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Why is NZ so corrupt? (lemmy.nz)
submitted 3 weeks ago by BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz
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Recently I talked to three people who were ripped off by builders and tradies. One of them was out by more than a hundred thousand dollars, the others were in the tens of thousands of dollars.

People signed contracts and then didn't finish the job. In one case when confronted the builders said "you can't move in until I am done and if you don't accept this I won't be done for at least a year".

In the other case the contractor demanded double the money halfway into the build and contacted all other builders in the area and smeared the friend so that they didn't pick up the job.

In the third case the contractor took half the money up front, didn't show up for weeks, finally showed up for a few days and did a few things and the fucked right off. This was for about a 30K job.

Court costs are ten thousand dollars per day of trial (including prep work by the attorneys) so all of them had no choice but to take being ripped off. The tradie community seems pretty tight too so once you are ripped off you are known as a mark because all of them had issued with other tradies they hired afterwards.

Needless to say cops and the courts are useless.

Learn to do things on your own I guess. You can't trust any builder or tradie in NZ.

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[–] PatrickStar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also, stop editing your comments after you post them to make the replier look bad. That's just dirty arguing.

[–] Joeyowlhouse@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm not. It's a habit to fix links, typos, formatting. You're already doing a good job of making yourself look bad by logging in to an inactive account and immediately rushing to defend a Kiwifarms troll whose alts got banned a few hours ago and saying the AfD being Nazi-aligned is "debatable" when I've posted the AfD's official posters and I also included links of the AfD's leaders using Nazi slogans.

[–] PatrickStar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Except we discussed that's not happening. I also wouldn't call inserting small bits like sentences about autism to be "fixing typos". Nice try. And I told you why all your other accusations are misapplied.