[jasonl]

A  single room   £35
    lounge/ Diner £48
    Hall/stairs/landing £29
   3 piece suite      £80
   
B  Carpet cleaning  £2.00/m2
    upholstery cleaning £15.00/seat

C   Carpet cleaning £4.00/m2
     Upholstery cleaning £20/seating position

D   Single room  £15
     Through lounge £25
     Hall/stairs/landing  £18
     3 piece suite      £50

E   Lounge £52
    Through lounge £70
    Hall/stairs/landing £42
     Three piece suite  from £130

All price lists:

 Protector add 50% of cleaning price, subject to fair size policy.

 Commercial,large or non standard items, free on site quotation.

YP and Thomson both now allow pricing in thier directories.
 I get overwhelmed at times with  price shoppers, and will publish prices next year , in the hope of just recieving calls from people mostly wanting to book jobs.

[David_Annable]

Hi

The only time I have seen prices in adverts they are allways very low ones.

ie £20 a room, £50 3 piece.

Dave

[Joe H]

Its very difficult, I find, to do this sort of thing ie pricing for an advert. So many variables.

for instance - minimum charge - mine is £48 for fairly local jobs.

also the more I do in one premises, the more efficient pricing.
ie I may start off at £2.50/m2 (subject to minimum), but by the time I get a bedroom it gets cheaper per m2. (on the basis they are generally cleaner, therefore quicker)

Hall/stairs/landing - you range from £18, £29, £42
HSL on its own and assuming its a smallish hall and smallish landing would be £40 (£48 with minimum charge).
but one house I do the landing is like something from Dallas - wraps all around the front of the house.

Not much help to your dilema I know - buts its the complexity of listing prices that keeps me from advertising them - but I see where you are coming from.

[maxcarpets]

I wouldnt waste my money with either.

[Neil Grainger]

Had thomson trying to sell me space today, Crfedit card size advert in colour £456 + VAT.

I said i'll do it for £100.00 as thats all its worth. got all the blah blah blah from her about it.

She said that the £456 thats the best she could do, I said good buy.

[jasonl]

This year so far I have spent 11k on YP and had  28k of work, and there is still 8 months life in the directories , so I do not consider it a waste.

[Neil Grainger]

Jason is your main business flood or carpet work as this will make a lot of difference. Thats a great return from Yell/Thomson

[jasonl]

Mainly flood, though carpet cleaning is important to me, I dont wish to have people answering the phone to priceshoppers all day.
I think I will be running 2 ads with different company names , one with list A  and one with list E ,  it will be interesting to see what happens, and the return I get.

[Andy Foster]

Sounds like you are doing OK out of YP already, if I were you I wouldn't change a thing.

Andy

[markpowell]

I wouldnt bother with 2 different ads with prices on. its bad enough competing with all the other cleaners without competing with yourself.
the prices in list E look ok but maybe the suite could be brought down to the £100.00 mark.
Good luck Mark

[maxcarpets]

I think you will find you are in the minority of YP sucess stories, but good luck to you anyway, long may it continue.

Justin

[Shaun_Ashmore]

There was a guy from Halifax advertising prices on here last week, I believe he said £95 a suite and £40 a carpet.

Shaun

[markpowell]

Guess that must be me then

[David_Annable]

Hi

I had a look in the Halifax YP & coudn't see an ad with those prices.

Dave

[turneylogan]

Had thomson trying to sell me space today, Crfedit card size advert in colour £456 + VAT.

I said i'll do it for £100.00 as thats all its worth. got all the blah blah blah from her about it.

She said that the £456 thats the best she could do, I said good buy.

'Good buy' or 'goodbye'.

Funny... I do well out of YP but nothing out of Thompsons.

Told the Thompsons rep this. Their response was that when you ask a customer where they got your name from and they use the reply 'Yellow Pages' they say this as a generic term like people use 'Hoover' instead of 'vacuum'!