the PLUS subscription that gives access to medical info.

So I just discovered Angie's List for businesses is a scam! Basically you have to get your current or past clients to join their membership in order for them to give you a review. Until then your business will not show up when members are searching for your service you provide. But this is not what they told me when I started. They said even outside reviews would get me on the list. So I did that. Got a few awesome reviews from my very sweet, kind clients. Called to check my status, and now they tell me the real truth...... They have to be or become a PAID member in order for my reviews to count. REALLY???? A shady, small pyramid scheme maybe. I don't know but this world becomes more and more dishonest and ugly everyday. BEWARE OF ANGIE'S LIST!!!!

Angie's List does nothing to prevent a competitor from taking the identity of a business with a good review and changing the information so that future referrals come to the fraudulent competitor. It seems that a web-referral site would be certain that the business they refer to is in fact that business that earned the good review and not some thief, business troll who lurks on Angie's List.

I have a small business in Austin TX and we have tried to be very calculated in where we spend our marketing dollars. We had a couple of our clients leave us A+ reviews on Angie's List so we started receiving calls from the marketing department of Angie's List soliciting us to do advertising with them. It sounded like a good opportunity being that they have so many paying subscribers in our market. Before I agreed to commit I was receiving 1-2 calls a week like clockwork from ** the salesman. Past me signing up NO ONE has called me. They took my money and made me sign a one year agreement then vanished.

Handyman Services - I called about 20 people on their list to come to my house for 3 services I needed done. Not one of them was interested to even come and look at the jobs that needed to be done.

I hired a contractor who was highly rated by Angie's List. After he did deplorable work, destroyed my property, and took me for $20,000 I contacted a new contractor. Can you contact to help me contact Washington state so that I could be refunded by the original contractor's bonding and insurance? It turns out the man has a suspended license. He knows nothing about basic codes. He performed shoddy electrical and plumbing work although he has no experience in those areas. Once the walls were opened up exposed wires and other and I showed documentation to Angie's List. I told them where to look to see that his license was suspended despite his lies. I guess he pays them because they still support him even though I called on numerous occasions and I was told they had other complaints by consumers.

As their commercial states, no vendors can buy their way in to Angie's List. However at least weekly they call us trying to get us to purchase some outrageous advertising package. Bottom line they are middle men and are a huge scam!

I was first put on Angie's List by a client in 2006. I am a cabinet/furniture maker. I am a one person business. I have over 20 reviews of my work and they all have an "A" rating in all categories. I have been approached by their account reps on numerous occasions to advertise in their publications and have always politely refused. Their selling point was that they have many calls for people that could use my service. The last time they contacted me I turned them down again due the cost. I have noticed the referrals have stopped since January. I sincerely believe this is due to my not buying their advertising.

We were an advertiser on Angie's List for three years and earned an A rating. As soon as we declined to renew our advertising, we suddenly got a dissatisfactory rating posted to our page that is actually for another company not ours. We posted a detailed reply explaining the rating was not for our company and outlining the information. We contacted Angie's List. They made us submit all our company ownership papers and after several months of review and delay they relocated the listing to the correct company. Last month, when we did not renew our advertising contract, Angie's List suddenly placed the same review for the other company back on our page and simultaneously removed the reply we had made. They have now contacted us repeatedly via email and phone call to solicit advertising. They are attempting to bully our company into advertising with them.

In looking at a quick repair for my remotely located I went to Angie's list and signed up for a solution. I signed up and declined marketing blogs, emails, etc. I chose a "great buy" $39.00 for one hour of plumbing. The plumber arrived then called me telling that they charge $35.00 to show up and that the repair was another $240.00. (Toilet seal repair for $240? Seriously?) I complained to Angie's site but never heard back. Nothing. What a scam. I've tried to cancel Angie's List for months and today, received a MAILER at my home address. I'm angry and will repeat this rip off story to anyone I run into.

I joined AngiesList on April 13, 2015, for an annual fee of $5.39. I logged out after using it for about 20 minutes as I was at work. The next day, I was unable to log back into the website. When I called, I was told that I had trolled hundreds of websites. I still can't use AngiesList and my membership dues has never been refunded.

I became an Angie's List member in 2014 in an effort to hire a well-regarded contractor for a bath remodeling. This was the first major home renovation for my husband and I and neither or us know much about construction. We hired an "A-rated" contractor from Angie's list who ended up doing a very unprofessional job. Not only did he over-charge us by 50 percent on most materials but he never filed the permits for the work. We contacted Angie's list and let them know that the story with their "A-rated" contractor. They said we should use their Litigation team to negotiate with the contractor. After a wasted month's time, not only did we receive no action from Angie's list. They won't remove the contractor from their site. Allowing more people to fall victim to this contractor. I will never trust a company or contractor from Angie's list. It's not a good service and they do nothing to help the community they say they serve.

We rarely use Angie's list because it's difficult to find what you want on the website. Can't search easily and can't seem to find companies that I know are on the list. I tried to cancel when the membership came up for renewal. Was offered half off for another year. When I didn't see the refund of half off, I called customer service. I got a very unpleasant man who told me the refund had been issued and I should check with Paypal (never use Paypal by the way). All in all, a very unfriendly experience. I will not renew with Angie's list again.

I found a really good sheet metal company on Angie's list; however, the daily deals and things like that are not worth the money. Their ads are misleading. You have to jump through many hoops to get your money back. In order to get my money back, the company told me I had to delete my negative complaint against them. Angie's list does not monitor these things. They told me I had to sign up for a more comprehensive program in order to get assistance over the phone and of course it was more money. When my membership is up I won't be renewing. Not worth the money.

I needed to clean the gutters in my home, I subscribed to AngiesList and they sold me a coupon for $75 dollars. Well - the company never showed up. When I called AngiesList to get my money back, they refused. After so many calls and getting angry, they finally refund the $75 after 3 months. I gave them a second chance, I needed a plumber. Again I bought a coupon for $50 from AngiesList, they send a plumbing company and took them 2 days to fix a leaky faucet. They charged me close to $400. The company never redeemed the $50 coupon and AngiesList kept the money. When I ask them to refund the $50 they told me I should get it from the plumber. I said, "Why would they refund the money if they never cashed the coupon?" They told me to keep on calling them. Amazing! I think this operation is a scam!

I tried canceling my Angie's List account using their online service but was unable to because it's rigged. So I called an Angie's List rep over a month ago to cancel my account. I explained to her that I never use it so I wanted to cancel. She then tried to get me to stay with them by reducing the monthly fee and then offered coupons. I explained again that I just don't use it and would like to cancel. She said she would cancel my account but lo and behold they still keep charging my credit card. I've reached out to American Express and asked them to credit my account and block Angie's List from charging additional charges. Hopefully this will work. I would definitely not recommend Angie's List to anyone.

