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Post by northwales4u »
I can't agree more. Last week I got a phone call off a an elderly lady about a problem with her roof. Got there and it was just a slate on the bottom edge that had slipped. She asked how much to put it back in. I could reach it off step ladders and have everything there to do it there and then to do it. When she asked me how much I just plucked a figure out of my head £40 (it was a 2 minute job) and she was over the moon saying some company gave her a price of £450 because of scaffolding etc. As I was doing it I was thinking to myself "is this a wind up?" and paranoid about the 'cooling off period' your meant to give them. Did it and she was still beaming and gave me £80 saying I had saved her loads of money - I did try to give her half of it back but she was having none of it. When I was leaving I was half expecting that Matt bloke off Watchdog to jump out of a bush!JK Decorator wrote:the more programs like rogue traders and cowboy builders the harder it gets to earn a living - with new customers that is, but even ones that have had you recommended are sceptical or wary -cant fu$k1ng win either way!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Tom d'Angler »
I've been thinking about this lately and wonder if the solution is to have a website where the trades could post the road and postcode (not the house number) of the rogue customer and then other trades would have to e-mail the poster to ask who, what exact address and why they are a rogue customer. That wouldn't be much different to meeting another trade in the local supplier and them telling you to avoid Mrs Smith at 69 Letsbe Avenue, for example.If information was up there on some blacklist web site for all to see (i.e. - free, and not a paid service) couldn't these people (customers) have a case for libel/defamation or sue for damages on the grounds of insufficient evidence/circumstantial/not proven or some other BS legal mumbo jumbo?
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