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dazmond

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #60 on: January 14, 2023, 04:32:07 pm »
If I put up my £15 jobs I got fifteen years ago by £3 every year they would all be £60 now.
Somehow I don’t think I’d have many left.

I’d be earning about £180 an hour.

Exactly there is some BS and exaggeration in regards to price rises on here..there is no way most customers would except a price rise year on year.a year goes by so fast....same with the BS saying "well you must be taking a pay cut year after year if you don't put them up every year!" ::)roll


Read the posts again and correctly, I said due to the current financial situation it will be necessary to increase prices again this year after having  increased them last year , normally we have a price rise every other year or so , but inflation has risen that much over the  year and in most areas continues to rise so a further price rise is needed you are paying more for  most things now than last year month on month so we need to keep pace with inflation with our price rises  or we are in effect taking a pay cut , this is Evan more important when employing , it’s not rocket science , if you don’t increase your prices  for two years at the current rate of inflation you will need to do a much higher rise when you do .
Going by one of your earlier posts are you really raising prices by an average of around 25% two years in a row and using inflation which is just north of 10%  as an excuse? I take it none of your customers are any good at maths?



Its madness, you only have to switch on the tv and we're bombarded with news about the NHS. That's the NHS , probably the most highly respected workforce in this country who were hailed as hero's over the pandemic, who had people out on the streets clapping them, who quite literally save lives, and who have just been offered a  2.1% payrise for 2023 whilst inflation is north of 10%, yet a low skilled window cleaner thinks he can justify hitting his customers with two £3 rises on a £15 property two years running! If you put those prices up at the same time of year ie say the start of the tax year 5th of April then the reality is, that customers price has gone up from £15 to £21 in the space of 1 year and 1 day! The vast majority of wages in this country wont be going up 10%, yet they'll be expected to swallow a 40% jump in price on their window cleaning bill in just over a year! Good luck with that, any workman who upped his prices like that for a "service" for me  without actually supplying a product would get told to sling his hook.

Exactly...Splash and dash is the worst for bragging about how he has no competition and 4500 customers blah blah blah and all his customers except the prices rises no problem and ask him when he will put them up again(they can't wait!) ;D ;D ;D ;D
price higher/work harder!

Splash & dash

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #61 on: January 14, 2023, 05:03:55 pm »
If I put up my £15 jobs I got fifteen years ago by £3 every year they would all be £60 now.
Somehow I don’t think I’d have many left.

I’d be earning about £180 an hour.

Exactly there is some BS and exaggeration in regards to price rises on here..there is no way most customers would except a price rise year on year.a year goes by so fast....same with the BS saying "well you must be taking a pay cut year after year if you don't put them up every year!" ::)roll


Read the posts again and correctly, I said due to the current financial situation it will be necessary to increase prices again this year after having  increased them last year , normally we have a price rise every other year or so , but inflation has risen that much over the  year and in most areas continues to rise so a further price rise is needed you are paying more for  most things now than last year month on month so we need to keep pace with inflation with our price rises  or we are in effect taking a pay cut , this is Evan more important when employing , it’s not rocket science , if you don’t increase your prices  for two years at the current rate of inflation you will need to do a much higher rise when you do .
Going by one of your earlier posts are you really raising prices by an average of around 25% two years in a row and using inflation which is just north of 10%  as an excuse? I take it none of your customers are any good at maths?


Price rises are usually every 2 years but with the way prices of everything are rising at this time everyone is expecting a price rise shopping in Tesco stuff gives up every week so us increasing prices two years on the Trott is expected. With a usual 2 yearly price increase we don’t base that on inflation , ime not interest  in odd prices or £1 increase  it would have to be a minimum of £2 increase on our cheapest jobs , I always round up to the nearest pound , what others choose to do is up to them but if a customer cannot afford it that’s fine we have plenty that will pay it , we don’t need the work so I would be a fool to keep lower priced work when ones are more than happy to pay higher .

Splash & dash

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #62 on: January 14, 2023, 05:10:09 pm »
If I put up my £15 jobs I got fifteen years ago by £3 every year they would all be £60 now.
Somehow I don’t think I’d have many left.

I’d be earning about £180 an hour.

