Shady methods used in pricing for quotes – I have today requested that Oneflare removes my business details from their directory, along with closing my account with them. I urge all other contractors to consider whether the Oneflare service is actually working for connecting you to customers or connecting your money to their bank account. I tend to believe it is the latter.

The cost for per lead in my case has gone from 17 credits to 27.4 credits - yes, they are now charging in decimal places of credits. This is a 60% price increase, and nowhere along the line was I (apparently a valued customer of Oneflare) told that this price increase was coming.

To put this into perspective, Oneflare are now making $82.20 per enquiry made to the website, and $54.80 of that is coming from "customers" that are getting $0 value from the lead.

Let's assume that Oneflare are being honest on their website so we can put this into perspective. When I register today for a Web Design job, the system tells me that there have been 7966 others like me that have posted a job this week.

This means, if my Web Design quote rate is close to an average price, then on average Oneflare are making $654,805.20 each week and $436,536.80 of this money is coming from businesses like mine that are getting no value at all from the service.

This is POOR form by Oneflare - in fact, I wonder if it could be considered a scam under ACCC's ScamWatch.

If you run a business and have a listing with Oneflare, then I suggest you also contact them and have your details removed from their directory - they are competing with your own organic search engine rankings (and in generic search cases, they are often winning).

I will be sending a query to the ACCC in relation to this business structure given that 66% of their business revenue is generated by customers that get ZERO value from the service.

This is appalling - and in my opinion, they should not be supported by our business.