SeekingSitters

I’ve used Seeking Sitters exclusively for 5 years now (maybe even more). The sitters are fantastic, and Jennifer Hill delightful as a leader and resource.
The sitters arrive in their Seeking Sitters shirt with a polka-​dot bag full of activities and games. This is not a talk-​on-​the-​phone, plop-​kid-​in-​front-​of-​TV operation. The sitters have taken my kids to activities or birthday parties they are scheduled for, watched school performances, walked a dog, taught bike-​riding, coached through homework assignments and made dinner.
The girls are quite attached to their sitters (we use them every day after school) and keep in touch with sitters that have moved on in their careers. We’ve celebrated holidays with past sitters and find them friends for life.
The sitters we’ve had come checked out by seeking sitters and have been role models for my girls. Ive even called other Seeking Sitter franchises while we’ve been on vacation in other cities.
I cant rave enough about the quality of service and care by Seeking Sitters and their staff.

I have used Seeking Sitters for over one year. I have met some great sitters. I have recently had a billing problem. After 5 days of unresolved emails with Hardy, one of the owners, I spoke with his wife, Jennifer. I had been billed the one time fee ($ 15) for each of the last 4 events I had scheduled, even though I had spoken with a coordinator and agreed to switch to a 3 month plan ($ 18.99 per month with no one time event fees). They stated they had no notes that this conversation occurred. Unfortunately, I did not notice this until 2 – 3 weeks later as I had not looked closely at the invoices. When I emailed Hardy I agreed to pay a one month fee of $ 24.99 thinking that the one time fees would be erased for the month of August. This did not happen. Jennifer stated that the one time fee was for August 17-​September 17 which was after the last 4 events. Their idea of a resolution was initially to give me a fee free one month from September 17-​October 17 ($ 24.99). I told her that I would not be using the service as the kids were back in school and we had our usual babysitter back. I had to verbalize how upset I was and she finally said she would credit my account for the $ 24.99. Very disappointing.
I was also charged a one time fee of $ 25 for one event. I have 3 children. The babysitter texted me at work and asked if it would be ok for the boys to have friends over and she said it was ok with her. I agreed knowing I would be charged a couple dollars extra per hour. When I got the bill they also added $ 25 for a one time fee due to it technically being a «group event» due to 5 children. I was not aware of this and I am sure the sitter was not either. Jennifer said that they charged me $ 25 instead of sending another sitter. When I spoke with Jennifer she said there was nothing they could do to reverse that fee. Ridiculous!

If you want to spend over $ 100 for babysitting for a minimum of4 hrs every time, then this is your site! Watch out for hidden cost and extra charges! Ridiculous, I would strongly advice going through a different site such as
where you can still feel safe they hire professional, trustworthy people!

I am in graduate school and went on an interview with seeking sitters franchise owner Jennifer. The interview was alright at first until she said she needed access to my facebook account, I thought that was odd but continued on with the interview. Jennifer started to ask me about why I didn’t put my mother and father on my family references and started to ask me VERY personal questions about my childhood at a unprofessional uneducated attempt to psychoanalyze me and my childhood. She asked weird questions about my roommate, «what part of aurora» my brother lives in, when my dad left as a child, why I don’t have a good relationship with my mom and why my grandparents raised me. I interrupted her and let her know she is crossing the line and I do not feel comfortable divulging my childhood to her and that I am a professional social worker and I do not need her to analyze my childhood to become a babysitter. This women was extremely unprofessional and crossed ethical boundaries pretending to be qualified as a psychologist. I noticed this agency has a high turn around and she had many interviews at the same time as me which makes me weary. I let her know this type of unprofessionalism is not a good fit for me and I left. I would never work for this type of person or recommend anyone work or sign up with this type of agency.