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Tristan R Clean

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Price rises
« on: February 04, 2022, 07:33:50 am »
With everything going up in price, is everyone increasing their prices?
If you are mainly domestic I would say this would be more difficult at the moment.
Would you say it would be easier to raise commercial prices?
T

zesty

  • Posts: 2453
Re: Price rises
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2022, 07:41:35 am »
Defo a tricky one, the cost of living is going to be very tough for a lot of people out there.

I’m not raising prices yet, rather, trying to add a couple of hundred worth of jobs to cover my cost of living.

james peters

  • Posts: 950
Re: Price rises
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2022, 07:55:19 am »
I put about 60 jobs up in dec with effect from jan .
I  lost 3 but I have gained more than I lost, and at better prices..

Also, the price rises more than cover the loss.
I am  a little concerned, so I am going to up sell a few more add ons to cover.
Going to dip my toe into pressure washing.     


KS Cleaning

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Re: Price rises
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2022, 08:21:48 am »
The cost of living goes up for us too.
I’ve been putting up the price of some jobs the last few weeks, not had any cancellations….yet. I picked up quite a lot of walk ups and a few jobs from my website first few weeks of the year so that gave me the confidence to put prices up. The way  I look at it, if I lose any customers because of the price rise, they have already been replaced by better paid work.

dazmond

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Re: Price rises
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2022, 08:37:19 am »
With everything going up in price, is everyone increasing their prices?
If you are mainly domestic I would say this would be more difficult at the moment.
Would you say it would be easier to raise commercial prices?
T

No price rises this year for me,I can easily absorb the extra money it's gonna cost me for gas/electric,etc.....

I fully expect to lose some jobs though....

Remember this is the biggest squeeze on most people's finances in 30 years....
price higher/work harder!

Mike Burd

Re: Price rises
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2022, 09:38:13 am »
Yes. As we speak we're putting up all prices except those that joined from June 21. You'd be stupid not to quite frankly.

Arnold Palmer

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Re: Price rises
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2022, 09:43:48 am »
Prices going up as we speak. So far (since 01/02/22) I've had one cancel.

SB Cleaning

  • Posts: 4287
Re: Price rises
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2022, 11:00:21 am »
I have been putting mine up im mainly domestic, I thought one old lady was gonna have a heart attack after i  put her £20 job up by £2  :D

Jay Le Huray

  • Posts: 647
Re: Price rises
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2022, 11:28:25 am »
Every year I put my prices up in January,
I increase half the round and the following year the other half
by doing this all my customers get an increase every 2 years

using this system  I very rarely get a cancellation from increasing my prices

Richard iSparkle

  • Posts: 2491
Re: Price rises
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2022, 11:32:11 am »
price rise due in my business too so i'm going ahead as planned,

if i cant rise prices the business will become untenable.

min wage keeps rising, fuel rising, equipment costs... my prices too
iSparkle Window Cleaning

www.isparklewindowcleaning.uk

Smudger

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Re: Price rises
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2022, 01:10:04 pm »
with everything going up then you really have to follow suit - that's just a fact of life, otherwise your going backwards or bust.

we did our price increase last summer so no plans to increase further until next spring, however if fuel, heating and other items rocket then I would increase again this year

Darran
Never argue with an idiot, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience

Arnold Palmer

  • Posts: 20777
Re: Price rises
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2022, 01:14:24 pm »
with everything going up then you really have to follow suit - that's just a fact of life, otherwise your going backwards or bust.

we did our price increase last summer so no plans to increase further until next spring, however if fuel, heating and other items rocket then I would increase again this year

Darran

If?

dazmond

  • Posts: 23966
Re: Price rises
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2022, 06:19:17 pm »
I put over 200 jobs up last year so I'll leave it another year
price higher/work harder!

dazmond

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Re: Price rises
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2022, 06:23:08 pm »
I put over 200 jobs up last year so I'll leave it another year

It's was 2020 not last year!I'm still not putting up prices until next year though....time flies!
price higher/work harder!

Skinner

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Re: Price rises
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2022, 06:24:23 pm »
We were due to increase our prices spring 2020 then covid hit.  Think we are now going to put one round up and see what the outcome is?
If you lose a handful you know you'll pick new ones up to replace within weeks

Mike Burd

Re: Price rises
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2022, 06:42:31 pm »
We were due to increase our prices spring 2020 then covid hit.  Think we are now going to put one round up and see what the outcome is?
If you lose a handful you know you'll pick new ones up to replace within weeks
If you have 500 customers and you put every one up by £2 that's £12,000 (4 weekly). You could lose quite a few before your increase was a mistake.

֍Winp®oClean֍

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Re: Price rises
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2022, 08:47:21 pm »
Been putting them up over the last 2/3 months. Not had any issues so far. 👍
Comfortably Numb!

AuRavelling79

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Re: Price rises
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2022, 09:05:53 pm »
I've been putting mine up.
It's a game of three halves!

DJW

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Re: Price rises
« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2022, 10:33:04 pm »
I was having a bath last night and the soap went up.

Spruce

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Re: Price rises
« Reply #19 on: February 05, 2022, 07:38:28 am »
Have you been putting them up by the usual £1 or £2 amount or are you looking at a higher amount?
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