Home Improvement - Gutter Style

[samae]

The gutters on the back of our house are rusting.  The house is about 18 years old and everything is demanding to be replaced these days which I can't ignore.   I can ignore my children's demands only because they aren't dropping pieces of ceiling on my head.  If they learn that trick they would all have sports cars by the time they turn 16

Comments

[lescaut]

Holy Moly, Batman! This guy pulled out all the stops. Almost every trick in the book, except the Ben Franklin close. If you want to torture him, get a couple of other quotes and see if he'll beat them, and then slam the door.

[grdavison]

wow.. that is bad... at least i washed dishes after i ate :D

[samae]

You were invited.

[belyal]

Wow, that guy sounds VERY professional /rollseyes

[robinskij]

O. My. God.

What an astonishing lack of social intelligence.

Kip and I both have a hard and fast rule. Anyone telling me I *have* to buy something now automatically gets the door and gets told why. "Sorry, we have a hard and fast rule we never buy ANYTHING when people try to rush us."

It's a guarentee that they are exactly as you have pegged them - coming in WAY too high, able to move down, but perfectly willing to screw the gullible ones who don't realize that.

I would find someone else entirely. When we redid our windows and also our siding, we went with companies that came out, gave us a price that sounded reasonable, never changed either up or down on it (which shows you they are giving you the real, honest price) and they were in fact a little bit busy and we had to wait a while to get them to come out. That's fine with me. If they aren't busy, (unless the economy is slow and everyone is needing work) then I am a bit worried.

I'd send that bill, too. Talk about cajones...

[insertnamehere2]

After he starts staying for dinner, I think that officially moves him from in-home salesman to Squattor. What a tool... I applaud you guys for your patience. I'd probably have thrown him out on his ass at the very request.