Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Wc Solutions on July 04, 2011, 04:35:01 pm
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using the same name - which i know isnt a crime really.
BUT they are actually claiming to be us - they are not trying to do any of our current customers com or res but they are picking up work off the back of our success.
they claim to the new customer they do the bigger jobs we do - they tell the customer oh yes we have lots of big contracts we do: xxxxx & xxxxx but of course they dont!
only found out as one of there customer rang me up after getting number from net, they told me what the 2 lads looked like and that def doesnt match my ugly lot of staff so i can rule out any current staff taking the p.
so im not happy with someone else picking up work off the back of our success by claiming they do our work.
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ring them up and ask for a quote!
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using the same name - which i know isnt a crime really.
BUT they are actually claiming to be us - they are not trying to do any of our current customers com or res but they are picking up work off the back of our success.
they claim to the new customer they do the bigger jobs we do - they tell the customer oh yes we have lots of big contracts we do: xxxxx & xxxxx but of course they dont!
only found out as one of there customer rang me up after getting number from net, they told me what the 2 lads looked like and that def doesnt match my ugly lot of staff so i can rule out any current staff taking the p.
so im not happy with someone else picking up work off the back of our success by claiming they do our work.
I had the opposite problem the other day.
Every few months I join up with a small team of window cleaners to do a very large subby job on a Saturday.
On the most recent occasion, one of the window cleaners was going to refuse to work with me - until he met me.
There vis a guy in my area, same first and surnames as me who does a bit of window cleaning. That's where the similarities end. I even read about this guy getting nicked for benefit fiddles a few years ago - at least I assume it's the same guy.
Apparently, this other Paul Coleman tried to poach one of this other guy's jobs while he was off sick. Pretty low eh? Fortunately, the windy who was going to refuse to work with me is a guy I've met before. We've chatted several times on our rounds but only knew each other by first name.
Just shows how easy it can be to lose a decent reputation.
I hope you get to the bottom of your situation and put a stop to it.
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Yeh, and once when Squeaky, Roy Harding, Wor Lass and I were having a breakfast at Tescos, Roy Harding leans over to Squeaky and asks, "So, Squeaky, do you have much commercial work?"
Squeaky, wanting to look like the 'big window cleaner' said a short list of commercial properties, one of which Wor Lass and I did (unknown to him obviously).
We pointed it out and Squeaky didn't half stammer for a bit, blushing too.
Gosh how we larfed. Roy Harding had to take one of his heart tablets.
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Yeh, and once when Squeaky, Roy Harding, Wor Lass and I were having a breakfast at Tescos, Roy Harding leans over to Squeaky and asks, "So, Squeaky, do you have much commercial work?"
Squeaky, wanting to look like the 'big window cleaner' said a short list of commercial properties, one of which Wor Lass and I did (unknown to him obviously).
We pointed it out and Squeaky didn't half stammer for a bit, blushing too.
Gosh how we larfed. Roy Harding had to take one of his heart tablets.
Poor old Squeaky !!
He really has met his nemesis ;D .
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Well you must know them quite well if they know that much about you and your business, disgruntled ex employee perhaps? Put your thinking cap on and I reckon you will come up with an answer
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Yeh, and once when Squeaky, Roy Harding, Wor Lass and I were having a breakfast at Tescos, Roy Harding leans over to Squeaky and asks, "So, Squeaky, do you have much commercial work?"
Squeaky, wanting to look like the 'big window cleaner' said a short list of commercial properties, one of which Wor Lass and I did (unknown to him obviously).
We pointed it out and Squeaky didn't half stammer for a bit, blushing too.
Gosh how we larfed. Roy Harding had to take one of his heart tablets.
Poor old Squeaky !!
He really has met his nemesis ;D .
When he looks in the mirror you mean? ;D