Strike Three! I ran into my neighbor on the way out the door today who asked me if I had hired back the gutter man. She told me that he had come to her saying that I had scheduled him to work that day and asked if she would like him to do his gutters as well--which, as it turns out, is exactly what he told me when I answered the door: that she had scheduled him for that day, and would I like him to do my gutters then as well? In other words, he lied to both of us. I then found out that he had charged her the original price while charging me more. At the end of our interaction yesterday, I simply felt resolved not to hire him back again. Now I'm just pissed. Especially since, after I finished writing my about my interaction with him yesterday, he actually returned to my house to argue that really I should continue to use his services. Not ask, argue. When I held firm, he started demanding cash payment, saying he wasn't going to accept my check. Even if I had had the cash on hand, I felt very strongly in that instance that the last thing I wanted to do was bring out my wallet in front of him. All of which leads me to reflect that he should have left well enough alone--he could have simply lost a job. Now he's lost a job and I'm calling the Better Business Bureau.