Met with a customer today to look at a job.
Here’s her story: She went to Home Depot for carpet. Decided to take advantage of their contractor “WE INSTALL” program as she could finance the hole ball of wax. Carpet came, installers came, did a nice job, cleaned up and left.
Next day: Credit card company calls…says their computer flagged her card for excessive use and that the card is over its credit limit. Seems someone went on a shopping spree to, you guessed it, Home Depot. Not once but 3 times over 5 or 6 hours. Bought nail guns, compressors, saws, drills etc.
Police get involved and scan checkout cameras which coordinate with the times her card was scanned. Seems her carpet installer, supplied by the Depot, helped himself to more than a soda in the fridge.
Now the good part: He’s a felon with a criminal record for this type of fraud and was wanted on an outstanding warrant. Now, this guy wasn’t working for the contractor to do the install..HE WAS THE CONTRACTOR!!
Don’t the chains check out who they send to your house? This guy could have done a lot more than just take her credit card.
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guess not. that's big business for you. Not sure I'd call her "lucky" but the alternatives are scary enough.
Next time I get scammed I'm going to hunt the bastards down like it's a full-time job.
Muskoka Lake? Cool.
Most say they do check, but they need contractors so bad things get missed. I remember years ago a helper for a Potomac painting contractor killed an entire family and stacked them like cord wood in the basement. That got the big boys real worried around here and started them checking everyone.
No.....they don't check them out.
I subed from HD for a short while until I figured out they don't know their backsides from a hole in the ground ( and it's a LONG story ), but basically, all they wanted to know was:
Did I have $1,000,000 liabilty with them also named on the policy
And was my truck not a rust bucket so as to reflect badly on them.
That was it.