Exactly there is some BS and exaggeration in regards to price rises on here..there is no way most customers would except a price rise year on year.a year goes by so fast....same with the BS saying "well you must be taking a pay cut year after year if you don't put them up every year!" ::)roll


Read the posts again and correctly, I said due to the current financial situation it will be necessary to increase prices again this year after having  increased them last year , normally we have a price rise every other year or so , but inflation has risen that much over the  year and in most areas continues to rise so a further price rise is needed you are paying more for  most things now than last year month on month so we need to keep pace with inflation with our price rises  or we are in effect taking a pay cut , this is Evan more important when employing , it’s not rocket science , if you don’t increase your prices  for two years at the current rate of inflation you will need to do a much higher rise when you do .
Going by one of your earlier posts are you really raising prices by an average of around 25% two years in a row and using inflation which is just north of 10%  as an excuse? I take it none of your customers are any good at maths?



Its madness, you only have to switch on the tv and we're bombarded with news about the NHS. That's the NHS , probably the most highly respected workforce in this country who were hailed as hero's over the pandemic, who had people out on the streets clapping them, who quite literally save lives, and who have just been offered a  2.1% payrise for 2023 whilst inflation is north of 10%, yet a low skilled window cleaner thinks he can justify hitting his customers with two £3 rises on a £15 property two years running! If you put those prices up at the same time of year ie say the start of the tax year 5th of April then the reality is, that customers price has gone up from £15 to £21 in the space of 1 year and 1 day! The vast majority of wages in this country wont be going up 10%, yet they'll be expected to swallow a 40% jump in price on their window cleaning bill in just over a year! Good luck with that, any workman who upped his prices like that for a "service" for me  without actually supplying a product would get told to sling his hook.

Exactly...Splash and dash is the worst for bragging about how he has no competition and 4500 customers blah blah blah and all his customers except the prices rises no problem and ask him when he will put them up again(they can't wait!) ;D ;D ;D ;D


Don’t think I said it was two £3 price rises one was £3 last year and this year it will probably a £2 increase  on our cheapest jobs . Higher priced jobs will be considerably  more .

NBwcs

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #63 on: January 14, 2023, 05:53:02 pm »
If I put up my £15 jobs I got fifteen years ago by £3 every year they would all be £60 now.
Somehow I don’t think I’d have many left.

I’d be earning about £180 an hour.

Exactly there is some BS and exaggeration in regards to price rises on here..there is no way most customers would except a price rise year on year.a year goes by so fast....same with the BS saying "well you must be taking a pay cut year after year if you don't put them up every year!" ::)roll


Read the posts again and correctly, I said due to the current financial situation it will be necessary to increase prices again this year after having  increased them last year , normally we have a price rise every other year or so , but inflation has risen that much over the  year and in most areas continues to rise so a further price rise is needed you are paying more for  most things now than last year month on month so we need to keep pace with inflation with our price rises  or we are in effect taking a pay cut , this is Evan more important when employing , it’s not rocket science , if you don’t increase your prices  for two years at the current rate of inflation you will need to do a much higher rise when you do .
Going by one of your earlier posts are you really raising prices by an average of around 25% two years in a row and using inflation which is just north of 10%  as an excuse? I take it none of your customers are any good at maths?



Its madness, you only have to switch on the tv and we're bombarded with news about the NHS. That's the NHS , probably the most highly respected workforce in this country who were hailed as hero's over the pandemic, who had people out on the streets clapping them, who quite literally save lives, and who have just been offered a  2.1% payrise for 2023 whilst inflation is north of 10%, yet a low skilled window cleaner thinks he can justify hitting his customers with two £3 rises on a £15 property two years running! If you put those prices up at the same time of year ie say the start of the tax year 5th of April then the reality is, that customers price has gone up from £15 to £21 in the space of 1 year and 1 day! The vast majority of wages in this country wont be going up 10%, yet they'll be expected to swallow a 40% jump in price on their window cleaning bill in just over a year! Good luck with that, any workman who upped his prices like that for a "service" for me  without actually supplying a product would get told to sling his hook.

Exactly...Splash and dash is the worst for bragging about how he has no competition and 4500 customers blah blah blah and all his customers except the prices rises no problem and ask him when he will put them up again(they can't wait!) ;D ;D ;D ;D


Don’t think I said it was two £3 price rises one was £3 last year and this year it will probably a £2 increase  on our cheapest jobs . Higher priced jobs will be considerably  more .



