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boldy1304

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newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« on: May 10, 2011, 04:15:17 pm »
couldnt believe it not only has it gone mad for newbies around here this one charged my mates neighbour £10 to do his windows and frames x6 front door and rear french doors plus all his gutters and facia cash only mind this is what we have to compete with ??? ??? :o :o

Mike_G

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Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2011, 04:21:09 pm »
Its not all doom and gloom I looked at a house today no more than 12 windows and the previous guy had been charging her £50, outside only

Pope vader

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Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2011, 05:05:09 pm »
dont u just love them emits boldy

boldy1304

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Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2011, 05:15:08 pm »
dont u just love them emits boldy

emits i havnt herd that one for a while are you from cornwall too

Pope vader

  • Posts: 1944
Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2011, 05:16:10 pm »
newquay,

AC Window Cleaning

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Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2011, 05:26:21 pm »
haha,leave him to it,bet it took him half a day ;D

EandM

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Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2011, 02:59:37 pm »
Grockles here in Devon

Alex Allen

Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2011, 05:34:08 pm »
couldnt believe it not only has it gone mad for newbies around here this one charged my mates neighbour £10 to do his windows and frames x6 front door and rear french doors plus all his gutters and facia cash only mind this is what we have to compete with ??? ??? :o :o


no, dont even try to compete
in fact dont even think about it

dont waste any time at all on this matter
i shouldnt even be posting this reponse

you have better things to think about
like your profit
that something, he will never have a problem with
because he dosent think about it
he try's to compete with everybody
and waste his own time

Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2011, 05:42:58 pm »
Its not all doom and gloom I looked at a house today no more than 12 windows and the previous guy had been charging her £50, outside only

That's cheap.

Mike_G

  • Posts: 1500
Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2011, 05:58:58 pm »
Its not all doom and gloom I looked at a house today no more than 12 windows and the previous guy had been charging her £50, outside only

That's cheap.

I hope you are kidding?

rosskesava

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Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2011, 06:05:46 pm »
I came across a newbie who was charging £10 to do all the windows on a 6 bed detached house, all the frames, the font door, the sofits and the gutters. Not only that, he was also going to include repainting the place, re do all the pointing, cut the grass and build a summer house in the garden.

With those prices how am I supposed to make a living?

 ;D
Just chant..... Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. It's beats chanting Tory Tory or Labour Labour.

cozy

Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2011, 06:10:47 pm »
Yeah, could easily get 15 quid for all that!!

rosskesava

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Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2011, 06:45:42 pm »
For £15 you'd have to throw in a freebie like offering to clean all the carpets and shine the silver.

What does surprise me about these low price newbies is that they don't then get undercut by a pikey or someone who's on the dole.
Just chant..... Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. It's beats chanting Tory Tory or Labour Labour.

cozy

Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2011, 06:59:49 pm »
For £15 you'd have to throw in a freebie like offering to clean all the carpets and shine the silver.

What does surprise me about these low price newbies is that they don't then get undercut by a pikey or someone who's on the dole.
;D ;D ;D

tacky

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Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2011, 10:08:11 pm »
may b the guy is not on this site .and not aware of prices .i know most people laugh n make jokes about the crazy price he done it for .but dont forget some of us on this site . (including me .)when we started window cleaning etc.put in some prices for work .and look back at them laugh to our selfs n think how daft we were then .spect he will wise up like we did .

bad trippy

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Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2011, 10:35:40 pm »
Send this geezer to my house, he can clean all my windows and whites for a tenner!
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Helen

Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2011, 02:48:34 pm »
couldnt believe it not only has it gone mad for newbies around here this one charged my mates neighbour £10 to do his windows and frames x6 front door and rear french doors plus all his gutters and facia cash only mind this is what we have to compete with ??? ??? :o :o

Bet he won't go back though.........One week working at that rate say 4 per day 5 days a week, nice bit of extra spends for a doley or someone on the sick :)

Tom White

Re: newbie charging £10 for windows and gutters
« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2011, 05:39:12 pm »
I found a flyer recently half-pushed through a customers letter box offering to clean their windows for £7.

I charge this customer £22.

Some people are just daft.