Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: steven842 on June 01, 2010, 01:39:25 pm
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guys who are they ? whats the deal with them??
steve
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i have a contract with ladders free to clean a local holiday park reception. ive been doing it 2 months and havent been paid yet :o, i rang them today to be told they will pay me when the holiday park pays them. ???.
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sounds good lol, tell them u will clean them when u get paid
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guys who are they ? whats the deal with them??
steve
I'm sure that some people must do ok with them but I never received any work. I had a look a couple of jobs & put a sensible figure in. When I heard what they expected them to be cleaned for I felt that they were hugely underpriced. Either their rake off was a lot or they were underpriced by the previous firm.
Most forms of advertising I've used has normally paid for itself but with them it was a large-ish fee with no return.
Not surprisingly I didn't renew.
Having said that it might work for you!
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From memory I think it works like this....
They sell it on the basis that you could market yourself as a national operation or accept an invitation to price a national contract. You do the work you want & they will find others to do the rest - obviously for a fee. Basically though you hand it over to them & they pay you an annual retainer all the time they have the contract.
Conversely, they might pass on an enquiry to you (& others) to be priced up. They themselves may be in competition as well. Several people may be taking a rake off then so the person at the bottom that actually does the work might be squeezed on price.
That's to the best of my knowledge - but as I say it might work for you. It could be good 'bread & butter' work albeit at much lower rates.
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Isn't Ladders Free another facet of Ionics?
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sounds like a true rip off set up 2me ;)
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Isn't Ladders Free another facet of Ionics?
They seem to have a few