Sherlock
With due respect, THe issue that I am tring to get going is not any one service provider. its about the quility of these people.
HI Guys
Our market place is as big as we like. theirs is very small. we are little fish in big a pond and they are big fish in little pond.
Let me explane. about roberts portable. I know that one of the peole in that venture has put money from his retirement the company went out of business. his risk yes, but let say that they where around today and it happened, having this forum and this forum is only a small amount of carpet cleaners use it that are in business. so it would only be a slice of their PR.
I'll bet that some of these people have put everything up so as to devolop say a machine. homes, savings, etc.
A way aroung this carpet cleaner ego trip would be to have a live chat room then whatever was talked about would not be recorded in text. It the text that make it look like advertising.
I for one are thankfull for what these people do for me. and would like to tell them evan the ones that I dont do business with. thanks.
I have seen post about pricees of machine or products. all of them have value in some way. for such a small market place we treat the people that serve us badly. bad monthing them and their products. and not letting them answer us back. easy for us to nock them knowing that they cant answer back.
As per another post on this forum. anyone can log on and see what we are talking about. people wantting to start up, customers, people wantting to invest in services or products, machines, for us.
I also include the assocations in this, from NCCA, BICSc, and all the people that spend their time training us to a professional leval.
One last thing and that many people seek information on here but just view the messages and that dont have the confindance to post. in is in everyones interst that we provide information. because without it we produce dirt suckers.
An example someone knocks the NCCA so a newbe see this and thinks I will not bother becoming a member. now if the NCCA could answer in the first place I dint think that half of what is said would be and second, one person works to what they think should be ethical, now we know what that means!
We need to be accountable in some way, Sure nothing is perfect, but going forwards is much better that standing still, because if you stand still in business then everything around you moves forwards.
Respectfully...................Ian Harper