[Paul Moss]

Competition is hotting up now
https://www.facebook.com/Dipsdirtycarpetcleaners?fref=photo

[Simon Gerrard]

£30 for ALL your carpets. You need to put your prices up mate. You could easily get £32. How's the arm?😃

Simon

[davep]

Broken arm fixed in a week too 

[Mike Halliday]

' SCOTCHGUARDING'  £5 a room or sofa

 I think I worked out it cost on average £14 to protect a living room using chemspec Stain shield, wonder what he's using

But good luck to him, if he's happy who are we to scorn his endeavour 

[Craigp]

It's a she.


It just devalues our industry. Guess she's just making pocket money, all cash probably.

[bennymon]

Mike he may be using the same as you just mixing it at 2000/1   

[Paul Redden Countryfresh]

Did  you see the plastic waste tank sitting on the stairs? Wonder what mickey mouse machine
that came out of?

[Carpet Dawg]

its a vax or a bissel machine she is using.

Craig is right, makes the industry a laughing stock and devalues our service.

Someone is going to say that her customers wont be our customers. BUT they might of been!

Why would she mention her arm break on her fb page? numpty. very unprofessional.

[Paul Moss]

This is happening more and more every year . Even more so over the past 12 months.

I saw this coming a few years ago and I foresee the industry being devalued greatly in the next two years.

For this reason myself and others no longer post help on this type of forum as it is gleamed by far too many of this type of operator.

[William Sharpe]

Mr Moss you didn't have anything to do with the broken arm did ya

[adrian marsh]

"DIRTY CARPET CLEANERS"? I do at least have a wash before arriving at a job. £30 / Job? Maybe it's the future, but it's certainly not in my game plan to raise my prices to that amount

[*Hector*]

ABSOLUTELY Aidy... we can leave the likes of Simon to charge those dizzy high prices...
us common folk will stick to our £19.99 and hope they let us keep the penny change..

 

[Shaun_Ashmore]

They'll be selling rolls Royce cars for under a grand next! It's a matter of finding the right customer it's not a time to be lazy!

Shaun

[clinton]

Paul made a great post and he is spot on with the devaluation of  our business..

[Jamie Pearson]

This is happening more and more every year . Even more so over the past 12 months.

Is it? Or is it just easier to spot them now ?

Do you get more flyers for cheap carpet cleaning through your door?

Do you see more of them out there on the web?

Or is it just on Facebook where its easy to advertise, free and like shooting fish in a barrel at that end of the market?

[Terry A McDonald]

Its people like this that when you give a true and genuine price that cause a customer to say......"HOW much!!!!!!?"

Its the same with office cleaning, too many `charities` out there doing work for nil profit! They must have charitable status because they certainly are not a business!

[adrian marsh]

Its people like this that when you give a true and genuine price that cause a customer to say......"HOW much!!!!!!?"

Its the same with office cleaning, too many `charities` out there doing work for nil profit! They must have charitable status because they certainly are not a business!

Spot on Terry. They're a pain in the backside.

[Paul Moss]

So why give them all the answers to how to run their business and solve problems on an open forum ?
I can understand suppliers doing it to get business... But why the rest of you?
We are talking business here and not a past time forum, ,,,,ll or us it ?

[Craigp]

Exactly Paul, all members on here unwittingly help their own competition, I'm happy to help others but this forum is far too public.

[Mike Halliday]

So why do you bother logging onto CIU? If you are not willing to give advice then you are just taking from the forum but not willing to give,

You must be in a  sorry  state if you feel so threatened by these cheap companies that you feel the need to keep your  knowledge to yourself in case you might help out a cheapo company.

These companies have always been around and always will be, it's like   home-clean who used to mass leaflet 'half price offer'

The world is full of customers willing to pay good prices just go out and find them rather than moan that cheapo companies are stealing all the work, the are taking a morsel of the business out there