Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Gordonnis on April 23, 2013, 02:27:58 pm
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check the prices ,this weeks special a pub or full house £50
www.carpettech.moonfruit.com
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2 carpets and a suite £40 ;D
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I guess his overheads are low then ;D ;D
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Some body please go and kidknapp him and bring him along to the tacca day, 5 mins in a room with Dave L will cure him. :D
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Yet another illegal website. No business address listed anywhere.
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At those prices they will end up totally demoralised and jack it in within a few months, so I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
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One in my local paper last night .
3pc leather suites We clean it, We restore it and Feed it £40.
::)roll
Geoff
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I have 2 companys in my area that are offering any 3 carpets cleaned for £35!!!
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The cheapo guys seem to be getting cheaper nowadays don't they ;D
Be doing it for free soon :D
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I don't believe it either!!!! There a bit expensive! I mean its only a bit of cleaning!
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check the prices ,this weeks special a pub or full house £50
www.carpettech.moonfruit.com
Lives a few mile down the road from me, absolutely bonkers.
Those have been "special" prices for months, you should have seen his Feb "special offer" :o :o
Probably some more second hand equipment available on ebay soon (and it wont be mine ;D )
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Unless, of course, it's a cunning way of
getting in the door.
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Not just that, the driveway cleaning is £45. Just a mobile number, do people actually trust these people. Saying that though I got asked if I could beat £60 for a five bed, HSL, living room, diner today. Goodbye!
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Chap down here is doing £8.99 per room with his karhcer and lives over 1hrs drive away......just doesn't make sense to me
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It doesn't make sense which is why they go tits up after a couple of months. No business sense at all.
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I'm just waiting to hear that somebody has seen a cleaner offering..
..."we'll pay you to let us come and clean your carpets" :o
Reminds me of the Four Yorkshire Men sketch from Monty Python. ;D ;D
Rog
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It's true though ;D
Shaun
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£12.50 per hour, disgusting what people charge!:
"Public House Special Offer Full Pub £75 max 6 hours
For the larger job we supply one operative exclusively for your premises for 8 hours £100 (please note a great deal of carpets can be cleaned in this time)"
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Hi Guys
As John says they have no concept of the cost of obtaining and running the business, probably come from a maid cleaning service and are just supplying labour.
Cleaning quality will be minimal.
Cheers
doug
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lets look at some maths here..
Charge £75 for 6 hours
Pay east European worker £40.00 per day
chemical costs £2.50
2 jobs a day
income £150
out goings £45.00
profit for day £105
5 workers
£525 profit per week. EACH
Might change workers every now and then, but there are plenty who will do the work for £200 per week cash in hand.
Nope..... don't see the owner going out of business just yet... ;D ;D ;D
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I saw a carpet cleaning website that is charging £35 to clean a lounge, and they will return to clean it again at no charge for the life of the carpet :o your client base will become a millstone around your neck.
clean your carpet for as long as you own the carpet with no extra cost. as many times as you like and you will never have to pay us again ???
Beat that 8)
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I would like to see someone get more than 1 extra clean....
The company will "go bust" or "cease to trade"
then will miraculously have another carpet cleaning company on the same phone number with the same owner, but be NOTHING to do with the old company and the offer is not available.. ;D ;D
In the meantime, they have cleaned lots of carpets for £35 and hidden the money somewhere the taxman can't find it.. :o :o
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I saw a carpet cleaning website that is charging £35 to clean a lounge, and they will return to clean it again at no charge for the life of the carpet :o your client base will become a millstone around your neck.
clean your carpet for as long as you own the carpet with no extra cost. as many times as you like and you will never have to pay us again ???
Beat that 8)
i think they use a sulphuric acid rinse, hence no carpet to come back to. ;D
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;D ;D
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Cleaned a T/L & HSL last week, they paid £220 last time they had it cleaned, they would have called them again as they were very happy with the service and thought £220 was a reasonable price. They only called me as I was cleaning her sisters when she called in for a coffee so she booked me.
