Recently I talked to three people who were ripped off by builders and tradies. One of them was out by more than a hundred thousand dollars, the others were in the tens of thousands of dollars.

People signed contracts and then didn’t finish the job. In one case when confronted the builders said “you can’t move in until I am done and if you don’t accept this I won’t be done for at least a year”.

In the other case the contractor demanded double the money halfway into the build and contacted all other builders in the area and smeared the friend so that they didn’t pick up the job.

In the third case the contractor took half the money up front, didn’t show up for weeks, finally showed up for a few days and did a few things and the fucked right off. This was for about a 30K job.

Court costs are ten thousand dollars per day of trial (including prep work by the attorneys) so all of them had no choice but to take being ripped off. The tradie community seems pretty tight too so once you are ripped off you are known as a mark because all of them had issued with other tradies they hired afterwards.

Needless to say cops and the courts are useless.

Learn to do things on your own I guess. You can’t trust any builder or tradie in NZ.

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      Dude, I don’t know what this conflict between you and her is about, but you’ve got to stop eventually. I can tell a certain amount of it is deception on your part, which is why you’re already banned from both lemm.ee (something that happened multiple times) and on your lemmy.cafe account which your recent fedilore post that got removed (because it’s deception) makes explicit, which means you are ban evading, something the people here take seriously. Maybe that’s why some people said you were banned from Tumblr (where your posts are archived but where you aren’t). Going by the rabbit hole, this deception of yours also got you banned from Reddit (quite a few times, more than can be linked), Twitter (as the user StalkDat; I’m not going to link to there as per the rules, but you are ban evading as StalkDeez), and DeviantArt (again, a few times; their forums are filled with your crusade), which has begun turning into a pedophilia website going by the replies to anyone bringing it up. You also recently had a video removed from YouTube, which they rarely do except in absolute emergencies; which, again, shows the gravity of the deception). I don’t know how it could be easier to read the room. People are catching onto the fact that this is tiring and deceptive, and the modlogs being the modlogs doesn’t make them accurate or honest.

      Take your own advice. Disengage. Unless you’re providing said advice only as a form of attack. In which case stop.