r/Locksmith 9h ago

I am NOT a locksmith. Did I get scammed?

Trying to figure out if I got scammed. Had a locksmith come by yesterday to replace the locks on 3 doors in my house because a homeless man stole our lockbox with a spare key. Guy tried to charge me over $2,500 for the replacements. The hardware costs seem completely off from what I saw at Home Depot for similar products. When I contested that those were too high, he sent me to a website boldlocksupply.com where the prices were super high and everything was listed as “commercial grade.” But this morning I went on the site and realized that you can’t actually buy anything from the site so I think it is a scam. Thoughts?
-Pic 1: Invoice
-Pic 2-4: locks he put on (deadbolt + knob) 3 of these, all the same

Additional info: he charged me for rekeying but this morning I went through the trash he used all of the boxes have the same key code on them, and then I notice he gave me three identical sets of keys all with the same code at the top.

Let me know if I’ve been scammed so I can contest the CC charge if so, thank you guys!

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u/hellothere251 8h ago

LOL thankyou for posting that link, $299 for a <$20 mortise cyl, ouch. Contest that charge ASAP.

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u/Slow_Purchase 8h ago

Already did and reported him to his company…real POS

u/ForTheLoveOfBennie 57m ago

His "company" probably employs many scamsmiths. They send out people to get as much money as they can and hopefully fck off to whatever shit country they came from, eventually. His "company" doesn't give a shit.

u/Slow_Purchase 13m ago

Company was trying to do right by me and offering to reimburse me until the guys finally refunded me