[Central Window Cleaners]

Hi Suds,

I did the website myself about 3 years.

Now just costs me the anual hosting cost and renewal of the domain names

[d s windowcleaning]

my mate took over a round from the last window cleaner who had been doing them for years and at low prices .
when he took over the round he explained to the customer that he was taking over and the new price would be x£s , he didnt lose 1 customer when putting the prices up .
i would take a gamble on this round , if you didnt and and the old window cleaner just packed in , the customers would look for a new cleaner who would come in with his own prices which will be a lot more than £1 .

[daz1977]

hi what part of country r u in?

[Scrimble]

an old window cleaner gave me about 70 customers cause he was retiring, problem was they were priced at 2 to 6 pounds and a couple at 8, i went round all of them gave new price and about 60 said no.

i came away with about 10 new customers, i paid nothing for the round and i wouldnt have either. same goes with yours,

[Londoner]

Most people are not going to accept a 300/ 400/ 500% increase and that only brings it up to a fiver.

What the old boy has done has poisoned the round effectively. It happens.

[Mike_G]

Must be a wind up?

[s.hughes]

This is a windup, no way can it be true.

[mick partington]

just been reading through some of the replys thankyou, im defo going to buy it but at not much money as im expecting to lose most if not all his custys when i up the prices.
some think its a windup its not,im true to my word and i,ll post on here details of how it works out i value the advice i,ll get along the way.
with all this rain i,d be hard put to earn any money at all how do you cope with all this rain every day?
 thanks for help mick

[mick partington]

he charges £1 in my street theres a few shops at £? and not sure what he charges elswere but he told me £200 to £300 a month no windup

[ian1972]

sounds like the prices they charge round leigh and wigan and most defo a joke lol

[Platinum NW]

Tell him your plans for the business and tell him its not worth so id offer him £100
You dont know if the work is quality or even if the customers are loyal as they may just see him as the cheapest window cleaner in britain

[mick partington]

sounds like the prices they charge round leigh and wigan and most defo a joke lol

give that man a cigar

[SherwoodCleaningSe]

There is a cost to cleaning someones windows, insurance, petrol, equipment, ect.  I know the cost per house on my round is more than £1, so that if I only charge a £1/house then at the end of the month I'd be in debt with out even attempting to pay any other household bills(income).

Sounds like the guy has income coming from else where as well.  DHSS(lots do this), pension, spouse or another job, what ever the case he knows that his round isn't viable, it's just a beer money round, earn enough to have a few drinks that night.

If he's had the round for 20 years then thats 20 years of people not knowing what the true cost of window cleaning is and it's going to take you more than one visit to convince even just 50% of the round.  At the same time your trying to pick up a new trade and be good at it.  You say that your in a turning of town houses, in all honesty these aren't really worth doing for much less that £10.  How would you feel if the window cleaner disappeared and a new one wanted to charge you a 1000% more, it's not really feasible.

There is also the chance that after selling the work he might reappear again, especially when some customers don't like the new price see him down the pub and ask him back.  I'd canvass up your own new work at good prices, for every one of yours you'd have to do 10 of his.

Simon.