[therapist]

About eight years ago, I was introduced to a product which, not only killed off dust mites, but gave ongoing protection by destroying eggs which came along later.

The product had amazing protection properties for virtually any surface and was being introduced to a group of carpet cleaners, who were all associated, at that time, with Franklin's of Sheffield.

I believe the product became the subject of a licencing debacle, taking it out of reach of the average c/c and when I last spoke to the UK licencees, they were only interested in selling territories, for substantial fees.

The name of the product was/is Aegis and if was generally available, would, I feel it would have a major impact on the protection and air quality industry.

Surely someone else, on the forum must have been at that meeting..........

rob m

[Spot On cleaning]

Rob

My impression of these products is thus; Sell it through a licence and the price is artificially kept high. Take fleas on your dog (assuming you have one, iv'e got five). A lot of people buy frontline which is only available from your vets at quite a high price along with a spray to go on your carpets and furniture also around twenty quid.

In the pet shops and supermarkets there are effective treatments at a fraction of the price that work. If these allergy treatments are so wonderful, why is it that they don't sell directly to the general public? Because this way the prices are kept artificially high and they sell you a licence to be able to sell their product knowing as well that you can only buy it from them as well at a high price. If they did put it on the open market, perhaps they would not sell a lot due to a high price that many people would'nt pay.

As i said earlier, if you were an asthma sufferer you would try the products and would probably carry on with them, so as you have a ready market for the product it must be easy to sell it to them. The same scenario would be if every house in the country wanted a carpet cleaned, it would be easy.

In business you need to create a want in a customer, and i suppose some people would look at the high treatment cost and think it is good because of the products price and exclusiveness. And another point is if the treatments work, why do the likes of Prochem etc not jump on the bandwagon to produce something of equal standing that could be sold to a wider audience at a fraction of the cost.

Dave

[Ian Hare]

As I understand matters, a treatment on the market at the moment, and available to professional c/c cannot  be reproduced because it is protected under world wide patent.

It should be used correctly to work therefore the DIY approach is not seen as the most effective route, long term there may be an alternate retail product, available to run along side the professional one.

 We will have to wait and see.

 

[therapist]

The product I was referring to - Aegis - has not been marketed at the c/c market.........it's much bigger than that, with quite amazing capabilities..........it would, however be a tremendous asset to the c/c industry.........if we could get our hands on it.

I think it was originally being developed for Ravenhead, but was found to, not only have incredible protective qualities, even adopted by the Italian authorities to extend the life of the timber foundations of much of Venice.............unfortunately, I tossed all of my data, but from memory, the product prevented dust mites eggs from hatching, by penetrating the eggs and killing them.

rob m

[AJCleaningServices]

Is this Aegis you are talking about, Rob?

[therapist]

yes