I bet we've all had this happen ......but we never start topics about it.
We need to stop spewing out negativity about cheap companies,
its poison to our entrepreneurial spirit
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At the moment, i'll admit i'm having serious issues with pricing, my moral head says charge what you would pay for this service, my business head says you deserve far more than that, your in business to make money etc..., and my erm erm "the phones a bit quiet" head says oooooooo! you better start competing with the cheap boys. hopefully a good chat with a few clever people this weekend will point me in the right direction.
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Pay east European worker £40.00 per day
Hector I do not think so that this is a real situation in UK, the very common situation.
If this is real then I have no more questions.
Try to find eg polish guy that will work for this money in Ireland, no way, the social welfare is 188E a week + many extras if have family.
Must be bad in UK in what I do not realy belive.
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Radek..
I could get you 100's of East European guys who would work for what I said.
They would probably still be signing on as well... This would not be the problem of the business owner, as they would not be on the books anyway.. ;D ;D
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Radek..
I could get you 100's of East European guys who would work for what I said.
They would probably still be signing on as well... This would not be the problem of the business owner, as they would not be on the books anyway.. ;D ;D
as i said:
If this is real then I have no more questions.
thats is just bad
if your competitor doing this, I do not see any reasons why not to inform some authorities, as I blame the bussiness owner not the guys trying to make a penny.
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just been to quote an elderly lady 3 seater and chair and small lounge carpet after ooh too dear I knocked £20 off then I said actually i'l charge for the suite and do carpet for free so £85 she was happy I got her a appointment card in the meantime her niece had phoned and I could hear the lady saying well I'l just leave it so I went on phone to niece and she said i'm concerned blah blah will do it for £58 always reliable I said well why call me anyway elderly lady happy and I got job but the niece has made me feel like i'm ripping her off even though my price is more than fair :(
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At the moment, i'll admit i'm having serious issues with pricing, my moral head says charge what you would pay for this service, my business head says you deserve far more than that, your in business to make money etc..., and my erm erm "the phones a bit quiet" head says oooooooo! you better start competing with the cheap boys. hopefully a good chat with a few clever people this weekend will point me in the right direction.
Snap!! im in the same place, another reason im looking forward to the week end.
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Everyones a little bit quiet at the moment, even the cheap ones. Weather is not helping. Lowering your prices to compete with the lower end of the market is suicide. Far better to offer a more diverse range of services.
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Radek..
I could get you 100's of East European guys who would work for what I said.
They would probably still be signing on as well... This would not be the problem of the business owner, as they would not be on the books anyway.. ;D ;D
Eastern Europeans, Polish etc. are catching on. They are not as cheap as they used to be in all industries.
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Wait till January...
Bulgarians will be flooding in and working for pennies ;D ;D
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lets look at some maths here..
Charge £75 for 6 hours
Pay east European worker £40.00 per day
chemical costs £2.50
2 jobs a day
income £150
out goings £45.00
profit for day £105
5 workers
£525 profit per week. EACH
Might change workers every now and then, but there are plenty who will do the work for £200 per week cash in hand.
Nope..... don't see the owner going out of business just yet... ;D ;D ;D
No Hector they havent the brains to do this. They just have no concept of running a business. I'had them in my place time and time again. I try and educate them and the penny does drop for some of them. Most of them ring me a few months later asking if I buy second hand machines. :'(
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This may sound daft but....
There's more competition at bargain basement which drives the price down even further. There's a sweet spot were you can get good money from a reasonable number of custies and there's less competition for there business.
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If you have a daily amount in mind and you can find that 'sweet spot' you don't need to find as many jobs albeit a bit harder to sell.
Shaun
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Exactly and I think it was John on here a while back who had a statistic something like put your prices up 10% and you can afford to lose 30% of your clients or there abouts.