Quote "£15 job  will be going up to £18-20 ."

Splash & dash

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #64 on: January 14, 2023, 06:13:07 pm »
If I put up my £15 jobs I got fifteen years ago by £3 every year they would all be £60 now.
Somehow I don’t think I’d have many left.

I’d be earning about £180 an hour.

Exactly there is some BS and exaggeration in regards to price rises on here..there is no way most customers would except a price rise year on year.a year goes by so fast....same with the BS saying "well you must be taking a pay cut year after year if you don't put them up every year!" ::)roll


Read the posts again and correctly, I said due to the current financial situation it will be necessary to increase prices again this year after having  increased them last year , normally we have a price rise every other year or so , but inflation has risen that much over the  year and in most areas continues to rise so a further price rise is needed you are paying more for  most things now than last year month on month so we need to keep pace with inflation with our price rises  or we are in effect taking a pay cut , this is Evan more important when employing , it’s not rocket science , if you don’t increase your prices  for two years at the current rate of inflation you will need to do a much higher rise when you do .
Going by one of your earlier posts are you really raising prices by an average of around 25% two years in a row and using inflation which is just north of 10%  as an excuse? I take it none of your customers are any good at maths?



Its madness, you only have to switch on the tv and we're bombarded with news about the NHS. That's the NHS , probably the most highly respected workforce in this country who were hailed as hero's over the pandemic, who had people out on the streets clapping them, who quite literally save lives, and who have just been offered a  2.1% payrise for 2023 whilst inflation is north of 10%, yet a low skilled window cleaner thinks he can justify hitting his customers with two £3 rises on a £15 property two years running! If you put those prices up at the same time of year ie say the start of the tax year 5th of April then the reality is, that customers price has gone up from £15 to £21 in the space of 1 year and 1 day! The vast majority of wages in this country wont be going up 10%, yet they'll be expected to swallow a 40% jump in price on their window cleaning bill in just over a year! Good luck with that, any workman who upped his prices like that for a "service" for me  without actually supplying a product would get told to sling his hook.

Exactly...Splash and dash is the worst for bragging about how he has no competition and 4500 customers blah blah blah and all his customers except the prices rises no problem and ask him when he will put them up again(they can't wait!) ;D ;D ;D ;D


Don’t think I said it was two £3 price rises one was £3 last year and this year it will probably a £2 increase  on our cheapest jobs . Higher priced jobs will be considerably  more .



Quote "£15 job  will be going up to £18-20 ."


So a bit of simple maths £3 last year  £2 this year total £5 so a total of £5 increase in two years so  a £15 job will be £20 or with a bit of discretion £18

dazmond

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #65 on: January 14, 2023, 06:38:32 pm »
Putting up a job yearly by £3 each time is taking the pee IMO...its far too much and too often..

I wouldn't do it....

Not if the job is £60 it isn't.

I put £60 jobs up a fiver but once in 3 years not yearly....

I've got a block we do twice a year I priced it for two days for two of us at £825.00 per clean, it never took two days only ever one day and now we get it done by 3pm and do two other smaller blocks on the way home. We've been doing this since 2016 and I've never put the price up on this one until end of last year when the property management company emailed me to ask if there was going to be a price increase for 2023 so I put the price up by 5% getting an email two days later saying the resident committee have accepted the increase and feel it was very reasonable along with the new works order for this year.  I feel like Dick Turpin each time I email the invoice over  ;)

Who would pay £825 for window cleaning?absolute madness!esp if it only takes til 3pm for 2 of you.what a total rip off......

Your only a part timer in a little van daz, you couldn't hold the kind of accounts I do , every time you boast about record days I'm just left wondering what all the fuss is about. If you think 1k in a day isn't achievable  in window cleaning then all I can say is you know less about the industry than you think you do.

The Dick Turpin part was tongue in cheek, I believe I deserve every single penny of it,  it takes hard work, networking and good business skills to get accounts like these and to hold them for years on end.  You'll never have accounts like these daz even if you do carry on working/live until your 70  ;D

True....as I've quoted for 2 management company jobs in the past and got turned down for being too expensive(and they were much lower than £800+!) 😄😄
price higher/work harder!

simon w

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #66 on: January 14, 2023, 06:57:26 pm »
Putting up a job yearly by £3 each time is taking the pee IMO...its far too much and too often..

