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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Scrimble on March 11, 2010, 07:34:53 pm

Title: tight wads
Post by: Scrimble on March 11, 2010, 07:34:53 pm

been doing a lot of posting flyers this week and had a fair few people asking for quotes

its pretty obvious the more money some people have the less they wanna pay to have clean windows,

think im gonna not aim for the big houses with flashy cars on the drives anymore

Title: Re: tight wads
Post by: matt on March 11, 2010, 07:38:50 pm

Quote from: ST1Allstar on March 11, 2010, 07:34:53 pm

been doing a lot of posting flyers this week and had a fair few people asking for quotes

its pretty obvious the more money some people have the less they wanna pay to have clean windows,

think im gonna not aim for the big houses with flashy cars on the drives anymore

i find someof my better days are days when i do 3 bed semi's in a run

Title: Re: tight wads
Post by: daz1977 on March 11, 2010, 07:59:00 pm

i do a lot of council houses and to be honest i would say 80% pay on the day the crap payers i have dumped, and are slowly replacing them

Title: Re: tight wads
Post by: jonnyald on March 11, 2010, 08:00:20 pm

Quote from: ST1Allstar on March 11, 2010, 07:34:53 pm

think im gonna not aim for the big houses with flashy cars on the drives anymore

 you are spot on there - ive one house has a new silver merc and the koi ponds and laundry maid etc but im treated like a serf when i arrive " what do YOU want?" /as if im a beggarboy  selling pegs . but they never remember how much is my price so ive put it up by a quid each time  as a payback.   at the rear of the house i came across dozens of wasps feeding out of the dogs food bowl,so i covered the bowl with a baking tray . maybe when they lifted the tray off they got a nasty suprise

Title: Re: tight wads
Post by: davids3511 on March 11, 2010, 08:58:35 pm

I had a premiership footballer go 2 monthly as he didn't want to pay the monthly price. Couldn't believe it when I found out who he was.

Title: Re: tight wads
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on March 11, 2010, 09:09:15 pm

The ones with lots of money are usually the tight ones with their cash.

Good to hear your getting the quotes in though Mark.

Try more on the areas you already work, the more you can get in the streets you already work the better.

Title: Re: tight wads
Post by: Smudger on March 11, 2010, 10:13:22 pm

I think this works 2 ways,   people in big/flashy houses are wary that people are out to rip them off   so automatically start to try and drive the price down believing it is already overpriced.

also - big house, flash motor = big mortgage, high CC bills,huge council tax etc... 

but prob have less ready's in their hands than the average w/c... :o


Darran

Title: Re: tight wads
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on March 11, 2010, 10:34:32 pm

too true

Title: Re: tight wads
Post by: dazmond on March 11, 2010, 10:45:38 pm

lost 2 small houses this week as i was gonna put the prices up 50p to a fiver!! ::) ::)

thats my bare minimum a fiver for a small house/bungalow

Title: Re: tight wads
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on March 11, 2010, 10:49:21 pm

theyll come back they always do m8 jus bite yr
lip n take their cash

Title: Re: tight wads
Post by: paul rulton on March 12, 2010, 08:23:12 am

Quote from: dazmond on March 11, 2010, 10:45:38 pm

lost 2 small houses this week as i was gonna put the prices up 50p to a fiver!! ::) ::)

thats my bare minimum a fiver for a small house/bungalow

£5 :o OMG :o where do u live m8? my min is £10, but i will go 2 £9 if its small house :)

Title: Re: tight wads
Post by: Martin ccs on March 12, 2010, 02:36:56 pm

Quote from: davids3511 on March 11, 2010, 08:58:35 pm

I had a premiership footballer go 2 monthly as he didn't want to pay the monthly price. Couldn't believe it when I found out who he was.

does he play for portsmouth then?  :D