Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Klean07 on January 02, 2014, 09:11:23 am
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https://www.livingsocial.com/united_kingdom/cities/63-birmingham-uk/deals/953263-window-clean-for-a-three-bedroom-house?utm_campaign=digest_dailynotpersonalized&utm_content=63&utm_medium=email&utm_source=blast
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Not seen prices that low since the fall of the Eastern Bloc. ;D
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Mark vaz?
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If the person is on here then why not come on and tell us how your getting on with it? By the looks of advert its someone from West Midlands!
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I've seen these window cleaners or window cleaning company's doing business on these site's like groupon
time & time again charging rediculously low price's they cant possibly sustain, they dont last long,
Regards
lal
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Can't remember how much of the 5 quid goes to Groupon, but good luck with that!! Imagine having to work for that, AND travel from W Midlands to S west to do a job!!! ;D ;D We had all this Groupon garbage last year, and there's still people who think it's a great way to earn. The only ones earning are Groupon.
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Groupon takes 50% you get 50% plus taken off so they will get £2
bargain.None of them will want there windiws cleaned again.All the windows will be minging.
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Cozy i think Groupon or similar site's take anywhere between 25% to 40% of the price seen on the advert
as their cut.
Regards
lal
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Perhaps the guy thinks he's going to get repeat business from this? Perhaps he's in dire straits. Perhaps he doesn't come on this forum so we can teach him our worldly-wise ways.
Perhaps he thinks he'll go and clean the house and canvass round it or get others come up to him.
At worst he'll learn it doesn't work or get troublesome customers.
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Richy is still worn out from all his gutter cleans he done before his holidays.
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Richy is still worn out from all his gutter cleans he done before his holidays.
Well he is getting 23 hours per day to rest (unless he is sewing mailbags or stamping number plates) so should be ok.
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Its just s4ite really. He claims to have been trading since 2004 but 10 years on is looking for custards on a "Groupon" like deal with 1970 prices. He must have learnt nothing in those years.
I like them though, there must be a market for people who want the job done for next to nothing. They are also the messers I've found.
Good luck to him though lol.
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http://www.marks-window-cleaning.co.uk/services/ (http://www.marks-window-cleaning.co.uk/services/)
That's his website.
Looks like a fairly professional outfit to be fair. And his normal prices are more than I charge. ???
Maybe we are missing something here and this a viable option of getting repeat custom at a higher price?
I doubt it though. Just don't understand how you could make a one off clean for £5 work unless you had 30 houses all in a row, which you aren't going to get on these deals. It's going to be one house here there and everywhere, would cost me more then £5 In fuel per customer.
Fair play to Him if it works though!
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The Ruskies,bulgarians,polish,Romania are coming!
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;D Can't see anyone wanting them running around their property. Not where I live anyway. Don't forget, UK needs more highly qualitied workers, so the Bulgarians and Rumanians are needed!!
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Perhaps he's in dire straits.
Perhaps he thinks it's Money for Nothing.
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I see you have continued where you left off last year Griff.........
COAT!!!
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I've reported Griff to the cops Hector. >:(
;D
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The cops, eh? Is this your Latest Trick?
And I thought we were Brothers in Arms >:(
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AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
reported to mod 25 times so far,,, but they still haven't removed the offending post..
:'( :'( :'( :'(
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I've got his address Hectoid, sending the boys around 8)
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;D ;D
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I'm going to do some Private Investigations into this.
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But I'll be So Far Away.
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all the houses he s picked up are on "telegraph road"! ;D
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No, they're On Every Street.
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That's it ........ I'm Calling Elvis
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Dave, You And Your Friend need to stop this now >:(
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You're right; that's e-Knopf...........ler............I'm cringing, I'm cringing :-[
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when i started in the business 6 months ago i was knocking on doors and happen to walk round some bushes into a drive and there was a windie there lol, felt quite awqward but the guy was top!
he gave me loads of advice and said the gloden rule was not to undercut which i'd never do anyway but he said a few words that made total sense, if we all start putting silly prices in we're gonna ruin it for ourselves and ive seen it in other trades like taxi driving.
years ago you used to be able to make a mint but with more drivers and companies driving the prices down it wasnt worth doing anymore for me!
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Good post.
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The guys website is impressive but doesn't say which town he's based just that he's based in West Midlands! This would concern me!
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The problem with taxi driving isn't just undercutting its too many drivers competing for
too little work.
More people going into it and less people using their services.
Maybe the same is happening in this window cleaners area, customers with less money to spend
and more choice.
I just wonder what any of us would do if we started to lose large amounts of work to undercutting.
Throw in the towel or drop prices to compete.
I'm not saying this is the reason but who knows.
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The Ruskies,bulgarians,polish,Romania are coming!
But mainly the polish...eh mucky? ;D
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The guys website is impressive but doesn't say which town he's based just that he's based in West Midlands! This would concern me!
This guy is based in penkridge and he is a complete tool.
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The guys website is impressive but doesn't say which town he's based just that he's based in West Midlands! This would concern me!
This guy is based in penkridge and he is a complete tool.
Dean,is this who I thought it was?
Mark Vaz/Griffiths???
got you a parking ticket didn't he
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Well he's sold 151 so far with 9 days left! Looking good though depends how far theyre spaced out! ;D
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Well he's sold 151 so far with 9 days left! Looking good though depends how far theyre spaced out! ;D
he went on wowcher with another business name got slated by everyone he let down.He has many company names and many surnames.
I nearly done a stack of commercials for him a couple of years ago.
I was fortunate.shame others wasn't.
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This may not be a bad thing actually. Prices in Birmingham are not the highest by any stretch of the imagination. There's a lot of poverty stricken areas as well as the rich. Plus there's a lot of competition. This may be a loss leader in order to get repeat custom. Groupon, KGB and others can be good business if they are thought out carefully. I don't know who he is, but if this guy has done his math, it may work out handsomely for him.
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Same old tricks - I've seen this before - remember the website.
From what I remember he couldn't complete all the work !
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Oh dear not good.