A builder was today touting door to door, I'm not remotely interested in using him, but am suspicious about him and wonder if anybody here knows anything about him.
He trades under the name of M&S Harrison, he is Steve and his father is Mark, he has a quote form giving an 0800 phone number and a mobile number. The trading "address" in Bristol is very strange. There is no postcode, nor street. Merely an industrial unit number and a reference to 7 Beach, Bristol. There is also an equally vague address in Durham. When challenged about the lack of a postcode, he said that it's not needed as everybody there knows where it is.
I produced a Bristol A-Z and asked him to show me where he was based, but he said he wasn't very good with maps and declined. He explained that it was near the new Severn crossing. I assume that he claims he's located at Severn Beach, but I can't imagine that a local would confuse numeric 7 with the river Severn.
Google reports no other company operating from any industrial unit with a similar address and it shows no match for the two phone numbers.
He was touting for work in a very small town in Wiltshire, about 30 miles from Bristol, explaining that there is no work in Bristol.
Clearly, everything he says is totally unconvincing and points to him being dodgy.
Does anybody have any knowledge of this man ?
A pensioner along the road is quite taken with him and I'm concerned that she might be taken for a ride.