Jun 19, 2018
Multi-step home service call using BOB tokens on the Bob's Repair smart contract escrow service
Summary
Bob’s Repair is excited to share that we have completed our 2nd job on the blockchain! This is a multi-step (multi-milestone) job. By separating the job into multiple parts, we are able to assure the contractor that his funds will be paid out to him, and assure the customer that the work will be finished to his pleasing.
Posting a Job to the Blockchain
For this job, our team member, Chad Fosburg, needed one of his bedrooms transformed into a nursery, as he is expecting a baby. He hired Andreas, a contractor, to do this job, using the Bob's Repair network. This job consisted of custom molding design and installation, custom shelf design and installation, hanging a large mirror and other minor items.
Chad publishing the job contract to the Blockchain: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x929d97f93f052f24182fc55cd75b9e4fb39be41e8625c34a1021a2a6e01a86b4
Cost of the Job
The contractor, Andreas, charged Chad $150 USD for parts plus $250 USD for labor. The customer was charged $250 dollars for the labor and the equivalent amount of BOB tokens was allocated to the job, approximately 1785 BOB tokens at the price of $0.14 per token. The price was exceptionally reasonable for the amount of work he was getting done.
The contractor was also happy because he knew that once he finished the project he would get $250 that he would not have to split with any advertising agency or employer. If he were to do this job in the traditional manner, working for a large company, it is likely that he would have to charge Chad more due to advertising costs and that he, the contractor, would only get to keep approximately half of this amount, due to an employer keeping a large margin of the job cost.
Included in the price, Andreas spray painted the wall molding, touched up the wall paint, measured out and put together custom shelving, hung up a large mirror, and installed some pictures.
Before Photos:
Splitting the job into three parts in a Smart Contract
Chad (customer) split the job into three parts and published those to the Blockchain, waiting for the contractor to submit quotes for the three parts:
Milestone 1: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x192cf5fee9a80f4ea5e40f92435c99465f45e7677ce37eae0245cd3a6adb30d8
Milestone 2: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x8ef8ed2faea25652bb215ed3bc39689a1d14d4416de414de3e31a5a28da30d1e
Milestone 3: https://etherscan.io/tx/0xfacbc5d4b53f8b6826e0d8af6adb09d36cee43f0efdd5631111067e9117b3d68
Contractor Publishing Proposals with Pricing
The contractor sent in price quotes for each part of the job:
Milestone 1: https://etherscan.io/tx/0xa8841dd6bca1533ea943c03bff87a00d91f46ad6992140f32d886764e86f5160
Milestone 2: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x976a589494b8b36f07b2582edc67ea1eba18c0363a26ba8e7d8debcbfac5e560
Milestone 3: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x87acf4727430800f24b99cecc8abafffea2404d1c8385174889f3b129f08c85d
Customer accepting the proposals and funding the milestones with BOB tokens
The customer, Chad, accepted the price quoted to him for each job and funded the milestones with BOB tokens.
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x39e375c87f4e490d2672851375ae21cee60ea111c4f21257e1f9b0eff25d367a
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xf25f2afeab80e6a14f97061f3f4e4d48d5ae8d91272e062bc65d3659008444dc
Photos Taken During the Job:
Contractor Marking the Three Milestones Finished
The Contractor, Andreas, finished the job and marked the milestones finished:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x80141ebfec7f7b0376c3cc3d24cff4f9e7dddde9fe5d6af7412964b793d7691c
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x3da78ca361c37fc5e8cfbc3d4881b0a15eaede823e7a786b73604cc07869d446
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x8a13f76ef8091794a8e96d820b41952aea1e851ef6a3e1298f9e80dbeed413e8
Customer Approving and Releasing the Funds to the Contractor
The customer, Chad, approved and released the funds held, as the job was completed in a satisfactory manner.
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x613ea657fa5f147e47b067503e92556d3e35c0dfde32e1629dd29ca854fe9c51
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x46be31fee8e714d782916f408ceaa0ac82374f82fe36d0d94d83ece2cb473f4e
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x6e895b2f7fcee52c9a52f2f5fc808ffb7563e8d282ddb1b70ed4bb6c8adcb1df
Review Stored on the Steem Blockchain
Reviews hold much more data in them than milestones do and require a fast and low-cost blockchain solution in order to store this data in large volumes. Since we have plans on growing world-wide very rapidly we have chosen the Steem Blockchain for storing our job reviews and to facilitate our mission of such growth.
Chad and his wife explained that their experience with Andreas was wonderful and their review has been posted to the Steem blockchain:
“Andrea was very easy to speak to, warm, and welcoming. It was almost like working with one of your close friends. He has great precision on custom making the shelves and wall molding and really took his time in making sure that everything was perfect and exactly how we wanted it.”
Steem Review Link:
At the end of the project they came away with the nursery of their dreams. Please see the after photos we have attached below:
After Photos:
Notes
Thanks for viewing another job completed successfully using the Bob's Repair escrow service, and as always, thank you for being an important part of this journey.
Stay tuned as we build our beta product that we will be announcing this year.
Our future goals are to have our network support large transaction volumes and grow city by city as we introduce the concept of trust, transparency and social responsibility to communities through blockchain technology.
If you have any questions, we are available on telegram at: https://t.me/Bobtoken or via email at info@bobsrepair.com.
