I recently joined White House Nannies as a client and I have been impressed with the quality of caregivers. (I'm not getting long-term nanny care, just occasional daytime babysitters). I didn't fully realize that the service charges me an extra $50 per session on top of what I pay the sitter directly (and on top of the memebership fee or whatever when I joined). So if I have a sitter twice a week, I'm paying the sitter of course, but I'm also paying White House Nannies another $100.
I truly appreciate the work they do to find quality care, but now that I've found 3-4 good sitters I really like, why wouldn't I just communicate with the sitters directly, vs using the White House Nannies program to request their time? Is this a thing other people are doing to "get around" the $50 charge, and I just don't know about it?