[spotless2000]

Setup or Coincidence?

Phone rings at 1pm – Miss X, “Can you give me a price to clean my windows please?”

Take her details including a number (mobile) and arrange to turn up at Miss X’s new semi at 2pm.

2pm pull into the cul-de-sac & drive passed 2 vans with ladders & WFP’s and 5 guys staring at me (my van is sign written).

I knock on the door when one of the men approaches me and says, “She’s just gone out”.  “You’re the new guy around here aren’t you? I’ve got your leaflet”.

So I make polite conversation.  “These are my guys”, he says, and I’ve got your leaflet”.  You’ve already said that once, I thought.  More probing questions about my business follow. 

“I’d better get on, nice to meet you”, I say.

So I knock again – no answer – I left card & a note saying I had called.

Questions…

Why does miss X arrange for me to turn up and then she’s not in?

When I phone the mobile – I get a message “this phone is switched off please call back later or send a text”.  Why is it now switched off?

Why do I think I’ve been setup?

Coincidence?

[jakeandmia]

Hi

Definently a set up me thinks.I wouldnt worry about it.All youre trying to do is build up your business.

Wayne

[jouk45]

he Could be a member here in this forum for all you know,

[spotless2000]

he Could be a member here in this forum for all you know,

Quite Possible!

[Paul Coleman]

Setup or Coincidence?

Phone rings at 1pm – Miss X, “Can you give me a price to clean my windows please?”

Take her details including a number (mobile) and arrange to turn up at Miss X’s new semi at 2pm.

2pm pull into the cul-de-sac & drive passed 2 vans with ladders & WFP’s and 5 guys staring at me (my van is sign written).

I knock on the door when one of the men approaches me and says, “She’s just gone out”.  “You’re the new guy around here aren’t you? I’ve got your leaflet”.

So I make polite conversation.  “These are my guys”, he says, and I’ve got your leaflet”.  You’ve already said that once, I thought.  More probing questions about my business follow. 

“I’d better get on, nice to meet you”, I say.

So I knock again – no answer – I left card & a note saying I had called.

Questions…

Why does miss X arrange for me to turn up and then she’s not in?

When I phone the mobile – I get a message “this phone is switched off please call back later or send a text”.  Why is it now switched off?

Why do I think I’ve been setup?

Coincidence?

As he kept on about having yopur leaflet, maybe you should have asked him if he wanted his windows cleaned.

[Londoner]

Its always going to happen. In this business you are bound to tread on a few toes. I wouldn't lose any sleep.

[Ali_D]

Perhaps he liked your leaflet 

[P @ F]

It was obviously him that set you up , i would have broke his nose !

 Rich P @ F

If hes a member on this forum i hope hes reading this  , hes a turd !

   

[ronaldo]

I like your way of thinking Rich" you must have come out of the same mould as me because thats exactly what i would have done mate!

[P @ F]

Ronaldo , perhaps you and me should merge and move our efforts into the area of SPOTLESS 2000   

 Rich  P @ F

[P @ F]

We wouldnt take any SPOTLESS 2000 work obviously !

 Rich   P @ F 

[spotless2000]

I hope you guys would introduce yourselves by inviting me for beer 1st - It would definitely be better then making me turn up to do a fake quote!

[ronaldo]

If we lived a bit nearer to each other Rich i"d have been all for that 

[P @ F]

That'd learn em eh !

       Rich P @ F

[windows_chepstow]

It really bugs me when I hear stories like Spotless's.

Similar - but worse - has happened to myself.

I really can't understand this sort of mentality.  If you do a good job and are a decent sort of chap, I doubt anyone would lose many customers to a new window cleaner.  And those you lost probably wouldn't be worth having in the first place.

Leekson (a member here), canvassed part of my round a few months back and I didn't lose one customer.  That's not a bad reflection on Leekson; but it is a nice compliment towards me.

Not long after that, via this forum, we arranged a time to meet up, so he could see how a Shurflo back-pack worked.

Hopefully, once Leekson has more work than he can handle, and someone asks him from an area I do to clean their windows, he'll point them in my direction.

Networking with other window cleaners is better than fighting with them.

[AuRavelling79]

To make absolutely sure, Spotless, call back on the house early evening when they're likely to be in and offer your services - if they know nothing about calling a window cleaner you've got an answer.

Call that mobile number at different times and if you get through just ask - is that the window cleaner?

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