I wouldn't do it....

Not if the job is £60 it isn't.

I put £60 jobs up a fiver but once in 3 years not yearly....

I've got a block we do twice a year I priced it for two days for two of us at £825.00 per clean, it never took two days only ever one day and now we get it done by 3pm and do two other smaller blocks on the way home. We've been doing this since 2016 and I've never put the price up on this one until end of last year when the property management company emailed me to ask if there was going to be a price increase for 2023 so I put the price up by 5% getting an email two days later saying the resident committee have accepted the increase and feel it was very reasonable along with the new works order for this year.  I feel like Dick Turpin each time I email the invoice over  ;)

Who would pay £825 for window cleaning?absolute madness!esp if it only takes til 3pm for 2 of you.what a total rip off......

Your only a part timer in a little van daz, you couldn't hold the kind of accounts I do , every time you boast about record days I'm just left wondering what all the fuss is about. If you think 1k in a day isn't achievable  in window cleaning then all I can say is you know less about the industry than you think you do.

The Dick Turpin part was tongue in cheek, I believe I deserve every single penny of it,  it takes hard work, networking and good business skills to get accounts like these and to hold them for years on end.  You'll never have accounts like these daz even if you do carry on working/live until your 70  ;D

True....as I've quoted for 2 management company jobs in the past and got turned down for being too expensive(and they were much lower than £800+!) 😄😄

We can have better days doing half a dozen smaller blocks than one large one Daz. 😉

Splash & dash

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #67 on: January 14, 2023, 08:29:49 pm »
If I put up my £15 jobs I got fifteen years ago by £3 every year they would all be £60 now.
Somehow I don’t think I’d have many left.

I’d be earning about £180 an hour.

Exactly there is some BS and exaggeration in regards to price rises on here..there is no way most customers would except a price rise year on year.a year goes by so fast....same with the BS saying "well you must be taking a pay cut year after year if you don't put them up every year!" ::)roll


Read the posts again and correctly, I said due to the current financial situation it will be necessary to increase prices again this year after having  increased them last year , normally we have a price rise every other year or so , but inflation has risen that much over the  year and in most areas continues to rise so a further price rise is needed you are paying more for  most things now than last year month on month so we need to keep pace with inflation with our price rises  or we are in effect taking a pay cut , this is Evan more important when employing , it’s not rocket science , if you don’t increase your prices  for two years at the current rate of inflation you will need to do a much higher rise when you do .
Going by one of your earlier posts are you really raising prices by an average of around 25% two years in a row and using inflation which is just north of 10%  as an excuse? I take it none of your customers are any good at maths?



Its madness, you only have to switch on the tv and we're bombarded with news about the NHS. That's the NHS , probably the most highly respected workforce in this country who were hailed as hero's over the pandemic, who had people out on the streets clapping them, who quite literally save lives, and who have just been offered a  2.1% payrise for 2023 whilst inflation is north of 10%, yet a low skilled window cleaner thinks he can justify hitting his customers with two £3 rises on a £15 property two years running! If you put those prices up at the same time of year ie say the start of the tax year 5th of April then the reality is, that customers price has gone up from £15 to £21 in the space of 1 year and 1 day! The vast majority of wages in this country wont be going up 10%, yet they'll be expected to swallow a 40% jump in price on their window cleaning bill in just over a year! Good luck with that, any workman who upped his prices like that for a "service" for me  without actually supplying a product would get told to sling his hook.

Exactly...Splash and dash is the worst for bragging about how he has no competition and 4500 customers blah blah blah and all his customers except the prices rises no problem and ask him when he will put them up again(they can't wait!) ;D ;D ;D ;D



It’s not bragging it’s a fact there is very little credible  competition down hear , make hay while the sun shines , just because you cannot achieve the same as others doesn’t mean it can’t be done , especially when you have employees  , to turn a decent profit theses are the figures you need to be achieving every working day or you won’t be in business long  , as others have said  it’s not difficult to get well into 4 figures with two guys in a van doing commercial work , why do you think we travel over 300 miles to some of our work  , it’s not for the fun of it it’s because we earn very good money from it  even after  all expenses.

