{"id":123,"date":"2020-05-15T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2020-05-18T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:46:11","slug":"buyer-protection-against-dishonest-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/2020\/05\/15\/buyer-protection-against-dishonest-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyer Protection Against Dishonest Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few months ago, Carte Blanche flighted an episode on which a Johannesburg pool contractor was accused of scamming several home owners out of huge amounts of money. The story goes that the contractor would collect a 50-70% deposit, arrive on site to dig a massive hole on the ground, leave&nbsp;and never be seen again&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Thousands of homeowners have lost hundreds of thousands of Rands to&nbsp;dishonest builders, carpenters, plumbers and other contractors&nbsp;who have talked a good game, collected a deposit and then disappeared into thin air. In some instances, the contractor does complete the job but does so in such&nbsp;a shoddy manner that sometimes another contractor has to be hired to fix the mess.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Admittedly, most contractors do a good job. And when they mess up, the vast majority put it right at once. But there is a minority out there who will do a bad job and then find ways to avoid putting it right or simply disappear without completing the job after being paid a deposit or the full amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Thanks to Paysho, you no longer have to worry about people running off with your hard-earned&nbsp;money or delivering poor workmanship. Paysho does not only provide buyer protection for physical goods but for services as well.&nbsp;With Paysho, your money is always 100% safe. Guaranteed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>And there is usually no obvious way to tell good the good guys from the bad guys because the bad ones don&#8217;t look or sound like bad ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>#BeSureWithPaysho<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, Carte Blanche flighted an episode on which a Johannesburg pool contractor was accused of scamming several home owners out of huge amounts of money. The story goes that the contractor would collect a 50-70% deposit, arrive on site to dig a massive hole on the ground, leave&nbsp;and never be seen again&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paysho.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}