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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: peter holley on May 30, 2008, 08:10:31 pm

Title: lets barter
Post by: peter holley on May 30, 2008, 08:10:31 pm: ok... today i had to take my rabbit to have an absyss removed..... the vet who is one of my domestic customers did the operation.....when i called in to the vet surgery to pick my rabbit up, the vet called me aside to explain the details of recovery and anti biotics etc .
he then said can we barter over payment :o :o....astonished i asked "what do you mean"?
he then asked if i would clean the surgeries windows a few times (6 times) we agreed in return for the rabits treatment ;D

a real nice deal as im going away to greece for a fortnight on sunday and moving house when i get back ::) so the last thing i needed today was a hefty vets bill ;D
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: DaveG on May 30, 2008, 08:16:11 pm: Blimey! :o is the rabbit worth that much??????? ;D
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: MNWC on May 30, 2008, 08:16:24 pm: I Clean the local sweet shop. Every weekend we go in there for sweets/ice cream she always knocks a couple of quid off

Marcus...
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: peter holley on May 30, 2008, 08:20:50 pm: Quote from: dave1805 on May 30, 2008, 08:16:11 pm
Blimey! :o is the rabbit worth that much??????? ;D

well ...yes ,to see my kids happy, ???
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: Neil Williams on May 30, 2008, 08:21:48 pm: Wish my vet had said the same on Wednesday when I paid over £200 for having the dog's teeth cleaned.
But somehow I doubt he would have gone with 3 cleans at £70 each (when you be lucky to get £20 on a contract basis ;D )
Come to think about it, it would probably have been cheaper to take him to a private human dentist. >:(
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: DaveG on May 30, 2008, 08:24:14 pm: Quote from: p holley on May 30, 2008, 08:20:50 pm
Quote from: dave1805 on May 30, 2008, 08:16:11 pm
Blimey! :o is the rabbit worth that much??????? ;D

well ...yes ,to see my kids happy, ???

fair comment!!!
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: windowwashers on May 30, 2008, 10:54:08 pm: Quote from: p holley on May 30, 2008, 08:20:50 pm
Quote from: dave1805 on May 30, 2008, 08:16:11 pm
Blimey! :o is the rabbit worth that much??????? ;D

well ...yes ,to see my kids happy, ???
100% agree
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: mark dew on May 30, 2008, 11:34:30 pm: Quote from: p holley on May 30, 2008, 08:10:31 pm
a real nice deal as im going away to greece for a fortnight on sunday and moving house when i get back ::)

Does this mean that you're gonna knock him? :o
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: peter holley on May 31, 2008, 02:42:07 am: no :o :o :o....i,m not moving away , just moving house, i will keep the job after bill has been settled....... they have a wc already , but hes a beer money boy and not regular, and cant reach half the windows, and so this is why theyv asked me.

i also clean the house of one of the other partners in the practice, and have done for 12 years
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: mr D on May 31, 2008, 03:05:05 am: i clean my barbers for free hair cuts. and when i started up i got a jetwash in exchange for 12 cleans worked out £120, bargen i thought. i like jobs like that
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: windowwashers on May 31, 2008, 03:57:34 am: Quote from: mr D on May 31, 2008, 03:05:05 am
i clean my barbers for free hair cuts. and when i started up i got a jetwash in exchange for 12 cleans worked out £120, bargen i thought. i like jobs like that
£120 for a jet wash :o
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: simon knight on May 31, 2008, 06:10:42 am: I do the local sleeperhouse windows...used to do them monthly, then when the bartering system came in decided daily was better :o ;D
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Post by: frames to panes on May 31, 2008, 07:19:52 am: Surely pub windows have to be worth a good rate of exchange?
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: simon knight on May 31, 2008, 08:35:36 am: Quote from: simon knight on May 31, 2008, 06:10:42 am

I do the local sleeperhouse windows...used to do them monthly, then when the bartering system came in decided daily was better :o ;D

A "sleeperhouse"? ::) I don't think people sleep in them.

Quote from: DJW on May 31, 2008, 07:19:52 am
Surely pub windows have to be worth a good rate of exchange?

Yep, but always the last job of the day. ;D
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: Captain Scarlet on May 31, 2008, 10:34:40 pm: I clean my own dental surgery!!!! When I get my payment the Dentist ask hows my crown etc etc. Was thinking of putting all the payment sinto a Dental plan, Luke
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: Paul Coleman on June 01, 2008, 10:53:35 am: I think the oddest one I did was on a very hot Summer's day one year. I cleaned the windows on an ice cream van and he gave me an ice cream :) .
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: RPCCS on June 01, 2008, 02:52:52 pm: A few years ago, all the council properties on one of my rounds were being refurbished, so they moved all the tenants out into static caravans at a local farm, some of my custies asked me to do the caravan windows as they would be there for 3 months. I got more money for the caravan windows than the house windows ;D ;D
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Post by: M & C Window Cleaning on June 01, 2008, 03:43:31 pm: A customer I once had worked in a printshop. He printed me off 2500 'WINDOWS CLEANED' cards for a couple of free cleans. They lasted me for years as they had 'PLEASE RETURN CARD WITH PAYMENT' written on them as well.
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: scud on June 01, 2008, 04:51:24 pm: I clean a local dog groomers windows in return for the dogs having a haircut twice a year - I come out of that one a winner.
Title: Re: lets barter
Post by: steve.ternent on June 01, 2008, 05:34:44 pm: Quote from: p holley on May 30, 2008, 08:20:50 pm
Quote from: dave1805 on May 30, 2008, 08:16:11 pm
Blimey! :o is the rabbit worth that much??????? ;D

well ...yes ,to see my kids happy, ???

8) Good comment, remember they will choose your retirement home :o :o :o

I clean My Window monthly... in exchange...I don't get nagged! 8)