NBwcs

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #68 on: January 14, 2023, 09:59:07 pm »
If I put up my £15 jobs I got fifteen years ago by £3 every year they would all be £60 now.
Somehow I don’t think I’d have many left.

I’d be earning about £180 an hour.

Exactly there is some BS and exaggeration in regards to price rises on here..there is no way most customers would except a price rise year on year.a year goes by so fast....same with the BS saying "well you must be taking a pay cut year after year if you don't put them up every year!" ::)roll


Read the posts again and correctly, I said due to the current financial situation it will be necessary to increase prices again this year after having  increased them last year , normally we have a price rise every other year or so , but inflation has risen that much over the  year and in most areas continues to rise so a further price rise is needed you are paying more for  most things now than last year month on month so we need to keep pace with inflation with our price rises  or we are in effect taking a pay cut , this is Evan more important when employing , it’s not rocket science , if you don’t increase your prices  for two years at the current rate of inflation you will need to do a much higher rise when you do .
Going by one of your earlier posts are you really raising prices by an average of around 25% two years in a row and using inflation which is just north of 10%  as an excuse? I take it none of your customers are any good at maths?



Its madness, you only have to switch on the tv and we're bombarded with news about the NHS. That's the NHS , probably the most highly respected workforce in this country who were hailed as hero's over the pandemic, who had people out on the streets clapping them, who quite literally save lives, and who have just been offered a  2.1% payrise for 2023 whilst inflation is north of 10%, yet a low skilled window cleaner thinks he can justify hitting his customers with two £3 rises on a £15 property two years running! If you put those prices up at the same time of year ie say the start of the tax year 5th of April then the reality is, that customers price has gone up from £15 to £21 in the space of 1 year and 1 day! The vast majority of wages in this country wont be going up 10%, yet they'll be expected to swallow a 40% jump in price on their window cleaning bill in just over a year! Good luck with that, any workman who upped his prices like that for a "service" for me  without actually supplying a product would get told to sling his hook.

Exactly...Splash and dash is the worst for bragging about how he has no competition and 4500 customers blah blah blah and all his customers except the prices rises no problem and ask him when he will put them up again(they can't wait!) ;D ;D ;D ;D


Don’t think I said it was two £3 price rises one was £3 last year and this year it will probably a £2 increase  on our cheapest jobs . Higher priced jobs will be considerably  more .



Quote "£15 job  will be going up to £18-20 ."


So a bit of simple maths £3 last year  £2 this year total £5 so a total of £5 increase in two years so  a £15 job will be £20 or with a bit of discretion £18

Your words..

"3 years and only a £1-2 increase ?.. that’s way to little we put ours up last year by a minimum of £3  and they will be going up again this year by a similar amount dearer the job the more the increase, you will in effect be taking a huge pay cut ."

"£15 job  will be going up to £18-20 ."

So by a process of simple maths... This years £15 job was £12 last year because you put everything up £3, and this year its going up by another £3 to £5 , So £12 to either £18 or £20 in the space of just over a year... so at best an increase of 50% at worse an increase of 66,6 %...   Your figures Splash

Splash & dash

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #69 on: January 14, 2023, 10:23:33 pm »
If I put up my £15 jobs I got fifteen years ago by £3 every year they would all be £60 now.
Somehow I don’t think I’d have many left.

I’d be earning about £180 an hour.

Exactly there is some BS and exaggeration in regards to price rises on here..there is no way most customers would except a price rise year on year.a year goes by so fast....same with the BS saying "well you must be taking a pay cut year after year if you don't put them up every year!" ::)roll


Read the posts again and correctly, I said due to the current financial situation it will be necessary to increase prices again this year after having  increased them last year , normally we have a price rise every other year or so , but inflation has risen that much over the  year and in most areas continues to rise so a further price rise is needed you are paying more for  most things now than last year month on month so we need to keep pace with inflation with our price rises  or we are in effect taking a pay cut , this is Evan more important when employing , it’s not rocket science , if you don’t increase your prices  for two years at the current rate of inflation you will need to do a much higher rise when you do .
Going by one of your earlier posts are you really raising prices by an average of around 25% two years in a row and using inflation which is just north of 10%  as an excuse? I take it none of your customers are any good at maths?



