Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: steveo22 on September 10, 2010, 07:24:27 pm
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Just had a phone call from a fellow window cleaner, saying "You posted a flyer through my door earlier, well don't bother cause i clean all this area so don't bother posting anymore"!! What a twat! Was it you?? ::)
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Dont worry about it lol. Pleb...as if there isnt enough houses to go about
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So did he ask you for a quote? ;D
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and?
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he must be very busy if he does ALL the houses
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my mate has been out knocking and knocked a wc who told him, he had been a wc for 4 years and was only just breaking even, and should get out of the business
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Lol. This thinking of " I operate my business in this area so you shouldn't operate a rival one" always amazes me.
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Lol. This thinking of " I operate my business in this area so you shouldn't operate a rival one" always amazes me.
its like that where i am, they will get a shock next week when my 10000 flyers start to go out ;D ;D ;D
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dont have a problem where i live.as we all know each other. ;D ;) ;)
and always have a beer or 2 together, :o :P :P :P
well i did but dont drink alchol anymore. :'( :'(
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I just cut his rant short and hung up on him. Gonna go and put out some more flyers by him tomorrow just out of principle.
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i met a newbie when i was canvassing recently, got chatting, swapped numbers, and pass info now and again, but this week hes given me 2 days work worth about £400!
so i say dont glare at newbies, make friends with them, they give you good connections!
it is annoying when they nick good work off you though! :'(
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Happened to me too. Got a text from another wc saying I have had one of your leaflets, and not to bother, he covers the whole street.
Funny thing was, I got the best repsonse from that street.
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try n keep in wiv da fella windys
i know a trillion who dont do conny roofs etc
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lol whats wrong with him, i havnt had "the phone call yet" but ill have a good laugh when i do!
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I had a call a few years ago from a woman saying she was a customer and was really unhappy with my work, after about 30 seconds of moaning she very quickly says "yeh well my husband is a window cleaner in this area so back off or else" then she put the phone down before I could answer. it was days before I dare leave the house without and armed escort. ;D
I made a point of targeting the area after that, and so far no one has had the balls to say anything to my face. ::)
If any newbies start up near me I try to help if possible. They are gonna start anyway so would rather have them as friends.
And anyone who upsets me gets targeted. ;D
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Just reading some other threads, maybe it was Dean Taberner's house i posted flyers too? Maybe thats a surveillance car parked over the road watching me?? :o
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i have been out collecting this morning and had a few cancel as i have jack it in, a few weeks ago according to some of them, and they all gone with a other guy
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When I first started (13 years ago) I was confronted by a w/c who accused me of undercutting him. It turned out that he was cheaper than me.
He was never really a threat though. Another time we met he started to take the mick because he did about nine houses to my one! I just smiled back and said that I am happy if he is.
Whenever I meet other w/c's I try to be friendly. Most return in kind. I find it's actually those who work for bigger companies or have new(ish) sign written vans who seem to have a 'superior' attitude!
John.
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I just cut his rant short and hung up on him. Gonna go and put out some more flyers by him tomorrow just out of principle.
Lets hope he does the same to you ;D
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I just cut his rant short and hung up on him. Gonna go and put out some more flyers by him tomorrow just out of principle.
Lets hope he does the same to you ;D
Does what??
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I just cut his rant short and hung up on him. Gonna go and put out some more flyers by him tomorrow just out of principle.
Lets hope he does the same to you ;D
Does what??
Leaflets your jobs
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I just cut his rant short and hung up on him. Gonna go and put out some more flyers by him tomorrow just out of principle.
Lets hope he does the same to you ;D
was it you telboy?
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I just cut his rant short and hung up on him. Gonna go and put out some more flyers by him tomorrow just out of principle.
Lets hope he does the same to you ;D
was it you telboy?
Who knows
You dont know who is cleaning who's windows ;)
Any way he hasn't put where he's from ::)
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was this on here before??
someone swapped thier flyer with someone elses in a shop window
then they get a phone call saying please clean windows,frames gutters...
the chap did it, then got a phone call from the other wc saying cheers for doing that! ....
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was this on here before??
someone swapped thier flyer with someone elses in a shop window
then they get a phone call saying please clean windows,frames gutters...
the chap did it, then got a phone call from the other wc saying cheers for doing that! ....
Nice one ;D
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I couldn't care less if he went out and flyer'd every house i do, you do a good job and you've got nothing to worry about, so lets hope he does flyer my customers, he certainly won't be getting a phone call from me whinging!!
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I couldn't care less if he went out and flyer'd every house i do, you do a good job and you've got nothing to worry about, so lets hope he does flyer my customers, he certainly won't be getting a phone call from me whinging!!
Thats all right then ;)
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I've been cleaning a new estate for a year now, I got asked by a friend to clean hers when she moved in and she got me most of the road so I said yes, now this estate is in two phases and the phase I do was the second one, when I got there I found out that someone else does the other phase so I never leafleted it out of courtesy although I do clean 3 on the first phase as I was recommended to them. Last week for the first time I met the other cleaner, he had lads running everywhere cleaning off ladders and also wfp. The 1st lad I saw gave me the 'look' so I smiled and waved haha . Then I moved my van round and the rest of his crew came to one of the houses next to me, he started quizin me an asked how long I'd cleaned on there so I replied about a year. He then said he had been there from the start so I laughed an smiled and replied 'your not going to go down the this is my patch route are you' he just changed the subject to tell me how he cleans all over the northwest, in fact he got that carried away I thought he was goin to say he cleaned every house in england haha
One of the other lads was close to me again later on so I was chattin to him an he said that his boss was a a++hole an he had a right attitude so I just smiled and said I know. Got to say I watched these lads clean an my god they were awful. The lads on the ladders missed windows and the wfp lad never rinsed one single window.
My moral is if you are approached then kill the buggers with kindness, give them your biggest smile and wave , I always do an it makes me laugh for the rest of the day
Happy cleaning guys