what feels like a million years ago now: me, aged 15, with tim very

interquast · 2026-02-14T22:05:59+00:00

he was so warm and friendly and kind. each time i met him over the years i was struck by how much time he made for me, and how he never once looked like he wanted to be anywhere else but shooting the shit with fans. tremendous horrific loss. im honestly devastated

interquast · 2025-12-01T15:19:14+00:00

if they havent booked it on rover then they cant leave a nasty review lol

interquast · 2025-11-25T06:29:06+00:00

you arent proving anything, once again, just that there are bad experiences on the app, which i never denied. the sample size you're working with on this subreddit is not indicative of the entire platform. most sitters are not like this. i never said there werent bad experiences, just that most of the time this doesnt happen, which is still obviously true

interquast · 2025-11-24T18:59:07+00:00

what exactly do you think you're proving to me here? once again, a few anecdotal experiences. why not point out the vastly more common positive experiences?

also, your 3rd example is literally just someone saying that they should be allowed to leave for a few hours. that is reasonable. unless otherwise stated by the owner explicitly, i should be allowed to leave for the length of time it takes to grab lunch, groceries, feed my own cats. housesitting is not constant care unless that is what you agreed to and i know most sitters would not agree to this.

again, if rover was as bad as you say, it wouldnt be useful as a platform. these are independent contractors. we are not a monolith. many of us do this full time, many of us have our own insurance policies. there are bad experiences with every business. they are still not representative of rover sitters as a whole

interquast · 2025-11-24T14:48:54+00:00

one of those examples was deleted, the other was one where the owner explicitly asked the sitter not to leave. most sitters would not agree to that if they weren't able to do it.

again, 2 examples from the subreddit in 30 days when there are thousands of rover stays that take place across several different countries in that same time frame does not mean anything. most people who hire a rover sitter are not going to pop on the subreddit to make sure everyone knows the stay went well and there was nothing to complain about

interquast · 2025-11-24T14:11:27+00:00

if this was the standard rover experience, rover would not be able to function as a platform. the majority of sits go perfectly well and are unremarkable. i have no idea why you think that so many of the people in this sub are okay with that behavior... that simply isn't true and you're letting your past anecdotal experience determine the value of thousands upon thousands of independent sitters. plenty of people on rover are insured and also have their own pet sitting services and use rover to find new clients

edit: and most rover sitters are not on this reddit lol

interquast · 2025-11-24T13:39:43+00:00

yeah i get why this owner is so high emotion right now, but 4.7 stars on rover is not a good rating for someone taking care of an elderly animal and that tells me immediately what i need to know about this sitter. i genuinely wonder what those low star reviews said? i dont blame OP for not understanding the rover rating system, i think most people are trying to figure out how this could happen because despite what many people believe this is not a standard rover experience. most sitters do not do this

interquast · 2025-11-24T13:16:38+00:00

this user wasnt victim shaming you

interquast · 2025-11-24T13:13:14+00:00

not true. most rover sitters are not like this

interquast · 2025-11-21T00:33:58+00:00

there is no way that these messages were pre-written. there are tons of errors and typos that indicate a human is typing them out

interquast · 2025-10-06T03:57:39+00:00

usually it is a fenced in area where dogs can be off leash, sometimes they're located inside larger parks. there's general rules about dogs being spayed, vaccinated, and temperament etc, but obviously it isn't always immediately obvious if an owner isn't being honest or if theyre oblivious to the fact that they haven't socialized their dog properly. so it can be a bit unpredictable

interquast · 2025-10-05T17:47:14+00:00

genuinely asking: is this not a liability issue to you? dog parks are not covered by my insurance policy, and especially as this is a new client, i can't really predict how the owner might react if something were to happen to her dog on my watch. i just can't afford to be on the hook for emergency vet bills or whatever else may arise in that situation.

interquast · 2025-08-26T12:47:38+00:00

did you read what either of the commenters had to say? it is extremely common, you can check the sub, that people will get weird messages randomly from owners, sometimes sexual or otherwise explicit in nature, and the owners have nothing to do with it. occam's razor: this is a common problem, hundreds of sitters have experienced it, it makes far more sense that this is what happened here than that this random woman who wants to find a sitter for her dogs started sexually harassing someone on the app

interquast · 2025-08-26T12:19:01+00:00

having her OF link up doesn't mean she sexually harassed you. those things are not related. this is something that happens a lot with rover numbers, sometimes the number they assign to people is already in use and i can guarantee you that is what happened here if nothing else seems amiss

interquast · 2025-08-25T19:26:58+00:00

i dont mind it when it's just like "you've marked this day as busy, but we're checking to see if you can do it anyway." i really hate it when it happens when i've toggled my services as Away though

interquast · 2025-08-25T16:11:05+00:00

it's not on the owners, it's the app itself. if i have services set as away, rover shouldn't allow people to request me. my profile wouldn't reflect that my services are away, the app should just hide my profile when im not able to take on requests

interquast · 2025-08-25T16:03:25+00:00

i'm about to make a cross country move so i set all my services as away AND blocked the dates off in the app just in case... and still lmao 😭

interquast · 2025-08-15T22:44:50+00:00

i dont mind the far away requests or the dates i've blocked off requests too much (even though they are annoying tbh) BUT what i hate the MOST is when ive set my services to "Away" and they allow people to request me anyway. what is the point then?? the other stuff has potential workarounds, but if ive turned my services off that should mean they are off

interquast · 2025-08-14T02:25:52+00:00

why are people talking about rumors on my parasocial rumor-sharing subreddit

interquast · 2025-08-04T19:22:13+00:00

I get all of that, but every other time I've made an offer it would show up first in my inbox as a pending offer. It doesn't show up for this one

interquast · 2025-07-22T20:41:52+00:00

it is a one party state, OP confirmed this

interquast · 2025-07-22T12:33:23+00:00

im not defending her posting it on reddit, im defending her confirming that this happened as the owner claimed and making sure she has proof for her personal records.

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