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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: markpowell on August 09, 2008, 09:07:23 am

Title: Here we go again!!!
Post by: markpowell on August 09, 2008, 09:07:23 am
Got new B.T book through, this ad will have cost £1500 how many 3 bed house cleans will he have to do before he starts making any money? ;D ;D
Mark
Title: Re: Here we go again!!!
Post by: David_Annable on August 09, 2008, 09:26:06 am
Hi

Yes we have similar ads in our BT phone book, personally i wouldn't bother advertising with them.

Dave
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Post by: John Kelly on August 09, 2008, 10:10:00 am
Why has that other guy got NHS on his ad. Dodgy or what.
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Post by: John Milnes on August 09, 2008, 10:57:01 am
He would have to clean 21 houses....probably just a couple of days work for him  ;D
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Post by: from edge2edge on August 09, 2008, 11:16:12 am
I suppose its always horses for courses but at those prices i would be so knackered earning poor money i would need to be put down after a week.I always find that if someone only calls you because you will clean everything for next to nothing then they usually expect all the abuse of decades to come out of their suites and carpets hence some trully hard graft on my part.So you work 3 times as hard for a third of the money.Jeeeeps that aint fun in my book.Regards Alan(swindon)
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Post by: Jim_77 on August 09, 2008, 12:52:25 pm
"Distance no object" eh?

I'll book him to come and do my house in Kettering and "forget" to be home :D

5 hour round trip, should keep him off the streets of Wakefield for a day ;)
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Post by: clinton on August 09, 2008, 01:41:35 pm
 ;D Looks a cheap add as well ;D

Bet the jobs he does get will be the ones we turn away.

Just cound not imagine the hard work he will have to do ???

Glad i never went in the bt book as this year we have 10 cleaners all next to each other :)

Just booked him to do your house jim ketering here he comes :D
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Post by: Jim_77 on August 09, 2008, 01:57:02 pm
I'll not get the kettle on :)
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Post by: clinton on August 09, 2008, 02:08:50 pm
Too late jim hes on his way :)

Also a special discount for the first 2 jobs ;D ;D

Vax machine here he comes ;D
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Post by: Jim_77 on August 09, 2008, 02:51:39 pm
Oh that's a relief, it'll be a better clean than it normally gets then :D
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Post by: carlton care on August 09, 2008, 04:08:03 pm
Very similar advert and pricing to ours TWENTY YEARS AGO !!!

For NHS read NMS................Deliberate mistake ?
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Post by: clinton on August 09, 2008, 04:15:49 pm
Just wondering if anyone would phone an advert like that?

Mean if we wernt in the cleaning game of lets say another service?

 just told my g friend it was my new flyer and she said to me oh no what have you done ;D

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Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on August 09, 2008, 04:52:48 pm
people will ring it and not like what they hear on the other side of the phone as he most likely will not give 2 hoots about what he is talking about so then they'll move on to someone who does care BUT they'll expect to pay the same price.

Shaun
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Post by: clinton on August 09, 2008, 08:33:35 pm
I agree there shaun then there stunned whe we say the average price we charge.Followed by a large thud :D
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Post by: carlton care on August 09, 2008, 08:45:37 pm
I've come across a few charging these prices recently. One even has a picture of smilng operator beside his T/M
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Post by: Gary Webber on August 09, 2008, 09:13:44 pm
I always find these ads a blessing! It will filter out all the people who want a cheap job from phoning you, then saying ill have to speak to my husband (IM NOT PAYING THATTO CLEAN  MY £40 CARPET FROM CARPETRIGHT)

Gary
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Post by: Neil Williams on August 09, 2008, 10:35:41 pm
Who is it exactly who produces this add?
All over the country vertually the same add goes out but the only thing that changes is the address and phone number.
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Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on August 09, 2008, 10:44:11 pm
I think that teh cleaner (broadest sense of the word) sees an ad that appeals to them and copies it and it goes around like that, or the copy people do it like that.

Shaun
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Post by: Ian Gourlay on August 10, 2008, 07:13:45 am
BT are trying to redsign mine plus put preasure on to close although book is not out to FEB

I think they have tem plates they use .

Im not happy if they are going back to allowing price adverts as you will always get a cocky individual who decides try and cush  the competion

 
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Post by: Peter Blackburn on August 12, 2008, 07:49:59 pm
I actually went red reading them ads, how embarrassing, not just for them idiots but us lot on a whole. :-[ :-[
Tony's Complete Clean, and a pic of a old lady with a vac. 
Unique Cleaning Service,,, NO S***, there one of a kind with them prices!

Pete
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Post by: John Milnes on August 12, 2008, 10:52:33 pm
Reminds me of a few weeks ago.

Woman calls me to clean 5 beds, landing & stairs. Can u do it this Sunday?. Didn't ask for a quote.

I says, don't usually work weekends, but ok then.

Arrives at job, peops moving out that day. 2 Mercedes v8 Commpressors in drive.

Measures and quotes £182....she's gobsmacked!  :o and says the last time I had a full house of carpets cleaned it was just £65....thats very expensive!

I thaught walk or reduce price as only a few hours job.

I said, seeing how rooms are clear, will do it for £160...all ok after consulting her hubby ;D

She had a good deal, but had small expectations about price.

John
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Post by: clinton on August 13, 2008, 10:49:17 am
Thats the problem when clients see an add like that and it stays in there mind and like me sometimes i dont quote and just turn up and when i say the price there shocked,leaving me to try and sell my services on quality and a nice job done. :)
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Post by: Ian Gourlay on August 13, 2008, 11:10:45 am
The theory goes

Filter out the price shoppers we are not interested in them

But how many of us have an abundance of leads  to do this?