Care.com Can’t Explain Why People Keep Texting Me To Babysit Their Kids – Consumerist

7/29/2016

Mistakes happen with all things internet. When it happens to us, it gets quickly frustrating that simple errors can't be corrected quickly and easily. That is perhaps the peril of a large company without direct customer service. Sites like Amazon provide great purchase experiences, but at what cost to customer service?

We’ve all gotten wrong-number calls and texts; some of us have even been on the receiving end of repeated wrong-number calls looking for the same person. But Consumerist reader Ed wants to know why his phone number is listed — twice — as a babysitter on Care.com, even though he’s (A) not a babysitter, and (B) never had an account with the site.Unfortunately, Care.com has no good answers for Ed.

Babysitter Needed.

It all started in mid-June, when Ed began receiving unsolicited text messages from people…

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