Sunday, September 13, 2020

Dad Cons A Con Man, Ruins His Business


When dad realized that he had a con man on his hands, he decided to beat the scoundrel at his own game. Queue the "business" being ruined. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge JOIN u/JakexDx • 1y How my dad conned a con man, then ruined his conning business. Years ago shortly after I moved out, my dad decided he wanted to remodel his bathroom and hired a local contractor(who I will refer to as DB) to do it that fixed a clogged sink for him once. From the start my dad was extremely skeptical of contractors and did not want to get scammed, so after they agreed on the price for labor my dad ask him for an invoice for the cost of all the materials. He

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Text - or something to look over the list of materials and see if the quote was fair, and right off the bat DB was trying to do close to a 50% markup on the materials. So instead of paying DB's invoice my dad just bought all the materials himself saying "he knows a guy who gives him amazing discounts" so DB doesn't get suspicious that my dad was onto his game. After 3 months the bathroom is not close to being done despite DB telling him it would take 2 months, my dad had to travel for work and w

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Text - just brushed him off asking how the bathroom was coming. Over the course of the week DB tried to up sell me on a bunch of things he said needed to be done to finish the bathroom, most of it was electrical work which he did not have a license for. My dad filled me in before he left about what was quoted in the labor and there was no electrical work quoted and I told him no just stick to the original quote. Once my dad comes back I filled him in on all the additional charges DB tried to tac

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Text - asked to install because we had a electrician coming to install it. After a heated discussion between DB and I he stopped installing the ceiling light and started laying tile during which he broke a quarter of the tiles. After this debacle my dad did some investigating and looked up DB's license and found out that not only was the license expired it did not belong to DB! So my dad asked my brother and I to come over when he was going to confront DB about lying about his license. A VERY he

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Text - accidentally brushed his shoulder when I was passing him in the hallway and I refused to apologize. After the cops showed up DB quickly tried to play the victim but the cops told DB to collect his tools and leave. The bathroom still unfinished but my dad did not have to pay DB for his 3 months of labor and used that money to hire real contractors to finish the bathroom, it only took them a week and a half to finish. After this my dad contacted the local news to tell them about DB being a

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Text - to work on their bathroom but once he got paid he would cut and run leaving the bathroom unfinished and stealing all the materials. The news then set up a sting for DB and exposed him for being a conman and he was arrested not long after the news story aired. EDIT: TL;DR - Bad man hired to redo dad's bathroom, tries to rip dad off, dad fires bad man for lack of licenses and for being an asshole. Dad tells local news about bad man, local news exposes bad man, bad man eventually arrested.

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