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Best reasons for cancellations
« on: April 15, 2013, 12:16:19 pm »
Just got a cracker, sent in with payment:

This house has now been knocked down, it will be rebuilt but will take around a year.

deeege

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2013, 12:53:29 pm »
I'd say its likely to be true, they'd look silly if you turn up there next month :)
"....and it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink, and mother wake me early in the morning."

TLC

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2013, 12:54:54 pm »
That's the worst excuse I've ever heard!

The best one I've had is "your water is soaking into our brickwork and might damage it"

Good job it never rains in England !!!

EandM

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2013, 01:27:22 pm »
At a posh country place near me:

' We're having all the windows replaced with handmade double glazed wooden units. We'll give you a call in about a year '

A year later.... phone call;

' Hello. Can you clean the windows on Tuesday ? '

Pete Thompson

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2013, 01:32:58 pm »
Here's one of mine:

"We're moving to Canada, sorry we have to cancel"

then FIVE YEARS later

"We didn't like Canada, we're back in the same house, can you start again"

Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2013, 01:38:12 pm »
"My dog gets to upset, could we leave it this time."
I could not believe it so never went back.

Ian101

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2013, 01:46:22 pm »
The plumber is here.

SB Cleaning

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2013, 02:07:49 pm »
Just got a cracker, sent in with payment:

This house has now been knocked down, it will be rebuilt but will take around a year.
It does happen

rg1

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2013, 02:44:43 pm »
One of my customers last week:

Our roof is leaking, can you leave it this month  ???
The pen is mightier than the sword (and a lot easier to write with!)

tlwcs

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2013, 02:48:44 pm »
I have icicles on the windows cills please leave it this month. Jog on fella

brynley

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2013, 03:08:50 pm »
 i had one say, it's forcast rain at the end of the week

[GQC] Tim

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2013, 05:08:52 pm »
Just got a cracker, sent in with payment:

This house has now been knocked down, it will be rebuilt but will take around a year.

No joke, I've had two of them!

elite mike

Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2013, 06:57:59 pm »
ime to tired to have the windows cleaned  ::)roll  really

bobplum

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2013, 07:12:28 pm »
the one that really annoys me is the come to the door and say they dont feel well? and can you leave it.......of course i can.............permanently


G Griffin

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2013, 07:28:17 pm »
Just got a cracker, sent in with payment:

This house has now been knocked down, it will be rebuilt but will take around a year.

Did you use a Brodex pole to clean it?
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AuRavelling79

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #15 on: April 15, 2013, 07:29:19 pm »
I turned up on the Docks to clean a set of portakabin/offices for a shipping company to find them gone. I phoned the manager and he laughed and told me to take the next left and drive two hundred metres and I'd find them there behind one of the storage silos where they had been relocated nearer the wharfs!

Still clean them today.
It's a game of three halves!

KS Cleaning

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #16 on: April 15, 2013, 07:36:24 pm »
Just got a cracker, sent in with payment:

This house has now been knocked down, it will be rebuilt but will take around a year.

Did you use a Brodex pole to clean it?
  ;D ;D

When are you gonna audition for Britains Got Talent

MATT BATEMAN (OWC)

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #17 on: April 15, 2013, 07:52:20 pm »
Had one about 4 years ago, 'Oh God, you always come when the dog groomer is here'

Dave Willis

Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #18 on: April 15, 2013, 08:08:00 pm »
Leave it today I haven't got time  ???

Not today I'm decorating inside.

Lave them I've got flu.

Not today we've just come back from Italy  ???

Not today - the owners have moved to America. (they owed me for three cleans too)  >:(

H2GoKent

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Re: Best reasons for cancellations
« Reply #19 on: April 15, 2013, 08:19:42 pm »
I had a guy ask me not to clean one specific window.
He came out of the house all serious said 'I need to show you something' I thought oh dear here we go.

Round the back of the house he points out one particular window pane it has a spiders web which has spent the morning watching the spider build.

He had been on the 'aromatic' cigarettes again. He lives in a large well looked after house, but everything he owns smells of weed. Last month he paid me and the next day when I did my banking I could still tell which note was his by the smell
A manager is generally someone who has been promoted to the position by someone else who didn't see them as a threat.
Hence all people are promoted to the level of their incompetence