my little black book wiki
by asi
I’ve been thinking of this experiment for a while now. We recently bought a flat in London and completely renovated it. That means I had to deal with dozens of functions and services – from solicitor to builders to rubbish collection to mortgage advisor to home aplliences, movers, plumbers, sash windows secialists and whatnot – the list is endless.
While for most of these services I got contacts and recommendations from friends, for others I had to find it in the (not so) good old Yellow Pages or websites like upmystreet.com and you know what? It’s a bit like playing Russian Roulette… While I’ve been luckey with most of them, some were pretty horoble and I wish I’d received some recommendations or warnings.
I did a bit of a research and I realised that while there are loads of “recommendation sites” for restaurants, bars, books, shopping and hotels (i.e. TripAdvisor.com) there is not a single service directory that has some sort of people recommendations or ratings or alike.
Basically, if you need a mechanic, or a decorator, solicitor, computer wizz, plumber or anything similar – you are more on less on your own. Pick up Yellow Pages and hope for the best.
So I started this wiki which is currently called My-Little-Black-Book (alternative names: The People’s Directory, The Good Directory) with the hope that people will start populating it with contacts for services which they have experienced and they can recommend.
Everything goes – just open your little black book and share it with us.
My little black book – so no one will ever get screwed up again!
The password is peopleÂ
This looks like an interesting project. Maybe I should look at starting one for Mumbai services. Thanks for the idea.
alas, someone has beaten you to it. check out ratedtradesmen.com – not as open source as what you’re suggesting, as there’s a company in between, but still works. i got new stairs put in, on time, without wobble, for half the price some random bloke quoted me. and my tradesmen was from east london, has 12 kids and had lived in Poland, so had nice stories to tell too. all round good. adil
thats cool will check it out.
cheers