Yes but you get the fly by nights get what info they need then go canvass go and charge stupid cheap prices earn what the can then move on leaving all the guys who have done this job most of there working lives having to deal with the aftermath of Cheap prices you see it all to offten..rant over.
I agree with you as well. But this happens in all walks of life. There will always be someone who wants to do it on the cheap, or knows where you can get it or do it cheaper. We recently had someone who told us they could get the same sealer for half the price we were selling it for and he told me where where they had seen it. The price was less than my Trade buying in price . So I thought about it, spoke to the manufacturer who categorically stated it was impossible to get it at that price. Then I decided if the supplier was telling the truth it either had to be counterfeit or stolen. I thought Sod it, and I sent for a bottle .
1. It arrived 10 Days later.
2. The bottle looked genuine.
3. I contacted the manufacturer and from the batch number they identified it had been made in 2013, and consequently was 5 years past it sell by date and useless. They went through their books for that period of sale of that batch.
4. From this they then found out it was part of bankrupt stock lot from a tile shop that had been flogged by some auction house 2 years previously.
So over 80 people had bought useless bottles of sealer albeit 1/2 normal retail but they might as well have bought pop.
It ‘s the same with traders, if you get someone in just because they are cheap and you don’t check them out and don’t ask to see there portfolio or at least check on them, then you deserve to have your fingers burnt in my opinion. If it looks cheap or too good to be true then it usually is! But sadly Greed takes over common sense with most people
