BOOK A BUILDER UK

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SUITE 17 ESSEX HOUSE STATION ROAD UPMINSTER RM14 2SJ ENGLAND
TIN: 10110838 Phone: +44 20 3817 8467
https://www.bookabuilderuk.com
Construction & renovation
Rating 1.5/5
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Matthew wootton
Happening date 2024-04-14
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Quick response reasonable quote came out on a Sunday morning to do the job straight to work job done very happy will be keeping his phone number for future jobs.

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A2Z important.ltd
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Happening date 2023-11-10
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I paid £620 for nothing, even one single job, they don’t give me Disgusting customer service disgusting company

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VBEssex
Happening date 2023-10-16
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If I knew that this company is charging under Palace Media after paying a trial 1 month fee I would definitely view all the real but mostly negative reviews and would not place an order with them as they charged me an annual fee (without letting me know) despite it supposed to be a slightly higher fee for monthly installments(if we divide to 12 months).
I complained to my bank that did not know the company and of those charges but after looking at the statements and email which went on spam I realized that The BookaBuilderUK.com charged me a ridiculous annual amount despite it supposed to be just £39 for a month trial. In fact I have requested a full refund as never benefited and in accordance to the consumer act and all other UK legislation this is the right to request a full refund once I am not satisfied with /received the services within 28 days despite I have complained about that almost within a week as no customers replied and I have emailed/texted all the clients to their requirements. But again nobody replied or responded at all. Only one customer wanted a very cheap and unrealistic price for a very small little job.
Almost a few days later after the charge and after I have replied to all the available leads a manager called Steve wanted to charge the same annual fee for premium leads like home improvements, extensions and commercial bigger job which I refused as I said that the trial needs to be worth it and to have a good value for money. But as no result and order received I had requested 4 times to get the full refund as in fact that was a mistake and an overcharge even if we look at the phone discussion that a month charge of £39 supposed to be applied.
Even after my emails and 4th calls I have been always told that the account manager was on another call and will call me back.
Just a few days ago I finally spoken to their manager who refused to refund the money as that is an annual fee despite that was never agreed and was not the case. I have advised to check the emails and the phone conversation but again no refund has been done.
This is Rip off lies and hidden cost.Do not trust this company.A man called Steve never told me about the extra fees to get on line wanted an extra £480 for a year running. Told me the Web site is mine paid over £478.80 on 16/10/2023 and then wanted another £490 the next day. That is a total rip off do not use them. Now legal action would be under way
Date of experience: 16 October 2023

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John
Happening date 2023-11-15
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Complete waste of money, I have just called them today after receiving an email of automatic renewal, can I get out of this legally.
Thanks.

Boss Brickie
Happening date 2023-12-05

I am in the process of issuing legal proceedings against them for mis selling themselves

Harry24

Are you sure that accusation of mis selling is the best here? I have doubts, because they can always say that there is little demand and that's why there are no offers or you are not chosen by those interested... but that's just my opinion, maybe I'm wrong

Amber
Candidate
Happening date 2024-04-18
User evaluation:

Waste of time and money not worth it

J T Fencing
Happening date 2024-04-13
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I have paid a year's membership and have received not one bloody lead.
A complete waste of money I feel like I have been totally scammed.

Ant
Happening date 2024-03-19
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Absolute shambles of a company, tricked me into signing up after promising great things, then telling me we’ve set you up on the wrong platform and you need to pay another £300, I had 2 different people from there office, slating each other.. very unprofessional, refusing to give me a refund, even though I haven’t signed an agreement! AVOID THIS COMPANY!!!

Mario
Employee
Happening date 2024-03-20

It’s a scam,they make you pay for a year subscription upfront and don’t provide any leads and if you don’t let them know with 60 days before the automatic renewal they will tax you again for another year !!!

Mario
Happening date 2024-03-20
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Any complaints that you have and you call the costumer service will be ignored

Jokes
Employee
Happening date 2024-03-07
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Just joined today no leads for any work I’m trying to cancel my credit card payment avoid

Simoclay
Happening date 2024-02-08
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Its a scam, do not give them your money, if you already did call your bank to get your money, please report a scam website at https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/about-this-website/report-scam-website

Tradesmen
Happening date 2024-02-01
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This company will take your money and you won’t receive any work they send leads through and they are fully quoted when you get them so you carnt apply then you ring to complain and 10 days later they call you back to say they will sort it out but trust me they don’t someone is getting very rich off this scam I carnt stress enough AVOID

Kitchen and bathroom fitter

I had the same experience riped off for £490 and no leads etc etc

Is it a scam?
Happening date 2024-02-18
User evaluation:

Thought this is genuine because they were quoting Wolseley & wren etc. paid £540. Didn’t receive any leads at all for a week now. It looks like they put some dummy leads for attracting me.

