[Splash & dash]

New enquiries are markedly down on every March since the 1990s (except 2020 obvs). Normally we're out the door with enquiries from March onwards.

We've lost 66 customers since 01/02/2022 - around 1/2 of them are due to price increases.

that's a heck of a lot to lose in a couple of months Soupy, I put my prices up and have only lost 1 job since the new year and oddly enough this one was not increased this time around, I think they must be feeling the pinch though.

I was expecting to lose around 200 from the price increase so I'm not too bothered about that, I'm more concerned about the lack of new enquiries.

What’s your total number of customers??  That’s a lot so far we haven’t lost a single customer to price increases or due to the cost of living going up , our enquires are slightly down on last year but we are still booked solid for  add  ons until June , I think all this depends on area and type of customers if  it’s work on ex council estates then I can understand it but not if they are decent areas .

[NWH]

It is all dependent on what kind of jobs you have as Splash says certain people will lose work people will want their windows cleaning I’ve been saying it for a while I think the monthly stuff will get pushed back not cancelled,Will some of  the direct debit customers cancel 🤔 maybe a lot of people are looking through their direct debits to see what they can save.
We have had our Gas and electric estimate for next year today come through,it’s gone up to £3000 for a years worth.

[deeege]

Literally every year on here there’s some reason people are saying we’re gonna lose work.

Credit crunch, brexit, covid, too many new WCs, cost of living, war in Ukraine now.

I guess we might be right this year, but they’ve been wrong every other year..

Exactly this. Some people are just naturally pessimistic and think every year will be the start of the end.

[deeege]

Lost 200 customers I don’t think I’ve got 200 customers lol.

I havnt got 200 customers.

[NWH]

No m8 I don’t think I have I might have if I included the 10-12 weekly ones maybe I’ll have a count up over the weekend you never know.

[zesty]

I’ve got no where near 200 customers, couldn’t think of anything worse 

[cgh window cleaning]

I think he has 10+vans on the road so his predicted losses will obviously be higher than most.

[AuRavelling79]

It's a perfect storm for energy/fuel prices.

Economy was taking off after Covid.
Gas/Electric cap was set to rise in April.
Now war in Ukraine.
Sanctions.

The only silver lining is we will use less going into Spring and Summer (Northern hemisphere).

[Aqua Power Solutions]

So far i have increased 206 properties with an extra income of £307 . Only lost 1 customer due to price increase  .  Moving forward i am still going to increase prices on my rounds and  i do expect to lose some due to cost of living ect . We are all in  business to make money and provide services that customers are willing to pay for   .  ( i hope !!! )
 Ed