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Paul Coleman

Re: collecting....is it a second job????
« Reply #40 on: May 17, 2005, 12:36:34 am »
Quote from: rosskesava on May 17, 2005, 12:16:24 am
We've never had a problem from day one with the SAE thing apart from one customer.

All we lost was £10 and 20 minutes work plus about 10 minutes driving time .

If they don't pay then good bye.

Cheers

Absolutely.  If I actually get to see them I tend to point out that they would soon be squeaking if their employer short changed their wages. 
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windows_chepstow

Re: collecting....is it a second job????
« Reply #41 on: May 17, 2005, 07:54:22 am »
Quote from: rosskesava on May 17, 2005, 12:16:24 am
We've never had a problem from day one with the SAE thing apart from one customer.

All we lost was £10 and 20 minutes work plus about 10 minutes driving time .

If they don't pay then good bye.

Cheers

I fully agree; however I remember reading stuff like this when I first started, money was extremely tight and EVERY account was precious to me.

It's nice now to be in a 'position of power' where you can drop the customers that aren't worth having.
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danny mckim

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Re: collecting....is it a second job????
« Reply #42 on: May 20, 2005, 10:42:26 pm »
Just to let u all know the best way 2 collect and keep in touch with your customers is to employ young lads of 15 or 16. If they are trustworthy they will be eager. i now employ 4(remember milkboys are collecting at this age) for 2 nights and feel as long as i am there to be seen everything will go smoothly.It took 35 mins to collect an estate which on my own would be about 2 hours.1 final question for which has  been a great 1st post is, what is the latest time you could expect to knock someones door while collectin?
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Paul Coleman

Re: collecting....is it a second job????
« Reply #43 on: May 20, 2005, 11:03:30 pm »
Quote from: danny mckim on May 20, 2005, 10:42:26 pm
Just to let u all know the best way 2 collect and keep in touch with your customers is to employ young lads of 15 or 16. If they are trustworthy they will be eager. i now employ 4(remember milkboys are collecting at this age) for 2 nights and feel as long as i am there to be seen everything will go smoothly.It took 35 mins to collect an estate which on my own would be about 2 hours.1 final question for which has  been a great 1st post is, what is the latest time you could expect to knock someones door while collectin?

When I used to go out collecting, I set a cut-off point of 9PM.  Occasionally I would call a little later to save returning for two or three houses.
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