If a worker comes to your door and tells you he has leftover materials from a neighbor’s project and can give you a deal on building a deck or replacing windows, do you let him do work for you? Mark Huffman asks this in a piece from ConsumerAffairs.
If you said yes, you would lose that money, as the worker would likely collect the money and then disappear or do an inferior job on the work. It is an old swindle that has been forgotten with the advancement of technology, but it has come back in spades with the pandemic and severe weather.