[Clever Forum Name]

This is what drives down prices of commercial work.

I know Danny has some long standing contracts as he has told us, but any new work you undercut on you are just a sitting duck for the next under cutter.

I lost all but a few commercial jobs over the years as i was fed up of under cutters. The last job was a job i had cleaned for over 10 years. Never moved the price.

£30 in and out 1hr, then out of the blue they had a quote for £25 and wanted me to match it. NO chance.

This is why the commercial takes a back burner for me.

I don't think a lot of cleaners are suited for commercial anyway. You get some folk who whine over loosing a £15 house, imagine loosing a £150 per month job lmao.

[8weekly]

This is what drives down prices of commercial work.

I know Danny has some long standing contracts as he has told us, but any new work you undercut on you are just a sitting duck for the next under cutter.

I lost all but a few commercial jobs over the years as i was fed up of under cutters. The last job was a job i had cleaned for over 10 years. Never moved the price.

£30 in and out 1hr, then out of the blue they had a quote for £25 and wanted me to match it. NO chance.

This is why the commercial takes a back burner for me.

I don't think a lot of cleaners are suited for commercial anyway. You get some folk who whine over loosing a £15 house, imagine loosing a £150 per month job lmao.

Hmmm, so in order to preserve commercial prices generally, we should all refrain from trying to get new commercial work? 

[Becci Swan]

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[deeege]

This is what drives down prices of commercial work.

I know Danny has some long standing contracts as he has told us, but any new work you undercut on you are just a sitting duck for the next under cutter.

I lost all but a few commercial jobs over the years as i was fed up of under cutters. The last job was a job i had cleaned for over 10 years. Never moved the price.

£30 in and out 1hr, then out of the blue they had a quote for £25 and wanted me to match it. NO chance.

This is why the commercial takes a back burner for me.

I don't think a lot of cleaners are suited for commercial anyway. You get some folk who whine over loosing a £15 house, imagine loosing a £150 per month job lmao.

Hmmm, so in order to preserve commercial prices generally, we should all refrain from trying to get new commercial work? 

There's a difference in gaining new commercial work and purposely beating the last quote to gain commercial work. I do one but won't do the other.

Over the long term it just ends up being a race to the bottom with the customer being the only one to benefit.

[dannymack]

H20 how you gotta see it, if the cleaning company were doing a great job they prob would have stuck with them but I'm guessing it was a big company who have loads of work and the employees were knocking the care home left right and centre to of which they prob told them and they didn't care. I knocked it down a few quid, not much but I got the contracts and will look after the jobs. I rarely put prices up in years as I'm happy with what I quote for. I know fuel and other things go up but it goes up only little so am not bothered in putting my prices up.

Cheers for all comments.
Ay it's down to Becci for getting me in these jobs 👍👍👍

[Window Lickers]

This is what drives down prices of commercial work.

I know Danny has some long standing contracts as he has told us, but any new work you undercut on you are just a sitting duck for the next under cutter.

Just because someone has under-cut an existing contractor doesnt make them any more vulnerable to being under-cut. We're all vulnerable to it, end of story.

[dannymack]

Not God well said !!!' 👍👍👍

[8weekly]

This is what drives down prices of commercial work.

I know Danny has some long standing contracts as he has told us, but any new work you undercut on you are just a sitting duck for the next under cutter.

I lost all but a few commercial jobs over the years as i was fed up of under cutters. The last job was a job i had cleaned for over 10 years. Never moved the price.

£30 in and out 1hr, then out of the blue they had a quote for £25 and wanted me to match it. NO chance.

This is why the commercial takes a back burner for me.

I don't think a lot of cleaners are suited for commercial anyway. You get some folk who whine over loosing a £15 house, imagine loosing a £150 per month job lmao.

Hmmm, so in order to preserve commercial prices generally, we should all refrain from trying to get new commercial work? 

There's a difference in gaining new commercial work and purposely beating the last quote to gain commercial work. I do one but won't do the other.

Over the long term it just ends up being a race to the bottom with the customer being the only one to benefit.

Except that according to the OP the information on pricing was volunteered and they weren't happy with the existing service. In general I do agree with you, but in that situation I don't see a problem. The threat to H2O isn't from the likes of Danny, it is from the companies paying minimum wage and happy with a small margin over the top.


Remember those two on Dragon's Den? A million turnover, but tiny profit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/entrepreneurs/tonyearnshaw.shtml

[dannymack]

So true 8 weekly 👍

[G Griffin]

I'm the new 40 (50).

My uncle played for Wigan. Ben Seddon.

Just had a Google. Interesting  . But I don't remember many from that era.
We had some fun at that old ground. We even knew how to turn the lights for the all weather training pitch on and off. We'd be on playing football 'til 10 night on a football league ground (when it was closed).
I remember one league game, we put our own padlock on a turnstile entrance and just opened it up on match day. I went down to the new ground for a ticket for a Liverpool game and they're asking am I on their database!
FA Cup holders now. Modern football, eh?

Ps. Sed/Seddon? I get it now.

We went to his 60th a couple of years ago at the Sefton Park Palm House. It was great. His son who is a successful solicitor laid on a This is Your Life event with a Sky Sports presenter. He had a top notch non league career as a bruising centre half. Most of his time was at Stafford Rangers though.

We got to a Liverpool match a couple of years ago and saw Suarez. He is the best player I have ever seen. He stood out a mile.

Suarez is fantastic.
What sets him apart from many others is his attitude. You can see he wants to play. He wants to win and he wants to score. That and the fact that he can play a bit makes him so good.