[Soupy]

And you can take off the government help that comes in too. And so will your customers.

No government help announced for commercial accounts. No cap either.

Just nipped into a local butchers, just a small shop, and overheard the owner saying. His electric bill alone for the. Business has gone up £1000 a month.
There's alot of businesses out there waiting with baited breath to see what the new pm will do. And a lot are in far more danger than us. Not good times.

 🤥 no way his electric bill has gone up 1k a month

Why not? There's no cap for small businesses.

[AuRavelling79]

Calm down Soupy. This time next week Truss will be announcing what support is coming down the 'pike.

[Gringo]

16 pages and hardly any cancels yet, think we could get to 100 when the poo really hits the fan
 , keep on shining fellas and dont watch BBC news

[NWH]

Well let’s just hope it’s not her there’s nothing about her at all that fills me with confidence,at least Rishi has some track record she’s just interested in getting the job for her CV.
For an easier 18 months my vote would be for the bloke that got us through Covid. .

[NBwcs]

Well let’s just hope it’s not her there’s nothing about her at all that fills me with confidence,at least Rishi has some track record she’s just interested in getting the job for her CV.
For an easier 18 months my vote would be for the bloke that got us through Covid. .

oh stop it Nigel, ive just had to like one one of your posts, feels weird 

[CleanClear]

And you can take off the government help that comes in too. And so will your customers.

No government help announced for commercial accounts. No cap either.

Just nipped into a local butchers, just a small shop, and overheard the owner saying. His electric bill alone for the. Business has gone up £1000 a month.
There's alot of businesses out there waiting with baited breath to see what the new pm will do. And a lot are in far more danger than us. Not good times.

 🤥 no way his electric bill has gone up 1k a month

£90k up to £1.16 million :

https://news.sky.com/story/care-provider-sheffcare-says-11x-higher-energy-bills-may-force-homes-to-shut-down-12687228

[CleanClear]

For an easier 18 months my vote would be for the bloke that got us through Covid. .

Me too, and i've took his excellent advice to buy a new kettle from Tescos today. I'll save £10 this coming year on my electric bill.

[Soupy]

Calm down Soupy. This time next week Truss will be announcing what support is coming down the 'pike.

Lol.

Good one.

Truss.

Lol

[AuRavelling79]

Calm down Soupy. This time next week Truss will be announcing what support is coming down the 'pike.

Lol.

Good one.

Truss.

Lol

You're like a broken record Soupy. This thread is about customer cancellations, not your persistent panic about your own energy bill.

Tell us about the cancellations your company is experiencing.

[zesty]

Spoke to long standing customers yesterday, both good jobs, 2 kids.

They were saying they won’t cancel window cleaning, but have seen a huge rise in bills, said they are using there log burner and only an hour or two of gas a day come winter.

She’s a head of department teacher, he’s got a very good job for the council heading up the arborist and planning area.

Just shows that even our above average earning customers are feeling the squeeze.

If government steps in big time r.e energy, i think we’ll all be ok. The scarier thing is government handouts don’t solve the problem, it’s never a good thing to rely on the state.

[Soupy]

Calm down Soupy. This time next week Truss will be announcing what support is coming down the 'pike.

Lol.

Good one.

Truss.

Lol

You're like a broken record Soupy. This thread is about customer cancellations, not your persistent panic about your own energy bill.

Tell us about the cancellations your company is experiencing.

You made it about politics Jack.

I was merely pointing out a shaky looking assersion.

🤥 no way his electric bill has gone up 1k a month

Why not? There's no cap for small businesses.

[james peters]

The world has changed a lot in just a few decades. we are a society that wants what we want, when we want it.
Granted , for some families it
 is going to be a difficult time , and of course we are right to worry a little about people cutting back.

listening to the news constantly doesn't help.  It's better to play the field by our own experience  whilst being prepared to adapt and have a plan in place.

the house i grew up in was heated by a coal rayburn. we didnt have heating upstairs , unless we plugged in a radiator for a while before bed . I had a hot water bottle . and in the morning there was frost on the insides of the windows , when it was very cold .
we had an outside toilet also.
today , this would be classed as  living in fuel poverty.  however, i look back with fondness , it was just normal and we took measures  to ensure we were warm.

