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Joey Eastwood

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robbing bstar-d
« on: September 24, 2014, 07:21:29 pm »
Been out cleaning all day, a very nice couple who I clean for monthly and clean out gutters yearly came out to me and said they would like to skip the October yearly gutter clean as another window cleaner had knocked on and quoted at a quarter of the price I charge (I charge £60) and they couldn't refuse saving so much money.. Sensing something fishy whilst cleaning the windows I checked the gutters and they where full of sand and Moss all the way round the house. No idea of the other window cleaners name but iv seen him cleaning houses I have binned off due to being moaners/bad payers etc. How low can you go?
when life throws you water, clean windows

Bungle

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Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2014, 07:26:13 pm »
It's not October yet  ;)
We look at them, they look through them.

Joey Eastwood

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Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2014, 07:27:44 pm »
It's not October yet  ;)

Was due in 4weeks.. And still Is now! Lol
when life throws you water, clean windows

Ste M

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Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2014, 08:40:25 pm »
did you tell them? i would of, id of taken photos and shown them, in fact i did this very thing with a mate of mine who got someone else to clean them as i was busy

Joey Eastwood

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Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2014, 09:04:08 pm »
Yeah I told the homeowner straight away it sounded a bit dodgy, I showed him the amount of stuff still in his gutters. the other window cleaner is shoddy, he's got a car battery wired to a pump connected to a barrel on a sack barrow... Iv seen him fill his tank with a customers hosepipe


 Says alot
when life throws you water, clean windows

8weekly

Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2014, 10:15:36 pm »
Yeah I told the homeowner straight away it sounded a bit dodgy, I showed him the amount of stuff still in his gutters. the other window cleaner is shoddy, he's got a car battery wired to a pump connected to a barrel on a sack barrow... Iv seen him fill his tank with a customers hosepipe


 Says alot
Is his name Gary999 or something?  ;D

jd services

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Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2014, 07:20:53 pm »
I cleared gutters on a back to back house, so one short run and charged £20 because they were badly blocked and i had to drive out of my normal area. Next door neighbour (widowed old lady) told me she paid a door knocker £100 to do hers the week before but, surprise surprise they were still overflowing. I had a look and he hadn't touched them. I cleared them for free; took me 10 minutes. Robbing numptys indeed...reflects on all of us. They need to be stopped. Worth warning vulnerable customers about. good topic.

8weekly

Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2014, 07:27:40 pm »
I cleared gutters on a back to back house, so one short run and charged £20 because they were badly blocked and i had to drive out of my normal area. Next door neighbour (widowed old lady) told me she paid a door knocker £100 to do hers the week before but, surprise surprise they were still overflowing. I had a look and he hadn't touched them. I cleared them for free; took me 10 minutes. Robbing numptys indeed...reflects on all of us. They need to be stopped. Worth warning vulnerable customers about. good topic.
To be honest, you clearing the gutters of two houses for £20 reflects just as badly. You obviously ripped the first one off because you didn't think it was worth payment for your time on the second one.

Bungle

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Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2014, 08:11:13 pm »
Yeah I told the homeowner straight away it sounded a bit dodgy, I showed him the amount of stuff still in his gutters. the other window cleaner is shoddy, he's got a car battery wired to a pump connected to a barrel on a sack barrow... Iv seen him fill his tank with a customers hosepipe


 Says alot


Is his name Gary999 or something?  ;D

Like it  ;D
We look at them, they look through them.

Soupy

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Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2014, 08:58:42 pm »
Poleking strikes again. Was he in a Cinquecento?
#FreeTheBrightonOne
#aliens

jd services

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Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2014, 09:42:06 pm »
8 weekly what the f are you talking about?  She was a vulnerable old lady. She had been ripped off by a twat so I helped her out.

*Hector*

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Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2014, 09:18:29 am »
He wasn't that much of a numpty was he??

after all he earned a good wedge out of it for doing nowt....
The old dear eventually had the work done.

And some other numpty did the work for nowt....  :P

Hmmmmmm

 ;D ;D ;D
Everyday this forum slips further from God.  :'(

trevor perry

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Re: robbing bstar-d
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2014, 09:19:33 am »
I cleared gutters on a back to back house, so one short run and charged £20 because they were badly blocked and i had to drive out of my normal area. Next door neighbour (widowed old lady) told me she paid a door knocker £100 to do hers the week before but, surprise surprise they were still overflowing. I had a look and he hadn't touched them. I cleared them for free; took me 10 minutes. Robbing numptys indeed...reflects on all of us. They need to be stopped. Worth warning vulnerable customers about. good topic.
To be honest, you clearing the gutters of two houses for £20 reflects just as badly. You obviously ripped the first one off because you didn't think it was worth payment for your time on the second one.


 8 weekly its called doing a good turn for someone vulnerable , not everything is about making more money , I am sure he got as much satisfaction from the job as an extra £20 would of made to his life

better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove any doubt