# Home Advisor fishy responses **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2019, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-advisor-fishy-responses/834698 "2019-05-29T05:54:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-advisor-fishy-responses/834698/1 "2019-05-29T05:54:53Z")
Today I put in a request for quotes for gutter cleaning on [Homeadvisor.com](http://Homeadvisor.com) for a job in Pennsylvania. Within moments I got two calls: Call 1 showed up on my iPhone as from Honolulu, yet the voice mail was from a phone call with a local area code. Call 2 " " from North Carolina, this time asking me to call back an 800 number. About 2 1/2 years ago I used this website for emergency repair work on a house I was looking to sell, and every time I needed a repair I hit a home run all with local contractors. I may have overpaid, but each time a local painter, electrician and landscaper responded, did the work under the deadline, did a great job and got paid. As you can guess suddenly I am now a little suspicious. Is there a gutter cleaning racket I should be aware of? Or have scammers gotten wise to Home Advisor, Angie’s List etc and have found a way to “sub contract” inquiries onto these websites. Or . . . . Am I just being paranoid and should just call back these cats? HELP!!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk