Wrong ZIP. Wrong trade. Duplicates. Dead phone numbers. All creditable under Angi's own published policy — and all of it expires 30 days after the charge.
Four questions. You'll see the number before we ask for anything.
This one decides everything. Annual subscribers aren't eligible for lead credits at all.
A rough number is fine. Leave it blank if you don't know.
Their policy is narrower than most contractors assume, and wider than most contractors use. These are the reasons that work.
That second list is the frustrating part: non-response is the complaint most contractors care about most, and it is the one thing no platform will credit. We'd rather you knew that on this page than after you paid someone.
Each of these quietly voids a claim that would otherwise have been approved.
A couple of Angi's help articles say 45. Their legal page says 30 days from the date the charge was incurred. File to 30 and treat anything later as a long shot.
Angi only credits leads where you attempted contact within 24 hours of receiving them. If you can't evidence the attempt, the claim dies no matter how bad the lead was.
Angi's consumer numbers are masked and expire around 30 days. A dead number on an old lead is the mask expiring, not a bad lead — and filing those burns your credibility on the claims that would have won.
Leads tab, pick the lead, Request Lead Credit, choose the reason, write the detail. About ninety seconds each. Do the obvious ones every week and you'll get a decent share of this back without paying anybody.
What almost nobody does is appeal the denials. The first pass is automated and it rejects claims that plainly qualify — and that's where a large share of the money is. If you'd rather not spend your evenings on it, that's the service we sell, and the report explains it. But the report is useful either way.