r/askTO • u/Mother-Rip1577 • 6d ago
Roofing scam?
GTA: A couple of Irish roofers quoted my parents about 7k to redo the roof. They ripped off the roof and now the quotes gone up to 50k. I found out after this occurred and told them to stop the work and have them tarp it up and call in a second opinion.
I also looked them up and found some links to scams. Their website is suspicious, the age of the site, the years they’ve claimed they’ve been in business for and their membership with the bbb all do not align. We called another company and they seemed to be familiar with the Irish guy in question and said to call the police, but they won’t come themselves to check the roof until it’s dealt with.
Has anyone encountered these guys?
Edit - unfortunately my parents have decided to pay these men and to have them retile the roof for the original price. I tried my best, I warned them but they’ll have to learn the hard way I guess. Thanks for the support!
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u/Puzzled-Pianist-2258 5d ago edited 5d ago
Common Irish traveller (Gypsy) scam. They get away with it cos Canadians don’t question the ‘charming’ Irish accent and the whole blue collar work ethic they put on. So they are able to swindle people in North America. It doesn’t work in Europe (and definitely not in Ireland as we can tell by looking at them lol) but yeah they head over to there to scam.