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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: nathankaye on April 18, 2016, 11:58:16 am
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Should I hit send and send to ukwindowcleaning, the national company offering the free cleans and see what response I would get
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I'm 99% certain you won't get any response.
Your wasting your time bud, I would forgot about them and concentrate on your own business.
Are they really having that much of an impact on you?
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Oh dear, I was just in process of going to type No to the above response and ad I was in motion of doing so, I just had a call from a customer cancelling as found another cleaner. Asked if it was these and obviously it was. Now I thought her house was cheaply priced at 9 full house. Not fussed as they can't be making any money on, but is their tactic to drive everyone away and then bang price up! Now gusty been happy with service so it's just to save maybe a couple of quid, so can do without curries like that. However I personally begrudge under hand tactics and so sending email and let u know response. And how I will play this out..
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For a start its neither liable or slander its advertising, if you think an advert is misleading or wrong then you have to take it up
with trading standards and good look with that one.
Put it this way I have yet to see a window cleaning website that doesn't claim something that's false or cant be proven either
way.
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It would be libel anyway not liable.
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Can you take a look at my website Seank ;)
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After working several yrs with British Telecom and closely with Ofcom, advertising does not give right to improper business behaviour. So as in this case a wrongful comparison being made and no small print which is required to clarify the above forementioned statement in question is given.
Yes it can go to trading standards and dependant upon the response which this company gives would dictate which path to take. Small people normally roll over and take it up the ......... because they can't be bothered to stand up forthemselves and feel it's a waste of time. It perhaps is and no I'm not loosing sleep nor plenty of customers over this to worry about it. But if it's the person whom I think it is, then their response would/could be discriminating against them and so on.
Slander as indirectly stating other window cleaners do not clean corners or clean to a satisfactory standards in comparison. Therefore calling into question the reputation of other window cleaners in the area which is being targeted.
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Besides, I'm bored on my lunch break n wondered what you chaps thought.
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Or should I say, having one of those days n a rant every once a blue moon helps.
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Besides, I'm bored on my lunch break n wondered what you chaps thought.
I think you have too much time on your hands! ;D
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It's the ASA, not trading standards.
https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2014/5/Clean-Solar-Solutions-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_262110.aspx#.VxTnrfkrKUk
Wasn't me that complained btw.
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I say send it ;D
Could be the new vision trend.
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After working several yrs with British Telecom and closely with Ofcom, advertising does not give right to improper business behaviour. So as in this case a wrongful comparison being made and no small print which is required to clarify the above forementioned statement in question is given.
Yes it can go to trading standards and dependant upon the response which this company gives would dictate which path to take. Small people normally roll over and take it up the ......... because they can't be bothered to stand up forthemselves and feel it's a waste of time. It perhaps is and no I'm not loosing sleep nor plenty of customers over this to worry about it. But if it's the person whom I think it is, then their response would/could be discriminating against them and so on.
Slander as indirectly stating other window cleaners do not clean corners or clean to a satisfactory standards in comparison. Therefore calling into question the reputation of other window cleaners in the area which is being targeted.
It's lee pryors
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It would be libel anyway not liable.
Imagine the laugh the recipient will get though!! ;D
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Be worth sending this page to the ASA as it has to be b@lix
SATISFACTION
SURVEY RESULTS
We asked an independent survey organisation to conduct a customer satisfaction poll on us and similar organisations/services. The results are outstanding as you can see from the bar chart to the left.
COMPARISON
Ukwindowclean
100%
Other window cleaners
42%
General tradesmen
67%
Household cleaners
74
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Be worth sending this page to the ASA as it has to be b@lix
SATISFACTION
SURVEY RESULTS
We asked an independent survey organisation to conduct a customer satisfaction poll on us and similar organisations/services. The results are outstanding as you can see from the bar chart to the left.
COMPARISON
Ukwindowclean
100%
Other window cleaners
42%
General tradesmen
67%
Household cleaners
74
I clean my mums windows for her and she would give me 100% too. If customers are going to jump ship for this tripe let them.
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It's lee pryors
Lee's based near Gatwick. Unlikely he'd be covering Doncaster.
Vin
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After working several yrs with British Telecom and closely with Ofcom, advertising does not give right to improper business behaviour. So as in this case a wrongful comparison being made and no small print which is required to clarify the above forementioned statement in question is given.