Angie's List proactively pursued my business to purchase an advertising package. My credit card was charged three weeks ago and I still don't have the login information to update my profile. I have to request multiple times to receive, complete, and approve information that will allegedly improve my customer base. I have not received a single customer inquiry, and my assigned contacts are unresponsive. I regret allocating any of my advertising budget to Angie's List.

I put my business of 21 yrs on Angie's List 4 years ago. They immediately bombarded me with solicitation calls and emails wanting me to advertise with them for approximately $5500 a year. All of my business comes from word-of-mouth from completely satisfied customers. The rep told me they would give the same advertising package for $2100 with many promises. I decided to advertise with them and it was a huge waste of money. After the year was over the bombardment of calls and emails continued. I asked and replied to emails to 'Please remove me from all call and email lists'. No success. I called and spoke with a supervisor today and ask for my company profile (which has nothing but A reviews) to be removed from Angie's List. He said that they would not do that.

Angie's List lures vendors to their site promising new customers by selling a "deal" to the consumer. They have no ceiling of the total number that can be sold. I bought 2 deals through them and in both cases these were oversold. In one case I did get the services because I was an early purchaser. In the other they could not do the work for over 6 weeks! When I tried to get a refund I was presented with conditions that basically said Angie's List is not responsible if the Vendor cannot do the service timely. This is a scam of the highest order. I am furious.

In searching for a contractor in the Waco, TX area, Angies List gave me a few for those listed in Waco. In conducting searches through Google, I find several companies which are also on the Waco Angies List, but were not included in my search results. It took several times to adjust the filters to figure out why all companies were not showing up, and it was then that I was hit up with a charge to access those. What a crock!

I was offered a big deal by Angies list. They said I had to give customers 40% off and Angies list would take 30% off the total job. This leaves me in the hole, no profit and actually paying to install someones furnace. When I told this to Angies list they said "But you get a new customer". I said "It would cost me 1500 dollars to get a new customer, with a new furnace I paid for, and will not need my services again for probably 10 years since their furnace would be new and no longer prone to breaking down." They said, "Too bad, that's the deal - take it or leave it". These guys are crooks and only care about their own bottom line... steer clear. They are raking in the doe from members and contractors!

I have not heard from any of the vendors that were recommended by angieslist. I am prepared to write a review on Angieslist and at this time it would not be very good. I paid for a year’s worth of services and what was agreed to when I spoke to the concierge service on 4/18/15 was to be in my email box on 4/20/15. I was told that vendors would contact me based on the Angieslist concierge service by 4/21/15. I provided my cell and home phone number, no one has contacted me. Angieslist would like my review of the vendors services, I have no one to assess.

I joined Angie's List in 2013 when I needed work on my house and thought it would be a good idea. We live in a part of New Jersey which falls under Philadelphia (for Angie"s list). I did not have any luck with getting someone I wanted and so pursued other avenues all of which were very helpful. I wrote Angie's list and told them I did not want to use their services and forgot about it, until my credit card was charged automatically for renewal. I wrote them again, in 2014 after I called and was told again that I had to put everything in writing.

I Paid Angie's List $85 for a Reverse-Osmosis System Tune-Up and when the plumber came to our house he said that our system was not one they would service for the Angie's List deal and to call Angie's List and get my money back. I called Angie's List a week ago and they said someone from their Big Deal dept. would call back in 2 days. 8 days later no call so I called again and they said because I didn't request the refund in the first 30 days I couldn't receive a refund. The plumber didn't even come to my house in the first 30 days! Angie's List ripped me off! I have purchased 8 deals from Angie's List and I can honestly say that only one of them was worth it - no more Angie's List for me.

Contacted by sales team because our business rating is high, great reviews by our customers. They hound you until you sign but don't stand by what you converse with them - all they want is $$ - even before you get an agent to contact you how you want your business to advertised. I was promised that no money would be taken before I had everything in place, seems they all use. I have 10 minutes, have kids to pick up if we could just do this quickly. Just as quick as they take the money out of your account yet Angie's list is free. Not.

Was a paying advertiser, had a contract - they failed to deliver clients as promised by sales people who says how great advertising with angies list would be. I wrote into contract that it was a month to month agreement and when I cancelled after they failed to provide customers, they charged me a cancellation fee. I agreed to a month to month contract. End of the month I cancelled. Yes we are disagreeing, but they did reverse credit card automatic charge. But now getting letter from collection agent which we sent copy of contract.

I applied for a $99 Roof Maintenance package including photos on Feb 26, 2015. I was charged for the service by Angie's List and subsequently notified through the Angie's List app that the vendor does not service my area. After 30 days, I discovered that there was a charge on my Visa card for the service which was not going to be provided. Now the company claims that after 30 days they won't return the money to me but will provide a service for the equal value. I don't want other services, I want my money back. The company has refused so I have told they I am no longer interested in dealing with their company.

I opened an account with them. Gave a 1st payment deposit with the idea that I would be setting up within a few months. Due to the poor weather in the area which I live things have not been so free flowing. I can't get done what I have already. This meaning I never completed setting my profile or opening my account. Due to the fact of not being able to get to the work even if it comes in. The sales team at over there tries to go in and take a 2nd payment. Even though they have my deposit & I didn't start running yet. Telling me that you were set to go in the spring. So even though I have little review work on their site, no photos, links or a proper functioning page they say my advertising runs anyway.

I went on Angie's List to find a handyman. The top 2 highest rated handymen contractors had extensive Washington state police records, as accessed by the free website Washington Courts: lookup by name. The top handyman had 38 criminal convictions, amongst of which were drug convictions, failure to pay state tax convictions, protection orders issued, many of which are felonies! The second highest rated handyman had 40+ criminal convictions, for the same type of criminal offenses, some of which are felonies. Ratings mentioned how friendly and talkative they are. Elderly people are especially vulnerable to slick, fast talking criminals, and what is mistaken for friendliness, in these cases could very easily be the con man at work on vulnerable people. 2 of the other handymen listings also had lesser criminal convictions.

I created a small home improvement business account on Angie's List over a month ago and simply cannot get past their BS customer review nonsense. They keep asking me to contact my previous customers asking them to keep modifying their reviews over and over to suit their nutty way of advertising my business. I do not want to keep bothering my customers with this review crap because if I do, I'm afraid I'm going to lose them as customers! I regret so much ever getting involved with them!

