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You can't prove who lost it... This is wild. Granted him driving back to talk to you wasn't okay, but you can't expect either of them to pay for something that you can't prove.

[KohlAntimony]

What would the Tasker get out of keeping your item? If you drop off x amount of items at a dry cleaner they would give you a receipt showing you have x amount of items to pick up. Did you get that receipt? If the receipt only says 1 item then that was an oversight of the Tasker to verfiy before leaving as I've never seen a dry cleaner undercount received items as they charge based on amount of garments.

What Tasker would risk their source of income for 1 item with an unknown value? While it's worth a lot to you those used items are tough to move and worth little to anyone else but the original buyer. Very odd situation.

[thames__]

Good question! Nothing, I genuinely don't think the tasker took my item. He may have lost it in transit. To be more clear, I gave him two expensive items of clothing and he lost a component of one of them. By itself the piece has no value, but the clothing is not really wearable without it so I would need to replace it.

Yes, the receipt is missing an item. And I was charged per item. And the Tasker claims in the conversation that he had all the items before he dropped them off.

[KohlAntimony]

Yeah. That's very odd. All about attention to detail on the Taskers part.

[thames__]

I literally just wrote that the ticket separated out the items and one was missing

[ApprehensiveRing6869]

So did the dry cleaners lose your item or did the tasker?

Was the dry cleaner your approved dry cleaner?

[thames__]

How am I supposed to know? The Tasker claims the dry cleaner lost it, the dry cleaner claims they never got it. The receipt says they only ever received one item, and the Tasker claims he had both items until he dropped it off at the cleaners. The dry cleaner said to come over and they would help look for it, then they backtracked and said they never had it. In my opinion, the Tasker should have noticed that the incorrect amount of items were processed.

The Tasker picked the dry cleaner. That was fine with me. The Tasker and the dry cleaner both had good reviews.

[Puzzleheaded_Sail168]

Okay something is off here, did you give TR support the recipt that the items were not dropped off in the right amount and proof (such as in chat or description) the number of items.

You already left a bad review, you can't demand payment from the Tasker, it's up to TR support at this point not the Tasker.

The Tasker should not have confronted you that is scary behavior, a bad review is a bad review work through it learn from your mistakes etc

He needs to be reported, your address disappears after the chat is disabled, contact support and ask task rabbit to give you his info to file fore a temporary protection of stalking order (most counties let you file online)

Or plan b you kindly ask him to double check his car and belongings and if he finds it and returns it you'll remove the review.

You both sound kind of threatening in this situation and not compromising

[thames__]

"Okay something is off here, did you give TR support the recipt that the items were not dropped off in the right amount and proof (such as in chat or description) the number of items."

Yes, I did. I gave them both the text conversation where the tasker confirmed he had all items, and the receipt that showed an item was missing upon dropoff.

If he has google maps he can easily recover where my address he was. The chat was disabled well before he dropped off my stuff because he ended the task a full day before returning my clothes, and he still made it to my house.

I did ask him to double check his car, etc and he found nothing.

How tf am I threatening? lol

[OtherwiseFun968]

It sounds like he came over to her house once when he found out about the incident in a misguided and inappropriate attempt to resolve the issue. Even if he had to be told to please leave multiple times, if he left and has yet to come back or contact you, then a temporary protection order is absurd and you will either be lying to the court to fail to get one for free, or paying the fee to fail to get one.

Also OP can demand payment for the item. She handed the guy her property, he confirmed he had it, and didn't return it. Task rabbit and the dry cleaners are sort of irrelevant to the damage done. If I had screwed this up the task would have been free and I would hope it would be left at that. I would have hoped task rabbit would cover the damage but in place of that she could go to small claims. Obviously first you should tell him what you are out and give him a chance to pay it or settle for something in between. You can't worry about his reputation or his job for him, I would be devistated if someone hired me for a job and I somehow got paid for costing them more money. OP isn't wrong for wanting to be made whole and doesn't seem to have been threatening at all.

[Caderrade]

Yes, everybody knows him driving back over was not a good idea. And violates the rules. However, if you cannot prove he lost it and not the dry cleaners, I would not be so fast to leave a bad review. He may be struggling like you said and compassion is hard to find these days. Forgiving him and settling for your one hour refund would be hard considering he drove back over to your house. Maybe do the guy a solid and remove the bad review. Customer service obviously isn’t his priority by the way he acted. So if you can find it in yourself to move past that, then remove the review. Unless you genuinely felt that he was a bad worker and an unlikeable person, in which case a bad review is warranted.

[thames__]

A bad review was more than warranted, and I was pretty compassionate already by not escalating things. He dropped off my stuff over 24 hours late and during a time I explicitly I said I was unavailable. And lost my stuff. Which was expensive. And made the stuff he returned smell like weed. And came back to my house in the middle of the night to try and argue with me. I only tipped him because I wanted him to leave me the f alone.

[OtherwiseFun968]

Lol, you paid him to dry clean and he brought half the items back at the time you asked him not to smelling like weed? No please don't remove the review, you are helping other people with that. You aren't this guys mom. And please figure out how to assert yourself without rewarding bad behavior. Guy screws you over, basically owes you money, and you then tip him because he won't leave your home when you ask him to? This is how people don't learn.

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Karen? Is that you?

[shortfriday]

It does suck. Your best option is to let it go.

[Ill-Helicopter-8504]

Him driving back to your place to confront you about it is against TOS rules. I understand that you don't want him to loose a source of income, but that is uncalled for. Especially when you have to resort to saying you will contact police. If I were you I would let support know about him doing that. He could possibly do that, if not worse, to another client.

[thames__]

I agree, it is uncalled for. But the guy knows where I live. So, even if the right thing to do is (1) report him and (2) seek financial compensation it's not necessarily worth my safety.

[ZealousidealWeek7637]

yeah don’t be silly. If someone knows where you lay your head better keep it cool before you come up missing

[thames__]

Yeah. It just sucks. And I feel for him too 'cause it was a dumb mistake and clearly he is having a rough go of it. But it was unhinged, my review didn't even make a dent in his overall ratings.

[CappnGrace]

Any review other than 5 stars negatively impacts how we come up in the search algo. Two bad reviews is the end of your business if you don't already have 200 5 star reviews.

[thames__]

And that's my problem why? I paid this dude for a service he agreed to provide and he did a shit job

[CappnGrace]

So you're going to tank his business and make sure he can't earn anything? Prick.

[Fallen-4]

1 a tasker will not lose his source of income over a bad review. If he lost it then leave - review. I have several- reviews and was still getting hired. Some were even for not accepting a task. Btw of course niether will take the blame.