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[quote=Anonymous][quote=harvardstreetmom]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? [/quote]

Nanny here.  I go through NannyPoppinz, but the same thing (hopefully) applies to nannies with whn.

Long term: I’ve had families interview me, decline all the candidates that NannyPoppinz set up, then call me and try to bypass the agency fee.  I hang up and notify my agency, not because I would have a financial penalty (I wouldn’t), but because my agency has treated me well, and they spent the time and money recruiting and vetting nannies to interview with the family, interviewed the family and set up their profile, then called us to set up interviews that work with both the family’s and nannies’ schedules.  I could jump ship to another agency, but why would I do that?

Short term: I occasionally take short term placements through NannyPoppinz.  If I met the family in any other venue, I notify the agency that I’m taking the booking, and they get the fee the first time, but the family just calls me from then on.  If I met the family through NannyPoppinz, I only schedule through them, unless I meet them later through my primary charge (ex: if I find that we’re at the same preschool the following fall, I’ll book through the family from that point forward).  I’m not going to undercut my agency to save a temp family a daily fee, regardless of how much it is.[/quote]

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