We had a local customer send us a great review on the website. I took the opportunity to update our company information in their free profile area. I politely declined to pay for advertising numerous times. The representative continued to stalk us via email and phone until she reached my manager and attempted to waste his time today as well. I had already spent 2 conversations being nice and delaying assisting my customers in person for her spiel.

My company was approached by Angie's List sales department. We told them that our company was struggling and needed some advertising that would have quick results. They assured us that we would be at the top of the list and that we would see a marked (75% or more) increase in calls within a three month period if we would sign on to their program. We agreed and they started billing us $750.00 per month. It took three months before we showed up as promised. In the following month we received just one Angie's list referral and that was from a past customer of ours. Prior to signing up we had a "A" rating on their list.

I absolutely loathe what they've become. I sympathize with the businesses being harassed. I'm not a business but a consumer tired of the way companies act these days. I signed in to cancel our account. I took the time to itemize some of the reasons why and I didn't care about getting a refund. I requested the representative to not defend the site. But he/she/or it copied a scripted response. I said, "If you won't cancel it, I'd change my password" (I didn't say to something so ludicrous I wouldn't remember it) because if either of us accidentally tried to sign in and had to reset the password, it would be enough of a reminder to not reset it and, therefore, not post a thing.

Sarasota's Wentzel Heating and AC recently received the Angie's List Superior Service Award. My experience with them = they were installing insulation in a home next to mine by pumping from a truck in the street to the home. The noise and both the smell and chemical experience were horrendous, causing painful watering of the eyes and nose and irritation to the throat. I called to inquire how long this would go on and was responded to by one of their representatives - "this would go on for perhaps 14 hours" and that it was just too bad for me. I should shut my windows and shouldn't walk my dog and he was sorry I was such a poor neighbor and that he wouldn't want to live next door to me. I was truly shocked that this individual would not apologize nicely for causing me any problems and offering any relief or consolation.

Angies list is strong arming small business. My complaint is the exact same as the other complaint filed by Heath from Lilburn. I got an email from Angies List after frustration with them funneling jobs thru their web site. It was a bullying email that made the presumption that I didn't take care of Angies list customers. When I called a supervisor about it he shouted me down and said he had nothing to say to me.

In my experience, the list fails to correctly identify locations. Although I entered my town and state, the search could not seem to correctly distinguish between Minnesota, Michigan and Mississippi when I was looking for a particular service in my area. Demanded I give my real name to be published with my comments when critiquing one of the services. Therefore, I never registered the complaint.

We have received a few reviews that were fraudulent and slanderous but when I contacted Angie's List on several occasions and always with the same response to enter a response and they would check into it. I did exactly that and in one case offered to assist the member but never received contact back nor was the damaging review removed; this review was clearly untrue, fraudulent and slanderous to our company which could cause great damage to our reputation. Angie's List was supplied all our information to show we were telling the truth.

I am the owner of an established and reputable business in the Chicago area. We have had calls from Angie's List representatives for the past year, attempting to convince us to sign a yearly contract and PAY for business leads. After a year of calls from their sales people, I was interested in hearing what they had to say, so I took the time this morning to hear them out. On a sidebar, I thought it was ironic and timely, as I actually watched one of their commercials on television last night.

I joined Angie's List in 2013. I was encouraged by Angie's List to post a negative review of a contractor who was guilty of consumer fraud. Then, I read about a woman who was sued for posting on Angie's List. I contacted Angie's List and inquired about my post and the position that Angie's List would take if a member were sued for posting valid negative comments. I was told that I was on my own. Angie's List would not become involved. I pointed out that Angie's List had encouraged me both by email and during phone conversations to post the negative comments. I cancelled my membership in 2013.

We were threatened by a customer before we even went on the job. We went anyway (our mistake) did the basic work and got things running again - they didn't like cost or the amount of additional work needed. They call someone else and used the information gained from us to achieve a better price - reducing the work by the other vendor. Reported us to Angie's List and wanted the entire fee returned for the work we did do. AL told us if we resolved - customer would be required to regrade us and that we may not be eligible for their Super Service Award. They also asked if we would allow for publication in their magazine of the resolution. We said no.

I am a contractor who was solicited by Angie's List. I paid to be listed with this company so that I would have a preferential placement at the head of the contractor list. Within two weeks Angie's List asked to basically give huge discounts on my services while Angie's List took a huge cut. They tried coercing me into accepting these terms. I refused and asked to be taken off Angie's List. They refused and continued harassing me with phone calls and high pressure tactics. These people are unsavory and I would advise the consumer never to use Angie's List! Buyer beware!

I have heard that Angie's List helps the consumer but I have found just the opposite. Firstly, I was asked to create a free account in order to enter the site, which is understood and typically standard practice - but not in this case. Once I created the account, I was routed and rerouted and rerouted to a page that insists I pay for the service in order to read the reviews. This would also be fine except there is an explanation stating I Don't Have to be a Member. One screen states, "Membership awaits! Please complete your membership to access thousands of local reviews, discounts and services, and our complaint resolution team. Join Now. If you choose not to join at this time, you will remain signed up to receive email updates from Angie's List." Be warned - there is No Way to navigate around this screen so you must "Join Now" which brings up the pay table, hit the back arrow or exit the screen and start over.

AngiesList is by far the best of all the review sites available. The fact that PAID subscribers make the reviews and comments makes all the difference between biased reviews and honest ones. I hope the company sticks around for a long time.

I signed up for Angie's List because we were looking into doing an addition and a roof on my house. My boyfriend and I are looking to add on to our ranch-style home with a simple master bedroom going up with the structure. The first person I spoke to clearly didn't want to do the work once I told him that I found his information through Angie's List. He told me that generally speaking general contractors will give you a price based on $150 per square foot with a minimum of 1000 square feet so he wasn't interested in doing anything that we wanted...only basically wanted to use us to fund his retirement fund (Note we paid $170K for the whole rest of the house).

*no notification of renewal* *no refund* *very few reviews* - The only thing I couldn't fit was that the customer service person kept offering deeper percentage discounts that I kept declining. As far as the reviews, there were very few businesses in our immediate area. We are in the third largest town in Florida, yet we were showing us businesses two hours away! I am very disappointed with what I consider a scam-type approach with a business that supposedly helps you avoid such things with other businesses. The irony. Lesson learned. We got burned.

I'm a small business owner. I've constantly got phone calls from an Angie's List rep for at least 5+ years to try and get me to advertise with them because I do not pay to advertise. Now they decided to start intercepting my emails in order to get me to call them, ridiculous. Makes me look bad because I cannot return the potential customer's call. It's too bad the homeowners don't realize how Angie's List module really works.