Avash
Happening date 2024-02-15
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Reminds me of the Wolf of Wall Street movie، I paid £900 for pro membership four days ago, book a builder created a profile for me with the wrong phone number no matter how many times I spoke to them to correct the phone number to no avail, before I paid them They told me that we provide you with unlimited jobs, but now there is not a single job in the Book A Builder application, they only advertise, don't be deceived, all their words are lies.

SSS
Happening date 2024-02-02
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Scam! Just a scam! I wish I have seen this before!

MA services
Happening date 2024-01-26
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Excellent service
Highly recommend

G.b landscaping
Happening date 2023-12-31
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We have been with book a builder for 2 months now and not had a single lead at all will let the weather warm up a little to see if there is any change as this time of year is not to great for my sort of work.

Anonymous

Be careful with this company if you got time cancel they are crooks!!! This is my opinion they don’t give me n work for a year and the staff of them are very convincente to take your money.

Liam
Happening date 2024-01-21
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paid £700 for year worth of leads & not 1 job come in, customer services are massive waste of time, no help whatsoever, please stay well away from this company

Vb1
Happening date 2023-10-18
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Stay well of this company who removes my and other negative reviews. Charged ridiculous one year subscription despite supposed to charge for a month withou providing any service
Don’t waste your time and money

Danny
Happening date 2023-12-15
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They want nearly £1K because I didn't gave 60days notice i didn't want to renew, i cancelled the card i made the original payment tho

So

so this can be treated as a tip to resign. You have to give them 60 days notice if you want to cancel. Hehe, I just don't understand why, but maybe one of you should try it

Dar
Happening date 2023-12-12
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Not worth is completely ..........,.........weist money

Meg
Employee
Happening date 2023-12-11
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How I can cancel renewal with them. I cancelled in last year but this one still want renewal and don’t see no this what sign before

Jake

Did you try to reach customer service/ customer care? You should start always there, they should help you with cancellation

Liam
Candidate
Happening date 2023-10-25
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I signed up thinking this would be perfect for getting work(plumber). Turns out it’s the biggest scam and I fell for it. Took £500 and then an extra £600 with out me knowing. Reported with bank and got money back…. Avoid like the plague

Mike

It would be great if you could write how they collected this extra money themselves to warn people, and another thing is whether there were any job posts there or nothing?

Mike
Happening date 2023-09-01
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Scam!!! They take your money but no jobs available!!
Scam!!!

Anonymous

Scam!!! They take your money but no jobs available!!
Scam!!!
*** NO option to opt out from subscription, it's been 2 years we haven't been able to opt out!!!!!!***

Jenkins

From what I see, you pay not only to see job offers, but also to be in their database of companies. Then someone who needs a worker can find you more easily (or not hehe). Am I right?

Ashmere Construction
Happening date 2023-03-03
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Book a Builder is a scam organisation. They say that the service is free. When you sign up you receive a phone call saying that if you pay a fee of anything from £500 to £1500 you will have a personal manager who will direct the kind of work you want and a all singing all dancing service. What you get is nothing. You find out you have signed up to a on line directory that is as much use bent two (deleted by the administrator) bit. When you try and ask for your money back there is a disclaimer saying that they will not honour any agreement that has been made by one of their sales team. My legal team is looking into the legality of this statement with the result of a possible prosecution.
So watch out for the My Builder scam

Rudi
Happening date 2024-04-08

If you check this company and PALACE MEDIA LIMITED, owned by the same person, with the company house uk, you'll be shocked.

Elite property maintenance
Happening date 2023-10-11
User evaluation:

Very pleased with quality, value for money and speed of work.
Replaced my garage roof, gutter and facials. Team was polite and efficient.
Happy to recommend to anyone.

Anonymous
Happening date 2023-09-13

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Chris

Is there something wrong with them? Or you just want tradesmen and builders to leave reviews under your comment?

ben
Happening date 2023-09-12

amazing service won a job already and only signed up yesterday

Andy
Happening date 2023-08-30
User evaluation:

Very happy with Book a Builder's services- and have been for several years

Chris

Do you use their service regularly? How about the people working there? Are they nice?

Aj singh
Candidate
Happening date 2023-08-28

It’s the worst site for a he trades people
Don’t waste your money
They have robbed £800 off me
Disgusting

alex

Robbed? what exactly happened?

Anonymous

They took his money but never followed through with what they offered

alex

It's always sad to see things like that happen, especially in 2023 when everyone can leave comments everywhere. Did you think about reporting that somewhere?

BOOK A BUILDER UK for 10 time in the last 12 months is looking for new candidates for the position of Sales Executive. Is it because of the development of the company or because of the high turnover?

BOOK A BUILDER UK is recruiting again for the position of Sales Agent.


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