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tlwcs

  • Posts: 2081
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #40 on: February 23, 2014, 10:32:47 am »
this is now war.
tit for tat
i do the same one him
2 things i do on him
i used work for him a few years back. so i know.  before i went on myself

number 1 he's about 80 years old.
has about 2 or 3 people working for him and pays em about £2.00 an hour
keeps all the xmas tips, etc. he earns abot £3000 a week
said to me once. come work for me bank holiday monday and i pay you extra wages.
he gave me £1.00 bonus in my wages. he's a slimeball.
pays no tax and is supposed to be retired.
wants reporting, and i will do, thought he was good stealing houses.
now lets see how good he is. i show him how good i am.

number 2
i know he does about 20 - 30 shops in the village near me, all in a row.
and hes been doing them about 20 - 30 years, and charges about £10 for 1 window.
going post a flyer thru all off em, give them an offer they cant refuse.
1st three cleans free.
4th clean half price.
5th clean £1.00 off

tit for tat.


Very shrewd!  ;)
If 30 shops accept your offer of having their first 3 cleans for free that will be 90 shop cleans you will do all for sweet F.A.
Yeah that'll teach him.  ::)roll

lmao

rosskesava

  • Posts: 17015
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #41 on: February 23, 2014, 11:17:59 am »
this is now war.
tit for tat
i do the same one him
2 things i do on him
i used work for him a few years back. so i know.  before i went on myself

number 1 he's about 80 years old.
has about 2 or 3 people working for him and pays em about £2.00 an hour
keeps all the xmas tips, etc. he earns abot £3000 a week
said to me once. come work for me bank holiday monday and i pay you extra wages.
he gave me £1.00 bonus in my wages. he's a slimeball.
pays no tax and is supposed to be retired.
wants reporting, and i will do, thought he was good stealing houses.
now lets see how good he is. i show him how good i am.

number 2
i know he does about 20 - 30 shops in the village near me, all in a row.
and hes been doing them about 20 - 30 years, and charges about £10 for 1 window.
going post a flyer thru all off em, give them an offer they cant refuse.
1st three cleans free.
4th clean half price.
5th clean £1.00 off

tit for tat.


Earning £3000 a week, £10 a window..... and he's under cutting you?

How much were you charging to start with?
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.

robertphil

  • Posts: 1511
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #42 on: February 23, 2014, 11:23:35 am »
thing is if he is very long established itll be hard to hurt him in the wallet  . better to  poach his workers if you can afford to do it

Clever Forum Name

  • Posts: 5942
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #43 on: February 23, 2014, 11:26:01 am »
Thread is LOL a min.

£10 a window and you was undercut. What was you charging for a 3 bed semi ? £90 a clean.

SHAME ON YOU!

roundbuilder

Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #44 on: February 23, 2014, 11:31:50 am »
Undercut you on A few jobs!!! Who cares its the nayure of our game, why lose sleep over it, if your that envyous of the old man then maybe try following his lead instead of crying over spilt milk that was poured.


Mike #1

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Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #45 on: February 23, 2014, 11:40:01 am »
Thread is LOL a min.

£10 a window and you was undercut. What was you charging for a 3 bed semi ? £90 a clean.

SHAME ON YOU!

Sounds like Mick Kent prices  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D . Mike

Clever Forum Name

  • Posts: 5942
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #46 on: February 23, 2014, 11:44:13 am »
Thread is LOL a min.

£10 a window and you was undercut. What was you charging for a 3 bed semi ? £90 a clean.

SHAME ON YOU!

Sounds like Mick Kent prices  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D . Mike

lol - window cleaning has such a wide range of prices. £90 for a semi is about right tbh.

paul13

  • Posts: 491
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #47 on: February 23, 2014, 11:56:16 am »
thing is if he is very long established itll be hard to hurt him in the wallet  . better to  poach his workers if you can afford to do it

Why poach his workers?

Simon Mess

  • Posts: 1097
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #48 on: February 23, 2014, 12:06:58 pm »
As far as i know, i have not lost any customers due to another window cleaner undercutting me, but i have been subjected to what i would describe as mind games, or possibly intimidation tactics, and that was by someone on here.  

