Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Klean07 on January 08, 2013, 03:50:14 pm
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http://www.kgbdeals.co.uk/birmingham/deals/163381/gutter-clean?utm_source=ym&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydeal&utm_term=163381&utm_content=birmingham&kigdb=7b87b1fc-cb4c-11df-85fa-40400268f4cd
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Isn't this just another groupon type thing?
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Might get him to come and do mine for that price lol
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Yes mine too lol ;D
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Unbelievable. I wouldn't even clean the windows on a 5 bed hose for £29 one off, yet he is prepard to clean windows and empty gutters. Dork.
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This guy has just done one of my customers in Sutton.
He worked with his son, they took just under the hour and came from across the city.
All for £29.
They hope for repeat business but was miffed when they said once every 10 years as thats how long it had been.
If they dont already the will be living in a hostel.
Art
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absolutely laughable! ;D ;D ;D
must be desperate for work.im defo NOT!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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i dont think its fair to mock
this guy may be new to this industry and thinks this is a good way of getting business,its better surely than undercutting people?
yes he will live and learn from his mistakes and this may make him a better business person and end up putting you b/ham lads out of work ??? ::)
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>Bobplum - but that is exactly what he has done - "undercut people."
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i dont think its fair to mock
this guy may be new to this industry and thinks this is a good way of getting business,its better surely than undercutting people?
yes he will live and learn from his mistakes and this may make him a better business person and end up putting you b/ham lads out of work ??? ::)
Theres not much of this that makes sense to me Bob.
If he learns and becomes a better business person his rates will go up.
Art
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Basically he is cleaning the windows on a 5 bed as a one off unseen. He is a dork. There is no mitigation.
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i dont think its fair to mock
this guy may be new to this industry and thinks this is a good way of getting business,its better surely than undercutting people?
yes he will live and learn from his mistakes and this may make him a better business person and end up putting you b/ham lads out of work ??? ::)
If you are new to an industry do your research. Thats why this forum is a real help with any new ideas we might have
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Never in your wildest dreams...hang on...blimey, steak meal for 2 for £25. Lovely job! That's more like it.
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Never in your wildest dreams...hang on...blimey, steak meal for 2 for £25. Lovely job! That's more like it.
I had one of them offers recently; the steak was minging - poor quality and overcooked (just how poor quality steak should be). I'd have rather paid extra and had something tasty that that what we actually had.
Never again.
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the gutter clean price is about right, but he will regret adding in the window cleaning.
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This is the guys own personal website which displays his normal rates!
http://www.no1contractor.co.uk/Services.html
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the gutter clean price is about right, but he will regret adding in the window cleaning.
Really? A 5 bed hose?
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This is the guys own personal website which displays his normal rates!
http://www.no1contractor.co.uk/Services.html
Loads of spelling mistakes on website :o
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Didn't spot any myself mind!
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That is way to expensive ;D
only joking before i get ripped hahaha !
Gazzen ;D
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How many jobs is he going to have to do to pay for that advert!
Let him get on with it!
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But does have £100m of public liability insurance......
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The gutter price don't sound too bad should still
make a bit out of it dependant on travel times.
Throwing in the windows though for an extra £4????
Thing is when he's done the gutters the windows will
probably be blathered.
John
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An old fish and chip shop reopened in our town last year after a rebuild which took several years. It has new owners, a new name, a new building but at the same place.
The new owners decided that the best way to draw custom was to do a "buy 1 get 1 free" offer. There were queues out the door all day for a week the offer was on. The other chippies were quiet that week. Despite the fact that the wait and cooked product wasn't worth the discount, that fish shop is busy most days today. The offer has worked for them, even with a price increase since.
I would imagine that this w/cer reasoned that most who accepted his gutter and window clean didn't have a window cleaner and so was a potential customer. I'm sure that if this was so, most potential customers they cleaned wouldn't expect in their heart the next clean would also cost £4.00.
Yes, there would be some who would take advantage of this offer with no thought of a long term agreement, but then the window cleaners need to accept that as well.
However, it would appear that he is sneakily using his website as a discount gauge , which I think is a little underhanded. I wouldn't ask him to quote or do the job as I wouldn't trust him in other business aspects - but that's me. If I smell something slightly underhanded I walk away.
IMPO window cleaning is a business that you can get into a profit situation very quickly and we tend to view every business as we do ours. But some businesses take years before they turn a profit and some, like the motor trade, have to tread the fine line of reducing prices, especially on large fleet deals, to gain short term market gains to keep production lines busy and competitive.
Some may feel, even in our business, that they need to give these type of deals to attract new customers.
I don't agree with it, but that doesn't mean I must write off their marketing ideas without consideration.
Their are a couple of guys who clean the showhouse windows faithfully every week on the understanding that each house sold has the window cleaners brochure in it as a builder's recommended window cleaner. I wouldn't do it, but they have. They have been building houses slowly on that site for the last 3 years. The window cleaners used to clean the show house windows for nothing, but don't know if the deal has changed or not with the downturn of the house building market in our area.
The window cleaners get very aggitated and protective when anyone canvasses and homeowners seem to have the idea that these cleaners are part of the house deal that they have with the builders - if you use any other cleaners your house warranty becomes invalid. ;D
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the gutter clean price is about right, but he will regret adding in the window cleaning.
Really? A 5 bed hose?
my experience is that only 1 side of the house,or 2 sides if unlucky that at the most have a full gutter . the other sides are normally empty. i charge 10 quid per side and its easy money .
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On his website site did anyone look at the gallery and see the carpet before and after pics????
http://www.no1contractor.co.uk/contactus.html
Spot the diffrence!
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Their are a couple of guys who clean the showhouse windows faithfully every week on the understanding that each house sold has the window cleaners brochure in it as a builder's recommended window cleaner. I wouldn't do it, but they have. They have been building houses slowly on that site for the last 3 years. The window cleaners used to clean the show house windows for nothing, but don't know if the deal has changed or not with the downturn of the house building market in our area.
The window cleaners get very aggitated and protective when anyone canvasses and homeowners seem to have the idea that these cleaners are part of the house deal that they have with the builders - if you use any other cleaners your house warranty becomes invalid.
Spruce - not sure if its the same people but a two guys cleaning on my estate saw my van and started a conversation and thats what he does with bovis , seems to have nearly the whole estate and comes down from devon to clean them(im in southampton) . think his t shirt said "osmo" window cleaning.
seemed a nice chap but he said he was getting annoyed with people trying to undercut and was thinking of going commercial only. he took one of my leaflets and said he may be in touch as i said i might be interested in his round if he goes commercial, never heard back.
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is this cleaning the showhouse FOC a common thing ??
also you would be correct with the website price - when looking at groupon they want a printed/visual price to prove
what you charge so the 'claimed' 60% discount is 'real'
Darran
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im sure ive seen them conny roofs before, lol ;D
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What I found weird about his website was the "about me" page "family man, friend and god botherer" ?
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What I found weird about his website was the "about me" page "family man, friend and god botherer" ?
(http://What I found weird about his website was the "about me" page "family man, friend and god botherer" ?)
It all seems weird to me, I'm out.