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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Tue, 11 Nov 2008 8:35 pm

Josephinee, you've been caught out. Why not retreat gracefully instead of being sour grapes.....
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Post by Josephinee » Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:09 pm

Hi! If you think i am being a sour grape then i can't help it.I am just voicing out how i feel and not giving people high hopes about the price.Someone have to be honest and tell people what is it like when the wrong information is passed around.Like i said earlier some people do this for a living and not for extra pocket money.That's a lot of difference.

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:24 pm

Well then, if you are doing it for a business, then I guess you should be advertising in the classified section of this site and not soliciting business here in the forum threads as per this sites anti advertising/soliciting policies. So I guess this will be the last mention of it by you won't it! It's that or a locked account.

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Post by Blue Sapphire » Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:44 pm

I usually hire from Birth & Beyond at Tanglin. They charge from $12-15 depending on whether its day/night and weekday/weekend. They've always provided good babysitters and I'm using the same person now whenever I can get her. I hear expats saying that they think they are expensive so there must be alot of people offering much less.

Some agencies like Domestic One and the likes charge about $10 but I've never tried them.

I've hired a babysitter from the expats classifieds and she charges me $13 per hour.

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Post by micknlea » Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:05 am

Ha ha, I had to have a laugh at this one.

I was just thinking that far from being competitive and paying a wage to someone who needs it the agency that Josephinee is talking about sounds like a total rip off. They take half the earnings??? That is a big percentage, and they charge way over the going rates as well. Ah well, no wonder she is upset. :wink:
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Post by durain » Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:51 am

hope Josephinee is not an estate agent too. she will jack up the price sky high!!!

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Post by Josephinee » Sat, 15 Nov 2008 1:17 pm

Hi All,I guess u guys had the wrong impression about me.I have been doing babysitting and housekeeping for a living and supporting my two kids.I was upset with some people breaking the price.I guess we don't have a say to how we feel.I have meet many nice people during my experience and had been treated well but there were even nusty people that i have met and was taken for granted.I am not puting up an advertisment but just vocing out how i feel.

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Post by batgirl_cdn » Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:15 pm

Josephinee, I'm not really sure how someone is "breaking the price". You said the agency charges $20 per hour or $15 per hour, and half of that money goes to the babysitter. The other half goes where... to the agency! So, if someone is self-employed and therefore cuts out the agency fee and charges the $10 per hr directly, what is your beef with that? I'm guessing you must be an agent who fears missing out on a nice chunk of money for doing little work besides coordinating the babysitter with the family. As a consumer, I care about paying a babysitter for his/her work, and could care less about lining the pockets of agents.

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Post by cbavasi » Thu, 05 Nov 2009 7:53 am

oooph... this post was over a year old :?

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Post by batgirl_cdn » Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:07 pm

Sorry, it appeared high on the forum list for some reason, so I thought it was new. Never looked at the date! :lol:

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:29 pm

It was bumped up by an advertiser who has subsequently been deleted. You unfortunately reply to the older poster before the advertiser was deleted.

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