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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Klean07 on September 18, 2010, 08:55:38 am

Title: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: Klean07 on September 18, 2010, 08:55:38 am

In 23 years of wc I've lost 100's some were lovely people. Sad really but thats life I guess.

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on September 18, 2010, 09:47:08 am

Glad to be rid of them, mostly.

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: rg1 on September 18, 2010, 10:42:10 am

Quote from: SSWC on September 18, 2010, 09:47:08 am

Glad to be rid of them, mostly.

??? ??? :o

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: Wc Solutions on September 18, 2010, 10:44:28 am

yeah lost a load to. always worse when you go round to collect say 2 cleans worth and the family are there sorting out stuff. feel bad for taking the money but business is business.

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: Klean07 on September 18, 2010, 02:16:56 pm

Ive had some relatives ring up in the past and ask how much they owe me. Then promised to send me a cheque but never did!!

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on September 18, 2010, 02:23:27 pm

They prob just forgot in the aftermath of the death.  Why not go back and ask them, I expect they'd pay up.

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: Klean07 on September 18, 2010, 02:28:49 pm

Whats gone is gone for me no point really. Window cleaners are always last to get paid.

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: Crystal-clear on September 18, 2010, 02:41:56 pm

Happens i dont ask i just say sorry for your loss and leave it at that

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: Ross G on September 18, 2010, 02:45:58 pm

Majority i see as just the money but a few of them i have become quite attached to through the years can't help the way i am :'(

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: Scrimble on September 18, 2010, 04:36:07 pm

i had one yesterday husband told me his wife has died, i couldnt tell him that she owed me from last time too, he looked like he was losing the plot so sad.

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: dazmond on September 18, 2010, 05:38:55 pm

one of my custies committed suicide a few years ago.lovely woman and i always got a brew.turned up on a sat morning and he was howling in despair when i went to clean the windows(she d taken an overdose the day before and died).so i quickly got back in the van and got out of there til next time.

a few months later i went back and there was blood all over the windows and half of them were smashed!i cleaned the ones i could and still billed him the full amount.apparently he had a mistress whos boyfriend didnt like the idea of her seeing other men!!and he went round drunk and smashed half his windows in! :o :o

he got his house up for sale now!! ::)


custy eh?

dazmond

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on September 18, 2010, 06:50:05 pm

Death and moving are the biggest losses on my round.

Title: Re: Custies lost due to passing away?
Post by: A & J Owen Window Cleaning on September 18, 2010, 07:19:41 pm

We lost one today because she's getting very frail and the nieces have taken over the finances and stopped us. Know it's against her wishes as well because she told us she couldn't stand them and they were only after her money! Probably trying to conserve the funds for when the poor old thing dies