TrustDALE's Three For Thursday 7.11.19
Welcome to TrustDALE's Three For Thursday with Consumer Investigator Dale Cardwell.
Hi everyone! Welcome to our third installment of Three For Thursday! This is my way of thanking you for using our research and referral resource TrustDALE.com where you'll only find companies that meet my seven-point investigative standard and honor my Make It Right Guarantee. It's also important to me that we continue to develop our Community of Trust, where we can share cautionary tales and help one another make better consumer choices.
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Today's investigation is simply stunning; Watch as a couple of repair contractors get caught red-handed allegedly ripping off the hand that was feeding them
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A consumer rented a home site unseen. Listen to her story and see what TrustDALE was able to do to help.
Todays Lesson on how to be a Savvy Consumer!
If you watched this week's investigation RV Ripp-Off, then you saw my advice at the end of the video. Whether you did or didn't, I want to apply it in an additional way to our protective platform F-F-F and DEAL:
Dominic and Pam thought they'd done everything right when they hired Mountain RV, but they left an important step out.
When checking the Legitimacy of your deal, it can be important to know if the contractors you're doing business with have submitted to and passed a background check. It is supremely important when the vendor is in your home and especially important when you're not there. In the case of Mountain RV, Dominic and Pam assumed the company's personnel were checked. Guess what, they weren't! Our check found the senior member of the repair team had had numerious run in's with the law. If Dominic and Pam had known this, they most certainly would not have hired Mountain RV. An additional note of caution: Just because the company claims to "background check," that doesn't mean they background decline. When background checks are important to you, take the further step of asking the company what their standard is for declining to hire someone based on a possible criminal history. While most of us agree people deserve a second chance, it's smart to draw the line on people who have violent criminal histories or more than one instance of theft.
SCAMMERS BEWARE: SEASONED CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR DALE CARDWELL GIVES READERS A GAME PLAN TO AVOID RIP-OFFS