Fancy Hands Virtual Assistant Reviews

Pros

You can work from home.

Cons

There's a fault in their system. If a client replies saying thank you, it automatically reopens the task and acts as if it's unsolved and there's nothing you can do about it. Also they need more "Mentors". I had multiple tasks time out because it was waiting for someone to approve it.

Pros

Great company to work for. No set schedule and a steady amount of incoming tasks that are of varying difficulty. If you are able to manage your time effectively then there is plenty of opportunity to make the tasks worth your while. Mentors are wonderful and as long as you are professional and maintain a professional tone, the mentors are quick to get the tasks completed for assistants.

Cons

Some of the clients have requests that are above and beyond what you can reasonably get done in 20 minutes.

Pros

This is something you could do to earn extra money

Cons

non so far as pretty good

Pros

Flexible (ish), Can work when you want, a good way to make quick money

Cons

Management, Communication, Customers, Respect for employees, limited number of tasks, low pay I worked with Fancy Hands for over 5 years. Over the years I had completed thousands of tasks and even had clients that would request me specifically. If anyone would ask me about a work from home side hustle I would point them towards FH. I SWORE by them. But at the end of August, my account was put into what I later found out to be "soft disable". I was able to access the forums and work on any tasks I had already claimed (which means answer any client follow up questions which you DO NOT get paid for). I emailed management and didn't receive a response, after a few weeks I emailed again and didn't hear back. I didn't hear back until I refused to reply to a client until I was given an answer. Then I was told they needed to look into it and then I waited ANOTHER month+ then I go on to find that my account was disabled with no explanation. The crazy thing is, that I wasn't the only person in the forum having this issue. It wasn't a fluke this is how they treat their employees on a regular basis. All of these positive reviews? Don't believe them they went on a few months ago and asked everyone to put positive reviews up here to bury the negative ones. Also the number of tasks are getting fewer and fewer, may not be worth it at this point.

Pros

Ability to pick which tasks you work on.

Cons

Each task pays between $3 and $4. You do not get paid hourly or for the time you spend working on a task. Every time you communicate with the client, a mentor has to review your response and approve it. This can take a while until the task is approved by a mentor. In the meantime, the task remains open. You only get paid once the task is completed in full. Clients can also respond to completed tasks. So if you complete a task and they respond back (even just to say thank you) the task reopens and is not considered completed anymore. The work itself is labor-intensive. Clients often have over-the-top requests, which require hours of time such a writing blog posts, making spreadsheets, haggling with the phone company, etc. Managers and mentors get mad when you do not complete something to their standards and are quick to belittle you through their responses. Mangers sit high on the throne and get paid as salaried workers with benefits meanwhile all assistants and mentors only get paid peanuts.

Pros

Choose which jobs you work, choose the hours you work

Cons

Because jobs can reopen unexpectedly, you must at least check in on the weekends, and if the job reopened, you have to deal with it. There's a lot of "hurry up & wait".