[Edge Clean]

Got a leaflet from a customer today, delivered by 2 dodgy looking lads (her words! not mine) to her house just after the last clean I did.

Anyone on here beat those prices?

[ascjim]

Jesus! That's tough.

[SB Cleaning]

Someone's gonna be a busy fool

[JSMC]

Yip plenty guys like that around our area. 4 bed new builds at 6 quid i know of.

[SeanK]

I cant see how you could make a living on those prices, and the fact he has a leaflet with his name and address on it would suggest hes not on the dole.

[Edge Clean]

I cant see how you could make a living on those prices, and the fact he has a leaflet with his name and address on it would suggest hes not on the dole.

Sean

The way a lot of these lowball window cleaners round here see it is that they could go work for the main operator work their guts out all day cleaning 50 houses and get paid £35/£40 a day on top of their dole or go out and try build a round making £80/£100 a day, if they work all weathers they can make £400/£500 a week over 5 days or £480/£600 over 6 days, up this way that is good money, but if they just lift the sights a bit higher and realise that customers are prepared to pay £5/£6 minimum for the types of houses they are charging £2.50 for then, it makes life a bit better for themselves.  Based on those prices over 100 houses they earn £250 a week/£13,000 a year less than me, then again based on southern prices, assuming a similar houses down there are £10, I'm probably losing out on £500 a week/£26,000 a year myself.

I have only lost one in my village to this crew, which goes to show customers are happy paying more.

[Bungle]

The cretin didn't bother to get a spell check before sending to the printers. What is a bungalo? 

[Shane sharples]

What is a rhone?
as in ' rhones cleaned'

[Edge Clean]

What is a rhone?
as in ' rhones cleaned'

Rhones = Gutters

[Smurf]

Makes you wonder after seeing those prices if they are licensed to work as window cleaners being in Scotland and all?

[Tosh]

The difference between those who are racing to the bottom and those who charge top dollar in this business is quite remarkable, to the point of being unbelievable. Remarkable isn't it.

You really do need to educate yourself before you start up in this game, or you could end up work as a dunderhead for the rest of your working life without realising it.

[Smurf]

I liked the bit about the free window clean too. Bless em! 

[KS Cleaning]

I cant see how you could make a living on those prices, and the fact he has a leaflet with his name and address on it would suggest hes not on the dole.

Sean

The way a lot of these lowball window cleaners round here see it is that they could go work for the main operator work their guts out all day cleaning 50 houses and get paid £35/£40 a day on top of their dole or go out and try build a round making £80/£100 a day, if they work all weathers they can make £400/£500 a week over 5 days or £480/£600 over 6 days, up this way that is good money, but if they just lift the sights a bit higher and realise that customers are prepared to pay £5/£6 minimum for the types of houses they are charging £2.50 for then, it makes life a bit better for themselves.  Based on those prices over 100 houses they earn £250 a week/£13,000 a year less than me, then again based on southern prices, assuming a similar houses down there are £10, I'm probably losing out on £500 a week/£26,000 a year myself.

I have only lost one in my village to this crew, which goes to show customers are happy paying more.

You've called it right, at the moment the person named on these leaflets works for you know who! In fact he was meant to be starting a weeks trial with me today but never came out.....lucky escape for me, he would av been putting aw his flyers thru ma doors, ach he wouldny av picked up any of ma customers anyway as I'm a wee bit cheaper than him

[Edge Clean]

KS,

I  reckon he would have been doing more than leafleting your jobs, dipping his wfp in muddy puddles then sabotaging your work sounds possible, I wonder if he is picking up any of RMs cancellations?

I always thought that ES was the cheapest in town, but at least he is charging a £1 more for a 4 in block than this clown.

There are a few more start ups offering ridiculous prices just to get the work, times must be desperate that they are having to stoop so low. The sad thing is that I reckon some of them are here to stay, just hope they realise sooner rather than later that they need to up prices, but I doubt they will.

Have you ever noticed how some of the window cleaners round here want all the work and will do what they can to get it?

As I have said previously at £5/£6, I'm happy with my lot, we are never going to get southern prices up here, occasionally we get the odd golden nugget, just wish there were more of them available in the towns...plenty of them up the coast.

[Shane sharples]

What is a rhone?
as in ' rhones cleaned'

Rhones = Gutters

Aha I see , cheers

[Tony dunmall]

Explains why when I quoted a 6 bedroom house with double conservatory cost about £500K by the way
the lady nearly had a fit when I said £45, she had just moved down from Scotland where she was paying £5

Asked me to justify the cost, I said live around the corner from her and I'm sure she didn't buy that house earning £50 a day if I have to live down here I want a wage that enable me to live here also, don't think she appreciated my candor

You guys up there have to work very hard to make a living , i wouldn't do it my body wouldn't last that rate of houses a day

[VERNE]

He must be the village idiot

[Spruce]

Whats a bungalo?

Perhaps his leaflet says a lot about him. If he can't be bothered to get a leaflet proof read before printing them then he won't be bothered with the quality of his work either.

But it amasing what some customers are happy with. We watched one of our competitors across the road last Wednesday on the street coming into Lingdale. So did our customers. Even they were shaking their heads in disbelief.
He couldn't quite reach the top of his customers first story windows as his fiberglass pole was too short and bendy. So half a job there.

After we did our customers we stopped and inspected the results. It looks like he is using ordinary tap water.

He's been going for years. I looks like he has a second car on the road now.

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[JSMC]

Work like a dog up here some weeks for nothing more than a decent wage.when you factor in van, fuel,pli, road tax, van insurance, workwear, equipment, sservicing van it soon bites into profit.

[Lee Pryor]

I wouldn't worry. Leaflets don't work after all.