Angie's List is totally unethical and is harming the small mom & pop businesses across this country. My husband and I own a Carpet Cleaning Business in Birmingham, AL. We have had several of our customers review us on Angie's List and they are all A or good reviews. My husband ** is a retired disabled veteran who does the actual cleaning and he does a very good job. We strive to give excellent customer satisfaction and we do. Angie's List hounded us for a year to sign up and pay to advertise. They guaranteed us a high ranking on their first page and they promised specialized care with an account manager who would ensure we got leads.

Nothing happened thank goodness. I went to Angie's List as I was trying to review a local doctor and the site popped up. I reviewed the site and nowhere did Angie's List tell me how much membership would cost. Only if I wanted to enter my personal information could I find out the cost of a membership on Angie's List. The scam started right there for me. Angie's List claims to be the honest upfront way to read reviews about companies. It took me 2 minutes to know there was a good chance this was some kind of scam. When I purchase a membership I want to know the cost, how long it's for, what it includes, and if I can cancel it. I don't want to have to search for it. Tells me I'll probably be searching through an automated phone directory if I have a problem. Buyers beware. Today everyone is in such a rush. Take time to smell the roses and read the fine print. And if you can't find the fine print....run!

I own a reputable business and take pride in the services we provide our clients. I began using Angie's List several years ago. Over the years my fees have increased close to 40% even though I dropped out the "the book." The level of service has declined. My account has changed hands so many times I didn't know who my rep was. That is, until my contract was close to expiration and he began calling. Lucky for me, I turned my advertising over to a marketing company, so I let them deal with Angie's List. What's ironic is, the marketing company isn't putting Angie's List into the advertising budget. They don't feel it is a "value" for me. I have to say that I agree because Angie's List hasn't done anything except take my money.

January 2014 we won the Angie's List Super Service Award. A few days later we got banned because we were protecting our rights due to a member blatantly lied in her review which caused irreparable damage to our reputation. Angie's List was supplied all our information to show we were telling the truth. They replied by saying we're not a mediator and we can't get involved so the review stays and my company will remain banned for life!! Instead of helping the consumer to choose a reputable company for their product they are misleading the members with bogus reviews!!!

Their automatic renewal policy is crooked and dishonest. Please don't use this service. Once they have your credit card information they will steal your hard earned money and there is nothing that you can do about it.

Angie's List advertises that it is free to join. When I went to their site and entered my information and clicked okay, a new screen came up whereby, you had to subscribe to their newsletter or magazine for a fee! Angie's List takes the "R" out of free. They aren't even honest about themselves, so I certainly wouldn't expect them to be honest in their reviews. It turns out that they charge fees to contractors as well as accepting advertising from them too. That's rather like the fox guarding the hen house. Angie's List is just another costly scam.

I just got a $12 charge from Angie's list for an account that my ex husband set up with a debit card in both our names. Since the card was cancelled they couldn't charge it so they hire a 3rd party vendor to track down the expired members and debit any card they can find attached to those people. TRUE STORY from their mouth. Unbelievable!!!!

Angie's list has been the best advertising outlet we have ever used and we have serviced 1000s of customers through them. One of the problems I see with the people that complain is with the provider, not Angie's list. If you are Dealing with a A rated company or an F rated one, it's up to you and all you have to do is go on their page and write a review about the service. The Reason we have GREAT reviews is because we take care of our customers and they in turn give us GOOD REVIEWS.

I am a local handyman. Thought it would be great to join Angie's List to get leads. It was free for my listing, but after an adverse events (I was on vacation and got a negative review for not returning a inquiry to do an estimate, the homeowner contacted the incorrect phone number). I decided I no longer wanted to be listed on this service and I was told that was not possible. It's my business, why is it not possible to be removed.

When signing up with Angie's List I was told as a service provider my company would constantly rotate in the top three spots of the searches in my area. I wanted more exposure and signed up based on that promise. After I signed up I realized after time that I was always in the third position. I inquired about this and was told that the metrics had changed and in order to move up in the rankings I had to do all these other things like get more reviews, post e-commerce deals, sell these e-commerce deals, etc. I contacted Angie's List again with the intent to cancel and was told that if I cancelled early I would be charged a $600 early termination fee. They did not much care that their representative gave me false information to get me to sign up, but they did care very much about the $600 if I cancelled.

I received a notice this morning that PayPal had withdrawn $35.00 from my bank account for Angie's List. This was far more than I paid for the original subscription. I have received many emails from Angie's List in the past several months, but not a single one (or even a message in the accounts "message" section when I go online) telling me that they were going to auto-renew. I had even received messages within the account making offers to renew my account. When I contacted them this morning via chat, their remedy was that in the FUTURE, they could send me emails or messages if I wanted them. Out $35 and have never saved any money with this company. Buyer BEWARE of Angie's List. I cancelled the PayPal auto renewal a few minutes ago. Angie's List now lists my account as expired, but PayPal has still taken the money.

Joined Angie's list a month or so back as I moved to a new house in Bala Cynwyd and needed some work done. Bought three services/deals. The first was electric work and the experience was great. The second purchase included work that needed more time than I had purchased, so I requested the handyman complete the work with extra payment. After the two hours I had initially purchased, I was told the handyman was no longer available for more work. So I was back on Angie's list looking for another worker. In addition, the work done included raising a bed, but two days later the bed was separated from the raised platform the handyman had fixed. My third experience was buying 2 hours work for 150 dollars.

Angie's List contacted us last summer regarding advertising with their company. Consumers are the ones that add companies to Angie's List with good and bad reviews. We were told that we would be paying for a web advertisement that only a select number of businesses could be a part of. We would be one of the top businesses that would come up in a search by a consumer on Angie's List's website. This however was so far fetched because after 7 months of absolutely no jobs from advertising, when we contacted our account manager, she stated that we were number 14 out of 20 on the list and were placed on the 2nd page of their web search. When asked how we could be moved up to the first page, she couldn't answer that question and couldn't provide me with an answer as to what we were even paying for. They are a scummy business that doesn't provide the service they state.

Subscribed to Angie's list over a year ago. I live in a rural area so there aren't many choices so I immediately cancelled. They didn't process the cancellation, so they're still debiting $35.00 out of my account. Had to call & cancel by phone.

