Home Services Marketplace Ratings Don't Reflect Actual Subcontractor Quality
A user selected a highly-rated contractor recommendation through a home services marketplace, but the job was a disaster, apparently because the platform doesn't properly track which subcontractors are actually doing the work under a listed provider. This breaks the reliability of the rating system as a signal of quality, since a good rating may reflect a different crew than the one actually dispatched.
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