Screw the broken stuff, not me

I feel like my heart is broken into pieces with all the contractors being late, charging too much, or not doing the job right. I feel like I am screwed all the time by contractors, and not in a fun, entertaining way :). Every time I get a “guy” he finds fault in the previous guy’s work and tells me how it would be better if I called him in the first place. Now I have to spend more time to fix the other guy’s mistake, he says. He is basically asking me to trust him, and call him every time because he thinks he is the best quality worker with the lowest price. Well, don’t blame me if I don’t take your word for it. I would much prefer an objective system to evaluate your work. This is very hard to accomplish though because it is a subjective evaluation that cannot be made using simple metrics. Because it is a social interaction and involves quality in addition to price, this type of evaluation is mostly based on user ratings and reputation. Subjective evaluations are very hard to do fairly and they require users’ honesty in addition to platform objectivity and transparency. One of the problems with existing evaluation platforms is that they tend to buy user evaluations and you get screwed as a result. If you get a service based on these paid evaluations, you will most certainly be disappointed. With the help of blockchain, and an excellent team, these problems will go away and everyone will have access to correct, unbiased information. You will also know who charges how much for what kind of a repair job, ahead of time. This will help you get the highest quality bang for your buck, which is what everyone wants.

Here is a short and sweet video explaining this clearly:

Can they do it? Really?

The team is very experienced and they have already been doing this since 2014. Your repairmen may fix what is broke, but then you will be broke. The team has been using SMS api to connect honest repairmen to users. They have been preventing such things for 50000 homes, and I believe they can do the same for everyone using Bob’s repair platform because their profile matches the project. They have collected about 18.6 Million USD with their ICO, which is another great indication that it is not just me, that trusts them to do the job properly. At the time of writing this article, the bear market is in full swing and a lot of ICOs are failing miserably, not even collecting soft cap. It is my experience that any ICO that collects more than 5 million USD is headed for success and collecting almost 20 million dollars is a great indication that a lot of people trusted and invested with them. These investors put their money where their mouth is, and as a token holder, I have the utmost confidence that they will do an excellent job of producing what they planned. In the ICO world, collecting money is an excellent indication, because it indicates that people will be willing to use the platform and the crowds will follow them.

How Did They Do it? Did Einstein help them?

That is the beauty of decentralized systems such as blockchain. You get rid of the middleman, or the large companies. In a centralized World, large companies with heavy and expensive organizations place ads, and whenever you order something to be done, you have to pay at least three people working for the company, for a one-person job in addition to marketing expenses. In a decentralized World that uses the blockchain, you simply get the repairmen and you pay him or her, and that is about it. The “guy” you called earns trust based on objective reviews, as opposed to paid ads or paid reviews. The repairmen cannot buy advertisements and it means that you will not have to pay that advertisement cost already added to your price. This will be the UBER of skilled workers and finally, you will get the quality work for the price that is fair. In other words, you can see, ahead of time, how much a contractor is charging for which type of a job. This is called meritocracy and it rewards users/people based on merit, instead of their resources. You make more money based on your skills and how hard you work, instead of how much money you already have.

My car mechanic has been using a similar system and I love it. Whenever I visit their shop, the mechanic tells me what he needs, and I purchase the part from the boss. I usually check the part price using google and pay the mechanic for his labor separately. It has been a wonderful experience even though it is not online, and it is heaps better than the service I get from the official shop where I do not know what I am paying for. Bob’s repair will do this on the blockchain STEEM and this will help everyone get a peace of mind as to their repair price and quality. In my case, I have been lucky to get this one good guy because a driver recommended him to my wife while we had our car in the official service shop for 10 days! We were miserable, because they never had the right part, and we always had to leave our car with them. Some others may not be that lucky, so having this information in your fingertips, instead of getting it randomly from a bus driver is priceless.