We advertised with Angies list for 2 years. Every thing worked well. This year we decided to spend our advertising money elsewhere (because the rate increased). We received phone calls every day to encourage us to advertise. Often more than 1 call per day from different reps. The number of calls was very frustrating. We began to track the number of calls and asked the reps to please stop calling. They even threatened to revoke our super service award if we did not advertise with them. Unfortunately their business model doesn't work. (80% of Angies list income is from service providers.) This creates a frantic push upon their sales staff to generate more $ by harassing service providers. It is unfortunate dilemma because the concept is good for consumers.

I have been an Angie's List contractor for 33 days, two payments of $270.83. I have not received one single phone call. I need to take a deep breath, so frustrated right now. I have been trying to contact an account representative for 4 days and can not get a response from anyone. After experiencing these issues I started checking reviews, and what do you, this is a very consistent problem with Angie's List. I submitted "fetch review" 2 1/2 months ago with no results, I have mailed in two paper form reviews that they will not post. They told me I would circulate up and down on the scroll list, I have never moved from the bottom.

Been reading some of the complaints about Angie's List and I didn't see any that actually point out the real problems with their services. So I thought I'd add my two cents and hope it helps someone from getting scammed. Angie's List advertises that "Businesses can't pay to be on Angie's List." But what they don't tell the consumers is that businesses MUST pay to be found on Angie's List. Businesses pay thousands of dollars a month to be on the first and second page of their field in the search lists. Hundreds to thousands more if they want the "Honor Roll" which they advertise to the consumers as they offered something special and were extra good companies. All they have to do is maintain A or B rating and they receive an invoice to be on the "Honor Roll."

Angies list wants to put EVERY other "hard earned business" up on blast... Why isn't there a complaint page/section for angies list??? HUH!? LET'S SEE YOU BLAST THIS ANGIE!!!

I have purchased two items through Angie's List (garage door repair/window cleaning) and never heard from the companies. I had to use my time/energy to follow through with Angie's List to get the services I paid for. With the window cleaning, someone from Angie's List called shortly after my purchase, and I told the representative I hadn't heard from the company. After that, I get an email from Angie's List apologizing for my experience and said their Ecommerce Department would contact me within two days. That was Dec. 30th, and today, 1/15, haven't heard from them. Will NEVER buy anything through Angies' List and won't renew membership!

Angie's List is promoting companies who perform Mold Testing/Mold Remediation which is unethical for mold companies to do their own testing. Many contractors are scamming people. They will not split the categories.

It was no help whatsoever. There is such little information, at least in Portland, OR, that I'm shocked they are in business. Yelp and Google are much better resources. They offer a satisfaction guarantee on their website but won't refund my money. I cancelled my account within an hour of signing up. It was truly a useless site.

I’m a small business owner that has been with Angie’s List for going on 4yrs now. After realizing just what the only gain is for them, I pay $5,000 a year to them. When you have to call your account manager and email them and no responses and haven't heard anything out of them since 11-11-14. But the only person you can find to even speak with is the collection department cause they want more money and even the boss above account manager doesn't get back with you, we have a major problem...

Overall, it did not go well for us. We chose to pay over 500 per month for advertising with Angieslist. Angieslist told us that we could expect 4 to 6 calls a day from advertising with them. Once our advertising began we did not see any results. We waited for a month with no change and then AngiesList told us that creating Store Front offers with them would help, so we created 5 of them. We were also told to wait until our magazine ad was published and we did. We waited over a month and still did not have any business from advertising with AngiesList.

Angie's List charged me $39.00 on 01/08/15 without my permission. I never authorized them to charge me automatically. When I try to cancel my membership through the fax number they provide, the "fax number" is not a fax and it's not possible to send the fax. For me this is a scam!!!

Did you know that an AngiesList member can file a complaint on AngiesList? The member can fill page after page with nonsense, in fact they can take so many pages that no one can see anything else but their compliant. Good Bye to all you excellent ratings. Once the complaint is filed you have specific time period to respond and defend yourself through Angies paper work and their schedule. The pressure is to settle regards of the nonsense. If you do not, regardless of your previous ratings you are removed from the list and but in a penalty box.

Angie's List charged my credit card $62.40 on 12/30/14 without my permission. When I called to get the charge reversed they said they couldn't find it but REFUSED to have their financial department investigate and, instead, told me to send a screenshot of my bank statement! What company does that without FIRST going to their accounting department? I sent them the screen shot and told them to reverse the charge or I'd file a civil suit. Very shabby treatment by them.

I submitted a written letter to Angie's list about a bad review a customer made on my business. They said that if they thought the customer was right they were going to put it on their site about my business as the customer had written. The problem is this was not my customer nor had they ever been my customer which I told Angie's list on the phone and in the letter I wrote them. They put false reviews on you that are not even reviews about your business. They don't even take into consideration the fact of this person not even being your customer, much like Google reviews. There should be laws against them trying to ruin business names just for money. They then told me if I would pay them $1,000 dollars they would review this again and possibly take down the bogus review. They are pirates.

I searched the internet for home builders in the Murphy North Carolina area. Angies List pulled up and indicated that there were 85 home builders in Murphy and that 12 of them were rated highly but... I would have to sign up to see the highly rated HOME builders. Signed up for one year at $9.99 because we are building a home starting April 2015. After signing up and giving my credit card info, I went into the website. There were no builders as they had indicated, only alarm companies, moving companies, garage door companies, appliance repair, yard work, handyman, auto service, etc etc. they flat out lie about what was in there website for home builders... complete rip off!

Angie's List sales rep reached out to me to work a sale so that I could pull up on their search results as a top contractor. Finally, on a Sunday evening I received a call from Rick ** for the umpteenth time to push the sale through. I told him "okay", and that I was willing to give it a shot for 2-3 months to see if it would provide any benefit.

I paid 43k dollars to advertise with Angie's List to be ranked in the top 5 rotation on the first page. Half way through the contract, my rankings dropped. They changed the way the companies get ranked. I called my rep and told them I wanted out of my contract because they changed the terms and conditions. Nathan ** said, "No. We will post a non payment clause cancelling your ability to be viewed and when someone searches your company, they will see your delinquent account." Strong arming.

I was getting emails on top of emails from Angie’s List non-stop. I checked my PayPal account and it said “Thank you for your payment.” I haven't used PayPal in two months and it was on eBay. It said Angie’s list. I used it for two weeks three years ago for a Kaiser review, and they erased all my reviews. I am on SSDI. The doctor called me names and screamed at me while I sat in a wheelchair on my second visit just going over my past medical history. I noticed they continued to alter everyone’s reviews. I canceled. After the two weeks, I'm no longer with Kaiser, my card number, address, and insurance has changed. I looked on yelp and this has happened to other people as well. Not only is it a lousy site, but how is she ripping off people and getting their PayPal account? My email said “Thank you for the payment.” Don't you have to go on the website? We never go on the website, and I hardly ever check my mail unless something is wrong or I need to verify something. I think it's hacking, but so many complaints are saying the same thing. Shame on her and her greedy site.

