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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Pope vader on October 01, 2011, 03:16:28 pm

Title: Are window cleaners getting desperate for work
Post by: Pope vader on October 01, 2011, 03:16:28 pm
Had a window cleaner i know contact me asking if i wanted to sell all my poop work and non payers and any work i dumped as he is convienced he can turn them in to good payers,  think some wc are getting desperate for work
Title: Re: Are window cleaners getting desperate for work
Post by: Ian101 on October 01, 2011, 03:37:45 pm
maybe buy em cheap .... loose a percentage ... stick em up in price ... turn over to door collecting ... run em for a few months and then sell em on for a higher price

like buying a car from auction that needs work ... fix it up and sell for a profit
Title: Re: Are window cleaners getting desperate for work
Post by: StockClean on October 01, 2011, 04:04:33 pm
Like junk debt buyers really. Companies pay millions for billions of pounds worth of delinqent accounts. Some companies pay only 2-3 cents to the dollar owed, its big business and its the fastest growing industry.

Same kinda thing buying up bad custies really, smaller scale.
Title: Re: Are window cleaners getting desperate for work
Post by: john the cleaner on October 01, 2011, 06:09:06 pm
cant help all my customers are good ones  and i mean that
Title: Re: Are window cleaners getting desperate for work
Post by: windowswashed on October 02, 2011, 01:53:41 pm
local ones around my way keep putting flyers through letterboxes promising discounts for fixed term contracts and persistently pestering same customers
Title: Re: Are window cleaners getting desperate for work
Post by: dai on October 02, 2011, 02:15:32 pm
Ther's a sign gone up in my local shop, "GUTTERS CCLEANED £10 PER HOUSE" I know some cleaners who travel 7 miles to do two £5.00 jobs.
Title: Re: Are window cleaners getting desperate for work
Post by: Phil Mitchell on October 03, 2011, 05:41:32 pm
Not desperate but worried. Lost 5 last week, 2 said they dont want the cost this winter. Others I didnt bother asking as things are poop out there and I dont want to hear it twice.
Title: Re: Are window cleaners getting desperate for work
Post by: wpclean on October 03, 2011, 06:45:15 pm
Quote from: Phil Mitchell on October 03, 2011, 05:41:32 pm
Not desperate but worried. Lost 5 last week, 2 said they dont want the cost this winter. Others I didnt bother asking as things are poop out there and I dont want to hear it twice.
You could always do a few hours in the Viv or at the arches  :P
Title: Re: Are window cleaners getting desperate for work
Post by: Ian101 on October 03, 2011, 07:12:29 pm
Had 2 of mine go from 8 weekly to 4 weekly today ... Just like getting 2 new customers ... Mad busy loads of new customers ... Well 5 last week ... Not all doom and gloom ... If u loose some just get out and canvass ... Masters of our own income
Title: Re: Are window cleaners getting desperate for work
Post by: Matt - aquatec on October 03, 2011, 10:34:39 pm
bang right Ian.. I'm a newby and can't believe how easy work is to get... just get busy and ask everyone... price fair and turn up... simples
Title: Re: Are window cleaners getting desperate for work
Post by: StockClean on October 03, 2011, 10:48:49 pm
Hear Hear!  :D