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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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1121 points alokedesai | 1 comments | 28 Oct 15 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.285s | source
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gondo ◴[28 Oct 15 20:49 UTC] No.10467295[source]▶
as someone mentioned in the blog comment, Fly Maids site is a complete copy (with redesigned homepage) of another cleaning service http://www.homeaglow.com/

@johnsalzarulo out of curiosity, try if your login works on homeaglow.com

f.e.: both logos are served from the same S3 bucket: https://s3q1w2e3.s3.amazonaws.com/brands/logos/fly_maids.png https://s3q1w2e3.s3.amazonaws.com/brands/logos/homeaglow.png

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phonon ◴[28 Oct 15 20:54 UTC] No.10467338[source]▶
It also has the same address/registration number as the one in the privacy policy of http://cleanr.ca/

"a company incorporated in England and Wales (registration number 8883585) with its registered office address at 14 Whittonditch Road, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, SN8 2PY."

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phonon ◴[28 Oct 15 20:56 UTC] No.10467349[source]▶
Which is in fact "HOMEJOY EUROPE LIMITED"! https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08883585
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1. pbhjpbhj ◴[28 Oct 15 22:23 UTC] No.10467853[source]▶
Cleanr can't be "Homejoy Europe Limited", it could be a trading name of them, but in their terms Cleanr say:

>"These Terms of Service and any separate agreements whereby we provide you Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of 112 Bagot St Toronto Guelph Canada m3k1v6." //

That's a pretty specific set of laws!! But it's not then the website of a UK company. FWIW in Europe legislation requires a business to have the business name and address for service on the website.

They also use a @gmail.com email address, which is low trust indicator for a business IMO.

It might be of note that Cleanr haven't updated their Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/HomeCleanr/, since April 2015.