[steve k]

just seen this on Ebay...do you think those turnover/profit figures are right...
based on 50 weeks working at 18 hours a week...that is about £8.00 an hour profit...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Carpet-Upholstery-Cleaning-Business-FOR-SALE_W0QQitemZ150120597926QQihZ005QQcategoryZ11762QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[matt jones]

Hi steve i was also wondering about this? Is this the same homeclean who i believe are a franchise they look very similar to a leaflet i had back along?
matt

[bennymon]

is that chris kamara cleaning the carpet on that leaflet

[from edge2edge]

Chris kamara was a black guy when he played for swindon town if i remember. this guy looks more like the mighty quinn who played for portsmouth.

[calmore]

From what I can gather there are people calling themselves "Homeclean" all over the place all with different logos.

[chrisg]

Note; 1200+ customers will mean he's done work for 1200 customers over the years, repeating customers (the important figure) will be more like 15-25, having done 1200 jobs total.

Turnovers pretty poor, but shockingly good compared to most carpet cleaners out there.

A supplier once posted some stats on c/c'ers profile, well over half had poor credit record.

[Ian Gourlay]

They appear to have three Yellow Page Ads could be where profit has gone.

[Steve Chapman]

i would of thought 50% of turnover as profit would be normal, but 28% is stretching it a bit isn't it?

think i would pack it in for that, unless it's just for the paperwork



steve

[PaulKing]

This week we looked at the sponsered listing on YELL ( the one that stays at the top) £2700 per year, turns out a one man band with a answerphone in a very dodgy area has got it, he's going to do a lot of wok to pay those people or go mamaries up! trying to pay the bill! he will have signed for a 12 month contract

rember turnover is sanity profit is vanity ( or is it the other way around?) 


and for that reason I'm out!

[PaulKing]

is that chris kamara cleaning the carpet on that leaflet

looks like simon weston to me.

[chrisg]

£2,700, for a sponsered listing on yell?

i understood £250 enhanched listing £500 to be at the top.

[heritagecleaning]

It's worth mentioning that the cam belt snapped on my Escort van last month at 109K, even though I'd had it done at 60K


Owen

[calmore]

It implies in the listing that this was a part time business. It's possible that the hourly profit was much higher, depending on how long the business operated.

[steve k]

doesn`t matter...he did 18 hours a week per annum and his turnover was £x...his profit was £y...really poor margins

[matt jones]

so he turned over £26525 and his profit was only £7507 is that normal? sounds sxxt to me so he has made £7500 after 7+ years is this normal for carpet cleaners if so how do you afford to live?
matt