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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: brynley on March 19, 2012, 07:48:33 pm

Title: paid in advance
Post by: brynley on March 19, 2012, 07:48:33 pm
i have some customers that pay me in advance, but this new customer has just paid me 2 years in advance.
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on March 19, 2012, 07:49:53 pm
i have some customers that pay me in advance, but this new customer has just paid me 2 years in advance.

cannabis factory springs to mind

was the new custy recommended? are they related to or a friend of an existing customer?

saying that if you were running a cannabis factory you wouldnt want a window cleaner snouting around  ;D me and my imagination!  ::)
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: paul saunders on March 19, 2012, 08:32:45 pm
The only trouble with that is, for the next two years you'll feel as if you're working for nothing.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: Jackal on March 19, 2012, 08:44:02 pm
thats nuts i wouldnt want take payment that far in front,iv got custys 6 months but thats enough i end up rushing cuz feel like earning nothing
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: bobplum on March 19, 2012, 08:47:25 pm
i have some customers that pay me in advance, but this new customer has just paid me 2 years in advance.

i have to ask,"how much" ???
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: Dougaldum on March 19, 2012, 11:50:30 pm
;)
i have some customers that pay me in advance, but this new customer has just paid me 2 years in advance.
come on how  :Dmuch promise won't  tell any one
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: rosskesava on March 20, 2012, 01:29:04 am
i have some customers that pay me in advance, but this new customer has just paid me 2 years in advance.

Why 2 years? Did they give a reason for the 2 year payment? Why not 1 year or maybe even 3?

Seems a bit odd? After all, 'they' being a new customer and 'them' not knowing you.

Would you give money to a complete stranger in that way?

And you accepted the payment?

Very strange and very unlikely...

I'm just off to buy some mushrooms. I'll pay the shop keeper for 2 years worth in advance.



Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: brynley on March 20, 2012, 06:50:31 am
if you knew me, i don't bull s**t, he obviously see's i'm a trust worthy and professional person, which i am, he paid me £120 by cheque, assuming it don't bounce, for 12 cleans every 8 weeks.
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: dazmond on March 20, 2012, 07:26:17 am
who cares?as long as you get paid!!its none of your business why.just clean his windows!!as for the feeling your cleaning for nothing YOUR NOT!!i have customers who pay a few cleans in front.one who pays 4 cleans in advance.at the end of the day itll make up for the people who take their time paying.it balances itself out in the long run.
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: Tom White on March 20, 2012, 07:55:50 am
I clean the windows of a doctor who pays 6 months in advance; but normally by the time he pays, he's four months in arrears, so he pays the arrears plus 6 months.  Your admin has to be good to keep up with who owes what and whose paid in advance.
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: Steve CM on March 20, 2012, 08:35:06 am
I had a lady pay me 400 up front. It was suppose to be 40 what she owed. I knew it was mistake but took it as an upfront payment. She didn't even realize and after us cleaning about 6 times and leaving a note saying paiHerschel time she then rang me to ask why that was. More money than sense!
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: Spruce on March 20, 2012, 08:37:23 am
I clean the windows of a doctor who pays 6 months in advance; but normally by the time he pays, he's four months in arrears, so he pays the arrears plus 6 months.  Your admin has to be good to keep up with who owes what and whose paid in advance.

With George software; no problem.
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: Justen Uff on March 20, 2012, 10:41:02 am
if you knew me, i don't bull s**t, he obviously see's i'm a trust worthy and professional person, which i am, he paid me £120 by cheque, assuming it don't bounce, for 12 cleans every 8 weeks.

Next time you see him tell him he owes you a tenner!  2 years divided by 8 week cleans = 13 cleans.
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: Tom White on March 20, 2012, 10:54:04 am
if you knew me, i don't bull s**t, he obviously see's i'm a trust worthy and professional person, which i am, he paid me £120 by cheque, assuming it don't bounce, for 12 cleans every 8 weeks.

Next time you see him tell him he owes you a tenner!  2 years divided by 8 week cleans = 13 cleans.

Nah, just stick a running total of cost and cleans though his letter box.  :D
Title: Re: paid in advance
Post by: Bay View WCS on March 20, 2012, 06:19:49 pm
I have a client that pays me for 2 or 4 cleans in advance.  It's nice to get guaranteed money but after I've banked/spent the money and I'm cleaning 'em a month or 2 later I can't quite shake the feeling that I'm doing the work for nothing; I know it's stupid but that's how I feel coz I'm not going to get paid after I've done the work - go figure!!  ::)