[paul alan]

who does this?

Do you ever find yourself surprised when they accept?

Is it a confidence thing?

[Pete Thompson]

Yes I’ve put silly prices in when I don’t want the job.

I’ll never forget an office building I once quoted that was a bit too far away, so I quoted a crazy rate plus an extra £15 for the traveling time. So a total of £185 for a 40 minute job with 20 mins traveling. Total time 1 hour.

Sent the quote off and forgot about it. They emailed back 3 days later saying “yes that’s fine when can you start”

I was gobsmacked! When I actually went to do the job, it was easier than I expected.

Another house I quoted £40 (big house), customer said yes great, carry on. When I did it, turns out I was looking at the wrong house when I quoted, and the actual house was less than half the size. Still did the job for £40.

Just goes to show, customers are prepared to pay for good service.

[paul alan]

Just for comparison, what would you charge for this googled image? Front only?

[paul alan]

Yes I’ve put silly prices in when I don’t want the job.

I’ll never forget an office building I once quoted that was a bit too far away, so I quoted a crazy rate plus an extra £15 for the traveling time. So a total of £185 for a 40 minute job with 20 mins traveling. Total time 1 hour.

Sent the quote off and forgot about it. They emailed back 3 days later saying “yes that’s fine when can you start”

I was gobsmacked! When I actually went to do the job, it was easier than I expected.

Another house I quoted £40 (big house), customer said yes great, carry on. When I did it, turns out I was looking at the wrong house when I quoted, and the actual house was less than half the size. Still did the job for £40.

Just goes to show, customers are prepared to pay for good service.

Could do with some office blocks like that, nice one.

[Shrek]

Just for comparison, what would you charge for this googled image? Front only?

£10

[JandS]

I once quoted a commercial carpet clean.....1260 sq m @ £3 per square m...because it was a night shift job.....3 nights later and 30 days wait later and bingo....£3780 cheque in post...I quoted not to get it.
6 months later Borders bookstore went bust.

[p1w1]

I once quoted a commercial carpet clean.....1260 sq m @ £3 per square m...because it was a night shift job.....3 nights later and 30 days wait later and bingo....£3780 cheque in post...I quoted not to get it.
6 months later Borders bookstore went bust.

and it was your fault 

[AuRavelling79]

Just for comparison, what would you charge for this googled image? Front only?

£10

Ditto.

[Walter Mitty]

That house front probably is a tenner's worth as a couple have said, but I want to keep to my new minimum of £14 for new work so would quote that.

[sunshine windows]

I didn’t want to work through till the beginning of next month but now have a £600 cons & gutter clean Monday and a £290 gutter job on Tuesday. Was trying not to get either 😂

[H2GoKent]

It just shows there isn't any point trying to be the cheapest, any fool can do that.

Watched an interesting promotional thing on Facebook, basically said there are three places in the market, top middle bottom, you don't want to be at the bottom where it's ONLY about price as you will work yourself to death for nothing ( I paraphrase )
just improve your service and value your time and you can charge more.

A little off topic I know but thought it illustrated the point

[dazmond]

who does this?

Do you ever find yourself surprised when they accept?

Is it a confidence thing?

no i dont ever put silly prices in.i price what i deem fair for a job(some will think its expensive and some will think its cheap).if its too far away i wouldnt take it on.

[Dry Clean]

It just shows there isn't any point trying to be the cheapest, any fool can do that.

Watched an interesting promotional thing on Facebook, basically said there are three places in the market, top middle bottom, you don't want to be at the bottom where it's ONLY about price as you will work yourself to death for nothing ( I paraphrase )
just improve your service and value your time and you can charge more.

A little off topic I know but thought it illustrated the point

Improve your service ? who's the cheapest the guy who clean glass, frames, sills, and doors or the cheaper guy who gives the glass a quick rub ?
 

[Plankton]

It just shows there isn't any point trying to be the cheapest, any fool can do that.

Watched an interesting promotional thing on Facebook, basically said there are three places in the market, top middle bottom, you don't want to be at the bottom where it's ONLY about price as you will work yourself to death for nothing ( I paraphrase )
just improve your service and value your time and you can charge more.

A little off topic I know but thought it illustrated the point

Improve your service ? who's the cheapest the guy who clean glass, frames, sills, and doors or the cheaper guy who gives the glass a quick rub ?

Do you mean cheapest value the customer is receiving, so that price could be £7.50 wfp or some trad guy could be £5.00 so what is the better value.

[Dry Clean]

It just shows there isn't any point trying to be the cheapest, any fool can do that.

Watched an interesting promotional thing on Facebook, basically said there are three places in the market, top middle bottom, you don't want to be at the bottom where it's ONLY about price as you will work yourself to death for nothing ( I paraphrase )
just improve your service and value your time and you can charge more.

A little off topic I know but thought it illustrated the point

Improve your service ? who's the cheapest the guy who clean glass, frames, sills, and doors or the cheaper guy who gives the glass a quick rub ?

Do you mean cheapest value the customer is receiving, so that price could be £7.50 wfp or some trad guy could be £5.00 so what is the better value.

What I'm saying is your only cheap or under priced if your offering the same service as the more expensive shiner therefore if
you improve your service your not really getting a better price.

[Bungle]

Just for comparison, what would you charge for this googled image? Front only?

Double what Tombuller would.

Hi Tom 👍

[NWH]

Yes I’ve put silly prices in when I don’t want the job.

I’ll never forget an office building I once quoted that was a bit too far away, so I quoted a crazy rate plus an extra £15 for the traveling time. So a total of £185 for a 40 minute job with 20 mins traveling. Total time 1 hour.

Sent the quote off and forgot about it. They emailed back 3 days later saying “yes that’s fine when can you start”

I was gobsmacked! When I actually went to do the job, it was easier than I expected.

Another house I quoted £40 (big house), customer said yes great, carry on. When I did it, turns out I was looking at the wrong house when I quoted, and the actual house was less than half the size. Still did the job for £40.

Just goes to show, customers are prepared to pay for good service.

This is exactly what my point is on the 400 thread if you don’t ask you don’t get you just have to stick to your guns on price there are still loads and loads of people out there starting out charging peanuts for jobs,they clean em for a year or so then come to the reality that the initial price was a joke to begin with. A lot of customers look at it from the point of view of what they’d want to clean there house and once they’ve cleaned there own windows once or twice they think I wouldn’t want to clean all them for 15-20 quid so when you fly round em in 20 minutes they’d still be happy to give you 40 quid coz they no longer have worry about cleaning them. You have to sell it to em it’s just like anything else it’s more do they like the look of you and your attitude more than how much the price is.