Porch & GoSmith

[vdelfine1 (Vince Del Fine, CMI)]

I received a lead from both and it’s same client. Not the first time either.

Link to Smith - Home

[vdelfine1 (Vince Del Fine, CMI)]

Porch own GoSmith?

[frotte (Frank Rotte)]

I believe they are one in the same. I signed up with Porch as a client looking for a home inspection, and received a text from Smith, as the inspector, asking if I was interested in the job.

[imayer (Ian Mayer, CMI)]

@vdelfine1

Porch own GoSmith?

I’m not sure, but their websites have a very similar layout.

[sfetty (Dave Fetty, CMI)]

@frotte

I believe they are one in the same. I signed up with Porch as a client looking for a home inspection, and received a text from Smith, as the inspector, asking if I was interested in the job.

Wooow!!!

[lkage (Larry Kage, CMI)]

@vdelfine1

I received a lead from both and it’s same client. Not the first time either.

Link to Smith - Home

It would behoove anyone interested in doing business with the afore mentioned company to read the “TERMS” and “PRIVACY POLICY”, as is prudent in any business relationship.

[cevans (Chuck Evans, CMI)]

@lkage

It would behoove anyone interested in doing business with the afore mentioned company to read the “TERMS” and “PRIVACY POLICY”, as is prudent in any business relationship.

I especially like this part of the information sharing disclosure

To Provide Information to Partner Companies. We may enter into agreements with one or more partner companies pursuant to which we provide a partner company with a URL and a user registration page co-branded with, or private labeled by, the partner company, and the partner company distributes and promotes the URL to its customers. A partner company may want to access personally identifiable information that we collect from its customers. As a result, if you register on our Website or other Application through a partner company, or if you are directed to or access our Website or Application or their features (such as but not limited to an embedded widget) through a partner company, we may provide your personally identifiable information to the partner company.** Because we do not control the privacy practices of our partner company**, you should read and understand its privacy policies.

Interpretation: We have no fricking clue and don’t care in the least how many times, where or to whom your personal information is going to get passed-on, sold, traded, abused, etc. once we trade it off to whomever we choose because you’re just a saleable commodity to us.

[escanlan (Emmanuel Scanlan, TREC# 7593)]

@cevans

I especially like this part of the information sharing disclosure

Interpretation: We have no fricking clue and don’t care in the least how many times, where or to whom your personal information is going to get passed-on, sold, traded, abused, etc. once we trade it off to whomever we choose because you’re just a saleable commodity to us.

Sums it up completely!

What is actually unintelligible are all these Inspectors that sign up for the “Free” services or 90 Day Widgets and don’t bother to read or comprehend what they are agreeing to! Once they sign up they get spammed, taken advantage of, their clients get spammed and taken advantage of, etc., etc., and then they lament about their situation. :roll:

[lkage (Larry Kage, CMI)]

I enjoyed reading this:

Smith - Terms of Service

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