Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: windiewasher on March 18, 2011, 03:18:13 pm
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I have 5 custys in the waiting and maybe 30 more.there not happy with the local trad guys smearing windows and not being reliable.think they could get.upset ;D
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who cares, its called free enterprise!
my rules are dont knowingly undercut & dont take another windys jobs unless he's crap and custys wants someone better
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Is that another trad guy WHO CAN'T AFFORD A WFP SYSTEM AH. But according to you doctor us trad guys cant afford it ah. ;)
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If he can't be bothered to look after his customers then bigger fool him; sweep in there and take the lot off him!!!
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no such thing as a patch!! never knowingly undercut tho!
your doing nothing wrong! the customers are changing their window cleaner - simple as that!!
i do think more n more undercutting will happen as more n more wc are around now
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Stan the man will be along in a mo' to tell you the error of your ways:-
He urinates at every lampost to mark his patch and you can see the scuff marks where his knuckles drag the floor outside all his custies.
;D
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I have 5 custys in the waiting and maybe 30 more.there not happy with the local trad guys smearing windows and not being reliable.think they could get.upset ;D
If they do then you'll be able to use that Vikan Sill brush for what they're really good at......bopping someone over the nut !!!!
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Would you keep taking your car through a car wash if it never cleaned it properly?
Point made. ;)
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I thought this thread was about someone putting their ding-a-ling in someones moo-moo at first.
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Patch whats a patch!!!
I've been threatened twice in 10 years!! I just laughed at them and carried on working (and I'm a lanky skinny t@@t ;D)
Mate if he anit doing a good enough job then get in there!! his lose is you gain.
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Stan the man will be along in a mo' to tell you the error of your ways:-
He urinates at every lampost to mark his patch and you can see the scuff marks where his knuckles drag the floor outside all his custies.
;D
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if it id dirty it is fair game......
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i would take the lot and go out off my way to do so, i dont undercut people i give my price if they want me tuff, i had a guy come to me saying to pack up or i burn your house down, imn not proud but i kicked his ass down the pub the same evening i new who he was he had 6 trad vans going, they done crap job in the end he sold all the work off. if im honest as long as i make my money i dont care who i upset
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I'm 3 quid dearer but they do them every 2 weeks but I will do every 4 weeks.
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Stan the man will be along in a mo' to tell you the error of your ways:-
He urinates at every lampost to mark his patch and you can see the scuff marks where his knuckles drag the floor outside all his custies.
;D
god your a tosser Malc ;)
Aren't we all Stan? ;D
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ive just been canvassing an area to find someone else is operating there with ladders,when looking at the windows i would never had guessed as the frames are filthy.people are interested in me especially as i can do third storey windows and above cons.so go for it mate.
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just do it, some guy has bought a local round and is doing it WFP use to de trad, what a mess he is making.
so big leaflet drop in two weeks time, and by the way I use WFP also just hope he don't give it a bad name!
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picked up a new customer the other day down a cul de sac.woman says she sick of her wc.anyway went round and cleaned them.THEY WERE MINGING!frames and sills had never been cleaned for years!she was very happy.i then leafleted the rest of the houses.
he was charging £4 for it(small 3 bedder).me?£10 every 8 weeks.i should end up with most of the close.ill canvass the rest next week.i know the guy who cleans them.ive picked up a few of his jobs before!! ;) ;D ;D
she asked me to price up her soffits front and back.i said £40.she said she will have to think about it(must of been too expensive for her!)i think she was expecting me to say a tenner! ;D ;D
the soffits wouldnt take more than an hour but im not working for any less!
the old window cleaner doesnt even use squeegees!just wet scrim/dry scrim!! ;D ;D
dazmond
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i have gained 52 new customers in 4 weeks due to this wc being rubbish in a nice village and still getting more and more
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christopher ive had a few new customers who ve said "your not using that pole thingy are you?its rubbish!thats what the last window cleaner used!!" ;D ;D ;D
i simply say "if your not happy when ive cleaned them with this "pole thingy" DONT PAY ME!!!! ;D ;D ;D
Ive always got paid with custies very happy with the finish(up to now!) ;D ;D ;D
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what is "a patch". Surely if you get asked to quote a job and get it happy days.
there are plenty of houses to go round, don't go for this is my patch s**t
just clean where asked, business is business
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I thought this thread was about a sexual encounter? ;D
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I thought this thread was about a sexual encounter? ;D
With someone`s dog?
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LOL..NO! thats not my kind of thing, I havent read the thread simply commenting on the title ;D
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LOL..NO! thats not my kind of thing, I havent read the thread simply commenting on the title ;D
So was I. Patch, it`s a dogs name innit?
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christopher ive had a few new customers who ve said "your not using that pole thingy are you?its rubbish!thats what the last window cleaner used!!" ;D ;D ;D
i simply say "if your not happy when ive cleaned them with this "pole thingy" DONT PAY ME!!!! ;D ;D ;D
Ive always got paid with custies very happy with the finish(up to now!) ;D ;D ;D
yes, on new coustys I usualy hang around for a little to make sure everything is tickity boo.
they are allways chuffed to see not just a "bodge it and scarper"
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I thought this thread was about a sexual encounter? ;D
Oooh, you meant the `wet patch`.
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I have 5 custys in the waiting and maybe 30 more.there not happy with the local trad guys smearing windows and not being reliable.think they could get.upset ;D
just hope someone starts taking your work and see how u feel about it
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mate he would do it to you man. if there was a few custies going. he will naff em :)
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I have 5 custys in the waiting and maybe 30 more.there not happy with the local trad guys smearing windows and not being reliable.think they could get.upset ;D
just hope someone starts taking your work and see how u feel about it
That's a pretty predictable answer, but it's an empty threat if you give it a few second's worth of thought.
Unfortunately, you see, anyone takes a customer off me and I'll rejoice. It'll be a cheap way to find out the things I'm doing wrong. At the moment, I put a lot of time and mental effort into finding out what I could do better. Someone leaving me would give me instant feedback so I'd immediately know what to address.
So, to make it concrete as per this thread. If I was smearing windows, someone leaving would let me know that and if I didn't change my ways I'd deserve to go the way of the dodo. If I was doing nothing wrong, no-one could steal my customers.
Vin
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If I started losing my work, I would quickly analyze why, and take immediate steps to stop the rot.
In 14 years I have only ever lost customers for the following reasons:
a) They have moved away
b) They have died
c) I have dropped non or bad payers
d) I have let them down (taken too long to get round)
e) I have been undercut - (one isolated incident where I was
happy to lose a cheapskate customer)
It seems obvious then what action I would need to take should customers start to leave me in droves.
John