If there are please post them here.

I would like to keep my business in the community, but it's increasingly hard with the quality of builders that seem to be out there.

Some examples...

I took my car to get serviced, why did it take three days? No explanation, just that it simply wasn't ready.

I used the black business directory to look for carpet fitters, of the 3 in my area, one was cut off, one I woke up at 3pm and he quoted me some outrageous price before I even told him the room measurements. The last one actually came round... 4 hours later than he said he would, then proceded to try and build up a spliff and chat me up, when I declined his offer of a 'link up', he then got vex and started to quote me prices higher than he did before, and told me it was going to take a couple of days.

The man who actually came to do the work got it done in two hours.

My friend is currently getting rewiriing done in her house, and has been having a nightmare. Most of the problems she's having is because the electrian wanted to date her and now is getting nasty about it as she keeps rejecting him.

She also had to get a plumber in and he came hours late and did such a slapdash job she had to get someone else in to repair it.

Now I know there are rouge white work men out there, but I'm not talking about them. Where are OUR standards?
Is it just something we have to put up with being single women?