An “A” by someone who I worked for. And an “F” by someone who I never worked for, met or talked to.

Personally, I think the latter is a bit awkward that they include stuff like that.

Later, someone hired me, who read both those reviews. He said he had one more estimate from another company highly rated on Angie’s List. They told him during the estimate appointment, that it would take them 2 HOURS to do the pruning. When he asked me when I drove there and met him, I responded “Probably 2 DAYS”.

The man had done the trees himself for years and was good at it. Took him two days. So aside from my approach to doing estimates, he knew the other highly rated company didn’t have any idea what they were doing technically. So I got the work. And he was pleased with the results.

So there you go. That’s my experience with Angie’s List so far. Its loaded with good and bad. And user have to make their own decisions. As for me, I encourage folks to go to my testimonials page, where they find that the nature of references match up with what would be the “A” review on Angie’s List. In other words, folks who I have met or worked for in person.

Cheers,

M. D. Vaden of Oregon