[gwrightson]

80 jobs to be shed by c/d  in their head quarters  at beverly e. yorks , according to the local news they are merging with a company from Preston !!!

Geoff

[jasonl]

They let 100 go last year too , big drop off in insurance work for them, the new owners have bought in a declining market, good on the original owners for selling when they did.

[Len Gribble]

Most desk bound jockeys don’t do a lot any way

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Len, honestly

Shaun

[Neil Williams]

I have noticed their end user charges (to the customer) have come down on routine work, and that they are travelling a lot further for small jobs.
I competed and lost to a CD who had travelled 15 miles to quote a living room / HSL

[jasonl]

On insurance work for aviva , £75 to clean a 3 bed house , that is first hand from a franchissee

[Neil Williams]

£75  what are they doing? trying to compete with enterprise

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I know what you are saying Neil but you need to look at it from a larger company stand, they have a man spare that can clean it and keep in with the insurance company for the lucrative work, we (me included) can't afford to compete with that but then my time as well as yours is more precious.

Shaun

[jasonl]

75 will be what the franchissee gets paid , the insurance co will pay nearly double that

[Shaun_Ashmore]

That's a bit naughty I was under the impression that CD took 20% from insurance work, it's not really pushing the quality angle of the business lets not forget that CD have a very good name for themselves.

Shaun

[jasonl]

Insurance companies dont get vat back , loss adjustors add a chunk , will soon double costs .

[Neil Williams]

On the subject of pass the buck did you get a phone call last week from a lady in Nottingham who wanted to get into the carpet cleaning game?

That's a bit naughty I was under the impression that CD took 20% from insurance work, it's not really pushing the quality angle of the business lets not forget that CD have a very good name for themselves.

[Carpet Dawg]

£75 for a three bed house! And you pay £30k or whatever set up fee for that?! shocking

[Mike Halliday]

my local chemdry is quoting £200 for a big through lounge and has a min charge of £95, so they are not all only getting £75 for a 3 bed

[jasonl]

my local chemdry is quoting £200 for a big through lounge and has a min charge of £95, so they are not all only getting £75 for a 3 bed

They are for insurance wor for Aviva , I have seen the paperwork ,, and some CD franchissees are the biggest  walter mitty s in the business

[Carpet Dawg]

Of course, work brought through from HQ will be wholesale lol minus thier share so to speak.

The chem drys around here charge quite a bit too. Similar to Mikes, and from what customers have told me over the years they are not overly impressed on thier cleaning ability.

Maybe they are comparing the cost of the job to the time spent cleaning. I mean there's only so long you can drag out a through lounge at £200.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Tony you are so right it makes me laugh! But they have spent time and money on marketing and that's the key.

Shaun

[gwrightson]

pure coincidence, buti just got a job. hall,  bedroom and lounge in a flat  quoted £135.00 then was told c/d had quoted her £300  and that was over the phone ,dam going to have to up my prices

geoff

[bennymon]

wouldnt up my prices here mate worst week ever 1 job took 1 hour £85. and only had 3 jobs last week.dont know whats going on still got 7 web sites highly ranked  and 20,000 leaflets went out a week and a half ago.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Sorry Neil didn't notice the post about woman in Nottingham, BTW no she hasn't rang.

Back to thread, one of my local CD's quoted a customer £198 for a thru room to be cleaned approx 250 sq ft, the customer told him he was taking the rise, I didn't know this until I quoted my price but he snatched my hand off.

Shaun