[clinton]

Also no one to answer too  as well jason;D

[John Kelly]

I know many Chem Dry guys and believe me they are getting more and more work at top dollar. Good luck to them. Look out soon for their new TV adverts,

[richy27]

Minimum charge for me £86.25!!!!!!!!

min charge in my area £115

[Neil Williams]

Look out soon for their new TV adverts,

That'll be the phones ringing for us too then
I hire out static caravans on the coast and we get most of our Saturday evening phonecalls on the back of Haven advertising their holidays during that Primevil TV series.

[Mike Osbourne]

They must have hundreds and hundreds of leads coming in every day. If that was your business and you were flat out, week in week out, would you still keep your prices the same?

[Mark Lane-Matthews]

All you can do is look at your own costs on how long it takes you to clean a suite by working out how much you would like to make per  hour so if a suite takes you 3 hours to clean a suite and you would like to earn £50 per hour the cost of that suite would be £150.
 
Sorry about preaching to the converted but to any body else I hope this helps

[Joe H]

Mark
Its a good reminder for us.
There are still jobs I do where I come away not hitting the hourly rate I want and ask myself.... where did I go wrong.

Mind you, some others make up for it 

[mark_roberts]

Apart from the well known brand name what else have they got to offer.

They use TMs like the rest of us now.

Mark

[CARPET KNIGHTS]

Is there anything to stop you putting on a price comparison thing on your website then with their prices against your prices?

[derek west]

everybody sing now!

"compare the carpet.......... dot com"
derek

[Mike Osbourne]

Simplz

[jasonl]

A quotation  form will be on my site as soon as possible , nowt wrong with a bit of benchmarking!

[daysdeepclean]

As long as your prices are top end and you do a top end job, you won't be getting enquiries from people who want the job done for nowt!

Good ridance to the price shopper

[derek west]

i love price shoppers, making them see the errors of there ways is a challenge i rellish.

converted a few, not all though.

"are you just trying to get the cheapest price or do you want a proper job doing?" thats usually my opener.

i don't bother on end of tenancy's though, they don't give a poo what it turns out like as long as theyve got a receipt.

quoted against a local cowboy last wednesday, doing the job tuesday, "oh yeah"

always thinking!

derek

[Mike Halliday]

I get a lot of EOT cleans, I like them and I give them a extra big reciept to show the letting agent they've had the carpets cleaned.

always tell them its cash on completion, no cheques.

 around here they can be paying £700 a month rent..... with a month and a half deposit, they will happily pay my prices if it means they get there money back.

[JandS]

Like that quote Derek, am always trying to think of something when I know
there looking for cheap.
Round here the tell tale sign is the accent, if it's the bank call centre accent you know
it's the cheapest quote there looking for so I just bang the price up and if they
go for it bingo.
Don't particularly like working for them anyway as they always want more doing when
you get there for the same price.
"Can you just do the stairs as well while your here it will only take you 2 mins"

John

[Steve Chapman]

its quite possible to have different prices for different clients, we do it all the time.

we do a lot of eot but dont charge the same prices as when we do the country manor type places.

obvioulsy tenants dont require the same level of service compared to those who have spent thousands

on furnishing there homes.

We have a few well to do clients that would be horrified and insulted if they paid what we charged our

normal  around town clients, and vice versa.

The fact is we still like having the tenants and landlord types as it makes up half of our work and keeps

us busy all year long.



Sometimes we have to get away from the notion we have to charge all the same price, each job is

different and i believe it should be approached that way.

Regards

steve

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Guys

Chemdry are good because they help keep prices up and allow us to make a good living, while producing excellent results with top quality equipment.

As for different prices it is just normal business practice with many factors affecting what one charges.

Cheers

Doug