In article , "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
"RicodJour" wrote in message
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MRS. CLEAN wrote:

I am collecting antedoctal evidence, but it appears there is objective
evidence to support my experiences.

I'm surprised that you could type "objective" without bursting into
flames or melting or whatever it is *you people* do when confronting
gross irony.

You know, it *IS* possible that you could randomly pick 3 contractors out of
the yellow pages, and end up picking 3 awful ones. If you happened to be
looking for someone to deal with wet basement problems, the likelihood of
picking bad ones would be multiplied exponentially. If you had this
experience, then you could that 100% of them seemed shifty to you.

Yes, but the fact is, the industry *does* have a problem.

There is plenty of statistically significant evidence
available on-line if you care to look for it, much of it
from credible sources. It tends to be a few years out of
date but that's the reality of aggregated and quality
controlled data. Here's one example:

http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/24/pf/c...ints/index.htm

and another:

http://www.bbb.org/alerts/article.asp?ID=510

I'm not endorsing Mrs Clean's 99% claim which is clearly
over the top, but evidence of a problem is hard and real.

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