Bark may or may not be legit, but their barks are very often bogus tire kickers or scammers. They've got a lot of work to do to clean up their act. They need to go straight membership and those needing the work done need to PAY to speak to a professional instead of the professional paying to speak to the bogus tire kicker.

I would definitely stay away from them. I wasted $300 on this service without any leads at all. Learned a huge lesson. STAY AWAY!

Absolutely scam. Spending $160 in three weeks and all i got was faked numbers to contact with

BIG SCAM! STAY AWAY! They do not really provide true phone numbers or contact information. They change customer service policies every time you call. No one gives you the same answer. As a small biz owner, this was a major ripoff. Go use Thumbtack instead!

They're certainly spammers, and it smells like a scam. I'm not foolish enough to try it and find out.

Yes you absolutely are a scam company. Your leads are not genuine, most of them have never even heard of you. Trying to report your to the trading standards company at the moment as you need to be shut down. Most of the people who have been sucked into signing up to you are legitimate, hard working, small businesses trying to make an honest living. You on the other hand are simply vultures making shed loads of money with zero integrity. You are everything that is wrong about the internet. Shame on you,

Scam Scammers Scam Scammers Scam Scammers Scam Scammers Scam Scammers Scam Scammers Scam Scammers

I cannot comment for legal reasons but as I said in my review it begs the question!

Hi Jim,

I work for Bark.com so thought I would weigh in.

Bark.com is a legit company. We are an online market place which connects customers looking for services with professionals who can provide those services and we currently operate in the UK, USA, Ireland, Canada and South Africa.

I would encourage you to check out of Trustpilot reviews at https://www.trustpilot.com/review/bark.com

If you have any questions feel free to contact our friendly team by phone or email: team@bark.com

Bark may not be a scam, per se. But their business set-up is questionable at best and designed to generate a lot of money for them with very little input or effort on their part.

Great for them. Not so good for customers or clients.

It's legit. Have generated some good business in the first week. The haters don't know how to sell themselves -- most people don't.

I don't know how they vet their con artists but they get away with it. I was done, not happy and the con men have evaded and expunged their sites in jig time. Bark just say they will look in to it big whoop, and worse again Facebook account is wiped clean and they left a "LIKE" for Bark FU to me

404 on their trustpilot page now, I guess they have been booted from there and rightly so as they were dishonest as it gets. I wish this site would kick all the bark reviews that are for service providers under the bark name as they artificially inflate the spammer's rating which should be near zero. Sitejabber is not reliable at all in this case.

Bark may in deed be a legitimately formed company. That does not mean however that the quality of their product is not suspect.

After being jilted out of over $200 and being denied a refund I used my skip tracing skills as a licensed professional within a field which I can not disclose, but pay annual dues to be a member of and swear an oath not to abuse my privilege, and what I discovered was that 1 out of 15 of the leads I received belonged to a real person.

Whereas 90% of the other leads were to disconnected phone numbers of people who supposedly were looking for service, but mysteriously got their phone cut off less than 5 minutes after submitting a request for a quote. On several occasions people would pick up the phone and hang back up without saying anything. However, in the split second the phone line was open, I could hear chatter in the background as if I had reached a call center with about 20 people talking in the background.

I also traced one lead to a business that was... out of business. Why would someone shut down their website and phone service within minutes of requesting a quote for service?

Why would anyone in their right mind ask for a quote, and then disconnect their phone or avoid answering the phone all together?.

Why would anyone provide a number to a call center and repeatedly hang up or allow the phone to ring 50 times if they are in need of services?

None of this makes any sense. Unless you factor in Bots. Like the ones used on Twitter and Facebook to perpetrate personas of real people. If you don't know about it, there is in deed artificial intelligence systems which can literately engage in short back-and-forth conversations.

If not the above, then perhaps they are using a data mining system that searches the web for "service for hire" inquiries on other websites. The problem however is that the data collected could be several months, if not years old. Which is probably why this company has no problem giving people "credits" to try again, Perhaps they figure if you beat your head against the wall long enough, there is a 10% chance you will make contact with a real person amid the garbage.

Technically, they can claim the leads are to real people, but if the lead is so old that the phone numbers are disconnected, who cares? When a Vendor purchases a customer lead, the presumption is that the lead is fresh from a real person, in real time. Not a Bot recycling leads from some other company's website.

To better prove my suspicion they are using Bots, I also did a forensic analysis of the over 1000 emails I have received in the weeks following my cancellation and request for refund. I can't be too specific at the moment, because of the class action lawsuit I intend to bring if I am unsuccessful in getting my money back through my CC service (if you are interested in signing onto the initial complaint, feel free to respond below). However I will say that there is irrefutable evidence that this company is using Bots to manage their so-called customer profiles.

They might be but I signed up for a free trial and was charged $89 and received nothing for my "free" trial. Don't use them and don't give credit card info.

THEY ARE COMPLETE FRAUDSTERS. ALL LEADS FALSE NUMBERS! DO NOT SPEND ANY MONEY WITH THEM. I clicked autorenew off and they still charged my card over £300! Without my permission.

Bad lead quality, stay away. Zero customer service. On the phone they will tell you that you are wasting their time.

The approach Bark used doesn't work. They have no way to remove bogus tire kickers. In 2018 it seemed to work reasonably well I won 50% of my leads, client reviews were mostly 5's and I was awarded the "Bark certificate of excellence" But in the second half of 2019 I won 1 out of 13 (all but 1 of the 13 never responded). Sometimes in 2019 they began adding "Client has asked you to contact them." This is an outright LIE... FRAUD!

Yes, this is a legit company. The leads are not seriously looking

Based on my experience it's a company that generates false leads.

Not a scam. NOT A SCAM. Leads are genuine. I have contacted, even met some of them, They are rude and selfish people.

Total scam! RUN! This is the worst company I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with and that says a lot considering how many terrible businesses are currently in the market place!

Fake fake fake,
I don't know where they get their so-called request but
Ispend $160 for nothing... don't try it