Scammed!

[Ivor Windybottom]

We had a "roaming" gang once blitzing our area for block paved driveways.

They came and offered a free quote. I said no thanks, he said "it's free", was really pushy and aggressive and wouldn't take no for an answer. Thought he was actually in danger of losing his temper that I didn't want a quote. Irish accent.

Then I sat back and watched them make a right mess of every other driveway on the street. Most sank where they parked shortly after. Then gone, without a trace, no doubt to the next neighbourhood.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

We had a "roaming" gang once blitzing our area for block paved driveways.

They came and offered a free quote. I said no thanks, he said "it's free", was really pushy and aggressive and wouldn't take no for an answer. Thought he was actually in danger of losing his temper that I didn't want a quote. Irish accent.

Yep, they can be quite pushy, with air maybe a sense of entitlement. I remember one, where I was out on the drive, working on the car, he at the gate, him absolutely demanding I get up, and go speak to him at the gate. He wanted to 'fix my roof', which certainly didn't need any fixing. He wasn't happy with 'no' and called me ignorant, as I walked off.

We used to get them fairly regularly, but since putting a warning sign, with a pictogram of an alsation on the gate, we might only get one per year. It also works well for the other door to doors. I no longer open the front door to strangers, I open the living room side of bay window, which is alongside the door, take any parcels that way. If they want to 'do my drive', 'fix my roof', or etc., I just say no, and close the window, before they have a chance to respond.

I've been looking over the road, from a distance, at the work they were supposed to have done there. For what good it will do - They have simply splashed a bit of mortar, around untidily, and over the top of the three lowest corner ridge tiles, on their hipped roof. I wasn't in, but I recorded their antics, on my security camera....

Only two of them actually working, the other four wandering the area in the second vehicle, and they were all gone in 90 minutes. I wonder how much they charged?