Joe the PLUMBER? RU serious?

[johnaries]

Have you ever hired a plumber? They are some of the biggest rip-off artists in the world! Joe, if you made enough money to buy your company, I have no doubt that you made it by ripping off your customers.

Well, To be fair, I did meet ONE plumber who was fair and honest. ONE. His name wasn't "Joe".

As for the rest of them - major scam artists. I spent more money fixing their "repairs" than I spent on the "repairs" themselves. And they over-charged me for the "repairs".

[Raine]

1. Joe the Plumber

:thumbsdown: too much time wasted on this and no time spent on the day's plunge of the stockmarket.

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. If my pipes ever bust

I'm calling the Rad Dyke Plumber

http://www.raddykeplumber.com/index.html

(yes, it's for real!)

[TheKentuckian]

3. Joe's world will not crumble over an extra few hundred bucks a year.

The upper middle class are the ones that cry about this stuff to no end, even much more so than the rich and the wealthy. They scream forever about a few hundred bucks.

I don't degrade anyone's effort but I don't understand the outrage at all.

[magdalena]

4. I don't think that's fair.

My grandpa Joe was a plumber, damn good and damn honest.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. Don't you know?

He's Joe Six Packs cousin. Joe the Plumber, Joe six Pack, next will be Joe the Vice President Biden.

[TankLV]

6. ahem - you got that "impression" too, huh?