Spark launches rival to Builderscrack

Silverlake Electrical electrician Danny Bowen is one of WeDo’s early converts, but Master Electricians does not expect interest among its members to be high.

Spark is launching a competitor to Builderscrack, a website that helps people list jobs and get quotes from tradies.

But some trades bodies are warning it might be a pipe dream to expect the service to take off at the moment because of a lack tradies to bid for work.

Spark’s service, wedo.co.nz, will let people upload details of the work they want done.

WeDo will then use “algorithms” to decide which tradies to invite to pitch for the work.

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That might take into account whether they were nearby the customer and the feedback they had received from previous WeDo customers.

Master Plumbers chief executive Greg Wallace said it had been approached by Spark but had decided not to get involved.

“We are about 6000 to 8000 plumbers short so there is more of an issue that plumbers can’t take on any new clients, than there is with them looking for work,” Wallace said.

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