Yes it can go to trading standards and dependant upon the response which this company gives would dictate which path to take. Small people normally roll over and take it up the ......... because they can't be bothered to stand up forthemselves and feel it's a waste of time. It perhaps is and no I'm not loosing sleep nor plenty of customers over this to worry about it. But if it's the person whom I think it is, then their response would/could be discriminating against them and so on.
Slander as indirectly stating other window cleaners do not clean corners or clean to a satisfactory standards in comparison. Therefore calling into question the reputation of other window cleaners in the area which is being targeted.
It's lee pryors
It can't be him, he's sunning himself in Dubai if you read his posts, silly.
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It's lee pryors
Lee's based near Gatwick. Unlikely he'd be covering Doncaster.
Vin
Oh.... That's a good point
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Should I hit send and send to ukwindowcleaning, the national company offering the free cleans and see what response I would get
Unless I am missing the point here, it's not the free cleans that is the issue here, but the part that says that
all traditional cleaners don't get into every nook and cranny. Do you know that to be a fact, or is it an assumption?
I know some trad cleaners (besides myself) who take extreme pride in the quality of their work, and take great pains to maintain an excellent reputation with their customers.
If this sort of advert was posted locally to me, would it bother me? Not in the slightest, as my reputation is very solidly based on quality, so I would just laugh at it! There may be others who might take it further though!
John
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id just put P..S OFF, then id send it ;D
London / Doncaster no where near
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First of all, slander is spoken, libel (not liable) is written.
Just put "probably" between cleaner and doesn't job done.
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Don't send it.
Although its too late not to make a prat of yourself, as you have on here now and doubtless the intended recipient has read it anyway; so yea send it, least then we can see what sort of response it generates.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt
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He says he spends more time cleaning than the average window cleaner, so what is an average window cleaner ?
the secrete to selling nonsense is to say you/it does something without actually saying you/it does something.
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First of all, slander is spoken, libel (not liable) is written.
Just put "probably" between cleaner and doesn't job done.
Yes indeed.
You can't slander in writing - that would be libel.
Additionally slur refers to spoken not written.
If you judge the intelligence of your enemy by their grasp of the situation I somehow don't think you have anything to fear.
There might be a moral issue though.
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Don't send it.
Although its too late not to make a prat of yourself, as you have on here now and doubtless the intended recipient has read it anyway; so yea send it, least then we can see what sort of response it generates.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt
Sadly when using a modest size smart phone, i should be mindful to proof read before i hit the send button. But im sure you never get caught out by predictive txting on your phone at all. So hat off to you sir.
In addition, the flip side can be seen, where the company in question could be liable for claims against it by respective businesses in the trade. Obviously this never happens in the world of business, protecting its own interest against any
rival company. Or is it just the corporate giants which do,,,,not the little man trying to grow his business!
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Oh dear, I was just in process of going to type No to the above response and ad I was in motion of doing so, I just had a call from a customer cancelling as found another cleaner. Asked if it was these and obviously it was. Now I thought her house was cheaply priced at 9 full house. Not fussed as they can't be making any money on, but is their tactic to drive everyone away and then bang price up! Now gusty been happy with service so it's just to save maybe a couple of quid, so can do without curries like that. However I personally begrudge under hand tactics and so sending email and let u know response. And how I will play this out..
i wouldnt bother.your coming across as a half wit mate(sorry!)with liable/libel etc,etc.and its obvious its annoying you.
let it go........just carry on working and offering the best service you can for a fair price.maybe do a bit of canvassing/leafleting of your own if you want/need more work.
competition is fierce and is everywhere but customers dont jump ship for a stranger unless their unhappy with your current service/price.
i lost one about a year ago.new guy is charging £7(i was charging £10).he has to climb on 2 roofs to clean a few of the windows as he s trad!id had the customer on my books for over 10 years but i always got the feeling she didnt like the price i was charging.he has 2 houses and i have 90+ on this estate. ;D
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Don't send it.
Although its too late not to make a prat of yourself, as you have on here now and doubtless the intended recipient has read it anyway; so yea send it, least then we can see what sort of response it generates.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt
Sadly when using a modest size smart phone, i should be mindful to proof read before i hit the send button. But im sure you never get caught out by predictive txting on your phone at all. So hat off to you sir.
What makes you think my point has anything to do with predictive text?