We are members of Angie's List, not because we want to be, but because several of our customers have referred us for membership. They have been calling every day, sometimes 2x a day, for MONTHS, harassing us to advertise with them. We don't want to advertise and even though we keep telling them to stop calling us, they do - every day. Our rating should be advertising enough. Quit calling us!

I'm a Angie's List user and business owner. I'm a user of Angie's List because originally they were "Reviews You Can Trust". Not so much anymore. I'm in property management and have used their many vendors over the year. Some were good, some not so good. But that's not Angie's List's fault, or is it? Well I hired a septic tank company that did horrible work for one of clients. They did not do the job and therefore I hired another and reported it to Angie's List. I started getting emails refuting that validity of my review. It was escalated to higher up where they agreed it was an accurate review. 4 months later I get a call from Angie's List again and someone else within Angie's List reverse my review. As a business owner I'm aware the more advertisement you pay for the more they assist in cleaning off bad reviews. I had 3 removed for my business. So this really bad septic tank company remains with great ratings, however when I posted they had many. Now they were all gone. They are a marketing machine, that makes money that's not so clear to the public hiding behind fake ratings.

When Angie's List allows crackpots to leave scathing reviews for service providers they have never used, it hurts the service providers and it hurts Angie's List. This happened to me. Although I won the Super Service Award in 2013 (for an overall A rating) and will most likely get it for 2014 (again, for an overall A rating), prospective clients don't weigh that in. All they see is a couple F reviews that have nothing to do with my performance. My business has tanked because of this. And now I have extremely bad feelings for Angie's List. I will be canceling my Angie's List account on Monday. At least Yelp has the good sense to automatically filter out the crackpot reviewers. Angie's List's stock price has been on the decline for the past 16 months. It is now down to $6.61. Apparently I am not the only one who has issues with Angie's List Best Practices and (lack of) ethics.

I am a builder in the Dallas Ft Worth area in Texas. Angie's list posts an F rating on my company because a dishonest, disgruntled customer decided she wanted to damage our reputation. Our side of the dispute doesn't make a difference to Angie. We did our best to work something out with this customer to no avail and she decided she wouldn't pay us. I warned the customer with plenty of notice that I would pull my crew off the job if she didn't pay the agreed amount. She refused. This same customer went on Angie's list and rated our company with an F rating. Our side of the dispute did not matter.

I searched for hypnotherapist in my city using Google, and a link to Angie's List came up. The page read "57 Hypnotherapy are in [city]" and "4 Hypnotherapy in [city] are top rated." Well, I knew there weren't 57 hypnotherapists in my city, but I figured they would list some who were in nearby cities. After paying both the basic membership fee and an additional fee to use the healthcare list, I discovered that most of the listings were far away -- too far to be practical for visiting, say, once a week. In addition, the list of "top rated" people included an acting coach. That acting coach may use hypnosis in coaching, but that doesn't make him/her a hypnotherapist. Angie's list may be useful if you're looking for a house painter or plumber, but I recommend you do NOT sign up just to use it to search for more specialized services.

First, we would like to thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to read this. We hope that our professionalism, integrity and honesty will help you in making the decision to hire us.

I am required by law to say that term prior to even saying Hello and it is a royal pain to me to state it as it seems that many people (Including those at Angies List Call Center at (866) 907 5478 on Monday 12:12 PM 10/27/2014 > Meagan, Jane, Ashley, {Make note that Scott was the only one that accepted the statement of Reasonable Accommodation}) that are not necessarily ignorant, not stupid but unaware that the only way they can legally respond while living in the USA is "What is your Reasonable Accommodation" which in essence when those people that respond to me do not state it are violating my Civil Rights as they are not accepting what Title 111 of the ADA is FEDERAL ACT regulations. The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice is responsible for the enforcement of Title III of the ADA. When any company or retailer fails to comply with any of the ADA public accommodation requirements, regardless of how minor or how severe the violation that retailer can be sued for disability discrimination via the DOJ first or an individual second.

Angie's List is completely unreliable. They remove negative reviews making their rating system a joke. I wrote a negative review of a landscaping company that took money for a job they did not complete. The review was extensive with pictures etc... The company lied about the work they did, they wouldn't return phone calls or texts and refused to refund my money.

I used Angie's list to hire a dog walker while my regular dog walker was on vacation. The new dog walker made me pay $20 to register me in his computer. I followed all his rules and booked him 2 months ahead of time for the 7 days my regular walker was on vacation. The dates were confirmed by email. He had 2 meet visits and was exactly explained the job I wanted done and the second time he raised his price $20. Since it was too late to book another, I agreed, he insisted on the first day prepayment and I sent him that. He showed up the first day with an assistant and I asked him why? He bitched and whined the whole time about the job but said he would be back the next day but needed to be an hour earlier and I agreed.

AngiesList does not take responsibility for poor service, unprofessionalism, customer service, and cancellations for refunds! "AngiesList has no responsibilities for referrals", including "job performance, pricing, quality & professionalism"? "Your newborns are". They do not vet and do not care. Perhaps, they should be honest and make all their terms clear!!!

Cops had to be called because he broke furniture, wanted pay for hours when they were only here from 8:30-11:15. $100.00 an hour and I have them a specific list of what to pack. He doesn't remember where he packed the list, or didn't use the labels I gave him to pack things in order. Broke bottom of sofa and I didn't even need the sofa moved. Broke apart bookcases and I didn't need the bookcases moved or anything that was moved into the garage.

I joined Angie's List on May 23, 2014 and paid a basic membership fee of $7.99. A couple of months after joining, I received email notifications from Angie's List introducing me to their "free" service called "Band of Neighbors." On or about August 5, 2014, I logged onto Angie's List web page to join the advertised Band of Neighbors, but without success. It showed my home in the wrong neighborhood on their map, and it would not allow me to move the location of my home on the map. I double-checked my account settings, confirmed that my home address was entered correctly, and tried again, but to no avail.

Angie's List is an absolute scam. They want 4000.00 dollars a year to put my business at or near the top of their list. I thought this was supposed to be based on your reviews. Very deceiving to their paying customers. It's sad to see this type of business practice.

