[Tosh]

For a quarterly visit after submitting a poxy commercial quote, totalling £144.00, the reply came back with 'is that the annual cost or per visit?'

[AuRavelling79]

For a quarterly visit after submitting a poxy commercial quote, totalling £144.00, the reply came back with 'is that the annual cost or per visit?'

Well?

[Slash]

Are you going to tell us,the suspense is killing me

[Tosh]

Well, its per visit. I suppose not knowing how many windows are there you wouldn't know, but the woman did and she was thinking I might do them all 4 times a year for that money. Silly moo.

[Dave Anderson]

I do sometimes think that the 'shock' factor is not so much the actual price but the money they are going to pay a window cleaner...... Old perceptions and all that, not everyone of course but plenty people about still think we do this stuff for a few quid in the morning to get some tokens for the pub 

[Jonny 87]

I can beat that!

Someone from a large community hall emailed us asking for a quote to clean their windows quarterly. The property was set up with about 12 Windows along the front, and then a large wall of glass at the back that backed directly onto a river, which meant we had to lean over the river at an awkward angle to get it all cleaned, and a few veluxs, impossible to clean properly unless you had wfp equipment.

We emailed the quote back of £60 for a quarterly clean.

I gets an email back,  copy and pasted below ;

Good morning,
Thanks again for the Quote

Just to confirm that it is 4 x per year Cleaning of all windows,
including the section above the river, and the two velux, including
all frames and doors

Total price for year £60


Please proceed with the cleaning of the windows for village
hall..

Please contact myself with the invoice

Kind regards




You can guess what my reply was.
 

[jk999]

20 odd years ago my local mac d's which was one of the first in area wanted me to clean their windows 6 days a week every weekwhich two days was ins and outs for 60 pounds a month .and netto round corner asked for windows ins plus outs i quoted 20 pounds in and out they said we can only pay 6 pounds i laughed at both and walked away

[Simon Trapani]

20 odd years ago my local mac d's which was one of the first in area wanted me to clean their windows 6 days a week every weekwhich two days was ins and outs for 60 pounds a month .and netto round corner asked for windows ins plus outs i quoted 20 pounds in and out they said we can only pay 6 pounds i laughed at both and walked away

I had this happen to me at about the same time, 20 odd years ago. New M'cdonalds drive in,  6 days a week, in & out before 8am. I was thinking something like £15 a visit, they were currently paying something like a £15 a week lol. I told them it wasn't even worth me giving a price as we were so far apart. I still can't believe it to this day.

[Walter Mitty]

I had a similar thing with a nearby McDonald's.  They wanted 3x a week.  My quotation was per visit and they thought it was per week.  Glad we sorted that out before starting (I didn't).

[Spruce]

20 odd years ago my local mac d's which was one of the first in area wanted me to clean their windows 6 days a week every weekwhich two days was ins and outs for 60 pounds a month .and netto round corner asked for windows ins plus outs i quoted 20 pounds in and out they said we can only pay 6 pounds i laughed at both and walked away

I had this happen to me at about the same time, 20 odd years ago. New M'cdonalds drive in,  6 days a week, in & out before 8am. I was thinking something like £15 a visit, they were currently paying something like a £15 a week lol. I told them it wasn't even worth me giving a price as we were so far apart. I still can't believe it to this day.

Yep. But someone cleans them so they got the clean at the price they wanted.

[Tosh]

20 odd years ago my local mac d's which was one of the first in area wanted me to clean their windows 6 days a week every weekwhich two days was ins and outs for 60 pounds a month .and netto round corner asked for windows ins plus outs i quoted 20 pounds in and out they said we can only pay 6 pounds i laughed at both and walked away

I had this happen to me at about the same time, 20 odd years ago. New M'cdonalds drive in,  6 days a week, in & out before 8am. I was thinking something like £15 a visit, they were currently paying something like a £15 a week lol. I told them it wasn't even worth me giving a price as we were so far apart. I still can't believe it to this day.

Yep. But someone cleans them so they got the clean at the price they wanted.

Not necessarily.

[Simon Trapani]

I remember telling them something like whoever was cleaning them wouldn't be doing every pane in & out for that price. this was back when I was trad. They'd be scrimming/clothing fingerprints most days. Personally I think they'd be better having a proper full clean once or twice  a week rather than a half job every day. I can't be doing with that.

Either do it properly or don't bother.

I chose not to bother.