I have a family of contractors, we stay far away from Angies list because it produces the worst customers you can find
mostly left wing, penny pinchers with no friends or sources to get a recommendation, so they try to scout everyone in the book and rely on ratings from other losers to qualify their contractor
Then furthermore, since they dont have much money to spend, they are going to waste time and get bids from everyone and think their tiny job is the holy grail.
If someone would say they heard about us from Angieslist, we would usually just hang up or tell them were not in business anymore and save the time. Those people can F themselves and call the smell good plumbers