Homejoy says goodbye

I used Homejoy and I liked it's ease of use. But after the cleaning lady they sent me was done, she offered me her direct phone # and told me I could contact her directly for any future cleaning needs.

I always wondered how this business model was going to work if Homejoy's contractors could just give out their phone # at the end of their first service and the customer could just contact them directly for any future needs, instead of going back through Homejoy for any future bookings.

Re: Homejoy says goodbye

#8

Post by pyrrhotech » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 5:31 PM UTC

I really loved the idea, and maybe I'm just being cheap, but no way I was going to pay $250+ a month to have my 1296 sq ft house cleaned. That's a $150/month value at market rates in my area. $100/month for a bit of convenience was not worth it at all to me.

Re: Homejoy says goodbye

#9

Post by icpmacdo » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 5:31 PM UTC

This is a pretty big company going under right, a billion + ?

Re: Homejoy says goodbye

#10

Post by kevinkimball » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 5:32 PM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #5

kevinkimball wrote: post #3

what happened?

Many stories about their problems, but here's one: http://fusion.net/story/142578/homejoy-uber-for-x-startups-m... And maybe the main one: http://recode.net/2015/07/17/cleaning-services-startup-homej...

thanks, I had missed this