[Daria Taylor]

had a letter come thorugh today along with leaflet,they offerning carpet cleaning + protector on buy one get one free offer. Have suite cleaned, carpet done free. Buy one get one free all January too. 20% off clean and protect as well as 10% off clean only, valid untill end of this year, and their minimum order is £80.00.

 

[Len Gribble]

Go for it a bargain never to be repeated.

Len

[vacman]

Do they have set prices or is this offer off a 'personal' quotation?

[Mike Halliday]

they  are really on the ball, we should all take a note.

start marketing now for January, I getting a new leaflet with special offers for January, these will be going out end of November and all of December.

if I can get some booking for January before Xmas I'll be happy.

[Ian Rochester]

Careful, advertise offers for January and you'll kill off all your work for December.

[markpowell]

I dont agree Ian, people will have there carpets cleaned for xmas, they want everything done for xmas, when the family and friends are visiting.
Mark

[Magic Dry Perth]

We are lucky in Aus that our christmas is at summer time so we are busy right though but also lucky in winter as on average we do about 80% of the amount of the summer work without all the need of specials unless you call a free bottle of 10 pound spot cleaner

[daysdeepclean]

I'm running with this for the Christmas period in a local rag!

[clinton]

Xmas has always been my busiest period in my many years of trading and have to agree what mark says.

Its all about they want all there furnishings and carpets looking nice and clean

Thankfully i have never had to do an offer for this time of year

[daysdeepclean]

The idea is to book them in for the Oven Clean in January (After they've cooked Crimbo Dinner) so I'm not sat around doing nothing

[Daria Taylor]

the prices are from a letter that was sent to my mother in law, she used them bout 3 years ago. it says on top for recular and existing customers. but then leaflet came through from local chemdry offering same to everyone

[Carpet Dawg]

The idea is to book them in for the Oven Clean in January (After they've cooked Crimbo Dinner) so I'm not sat around doing nothing

Hopefully, but everyone will be skint mate! lol honest.

Dash, Was it a leaflet through the door? or a letter posted out?

Damn those Chempoopes! they are clever. Wonder if its head office that tell the monkeys to post these things out and when or if its directly from head office.

[COLIN BRIGHT]

WHO CARES WHAT CHEMDRY ARE DOING???

[daysdeepclean]

Hopefully, but everyone will be skint mate! lol honest.

Yeah, that could be the downfall in my plan..... I might just sit in the pub for a month instead..... Sounds like a plan

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

I just love being quiet in january. Chance to recover after the madness of December. Can get so much admin done and also have long lie-ins.

[slioch]

I don't know what the ChemDry franchises do on pricing but their managed network (Homeserve ChemDry untill they change the name) have run these offeres for ages but the core prices are very high.  On the "get your suite cleaned and we will clean your lounge carpet for free", the per seat price is £40 with protection extra.  Most of their offers follow this principle.

[derek west]

do you think ford would worry if rolls royce were doing a BOGOF on there latest model.

i never worry about the franchises. or any other competitor to be honest, i charge what i need to and if i don't get the work then i'll do something else rather than cut my prices and not make a living.

derek

[Mike Osbourne]

WHO CARES WHAT CHEMDRY ARE DOING???

[vacman]

I don't know what the ChemDry franchises do on pricing but their managed network (Homeserve ChemDry untill they change the name) have run these offeres for ages but the core prices are very high.  On the "get your suite cleaned and we will clean your lounge carpet for free", the per seat price is £40 with protection extra.  Most of their offers follow this principle.

Well i have to say, i was wondering. Its like that company who claim to give you the windows for the back of the house 'free' when you get the front done.

The tragedy is that many people do truely think they are getting something for nowt 

[daysdeepclean]

I don't know what the ChemDry franchises do on pricing but their managed network (Homeserve ChemDry untill they change the name) have run these offeres for ages but the core prices are very high.  On the "get your suite cleaned and we will clean your lounge carpet for free", the per seat price is £40 with protection extra.  Most of their offers follow this principle.

Well i have to say, i was wondering. Its like that company who claim to give you the windows for the back of the house 'free' when you get the front done.

The tragedy is that many people do truely think they are getting something for nowt 

You've got to hand it to them really, but big players in ours (ChemDry, Servicemaster, Ovenu) and a host of other industries (Everest, Moben etc) will always have a following and seem to be trusted. When we wanted a new bathroom fitted, the first people we went to was "Dolphin" £13k for them to fit a bath, sink and kahzee, no tiling included cos they said they didn't do it... Did we pay? Did we hell, but I reckon if we had more money than sense, we would have.... :

Let 'em have it I say, there's enough work out there for every one of us and maybe we should concentrate on how we're doing instead of worrying about other C/C's, independant or otherwise!