[RPCCS]

Entirely different business, but on the same subject,I work within the coach industry,and every July all the operators put their tender in for the school contracts to the county council. There is 1 company that will undercut every operator to win contracts, last year I discovered they were charging £40-50 less per day than the average price. As a result of this some ops lost contracts and had to make redundancies, ye that's  business but this is taking the p***, like alot of you say,knowingly charging less than another cleaner is sneaky.

[Ian W]

but I won't go back. Well, perhaps I would with a big price increase! 

I don't. If I get dropped or drop a customer, I don't go back because something didn't work and there's absolutely no reason why it would work 2nd time around.

Only said tongue in cheek Simon. You are right, it probably wouldn't work second time around. 

[dai]

Stellios knew what he was doing with Easyjet and so do Ryanair, They cut costs, charged less and most of us will use their services.
Guys who got in early with WFP and 60ft poles made an absolute killing, they charge inflated prices because they could, they went in cheaper than trad guys using cherry pickers.
A lot of this type of customers are happy because they are paying less than they were.
If one guy is earning a grand and a half per week, there will be another quite happy to earn a grand, move along piggy, I want to get my snout into the trough.

I am not talking about undercutting some guy who is doing council houses at £6 a go, [this happened to me], I am talking about sole trading window cleaners that have had to go V.A.T registered.
I can see nothing wrong whatsoever in contacting large hotels or businesses, and  requesting that they allow you to quote when their present window cleaning contract is up for renewal. Churchill, Northwich union, and a host of other insurance companies do that every time My insurance is due.
There are a lot of new guys on the block looking for work for their new 60ft poles, the big guys need to be looking over their shoulders. Dai

[tompoole]

Hi

Nothing as long as we don't start driving the prices to low or we will all be working for nowt. we are all in it to make a few bob. i never undercut on purpose, i put my price in and stick to it. In fact i normally over price things then knock money of if the job takes less time than expected but only  when i have done the job a couple of times.

Tom