For Providers
What a Lead
Actually Costs You
If you advertise on a pay-per-lead site, you already know the feeling — you pay for the lead whether or not you get the job, and so do three other people. This page won't tell you what that costs on average. It'll tell you what it costs you, using your numbers.
Nothing on this page is legal or financial advice. The calculator does arithmetic on figures you enter — nothing is assumed or estimated on your behalf.
🔨 What Gigzys charges
A flat monthly rate. No fee per lead. No commission on the job. No bidding against four other people for the same customer. A customer finds your page and calls your phone — we're not in the middle of it, and we never touch the money.
The first 50 Anderson County providers list free, with no card and no promo code.
That's the whole pitch. It's the only claim on this page we're making about ourselves, and you can check every word of it before you pay anything — because there's nothing to pay.
🧮 Run your own numbers
Put in what you actually spend. If you don't know your close rate, use your gut — the arithmetic still lands in the right neighbourhood.
⚖️ What the FTC found — about HomeAdvisor
This one isn't opinion or a blog estimate. It's the federal record, and it concerns HomeAdvisor, Inc., the Denver company affiliated with Angi — not Thumbtack, which has no comparable action against it that we're aware of.
On 23 January 2023, the FTC issued an order requiring HomeAdvisor to pay up to $7.2 million and to stop what the Commission described as "false, misleading, or unsubstantiated claims about the quality and source of the leads" it sold to service providers.
- The FTC found HomeAdvisor told providers they would get leads matching their trade and their preferred area — and that many did not match.
- It found the company "often tells service providers that its leads result in jobs at rates much higher than it can substantiate."
- The complaint covered conduct going back to at least mid-2014.
- The annual membership at issue was $287.99, with an optional $59.99/month add-on that sales agents pitched as a free first month and then charged for.
- In November 2023 the FTC began returning more than $3 million to affected businesses, mailing over 110,000 refund checks.
Read it yourself rather than taking our word for it: the FTC's January 2023 order and the November 2023 refund announcement.
Why we're careful here: plenty of sites lump every lead marketplace together and quote numbers that trace back to somebody selling a competing service. We'd rather name one company, cite the government, and let you draw your own conclusion about the model.
❓ Five things worth asking before you pay anybody
- How many other pros get this same lead? If the answer is more than one, you're buying a lottery ticket, not a customer.
- Do I get refunded for a bad lead — and who decides what counts as bad? Ask how many refunds they actually granted last month.
- Can I cap my monthly spend, and does the cap actually stop the charges?
- If I leave, do my reviews come with me? Reviews you can't take anywhere are rented, not earned.
- What happens to my price per lead after the first month?
Ask us the same five. Our answers: nobody else gets your customer, there's nothing to refund because there's no lead fee, there's no spend to cap, and your reviews are yours.
🫱 And what Gigzys is not
Worth saying plainly, because you've been sold to before.
- We don't send you leads. We're a directory. Customers find your page and call you. If you're expecting a feed of jobs in your inbox, this isn't that.
- We're new and we're small. Anderson County first, then outward. If you sign up expecting volume on day one, you'll be disappointed — that's exactly why it's free.
- We're one person in Oak Ridge. Not a call centre. If something's wrong with your page, you're talking to the person who built it.
Straight trade: you get a real page on a real local site for nothing, and we get a directory worth showing people. That's the deal, and there's no second shoe.