[007 or what]

i've priced a job up at £162.50 a month but they have decided they want it done on a 3 month cycle.
would you put the price up and if so by how much?
off to work now 
roll on the wkend

[m.b.s.]

add half again imo

[AJ]

20-30% more i'd say. just for being cheeky as they probably knew they only wanted every 3 months when they asked you to quote. OLDEST TRICK IN THE BOOK.

[R.V.A Window Cleaning Services]

I would base it on the extra time it would take to do every 3mths to bring them up to the monthly clean standard, this could be 1 or 2 hours extra. Put this to them with the extra hourly charges and see how it goes, it also depends on how much you need the work.

[LSB]

i would probably leave it as it is , unless you feel its underpriced !

[R.V.A Window Cleaning Services]

You need to look at the facts, how keen are you to do the job now that you will be earning £1300,00 (162.50 @ 3 mths) less for the job per year then when you first priced it  . Myself i would not do it for the same monthly price that you quoted for a 3 monthly clean. If they asked for a monthly price that is what you gave them not a price for a quaterly clean.

The next thing they will do is say bye bye after the first clean and get another cleaner in 12 months time!

Been their, fell for it , never again. I put a price in with a little room for a discount, if they say no i move on.

O yeah and then they pay you 60 days later.

[supernova77]

I would add 25% more.

Andy

[Londoner]

I would keep it exactly the same. The price for a job doesn't really justify changing just because the customer doesn't want it so often.

A jobs a job in my opinion.

[LWC]

i had this a while ago and i was pretty miffed, but then at the end of the day, how much longer does it really take from 1 month to 3 months?

hardly any time in my opinion. especially with wfp

[magic1]

add an extra 1 hour rate. it won't take as long as a first clean.

[stevieg]

in future when you quote give a graduated price.Very rarely do commercial jobs give you an indication of how often they want the job doing until you give them a price,so start with a price for monthly and then tell them for each extra month it will go up by x amount .ie 200 monthly and say 20 more each month extra.so if 2 monthly 220 3 monthly 240 and so on .It is quite awkward once you have given a price to then change it when they tell you how often they want it doing ,so by building it into the quote it gets over this problem.

[stoneleech]

in future when you quote give a graduated price.Very rarely do commercial jobs give you an indication of how often they want the job doing until you give them a price,so start with a price for monthly and then tell them for each extra month it will go up by x amount .ie 200 monthly and say 20 more each month extra.so if 2 monthly 220 3 monthly 240 and so on .It is quite awkward once you have given a price to then change it when they tell you how often they want it doing ,so by building it into the quote it gets over this problem.

Just curious as i don't have any commercial work yet (not sure if i want to or not though). Do you give the price there and then or do you go home and make it look official on company letterhead etc?

[Oakley Windows]

i had this a while ago and i was pretty miffed, but then at the end of the day, how much longer does it really take from 1 month to 3 months?

hardly any time in my opinion. especially with wfp

In all honesty that statement is true enough.

Its just I guess no-one likes to think theyre being taken for a ride or for a mug. That someone is getting something over on you. I hate the thought of that and if I suspect it my first thought is to retaliate, (in this instance it would be by considering a price increase). It wouldnt be the first time Id done it and have managed to implement it on a number of ocassions but not necessarily every time.

Its a balance between pride, ego, financial necessity and level-headedness.


Not always easy, could you live with yourself if you just go ahead at 3 monthly on the initial price?

Matt

[Londoner]

Recently I have had a few domestic customers ask if they can extend the frequency. I am fine about it. They have to make economies, I can understand that, and I keep the customer.

To me its a win/win situation. 

[007 or what]

Thanks everone for replying to this.

I think i will increase it. i'm going to go with Pure H20's advice and increase by a couple of hours.
Ill get back to you all with an outcome.

[danny taylor]

I very often give a few different price/frequency options when I quote for commercial work. I do this only if the job is a quaterly,bi-monthly or one-off to see if I can get a monthly job out of it. just make the monthly price look far more appealing than the rest and if you get it , happy days.