[mikecam]

Doesn't look like a good deal to me at all. It equates roughly to £500 per week of income, deduct from that expenses and labour to clean it. Its a long time before you realise your investment in terms of recouping outlay, labour costs and expenses. I'm guessing as the takings earlier where mis quoted so where the hours to do the work and the frequencies?

[poleman]

cant make my mind up 

The chap has canvassed for other window cleaners in the past (local) and he built up his own round a year ago!

its no flat roofs! (100% WFP) no ring first! £30 a hour...5 hours a day (one man)

Area im in there is a lot off window cleaners so would take a year or two to get that amount!

 

 

[AuRavelling79]

Step back poleman!

Why does he need an answer tomorrow - no queue is there?

If I finally decide to go ahead it would be on an introduction to all the custies, a deposit and full payment after the first clean.

So let's say you are to pay £5000 in all.

I would say show me the paperwork for these commercials - photocopies of purchase orders (with prices blanked out if necessary) etc. How long has he been doing them? How long do they take to pay - does he invoice them or head office, contact names for accounts. Get a feel that it is right.

Get introduced to a random three of your choice from the list - if it's commercial do they agree to pay you, not him?. Or are they small "pay on the spot" jobs?

If it feels right then pay a grand deposit and the balance after you have completed the first cleans and payments have come in. Knock off any non-payers.

If I were selling I would want to reassure you I was genuine by agreeing to the above but I might want say a stage payment part way through so be prepared to negotiate a bit.

[deeege]

^ solid post gold. Pretty much what I wanted to say but worded a lot better.

[poleman]

DONE DEAL going to part with my life savings!

I will be picking ten jobs from his round for personal indroduction and then paying a deposit, letters from him and me put out to the customers and then working the work and paying him £2500 every 2 weeks (total £10'000)

Still cant believe I'm paying x 5 what its worth a month but I guess that's why work goes for this amount because if you employed a canvasser your pay x 2 or 2 and half the job!

He has agreed to pay back any cancellations under three cleans ( x 2.5 per job)

nervous! worried! but excited!