Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Bob Robertson on February 16, 2011, 07:30:21 pm
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Aldi are now selling the Solutions spotter bottels for £1.59. Label says it contains 5-15% phosphates (food quality),cleaning intensifier and water.
Bob
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I'm not surprised for one second that it is in Aldi or any other supermarket.
I said years ago that if these 'magic do it all' products were that good that they they should be trying to sell them through a major supermarket.
Let's face it if you were the manufactorer of this wonder product why would you sell it to what is really a small outlet (ie carpet cleaners) when you could sell it to the millions. It is business afterall.
So are the microsplitter lovers now going to say this is a poor product because Aldi are selling it, as opposed to when it was only available for the professional ;D ;D ;D
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Rather the public used that, than vanish
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Rather the public used that, than vanish
Whilst I agree with you Steve does this mean that we will all be redundant soon ;D
Afterall wasn't this one of the products where carpet cleaners were wetting themselves over just apply this stuff, little bit of rub action, go outside for a cigy, come back in and the stain was gone ;D
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is it good stuff then?
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Like many products.....over hyped.
For example a grease based stain, it's better than just water but nowhere near as good as a solvant.
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At least it can be flushed out and doesn't bleach the carpet
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I find the spotters that I provide to my customers work beyond their expectations. Customers come back for more and are prepared to pay the full price (£9.95) My clientèle would never shop at Aldi either, so there's not much chance of them finding the cheaper alternative. :P
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Whoops Colin, dont know what to make of that statement "My clientèle would never shop at Aldi either"
Aldi and Lidl may be perceived as cheapo shopping by some, but if you see their store car parks on the continent you see loads of Mercs and BMW's.
I shop at both sometimes and perceive them as good value for money.
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" My clientele would never shop at Aldi either" you clean ovens for a living ya mad fool.
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I believe Aldi sold this a couple of years ago for a couple of weeks then it disapeared again.
I would have no hesitation in reccomending it to my Aldi shopping customers ;), as someone else said its better than 1001 etc
Its not doing us out of work either is it? You cant exactly clean the whole carpet with it can you!
stu
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i tried giving away spotters for a considerable amount of time although they appreciated the gesture i dont consider it to be that good as a marketting tool . certainly would not sell them to custys as the first time the spotter does not achieve the desired result in turn customer will say oh that spotter you gave me is not much cop.
i prefer giving customers advice on how to best deal with the odd accident and offer a flat rate charge for a call out to deal with a problem this was worth 3k to me last year and is normally quick in and out jobs at the end of the day or in between jobs. plus on many occasions going to deal with a spot or stain leads onto booked in further work. IMO ( just mine ) spotters a marketting tool dont work in fact i would go so far as to say they are detrimental to my business as i want to go to customers to deal with spots and stains and get paid to do so.
i know people use them so that they know customer has your number under the sink. but imo there are better ways i use a fridge magnet and a sticky label on there hoover ( with there permission obviously ) works fine
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Whoops Colin, dont know what to make of that statement "My clientèle would never shop at Aldi either"
Aldi and Lidl may be perceived as cheapo shopping by some, but if you see their store car parks on the continent you see loads of Mercs and BMW's.
I shop at both sometimes and perceive them as good value for money.
It was said in jest Joe, hence the cheeky little character at the end of the sentence ;)
I don't know where my clientèle shop, if I'm being completely honest ???
Well done Darran for pointing out that I clean ovens, I do need reminding from time to time :P
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Why did alot of the posts get deleted??
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looks like one of the mods has deleted the petty squabbles that started about solutions which was taking the topic away from the initial subject, or more than likely someone clicked the 'report to mods' button and admin removed the posts
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Thought so Mike.... Softies :P
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"certainly would not sell them to custys as the first time the spotter does not achieve the desired result in turn customer will say oh that spotter you gave me is not much cop."
As with most things in business, you have to believe in the product you are selling. I take it the spotters you used to give away weren't that good ???