It is about as easy to Fake a review as it is to create a FaceBook account and use any name you want! So why is Angie's List so great that they think we need to pay them for their services? I do not know but I can tell you as a Contractor myself I end up getting a review or two from customers who felt I did right by them so they left me some reviews. To this day I have not read the reviews but I received a phone call from an Angie's List rep offering me some kind of special advertising and a specialist who would help me design and create a web page sort of thing that would show my reviews, images of my work and the cost of my service was based on the number of customers that have access to my review page. The problem is I did not create my review page and I did not have any time to create the page so I told the lady I would go ahead and "TRY" the service and see how well it worked.

I joined Angie'sList primarily to find a competent plumber for a small job: removing a radiator so I could have a floor repaired, then coming to put it back after the repair. I got a "deal" that was a TOTAL scam: $39 for a plumber visit, and $39 credit toward work. It cost $39. The guy came over and it took literally ONE turn of a wrench to take off the radiator. Great. Then he handed me a bill for over $200 worth of materials--when he used ZERO materials. Things turned ugly fast, with the business owner hanging up on me, they're leaving many threatening calls demanding their $, they're lying about what they told me the cost would be, etc.

I am writing from a contractor’s point of view. We were members of Angie's List for many, many years and have always taken good care of the customers that came from Angie's. However, this year we decided to drop out, due to the high pressure of Angie's salesman asking us to spend more. We are already not getting enough customers to pay for the expense of the advertising. We were losing thousands of dollars. You know what they told us? "You’re not charging enough. We did a cost analysis on your business and found other contractors are charging more than you. You need to up your prices." Who are they to tell us to charge you more for services rendered! They have been doubling our rate for the last couple of years to continue with them. Possibly due to many contractors dropping out from dissatisfaction would be my guess.

The Stone Center is being harassed to become a member of Angie's List. Angie's List employees are calling & stating that the owner of the Company wants to speak with them. THE Owner of the Stone Center does not want these phone calls. We have complained to no avail. Stone Center also is getting a barrage of Junk Mail from Angie's list also that we don't want. HOW do you get rid of this harassment? Angie's List employees are liars & creeps. Please quit sending the mail to us. Please quit calling. We don't want you or what you have to offer.

Purchased an Angie's List "coupon" for HVAC inspection. The service provider came out, did the job and left an additional $295.30 bill for my wife. When I called the service provider they said the technician didn't know about the $95 coupon and the services they rendered were different. Fine, can I have my $95 back? That would have to come from Angie's List they told me. Angie's list claims they already paid them and that it would have to come from the service provider... and back and forth for about a month now. And poof, no money. Angie’s List coupons are rip-offs! The service never matches the coupon and you end up paying more.

I posted a business on Angie's list a few months ago. I had some one working for me as an alternate contact. When no one could get a hold of me they called my alternate contact. Instead of leaving a message for her to give me, they let her sign contracts on my business account. Which in all fairness is partly my fault, I should not have trusted her, but Angie's List should not have discussed anything with her other than for me to contact them.

So just last week I paid my $7.99 and joined the supposedly wonderful site, Angie's List. I needed someone to fix my leaky outdoor faucet. So what was one of the first things I saw but a $49 deal on exactly that, offered by what I thought was a local vendor. Happy to get what I thought was a great deal, I paid Angie's List for it via PayPal and got a quick email scheduling the service for yesterday 9-11 AM. So far so good, right? Wrong. 11 AM came and went. No show, no call. I called the local number and got somebody in the next town, no explanation, no apology, they just tried to reschedule the job 10 days hence. I asked for and got a local person, a tech who rescheduled for 1-3 PM the next day. A little better. So the next day, 3 PM came and went, no show, no call, nothing.

I've never used Angie's List, but it was brought to my attention that someone left a review with my full name listed. So, let me get this straight.... anybody can just say whatever they want, accurate or not and it's out there? She straight told lies about me and is dragging my professional reputation through the mud! I'm furious! I've been in my profession for 20 years and have NEVER had an issue. This seems totally unfair. Isn't this defamation of character at its finest??

You pay your dues to Angie. You file a review of a company. The review is an unfavorable review of a company. They will not publish it because they have a "CUT LIST". In essence if you write an unfavorable review it will go unpublished because they may want to have the company advertise and lose their business. I was told that they give the company a chance to respond to your review. A year and a half later no response, so they will not put it out for publication. They only publish "GOOD REVIEWS". So if you contract with a company that does lousy service, your money goes to waste with the famous ANGIE'S LIST. Save your money. Use the BBB better source. STAY AWAY FROM ANGIE'S LIST AND REBATH IN COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.

Joined Angie's List and purchased coupon for kitchen design from one of their featured businesses with an A rating and 48 reviews. When the business failed to deliver and I could not believe they had received such a high rating, I looked closer. They had received 55% A's, but the other 45% were evenly distributed from B to D with an average at best of C+. I asked the business for measurements, and they told me that would be $300 (the supposed value) of the coupon. When I said I had already paid $50 for something I could have gotten free at Home Depot or done myself with a free app, the business owner stated that the $50 went to Angie's List, not him. Angie's List advertises that they are impartial and do not get money from sponsoring businesses. This seems like a kickback to me. I cut my losses and quit Angie's List. They have not yet responded.

Angie's List is not your most reliable resource. You have one client who had a bad day and wants to be a jerk, they will try and bash the company's name using Angie's List. In a case where we were asked to settle and get the review taken down if we paid money to the client, you read that right pay the client x amount to get our bad review taken down. Go with word of mouth, referrals. Check out company's website, that is your best bet. I would not waste my time and money on Angie's List.

I looked for the company I was thinking of hiring on Angie's List and didn't see them, basically because they were using a different name. I found them later after I'd been scammed in the worst way possible, by putting in an address. Instead of Caring Transitions they were listed under CT and had a lot of really bad reviews. I added mine and then they changed the name of the company again and took out the full name and made it initials. I contacted Angie's several times and filed complaints, telling them what they were doing.

We signed up for Angies List almost a year ago. The initial cost was $51.00 a month. The salesman assured me we would get work with the lowest plan they had. A few weeks later, a salesman from Angies List called and asked how things were going. I stated we have not received one call from any of your customers, so he stated we needed to advertise more and that cost was in the hundreds of dollars a month, plus if we gave our own customers Angies List review cards we would have more reviews therefore more customers.

I paid $99 for a Big Deal on house cleaning service. The owner never called as promised. Angry, I got in touch with Angie's List this afternoon (3/12). After waiting on hold for about 10 min., a computer voice said I could leave a message and receive a response to my concern in no more than two business hrs. That was around 2:30 EDT. Now it is 9:20 pm and guess what? Still no email! The consequences??? I'm mad as a wet cat!!

People, if you really want to find out the reputation of a company you want to work with, go with the BBB. And you don't have to pay to belong.

