[mick partington]

hi all im new on here iv been having a look round but my question not been asked to my nowledge.
my windowcleaners offered me his bisiness hes 60yrs and wants to retire im being made redundant and need work, i dont want to course any problems with him so im not including anymore detials.
to get to the point he,s really run the business down he cleans several town houses in my street including mine and charges £1 per 3wk clean [was 80p untill he increase earler this year i always piad £1 because i felt guilty takeing 20p change.
he says the round does a couple of hundred quid a month when i asked how much he wanted all he,d say is not much now bare in mind my windows are in a pretty poor state of clean so are the rest of his round is it worth buying this round from him and trying to build it back up.

[johns window kleen]

Noooooo!!!!

[elite mike]

run


as fast as you can

or offer him a fiver for the list and go round the custys and explain that

to offer a realistic service at todays prices

take it or leave it

[clean]

hi all im new on here iv been having a look round but my question not been asked to my nowledge.
my windowcleaners offered me his bisiness hes 60yrs and wants to retire im being made redundant and need work, i dont want to course any problems with him so im not including anymore detials.
to get to the point he,s really run the business down he cleans several town houses in my street including mine and charges £1 per 3wk clean [was 80p untill he increase earler this year i always piad £1 because i felt guilty takeing 20p change.
he says the round does a couple of hundred quid a month when i asked how much he wanted all he,d say is not much now bare in mind my windows are in a pretty poor state of clean so are the rest of his round is it worth buying this round from him and trying to build it back up.

ARE YOU MAD ?  

[Scrimble]

dont waste your time, the round is worthless

[stephen s]

sounds like a great time to go canvassing 

[mick partington]

when i tell other people what we pay our cleaner thay gasp with astonishment i new many of his cliants will not take kindly to a large increase but thay like me must realise its unrealisticly low so im thinking increase to £3.50 and take it from there its better than the £64.95 i,ll get from the job centre.what you think

[aztec]

go for it mate i like your attitude

[Clive McDonald]

Hi Mick,
you seem like a nice bloke.If I asked you to clean your own windows how much would you want me to pay you and how long would it take?

Can you get round the back of your house easily?

How many an hour could you do if they were close together (compact), and how many if there was a ten minute drive in between each house?

At his prices how much does the wc earn a day?

[Moderator David@stives]

His round isnt worthless.

I would buy it for a nominal amount (Very small amount). Then I would walk the round, tell each and every customer that you are taking over but the new price would be £...... whatever it needs to be.

Explain to the customers about the pricing, I am absolutely positive about 80 % will sympathise and pay the new rate straight away, those who wont arent worth having anyway..

It has got to be worth a punt, get the customers at your prices, then you are onto a winner.

[Neil Williams]

Have I missed something or is he really charging one pound per property?
If so, and these customers have been used to paying £1 then putting it up 300% won't go down well.
Build your own round is these circumstances at an hourly rate you're happy with.

[mick partington]

iv lived here 20yrs in that time its gone from 65p to 80p to £1 i need to know what its worth as iv no experince in windowcleaning at all

[Central Window Cleaners]

I would buy it for max of £100, even if you put the prices up and lost 50% of them you would still make it back in the first month

[Dean Taberner]

His round isnt worthless.

I would buy it for a nominal amount (Very small amount). Then I would walk the round, tell each and every customer that you are taking over but the new price would be £...... whatever it needs to be.

Explain to the customers about the pricing, I am absolutely positive about 80 % will sympathise and pay the new rate straight away, those who wont arent worth having anyway..

It has got to be worth a punt, get the customers at your prices, then you are onto a winner.

Very small amount

[HIGH LEVEL WINDOW CLEANERS (scrimmy)]

His round isnt worthless.

I would buy it for a nominal amount (Very small amount). Then I would walk the round, tell each and every customer that you are taking over but the new price would be £...... whatever it needs to be.

Explain to the customers about the pricing, I am absolutely positive about 80 % will sympathise and pay the new rate straight away, those who wont arent worth having anyway..

It has got to be worth a punt, get the customers at your prices, then you are onto a winner.

totally agree

[mick partington]

slumpbuster
if the gates locked he only does the front you cant expect him to climb over can ?
im going to ask how much he earnes per hour but he,d have to be grease lightning to earn over a fiver  :

[Dean Taberner]

This has got to be a wind up thread,

I honestly did consider posting something like this a few months ago when I was half cut,

80p houses

Please

[mick partington]

no wind up thing is im still interested i want to get into this business just trying to get my head around it, this guy as a better tan than simon cowell he goes away 5 times a year 

[Perfect Vision]

Dam paying for that, I'd charge HIM for the round and hasstle id have to go through lol

[mci services]

think of it this way, as mentioned you offer a very small amount, increase by 400% that will make the round worth £800 quid a month and if you lose 20% you still have a round worth £640, thats not a bad start to a new w/c business with something to work on to building a good business. ask what he wants for the round he may only be looking for a few quid so thinks hes not letting anyone down