BillsharkReviews of billshark.com

I used Billshark through the PocketGuard budgeting app. I read up front that they take a 40% cut of your savings. What I failed to look into was how exactly they bill this. It's shocking to receive a bill in the HUNDREDS when you're trying to SAVE money. They ended up saving me money without canceling any services, although they were trying to do that at first and I told them I did not want any services taken off of our bills, I just wanted the reduction. And to their credit, they were able to do that. But the reduction periods can be for years, and they will bill you for 40% of the savings over those years! Fore example, they were able to save me $300 over the course of 2 years off my phone bill. So you get charged for 40% of YEARS worth of savings. They say just enough up front so that they can't be accused of the bait and switch, but they conveniently leave out details about how EXACTLY you will be charged. I also received a message saying they will re-negotiate for me automatically once the savings period is over. No thanks!!!!!! I had to email them asking them to not automatically renew this service. I feel trapped now and taken advantage of. I don't recommend using them.

Its a great service but they take waaay too much money. They negotiated me $600 in savings that I will accumulate at $50/month and took $240 of it immediately.

Well, just keep in mind that if you negotiate the same bill as you request BillShark to do and get the better of the two negotiations, you're still obliged to pay. I do not agree with this, don't see how it's even the slightest bit fair, but this is how they do it. My suggestion is to ask the BBB for help if ever you need to, with BillShark. It's expensive and they don't care who got the best negotiation, you're going to have to pay them.

Bill Shark did lower my bill, but used a credit that I already requested for, and claimed it for themselves. So really I lost money by letting them lower my bill.

They never asked me what I wanted from my internet provider. I did not want cable. Yes you did reply but I still have cable connected to my account and the bill is more than before. If anything I would have rather had a boost to my internet speed rather than cable added and the amount increased.

Billshark does what it says it will. They will save you money, but with a caveat. Your payment to them will be 30% of those savings. Which isn't necessarily bad. However, they will base some of those savings over a 24 month period. For instance... They saved me $10 a month on my cell phone. I plan on switching companies once our phones were paid off in October. But I was charged $72 for the savings. So it works, just not as well for me.

Once you contact them, they will bombard you with e-mails, SMS and calls. The service worked, they took their 40% cut, and now they are a bad rash that will not do away.