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The Owen Jones Podcast

Don't Get Ripped Off Like I Did

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Ugh, guys, I'm so angry with myself. I got comprehensively ripped off by a plumber and want you to avoid going through what I did!

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0:00.0

I'm so angry with myself. So look, I've been comprehensively ripped off and I've decided

0:07.6

that the only way I can feel better is if I try and stop other people being ripped off

0:14.3

in the same way that I be ripped off. And that means the net amount of misery in the world

0:19.0

will be diminished as a consequence of what I've gone through. My misery is not going

0:22.5

to be taken away, but hopefully other people. Just because of this video or podcast, people

0:28.8

watch or listen to this and I will help you hopefully not make the same mistake. And

0:34.0

therefore, there will be less pain in the world as a consequence of what I've gone through.

0:37.0

So I feel a lot better about it. Basically, on Sunday, my boiler broke, stop working.

0:43.6

There's no hot water or central heating. Not ideal in January. My cat's been not happy

0:48.1

about it. So around the normal plumbing company, I would have wronged and they said, well,

0:52.3

they could only get someone to arrive the next day. So I did a Google search and found

0:57.8

that one promoted in Google ad seemed like a legit website, rang them. I think this

1:02.3

point, I should have been maybe alarm bell time, just because I rang them and the guy picked

1:08.0

up with, like, hello, not like you are through to it. In hindsight, did that feel right?

1:14.4

Not really. But they were like, we can send someone in an hour. I asked, in terms of

1:19.6

cost, they said, oh, just caught a lot, caught a lot of 95 quid and then just suggested

1:23.8

like a standard rate. So they turned up. I mean, at this point, in terms of just avoiding

1:31.8

the trap, they'll come onto this actually in terms of would I actually have avoided this

1:34.8

trap. They sent through, he said, sent through a contract, which was just like typed, like

1:41.2

on an email account and just kind of messy and confusing, went on and on and on. Now I

1:50.4

should have taken more time to look through that. I just thought, well, it's a technicality.

1:54.4

I mean, a rush need this sorted. So for example, it had an admin fee, just saying 0.17.

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