[craignozza]

Went to a job the other day was knocking the door for ages no answer so i rung up the lady and asked what was going on she said i had already rescheduled with your wife two days ago ... thats married life for you ..( no communication ) 

[Neil Williams]

Cheers Neil, what you say to him?

You been messing our carpet cleaning mate around? Not very clever.

[Steve. Taylor]

Phoned him and told him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74ABm5_jhws

oops my mistake i thought they said wands

[creighton foyle]

do'nt think he is accepting calls from strange mobile numbers, tried twice and he.s letting it go to answerphone.

[Phillip Mold]

"my names jeffy and i like apples"

you didn't did you phil?

I couldn't possibly comment.

He texted me back to say he is enjoying being so popular and not to try tracing him as his sim is not registered

[JandS]

Cheers all.
Thin k I know the street he lives.
Gave me a valid address but the
postcode didn't match the address.
It was for a street on a rough estate
about half a mile away.

John

[JandS]

Think he may have used his postcode.

[Russ Chadd]

Now i am using "Payatrader" to accept credit and debit cards i am going to start charging a small booking fee which is payable on the day of booking, if the customer is serious then they wont quibble about paying £25.00,  the booking fee is deducted from the final balance on completion of the job.
 

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Don't cal it a booking fee people will get the wrong idea, call it a deposit sounds better the amount of times people have id to me that would I like a deposit when booking them in.

Shaun

[Neil Williams]

Now i am using "Payatrader" to accept credit and debit cards i am going to start charging a small booking fee which is payable on the day of booking, if the customer is serious then they wont quibble about paying £25.00,  the booking fee is deducted from the final balance on completion of the job.
 

After this morning, any booking over £100 and 2 weeks in advance are having a 25% deposit slapped on them at time of booking.
Got there at 9 am to hear the STUPID excuse of it's raining and they would take too long to dry in this weather and I did leave a message at 7 am (not exactly the first thing I do when getting up, check to see if I have any messages on my mobile to cancell  ) What did she think I was going to do.....take them outside to clean?
No doubt if the rain hadn't been an excuse then it would have been something else, and that's £150 I won't be earning today.
I wonder how chuffed they would be if they turned up to their place of work to be told "You're not wanted today and you won't be getting paid either."

[JandS]

Turned up at a job yesterday in Knaresborough 42
miles and 45 minutes journey away and the painters
nowhere near finished.
It turns out I've booked it in on wrong Thursday should
be next week so that was a day off for me.
Know the bloke well, he owns 2 old mills he's converted
to apartments and every time a tenant moves out he
gets me in to clean carpets. The place is spotless when
I arrive as he's also got a good cleaner who also vacs
before I arrive.
Do around 4 a month so can't complain.

John

[garry22]

I did a quote a few days ago in a courtyard where outbuildings had been converted into "cottages".

Parking was really tight and as I (gently) reversed out I caught a "box window" that stuck out about three feet from the wall and was about three feet off the ground.

I've put a small dent in my 4x4. The trouble is it is a very large panel that covers the back third on each side plus the roof (only a small dent but a major respray job that will cost a LOT of money).

The lady has now cancelled twice and has failed to re book!

[Robert Watson]

I feel your pain Garry.

[garry22]

Thanks Rab,

I guess it is all relative and each of us think we have problems. After Billy's post it is nothing more than a minor irritant.

I was out with a wealthy friend last night. He was moaning that his space trip with Virgin / NASA has been put back to 2014. He's paid $200,000 upfront for the ticket but apparently it's heavily oversubscribed. Amazing.

[Robert Watson]

Couldn`t agree more Garry. I would have told your friend to GTF.