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Voting closed: July 28, 2017, 06:17:59 am

neiljoust

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Buying some work
« on: July 26, 2017, 06:17:59 am »
Hi all,  this guy where I am is selling 65 jobs totalling  765 every 6 weeks , advise needed what do you ask him about it.

I have asked if good payers , are they good streets etc

Stoots

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Re: Buying some work
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2017, 06:47:26 am »
Hi all,  this guy where I am is selling 65 jobs totalling  765 every 6 weeks , advise needed what do you ask him about it.

I have asked if good payers , are they good streets etc

Trad or wfp
Cash collection or online
Prices
Access issues
Do you let them skip cleans
Do you work in the rain
How long u had it
Contracts

Whatever else u can think of

dave f

Re: Buying some work
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2017, 06:53:57 am »
get him to introduce you to customers

Walter Mitty

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Re: Buying some work
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2017, 09:04:15 am »
It will rarely be a good fit as everyone works differently.  The question is how far you are prepared to adapt or how long you are prepared to give the customers to adapt.
If you are picky about what you take on, be prepared to lose a third of them by dropping or being dropped.  If you're not so picky, it might be as low as 5%.

Dry Clean

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Re: Buying some work
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2017, 09:53:43 am »
Why are you selling this work would be one of  my first questions.

Dave Anderson

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Re: Buying some work
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2017, 08:50:34 pm »
Get a statement of the accounts i.e how many times have they been cleaned in the past 24 months, payment issues,, lateness, non payers, skips, add ons. i.e connies, fsg, etc,etc.... if you're buying he should have all of this.....plus everything else mentined here.....Buyer beware.
The more I know the less I know I know ...

Stoots

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Re: Buying some work
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2017, 09:14:10 pm »
It will rarely be a good fit as everyone works differently.  The question is how far you are prepared to adapt or how long you are prepared to give the customers to adapt.
If you are picky about what you take on, be prepared to lose a third of them by dropping or being dropped.  If you're not so picky, it might be as low as 5%.


exactly

rather have work canvassed, at least you choose the terms from the start