The prototype is already working

You can tell that this will work out just fine because their prototype is online and working. The platform will use an escrow service of its own to make sure that the contractor is paid only when the job is done, and it will include a user friendly service for those who never used cryptocurrency before. So, if you have no experience with digital things whatsoever, it is fine and I bet even a 90 year old will be able to use this to call a guy to fix his microwave. Because all these records will be on the blockchain, they will be on there forever. The records are permanent, similar to what your first grade principal was telling you, and they cannot be hacked, changed, or manipulated in any way. If a repairmen gains a bad reputation, he will have to work extra hard to overcome those negative reviews and gain new customers. In such a permanent system, you don’t want to be infamous :)

Here is how I did it, and below is the explanation of it:

I checked out their prototype at https://prototype.bobsrepair.com and it is easy, you just use an email to sign up. There is a single huge button saying a new job, and it takes you to a screen where you can select whether you want something to do with electricity, plumbing, landscape or something else. I picked landscaping and the system asked me to separate the job into multiple segments and pay each worker after each part is finished. This is very good because if you pay it all at once, you will never get the job on time. Then you click to the milestone button to add your first milestone. It gave me a sprinkler system installation for the demo, and once I clicked on create milestone, it created that on the blockchain and I could see it on the system. Then I created another milestone called grass installation and then I clicked on invite contractor, and selected a guy called Gilberto Schulist. He was not the cheapest, but he had 97 percent trust rating, so I decided to pay a little more money for better work. You can sort them based on price and rating, which is really convenient. Once I clicked invite, the system said the contractor was sent an SMS, and after a while, he accepted the job, and the system gave me an accept&fund button. Once I accepted this, I could pay with BOB tokens, BTC, ETH, PayPal, or good old credit card. I picked BOB tokens, then the system said “Are you sure you want to FUND "Sprinkler system installation" with the 4322.58 BOB Tokens $(383 USD). The money won't be disbursed until you approve the work when it's done.” I said fine, and it started waiting for the job to be done. After finishing the job, Gilberto marked it as done, and all I had to do was click in Approve and Release. Once I clicked on approve, the money was sent to the contractor instantly, and the transaction was broadcasted on the Ethereum blockchain.

What’s Next for the Platform?

As the system improves, it is my opinion that you should be able to add new opinions to your review. Let me tell you why. I had a sprinkler system installed and grass planted, just like I did with this demo, and it looked fine at the time. But after a year, problems started to show up and it turns out they had the pipes running in the small field where we plant our hobby plants, and every time we use diggers, the water pipes underground burst. They should not have these pipes running under that field, and they should have known that. There is no way we could have known this as the customer, and we discovered this mistake after one year when we had the soil tilled. To plant your tomatoes and peppers you must do this, and placing pipes under that field was a mistake we discovered a year after they have done the job. So, although your rating for them is permanent, you should be able to add something to your review. In our case, we would have added that they made that mistake, so the customers after us would be careful about that, or the landscaping company would come and fix it. They did fix it in our case, but they charged us for their mistake by overcharging other work they have done this year. They said they will not take money for their mistake, but overcharged us for other little stuff. The capability of adding a “matured review” gives power to the customers, and makes sure that the repairmen or the contractor do not do a half job that breaks after a short while.

Another way to use these tokens to the best of their ability is to have them for reservations and discounts. You can “reserve” a contractor with the BOB tokens for 10 percent of the full price. Once you get the reservation, they come in and do the job. Depending on the job, you wait for some time. For example, if he repaired your roof, you can wait until there is heavy rain. If the roof is good, you release the payment. Normally, a contractor would not wait for his payment but BOB tokens would be a great incentive and the percentage can change based on the work and the timeline to release the payment. This is different from interest because you are making sure he has done the job right in the first place, and he is putting his money where his mouth is. To get a discount, you can pay for the job with BOB tokens. The system can automatically convert Credit Card or PayPal payments to crypto, and this will especially help old people when they want a nice discount. If you pay with BOBs, you get a 10 percent discount, and this comes out of the exchange profits. This means that the platform will have a fully fledged exchange branch, converting FIAT, BTC, and ETH to BOB tokens and back. In time, more tokens can be added to increase revenue. Any exchange uses BOB tokens for the cost, and the gained BOB tokens can be used for the discounts. This will increase the usage of the BOB tokens, and increase its value. With increased value, more people will want to use BOB tokens instead of FIAT money.

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