[AuRavelling79]

Calm down Soupy. This time next week Truss will be announcing what support is coming down the 'pike.

Lol.

Good one.

Truss.

Lol

You're like a broken record Soupy. This thread is about customer cancellations, not your persistent panic about your own energy bill.

Tell us about the cancellations your company is experiencing.

You made it about politics Jack.

I was merely pointing out a shaky looking assersion.

🤥 no way his electric bill has gone up 1k a month

Why not? There's no cap for small businesses.

Not a helpful syllable - as is becoming your normal posting style.

So what experience is your business having with cancellations compared to the size of your customer base?

[Soupy]

Not a helpful syllable - as is becoming your normal posting style.

So what experience is your business having with cancellations compared to the size of your customer base?

I answered that a few days ago.

Anyway. This thread is about customers cancelling.

So.  How's that going?

Any business customers cancelling? How about domestic customers?

Had a few so far that I would put down directly to the price of energy going through the roof and the inaction of the zombie government, single figures, maybe low double. Nothing startling yet.

October will be the one to watch though. At the moment people are hopeful that something will be done, and I don't doubt it will. Whether it's enough or not is another matter.

I don't know what your problem is Jack but it's becoming wearing.

[NWH]

Had 2 cancel over the last month 600 a year but picked up 4 times that with another 4-5 jobs,funny how that happens it’s almost like someone doesn’t want me to pack up window cleaning lol.

[AuRavelling79]

Not a helpful syllable - as is becoming your normal posting style.

So what experience is your business having with cancellations compared to the size of your customer base?

I answered that a few days ago.

Anyway. This thread is about customers cancelling.

So.  How's that going?

Any business customers cancelling? How about domestic customers?

Had a few so far that I would put down directly to the price of energy going through the roof and the inaction of the zombie government, single figures, maybe low double. Nothing startling yet.

October will be the one to watch though. At the moment people are hopeful that something will be done, and I don't doubt it will. Whether it's enough or not is another matter.

I don't know what your problem is Jack but it's becoming wearing.

Must've got lost in all your moaning and negativity.

[AuRavelling79]

Had 2 cancel over the last month 600 a year but picked up 4 times that with another 4-5 jobs,funny how that happens it’s almost like someone doesn’t want me to pack up window cleaning lol.

It's crazy isn't it? Another enquiry today for me. Maybe the low sun in the mornings is still flushing out the interest.

[Soupy]

Had 2 cancel over the last month 600 a year but picked up 4 times that with another 4-5 jobs,funny how that happens it’s almost like someone doesn’t want me to pack up window cleaning lol.

It's crazy isn't it? Another enquiry today for me. Maybe the low sun in the mornings is still flushing out the interest.

There's lots of people who are still addled with the delusion with hope.

Idiots.

 

[Smudger]

I think the best course of action is to cancel/bin off 75% of your current customers because tomorrow. triple that will ring in for your services not only that but pay you more than double of your old customers 

I'm off to enjoy the sunshine  with a VERY large Malibu and coke



Darran

[AuRavelling79]

This will irritate the forum Eeyores, but most of us will be happy with what it indicates as regards possible cancellations.

Yesterday a dumpee came up asking to be taken back on. This morning I had an enquiry by email which I will go to look at next week. And this afternoon another walk-up got taken on my books.

More deludes for Jack to clean.  Alright? 

Now the constructive part of all this ... these enquiries are from different areas of my round; I don't have a website, I have removed my signs from my van and I am not actively looking for more work. Quite the reverse in fact.

So you can draw comfort from the fact that people are not cancelling in droves because no government bail-out has been specified in more detail yet. The day before yesterday I did a day of commercials - no one has mentioned cutting back on the windows - so as of this week the looming "electricity and gas price hike" for commercial customers is not making them panic and cancel.