Its madness, you only have to switch on the tv and we're bombarded with news about the NHS. That's the NHS , probably the most highly respected workforce in this country who were hailed as hero's over the pandemic, who had people out on the streets clapping them, who quite literally save lives, and who have just been offered a  2.1% payrise for 2023 whilst inflation is north of 10%, yet a low skilled window cleaner thinks he can justify hitting his customers with two £3 rises on a £15 property two years running! If you put those prices up at the same time of year ie say the start of the tax year 5th of April then the reality is, that customers price has gone up from £15 to £21 in the space of 1 year and 1 day! The vast majority of wages in this country wont be going up 10%, yet they'll be expected to swallow a 40% jump in price on their window cleaning bill in just over a year! Good luck with that, any workman who upped his prices like that for a "service" for me  without actually supplying a product would get told to sling his hook.

Exactly...Splash and dash is the worst for bragging about how he has no competition and 4500 customers blah blah blah and all his customers except the prices rises no problem and ask him when he will put them up again(they can't wait!) ;D ;D ;D ;D


Don’t think I said it was two £3 price rises one was £3 last year and this year it will probably a £2 increase  on our cheapest jobs . Higher priced jobs will be considerably  more .



Quote "£15 job  will be going up to £18-20 ."


So a bit of simple maths £3 last year  £2 this year total £5 so a total of £5 increase in two years so  a £15 job will be £20 or with a bit of discretion £18

Your words..

"3 years and only a £1-2 increase ?.. that’s way to little we put ours up last year by a minimum of £3  and they will be going up again this year by a similar amount dearer the job the more the increase, you will in effect be taking a huge pay cut ."

"£15 job  will be going up to £18-20 ."

So by a process of simple maths... This years £15 job was £12 last year because you put everything up £3, and this year its going up by another £3 to £5 , So £12 to either £18 or £20 in the space of just over a year... so at best an increase of 50% at worse an increase of 66,6 %...   Your figures Splash


Read the bit you have highlighted in red by a similar  amount NOT THE SAME AMOUNT AMOUNT

NBwcs

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #70 on: January 14, 2023, 10:31:49 pm »
If I put up my £15 jobs I got fifteen years ago by £3 every year they would all be £60 now.
Somehow I don’t think I’d have many left.

I’d be earning about £180 an hour.

Exactly there is some BS and exaggeration in regards to price rises on here..there is no way most customers would except a price rise year on year.a year goes by so fast....same with the BS saying "well you must be taking a pay cut year after year if you don't put them up every year!" ::)roll


Read the posts again and correctly, I said due to the current financial situation it will be necessary to increase prices again this year after having  increased them last year , normally we have a price rise every other year or so , but inflation has risen that much over the  year and in most areas continues to rise so a further price rise is needed you are paying more for  most things now than last year month on month so we need to keep pace with inflation with our price rises  or we are in effect taking a pay cut , this is Evan more important when employing , it’s not rocket science , if you don’t increase your prices  for two years at the current rate of inflation you will need to do a much higher rise when you do .
Going by one of your earlier posts are you really raising prices by an average of around 25% two years in a row and using inflation which is just north of 10%  as an excuse? I take it none of your customers are any good at maths?



Its madness, you only have to switch on the tv and we're bombarded with news about the NHS. That's the NHS , probably the most highly respected workforce in this country who were hailed as hero's over the pandemic, who had people out on the streets clapping them, who quite literally save lives, and who have just been offered a  2.1% payrise for 2023 whilst inflation is north of 10%, yet a low skilled window cleaner thinks he can justify hitting his customers with two £3 rises on a £15 property two years running! If you put those prices up at the same time of year ie say the start of the tax year 5th of April then the reality is, that customers price has gone up from £15 to £21 in the space of 1 year and 1 day! The vast majority of wages in this country wont be going up 10%, yet they'll be expected to swallow a 40% jump in price on their window cleaning bill in just over a year! Good luck with that, any workman who upped his prices like that for a "service" for me  without actually supplying a product would get told to sling his hook.

Exactly...Splash and dash is the worst for bragging about how he has no competition and 4500 customers blah blah blah and all his customers except the prices rises no problem and ask him when he will put them up again(they can't wait!) ;D ;D ;D ;D


Don’t think I said it was two £3 price rises one was £3 last year and this year it will probably a £2 increase  on our cheapest jobs . Higher priced jobs will be considerably  more .