I find their advertising sales people very "pushy and unprofessional" I do not like the way they conduct business.

Angie's List Pay to Play advertising Pricing. If you don't think Angie's List is a Pay to Play Massive internet Scheme, Check out the pricing they offered my company to be in the first 30+ 1st and 2nd page rotation that her members get to see. Once in Talks about advertising with Angie's List, Positive reviews that were not there prior started to appear immediately. In addition, she holds herself harmless pushing incorrectly licensed companies Big Deals to her members without certifying their true credentials. I have many more phone messages from her sales teams to prove these Pay to Play accusation.

We received a negative review from someone who we didn't even have a contract with or provide services to. Angie's List has told us they will not remove the review. So, I will no longer be passing out the membership applications to our customers to join Angie's List at a discount, something Angie's List provided us with. Not promoting that site!

I was hired by a member of Angie's list to complete the inside of an addition built on the rear of member's home - an addition built by another contractor. I have an Afro-American employee who drives a diesel truck and some oil dripped on the member's driveway. Member then had called employee a **. I told member that I will not allow or put up with rude behavior and that we will leave the job site. Member's wife begged me to stay and finish the job with an agreement that when finish I would receive a payment toward the contract, just leaving some paver work to be completed. 3 days later we finish the inside of the addition. The member told me that "yes, I will make a payment." 5 times they stated that to me.

I received a bad review on Angie's List. This is from a person that never hired my company and cannot prove any type of invoice or receipt from my company. I don't want any affiliation with Angie's List and how are they allowed to just allow anyone to go on their website and post negative things without checking them out to see proof that a company was used by them? Not fair. We as business owners must have some kind of rights with this?

I have been an approved vendor on Angie's List for over a year. Yes, I receive telemarketing calls and emails from their salespeople but I am semi-retired and don't need a lot of business. I have received several referral calls from their members and overall, the results have been good. Considering that I paid nothing to be listed, I have no complaints. Then again, I haven't gotten a bad review either so I have not been on the receiving end of that situation. I also have a Yelp profile and while people do look at it, to my knowledge, I have never gotten any business from that listing. Local advertising still works the best.

I hate to say that but it's true in my case. I've used AngiesList twice, and yes, I willingly have a yearly membership and I found two reputable contractors through AngiesList. The quotes I got were reasonable and the workmanship was good. Having been burned more times than I care to think about by contractors, in my state anybody can call themselves a contractor if they get a license and purchase insurance. I'm grateful for AngiesList in my area. I'd be back to recommendations from friends if not for AngiesList and I got hosed by those contractors. For the most part, I believe in hindsight they did not know what they were doing when it comes to an old house but they wanted the work and were willing to wing it as they went along. Word of advice: Educate yourself on the job you need done before you hire somebody off any service to do the actual work, and BE THERE to monitor the work.

I cannot unsubscribe. Somehow (I cannot ever remember subscribing to AngiesList marketing email), I was added to AngiesList’s email list. Trying to clean up the email messages coming in, I've decided to simply unsubscribe to as many unwanted messages as possible. So upon receiving marketing email from AngiesList, I thought I could do as I've done with many other unwanted solicitations and simply click on the unsubscribe button. When clicking unsubscribe on the link listed directly in the marketing email that they just sent to my email address, I'm asked to enter my email address on file (keep in mind that this is the same email address they just sent their marketing email message to therefore it should be on file, right?).

How many folks are having issues with Angie's List referral services? On or about a year ago today, a representative solicited a call to me for a three-month trial to Angie's List referral service. Although I thanked him for his time and informed him my sons do my advertising online as they are both web designers, he still persisted saying, "What have you to lose?" He said, "Please give us an opportunity for three months to earn your trust; if you are not 100 percent satisfied, simply cancel." He was pushy but courteous and polite, so I agreed.

We are a company on Angie's List, put there by their members. Three times we have received somewhat negative feedback & we are not even the company that performed the work. I know that we can post a reply to the comment but I ask, how come no paperwork/contract is ever checked to begin with? So anyone, any time, can post negative comments without someone doing any research from Angie's List if the work corresponds to the correct company.

I found a listing on the internet for a medical practice in New York City under my name that was posted on Angie’s List without my permission. I am a physician who does not practice (I work in research). I never posted such a business listing and have ever been a member of Angie’s List or had any affiliation with them. When I contacted them to remove this posting with erroneous information, they refused.

I enrolled on Angie's List at a cost of $31.00. I received an email from Angie's List saying that my area is a test market area and that there is no charge for membership. I emailed back, stating that I felt ripped off that I shouldn't have been charged. No response and no refund. I'm writing my local Better Business Bureau. I shouldn't have been charged.

We are a business that is listed on Angie's List. We usually get all "A" grades. We do good work, have numerous awards and care about our reputation. Someone called in and asked for a price quote over the phone. We gave him a price range and that was it. He did not ask for an appointment and we didn't hear from him again. One week later (after his call), he posted a scathing review of us and gave us all "F" grades. We called Angie's List to get the review taken down. They refused and said it will count towards 25% of our overall grade! Insane! We are considering a class action suit against them for damaging our reputation. They should be stopped.

I subscribed to Angie's List in 2011, thinking it would give me access to reputable vendors, contractors, tradespeople, etc., but the problem began when Angie's List did not have a service area for my zip code. Angie's List substituted a major metro area instead, which is over an hour from me, and provided a list of vendors, contractors, etc. that I couldn't use, because of the distance. I cancelled my membership because of this reason, in December of 2011.

I am a paint and remodeling contractor based out of Alexandria, Va . I was seduced into 1yr advertising contract with Angies List as a result of long term solicitation and "factual" information presented to me prior to signing. During the contemplation period, I believe an inside call from them was made to me posing as a potential consumer using their network in attempt to make my decision to join.

Last year, I signed up and paid a fee to make an inquiry on a contractor(s). Recently, just a small $10.00 charge showed up through my PayPal account. I was not informed that Angie's List would be charging me fees, no matter how small, for something that they did not earn. I attempted to contact Angie's List but I got tired out on the phone. PayPal said Angie's List would cancel the ongoing debit of my account but I have not seen the return of my $10.00 Angie's List ** me for.

I paid one month subscription for about $15 after the first month, I didn't renew the membership but was unknowingly charged $5 for another three months until I found out. I called the company, they only agree to refund only one month of charge as the amount was not huge. I let it go. I, today, while reading an article, I realize this is a scam, so I report it. Total loss: $10. Physical: Can't believe I was scammed by Angie list, a relatively reputable website, don't who do I trust!