At the house i was cleaning, because of the layout, although my van was parked in the driveway area, it was parallel to the street with just the width of the pavement and a small embankment between my van and the road (8' max). The window cleaner in question parked on the street right beside my van and started canvassing!. Now i have absolutely no problem with the canvassing part, it is a free country (even though i personally would not canvass on a street i knew another window cleaner worked on), but it really bothered me that the guy parked where he did. There was no reason to park there, other than to make a point, or play silly bugger. The house i was at was not at the end of the street, and nowhere near the middle, which would be the obvious place to park if canvassing (same distance to walk either way). It just goes to show that different window cleaners have different ideas on what is 'acceptable behavior'.

Smurf

  • Posts: 8538
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #49 on: February 23, 2014, 12:12:56 pm »
To be honest I would not waste my time going out of my way like that (tit for tat campain) to try gaining crap paid work from others as there are plenty of good paying jobs out there to be had.


Simon Mess

  • Posts: 1097
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #50 on: February 23, 2014, 12:15:37 pm »
this is now war.
tit for tat
i do the same one him
2 things i do on him
i used work for him a few years back. so i know.  before i went on myself

number 1 he's about 80 years old.
has about 2 or 3 people working for him and pays em about £2.00 an hour
keeps all the xmas tips, etc. he earns abot £3000 a week
said to me once. come work for me bank holiday monday and i pay you extra wages.
he gave me £1.00 bonus in my wages. he's a slimeball.
pays no tax and is supposed to be retired.
wants reporting, and i will do, thought he was good stealing houses.
now lets see how good he is. i show him how good i am.

number 2
i know he does about 20 - 30 shops in the village near me, all in a row.
and hes been doing them about 20 - 30 years, and charges about £10 for 1 window.
going post a flyer thru all off em, give them an offer they cant refuse.
1st three cleans free.
4th clean half price.
5th clean £1.00 off

tit for tat.


To me this comes under the heading of 'biting off your nose to spite your face' ;D

robertphil

  • Posts: 1511
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #51 on: February 23, 2014, 01:48:21 pm »
thing is if he is very long established itll be hard to hurt him in the wallet  . better to  poach his workers if you can afford to do it

Why poach his workers?

if they are half decent at the job he will struggle to replace them and might go under in the process

Don Kee

  • Posts: 4874
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #52 on: February 23, 2014, 01:52:40 pm »
Have you tried peeing around your houses to mark your territory?
Why don't you have a quick google before making stupid comments?

Michael Peterson

  • Posts: 1741
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #53 on: February 23, 2014, 02:06:38 pm »
in the time spent posting this i would have picked up more customers than you have lost, forgotten about the unloyal customers and focused on the new, nothing good is going to come from revenge or anything to do with any other company, focus on what you are doing and nothing else

Bill.upnw

  • Posts: 293
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #54 on: February 23, 2014, 03:03:09 pm »
I smell horse poop up in this bitch

Bill.upnw

  • Posts: 293
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #55 on: February 23, 2014, 03:04:48 pm »
A mong on here undercut me on a few.
He's welcome to them.
There's nothing you can do really.
And he can't 'steal' your customers, they're free to use whoever they want.
It's up to you to provide a service that is worth more if you want to keep them.

What a shiddy bum you are, got the swollocks to call whoever stole your work a mong over the keyboard, but wont name and shame them....keyboard warrior

C o z y

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Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #56 on: February 23, 2014, 03:51:21 pm »
As some of the guys have already pointed out, 90 free cleans lol. This nthread has got to be a Bateman wind up.  ;)
No still don't understand, I must be thick

rosskesava

  • Posts: 17015
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #57 on: February 23, 2014, 04:43:27 pm »
Of course it's a wind up.

£1 bonus, paying £2 an hour, earning £3 000 a week, £10 for one window, 20 to 30 shops all next to each other in a village.......
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.

Bill.upnw

  • Posts: 293
Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #58 on: February 23, 2014, 05:12:46 pm »
Deffo

PoleKing

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Re: window cleaner stealing houses
« Reply #59 on: February 23, 2014, 05:26:21 pm »
A mong on here undercut me on a few.
He's welcome to them.
There's nothing you can do really.
And he can't 'steal' your customers, they're free to use whoever they want.
It's up to you to provide a service that is worth more if you want to keep them.

What a shiddy bum you are, got the swollocks to call whoever stole your work a mong over the keyboard, but wont name and shame them....keyboard warrior

Lol. I am far from a keyboard warrior. I'm more fororthright in person.
I have a small gripe with the person for undercutting me.
Is it a big enough issue to put out there in the public domain? No.
Someone local to me has asked who it is-I'll let him know as he's asked and he's a friend. Not on here, by text.
www.LanesWindowCleaning.com

It's just the internet. Try not to worry.