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Doh Not call Moderators Softees
I am off to the iron town where men are men Sheffield
See about opening a branch there.
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Nope, i was meaning whoever complianed. The comments where hardly worthy of being deleted.
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Nope, i was meaning whoever complianed. The comments where hardly worthy of being deleted.
Perhaps they were slanderous ???
Dunno, 'cos I never seen what was written :'(
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Nope, i was meaning whoever complianed. The comments where hardly worthy of being deleted.
Perhaps they were slanderous ???
Dunno, 'cos I never seen what was written :'(
Maybe Colin but its a forum, I have never heard of a slanderous case going to court after a forum post. Good and bad comments about people and suppliers are going to be said all the time. Thats the beauty of a forum.
Some people are too sensitive if you ask me :-\
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Nope, i was meaning whoever complianed. The comments where hardly worthy of being deleted.
Perhaps they were slanderous ???
Dunno, 'cos I never seen what was written :'(
Maybe Colin but its a forum, I have never heard of a slanderous case going to court after a forum post. Good and bad comments about people and suppliers are going to be said all the time. Thats the beauty of a forum.
Some people are too sensitive if you ask me :-\
Here you go mate...
http://www.connectingsingles.com/forum_0_145651_1/man_awarded_10000_in_internet_slander_case.htm
There are hundreds of cases, I think I'll stop posting..... ;D
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Gulp........ :-X
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Gulp........ :-X
;D ;D ;D
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the post were probably deleted because they casted doubt on the character of a person who is not a members so cannot defend himself and anyone who spoke on his behalf would be seen as a puppet, i actually agree with them being deleted. the way i see it if you wouldn't say it to there face don't say it on the forum.
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the way i see it if you wouldn't say it to there face don't say it on the forum.
I can see that working....not
This would be a right girl thingyville if people would only write what they were prepared to say to someones face. ;D
All I can say is that this spotter must be the dogs because it managed to erase all signs of the posting 8)
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My post was deleted, and all i said was it was on shelves in Aldi some years ago.
never mentioned Solutions , glockner or alltech,
still i aint bothered and no ink was used.
Andrew
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"certainly would not sell them to custys as the first time the spotter does not achieve the desired result in turn customer will say oh that spotter you gave me is not much cop."
As with most things in business, you have to believe in the product you are selling. I take it the spotters you used to give away weren't that good ???
never tried solutions spotter so cant give my opinion but have heard they are the better of the bunch tried 2 others and did not rate them
but its kinda irrelevant because i dont believe in them as marketting tools IMO
bit like a being a taxi driver and giving away free bus tickets if you pardon the pun ;D
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As someone else has already said, your customer's hardly going to be able to clean their whole carpets with a free bottle of spotter. If that was possible, we wouldn't need all the equipment we carry on our vans, we could just buy spotter and turn up with a bottle in each hand.... :D
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I thought it was the best thread of the year so far, until the deleting started . ;D
Joe
Its all you fault for saying the capital S confused you!!! ;D ;D ;D
Bob
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Mike has hit the nail on the head, as usual. Things typed on the internet aren't always the things that people are prepared to say when looking that same person in the eye, standing face to face.
I think in the dictionary it's referred to as being a "coward" :)
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Mike has hit the nail on the head, as usual. Things typed on the internet aren't always the things that people are prepared to say when looking that same person in the eye, standing face to face.
I think in the dictionary it's referred to as being a "coward" :)
As previously stated Jim I'm at the cleaning show and have no problem saying it to your face or anyone else for that matter!!!!!!!
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Knowing Steve "Top Gunn" a bit, I think he would say it in your face.
Bob
My fault!
I got broad shoulders. ;D
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He probably would but you might need a translater! ;D
Only joking steve honest!! Bob and I are going up to the show on Wednesday and Thursday so will see you up there.
Or down there in you case.
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You Northeners are so touchy :-*
The line of threads deleted were hardly anything to get upset about as far I could see. ::)