[Steve Gunn]

Just had rep round to try and get me to sign up for this,offers so far 4 bedroom house £32 then they take 35% of that or 3 bed house £29 but you get paid for every voucher sold even if they are not used unlike groupon who only pay for vouchers used.Or oven clean £19 and I would be able to cope with demand.

Needless to say he went away disappointed

[clarkson]

 hi
 i did it for window cleaning. wasnt good had a 110 houses all over leicestershire, all filthy. only signed up a handfull.

 i hear it can be better for carpets as you can upsell more work. but i wouldnt do them again.

 john

[Kinver_Clean]

Only if you are desperate....








to go bust.

[Simon Gerrard]

Or if your name is Hector

[Tony Gill Carpet Smart]

 

[Craigp]

4 bed house for £32 minus 35% ! what are they on, is this a way around minimum wage for them?

It could well cost that in fuel and chems, leaving you with 0.

Seriously you gotta tell these people straight how ridiculous that is.

Offer them a job doing your tele sales for £1 per hour.

P*ss taken bast**ds!

[The Great One]

Hi

Went for an MOt an my mehcanic was approached by groupn, wanted them to offer MOT's for £29, even though theyhave to charge £53.00, they declined.

A regular customer of theirs went with another garage for a groupon MOT and it failed, the garge said that it would cost £395.00 to get it to pass.

My mehcanic, said to bring it round and he'd check it for free to see as he'd MOT'd it last year. Turns out (of course) that it only needs £100.00 spending on it to pass!

So, careful with groupon/Living social/kgb deals and wowcher, it could end up costing you more. with the upsell.

If you're offering these deals you may not get to upsell and it could cost you everything.

Martin

[Helen]

Or if your name is Hector

not very nice        now say sorry

[Steve Gunn]

Their main selling point was you get paid for every voucher bought not just the ones used, they seem to think less than 50% use the vouchers. Plus there was a big reliance on up selling but as I pointed out couldn't see somebody wanting to pay a £xxx amount for protection when it's just cost them £32 to clean the whole house.

[Jamie Lindsay]

Took livingsocial deal the other week they pay me installments off 50% 30% then 20% they also pay me for voucher not reedemed any questions just ask mate

[Jamie Lindsay]

Also dont do full house for 34 do 2 rooms for 29 or else you wont get any additional carpets

[cleantech]

I am in the middle of a living social promotion 1 carpet 25, HSL and 1 room 49, 3 piece 59 have generated lots of work from people outside the 5 mile radius i had set in the terms and conditions as i am offering simalar prices but directly through myself all in all not that bad considering the country is in ruins

[darren Jones]

Hi,


Have done several promotions with living social

and had some great work on the back of it commercial etc.

I simply worked out an hourly rate i was happy with and and offered free travel on the first 10 miles

for a three bedroom house i offered it for 89.00 with living social and three rooms for 49.00

additional payments for specialised stain removal etc

worked a treat database is booming took an initial loss on my usual prices but now all the customers come direct to me and my work load has gone through the roof.

Do it but make it work for you and think what your happy with on an hourly rate managed to make it work for me and im now going strength to strength

Darren
Dazzling carpets

[Jamie Lindsay]

wish I was getting prices like 89 pounds 

[JandS]

How you getting £89 for a 3 bedroom house
when the original poster could only get £29??

John

[JandS]

And how do you get to offer these deals.
Googled it but all I get is offers for things
rather than me offering things on LS.

John

[AshWhite]

And how do you get to offer these deals.
Googled it but all I get is offers for things
rather than me offering things on LS.

John

At the very bottom of the page there's a link saying "Businesses", click on that and it tells you from there.

[Russ Chadd]

I just dont understand this at all.... I have met some of the people who hunt for these type of deals on Groupon and Living Social... most of them would NEVER pay the going rate to have their carpets cleaned!
All i can see it doing is de-valuing a skilled service... pretty much what hand car washing has done to the valeting trade.
There are only two parties who benefit from this... the tight fisted customer and the scamming so and so's ready to grab their percentage and leave you in ruins...

Who would like to come and clean my house for £50?? any takers?

[JandS]

Russ

Depends how it works but.....
What's to stop you telling them that you charge
£180 - £200 for a 3 piece suite cleaning.
What's the percentages on that kind of money??

John

[Fran84]

John,

The thing stopping you saying you charge £200 per suite is the rep.

They just wont go for a 50% discount on that. They would want you to offer 85-90%.

Why would they run your 50% off at £100 when some else will offer 50% off at £30.

Fran