Wayne Adams / Ithemba drawings - Avoid

I found Mr. Wayne Adams on Gumtree advertising his services as an Architectural Draughtsman for ITHEMBA DRAWINGS CC. After checking his Linkedin profile he seemed like a trustworthy person that could draw up a simple plan for me. My mistake.

We met in April 2017 where we came to a verbal agreement on what I needed to be drawn up. At this point it was meant to be a new driveway entrance into my yard with carport. A deposit was then paid. He then drew up a proposed plan for me. From then I had some trouble regarding the propsed plan (due to council), and requested the plan be placed on hold.

I then contacted Mr. Adams in September 2017 and requested a change to the plan. It would now be a basic covered braai area (carport with braai place, but no driveway entry). He then requested I pay him the balance to make the necessary changes and have the plan approved by council. Once payment was made he then became more and more difficult to contact. On the odd occasion I managed to get through to him I was given generic excuses like he's been out of town, extremely busy with other projects, etc.

I then struggled to obtain updates from him or even make contact with him over the next 7 months using any of his FOUR contact numbers or email. Most calls and emails would go ignored for months at a time. Eventually he decided to submit an incomplete plan to council in April 2018, which had been rejected as it lacked required details. I was then told on more than one occasion he would ammend and resubmit. Since then it has been nothing but ignored calls and emails.

It has now been a full year since I paid him and I have received absolutely nothing.

So just a heads up, avoid dealing with this guy.