Quote "£15 job  will be going up to £18-20 ."


So a bit of simple maths £3 last year  £2 this year total £5 so a total of £5 increase in two years so  a £15 job will be £20 or with a bit of discretion £18

Your words..

"3 years and only a £1-2 increase ?.. that’s way to little we put ours up last year by a minimum of £3  and they will be going up again this year by a similar amount dearer the job the more the increase, you will in effect be taking a huge pay cut ."

"£15 job  will be going up to £18-20 ."

So by a process of simple maths... This years £15 job was £12 last year because you put everything up £3, and this year its going up by another £3 to £5 , So £12 to either £18 or £20 in the space of just over a year... so at best an increase of 50% at worse an increase of 66,6 %...   Your figures Splash


Read the bit you have highlighted in red by a similar  amount NOT THE SAME AMOUNT AMOUNT

Read the quote below it,,,"£15 job  will be going up to £18-20 ."

AuRavelling79

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #71 on: January 15, 2023, 09:26:50 am »
Hello and good morning, willy wavers.

Please tone it down and play nicely like good boys.

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deeege

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #72 on: January 15, 2023, 11:34:10 am »
Interesting to hear differing opinions on what is considered a ‘total rip off’ these days.

I’d bet there are some old boy tradders that lurk on here and consider Daz’s record days of £350 ish a complete rip off, while they themselves limit themselves to earning £150 a day.

Then there’s Daz who considers Simons £412.50 per man day a complete rip off, when in real terms those earnings per hour are actually less than Daz himself aims to earn.

Who’s next to claim earnings of £1000 per day to keep the discussion going……. ;D
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DJW

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #73 on: January 15, 2023, 11:52:36 am »
Well if people are crass enough or stupid enough to want to post their earnings or even made up figures they will unfortunately attract some criticism, particularly when they post nonsence! 🤣

Splash & dash

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #74 on: January 15, 2023, 01:47:03 pm »
Well if people are crass enough or stupid enough to want to post their earnings or even made up figures they will unfortunately attract some criticism, particularly when they post nonsence! 🤣


Again just for  the record  because you cannot do something  doesn’t mean no one else can’t either. I know many that earn well over £1.000  per day with one van and two guys on commercial work , and before some  smart ass starts commenting that’s total takings for the day not profit

simon w

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #75 on: January 15, 2023, 03:07:54 pm »
Well if people are crass enough or stupid enough to want to post their earnings or even made up figures they will unfortunately attract some criticism, particularly when they post nonsence! 🤣

If replies are in context with the OP then why would it be crass? You wouldn't know if figures are made up you'd just be guessing based on your own personal work experience.

DJW

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #76 on: January 15, 2023, 04:40:15 pm »
Don’t think the op even mentioned earnings!


“Does anyone use a service for price increases that takes a standard message and inserts their price rise from say an excel sheet?

I’m looking to increase them again in April so informing in March.  Last year I manually text most of the customers which was a fair bit of work”

Frankybadboy

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #77 on: January 15, 2023, 05:09:40 pm »
so a price raise in 20-21 and then two price rises  in 21-22 and if i am honest they needed it and bring me in line to what i should have done 5years ago on low price work,and even the higher price work had the same increases

some bigger jobs have gone up between £5-£20 in two raises last year

blocks management work also went up once

a900

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #78 on: January 15, 2023, 07:12:13 pm »
Don’t think the op even mentioned earnings!


“Does anyone use a service for price increases that takes a standard message and inserts their price rise from say an excel sheet?

I’m looking to increase them again in April so informing in March.  Last year I manually text most of the customers which was a fair bit of work”


Haha. 2 true. It’s funny though when you look back at a topic you started and it’s 4 pages in …interesting but defo not what you originally asked.

So going back to what i asked before does anyone have the details on how the automated price rise part works within cleaner planner. Or shall I just contact them? And let the new convo continue and check back in a week for the giggles 😂😂

jonboywalton75

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Re: Price increase text message
« Reply #79 on: January 16, 2023, 04:13:59 pm »
Check back for giggles
That's what I do🤣🤣🤣