Pay Two Fees to be a Sitter?
It will cost me a $35 Profile Review Fee, and a $35 Background Check Fee, to be a Sitter? Thank you! ~Heather
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Sounds like they've renamed the background check fee as I don't see it anywhere in the Help. It now says Profile Review Fee. My guess is that Rover didn't want to be liable in case their cursory background review didn't uncover something about an applicant, like they had a criminal record under an alias or something like that. So now they're just calling it a profile review which guarantees nothing.
But you should probably double check with Rover Customer Support at [Edit: Rover’s contact options have changed. Visit the Rover Help Center at https://support.rover.com/ to find the phone number, help articles, or chat with the team]. No one here is answering questions for Rover.
I'm trying to figure out the same thing. I would also like to know what a person's credit history has anything to do with being a pet sitter.
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Actually it could mean a great deal, especially if you employee sitters who will have access to your home. If the person is in substantial debt (e.g., high credit card balances), then I would be concerned about potential theft, etc.
Karen I understand your concern, but just like a person with good credit, the moment any sitter steals from a client, they lose all future earnings. Having debt, or simply being poor, is not the same as being immoral. That type of logic is extremely problematic, because it justifies discrimination.
Especially after a long-term global tragedy, I’d assume more people would rethink classist assumptions
I just recently signed up and only paid for background check, though they did a profile review as well.