Ripped off!!!!!

Well to say the least, our shower is up and it is really pretty. The reason that we put in a new tile shower is that our previous shower had a leak. We don't know where the leak was but the plumbing company told us that they would have to remove the shower in order to fix the leak. Well, not knowing anything about showers or plumbing for that matter, we decided that we didn't want to deal with the leak any longer, so we had them come "rip out" the old shower. (I mean literally rip it out. The "tile guy" had to do so much repair work that he couldn't even believe it.) When they gave us a quote on what a new tile shower would cost us, my first thought was that seems pretty reasonable to me. But again, I know nothing about showers, tile, or plumbing. Needless to say, it was a big ordeal all around (for us, for tile guy who didn't even know the plumber but said that he would never do a job for him again, it was that bad). Anyway, hubby got a call from the "tile guy" one day after the job was finished. "Tile guy" wanted to know if we had paid the plumbers yet, because the plumber promised him that he would get his money after he completed the job and he still hadn't gotten paid. Well, he told hubby what he would have charged us. He would have charged us less than $1000, but the plumber charged us $4000 and then wanted more since the "tile guy" had to do all that extra work. After that the plumber, wouldn't pay the "tile guy" the extra money for the extra work that he did. This really makes me mad cause the only "work" that the plumbing company did for us was "ripping out" the shower. Anyway, lesson learned. DO NOT WORK WITH MIDDLE MEN. IF YOU NEED SOMETHING GO STRAIGHT TO WHOEVER MAKES IT OR DOES IT. Well that's enough for today.
Gotta go be a mom!!!