@BalpeenHammer, I'm a control freak, haha, not really.I've, from early age, loved pulling things apart and figuring out what makes them work and found hands deserved to be a tool worth for more than just ten finger typewriting, etc.These days we're often ending up in the 'monetary scraping by/time poor'box and so rely on others in their fields of (greater/lesser) expertise...
@BalpeenHammer, Trade Checka, Builders Check, looking at jobs done, word of mouth...I do a lot of stuff I need done myself so my dependence on others is low.
@BalpeenHammer, I guess that's where the 'buyer beware' comes in.I do background checks or recommendations from people I know. I think you still can be unlucky as times. I like to trust people but I verify as good as I can, especially when big sums are involved.
@BalpeenHammer@quoll , not the ones that I know.I think the bigger problem already might be that the 'pied Pipers' of industry make to many offers that can't be refused (otherwise how can people that not that long ago gave one opinion now claim the opposite,I mean, are they nut jobs pretending to be normal or just haven't they got enough backbone to stand against orders from the top, or the money is too good - both I guess).
@Dave@TagMeInSkipIGotThis , I'm wondering about the legality of that as well plus I would tell them that I boycott them because of it.As for surcharges, imho they're a blatant rip off, any business surely has all their costs already calculated into the price of their wares.
@Davriellelouna, the destructiveness of this government follows more and more the Musk - Trump idiocy.