This guy does the old classic "gonna need more money to finish it the way you want" after he already starts the job to try to milk more money out of you. His first quote do eliminate some minor cat scratches of a leather sofa, loveseat, chair and ottoman was $500. I say OK. Then when he comes to start the job, it goes up to $700. He says he originally underestimated the first quote. I say OK and ask can he freshen up, buff, reshine the furniture in addition to eliminating all the scratches? He says, yes, for $1,200 but it will take all day and part of the next day to complete, but all the leather furniture will be like new. I choke over the huge jump in price, but agree. 6 hours later, he is all packed up and says he is done. I inspect and still see the cat scratches. When I ask why, he says he can keep working to fill, sand and color to get the scratches completely out, but it will now be $1,800! I say what happened to the original $1,200 to get all the scratches out and refresh all the furniture? His response is that it's better than it was and he gets $200 per hour so he is stopping the job after 6 hours unless I pay him a total of $1,800 to work more to get the scratches completely out. What a scam artist! I tell him to abide by the original agreement of $1,200 and keep working on it until all the scratches are out. I will pay him the full amount when the full job is done. He refuses and tells me I have to pay him the $1,200 even though the scratches aren't completely out and he is tired and hungry and wants to go home. Then tells me he has thousands of dollars of equipment that he has to pay for to do this type of work. You decide if you want to hire this guy at $200 per hour or not. Rip off artist who now is trying to put a collection on my credit report. read more