[Doug Holloway]

Hi Guys

A lot depends on how many enquiries you are  is getting, if 40 then you can certainly quote higher than if you are getting 10.

Those who are better cleaners , have bettter marketing or are well established can obviously charge more but in most cases they have earnt that right.

Cheers

Doug

[Len Gribble]

Joe

On some of my jobs YES £210 ph, which is the norm. On others a lot-lot less which is also the norm.

Steve

Ford £85 in your neck of the woods need to take mine into Merc £75 last time in it there were 5 looking at it plus being plugged into the computer system it took a apprentice to point out the fault and he was only passing by


Len

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

A lot of common sense in what Carpet Guy says. IMO

[Simon Gerrard]

I have done 4 leather suites in the last week, all for under £100 each + vat.
While the customers was paying me I asked them if I'd quoted them over £220 + vat for the same job would they have booked me?
Unanimous answer? No!!!
Some said that if they knew what I good job I was going to be they would have been happy to pay more than I'd charged them but thought £220+ vat was just too much.
But hey, if you can get it! I just wonder how many customers you lose looking for the odd potential client that is willing to pay that much.

[COLIN BRIGHT]

 

[Simon Gerrard]

 

[Paul_Ashworth]

Simon,
The point is you had already given them the price and they had that price in there mind, I do agree with you that most people wont pay £200.00 + + Vat to have a suite cleaned it is to much.

Paul

[Mike Halliday]

shouldn't you charge whatever you would have earned if you were cleaning carpets.

a couple of hours cleaning a leather suite I can easily clean a T/L ,HSL & the Kitchen so £150 sounds about right

[*paul_moss]

Simon at under £100 your a tad too cheap. More and more leather suites are coming up for cleaning now as DFS etc have been selling 100s of 1000s of them over the past 6 years, so top coats and redying are in good demand  .

[Simon Gerrard]

Paul,
I take your point about having already given them the price, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the customers were lying when they said they wouldn't pay £220+ vat.

I'd rather charge a moderate price, do an excellent job for more people and reap the benefits of all the repeat and referral work that will surely come my way because I charge a fair price for a fantastic job.
Don't get me wrong, if people are happy to pay over £220 for something that is only actually worth half that then fair dinkum!

Paul,
Top coats and redying or one thing, but we're talking about just cleaning and conditioning. I don't do that, neither do most so there's a good market for your training courses.

[*paul_moss]

Simon, Im very quiet this week, so if you fancy an hours drive here ( except Thurs) your more than welcome to come and spend a day/half day  .

[Simon Gerrard]

Paul,
I did a course on restoration a good few years ago but never really got into it. Cruise ships are my forte and every time I watch the Leather Doctor at work on one of them I am always in awe of his skill at how he manages to make a scratch or tear disappear and match the colour perfectly, but it's not something I fancy doing myself.

Simon

[*paul_moss]

Simon, think how much you could more you could make doing the leather work on the ships as well.

[Simon Gerrard]

Nah,

Disloyalty to another member of the team is frowned upon really heavily and like I said, whilst I admire the skill involved it's not something that lights my fire.
Each to his own, I guess!

Simon