Teri Clean, you will always get people who have undercut others and have been left with under priced work. Allot of window cleaners in this area who like to do a whole street at once regardless of who is in and who is not, will go lower because they need to get allot for it to be worth while.
Then obviously you get the ones that are not quite legitimate, and even if they are they may take on some work and not put it through the books to allow them to go lower with the price. Or they just just have bought the badly priced work from someone else.
I once had someone who I went out to give a quote, it was about 6 windows and I charged £6.50. She said you are a little expensive arent you. I said, compared to who. Well my last house had 15 windows, guess much he charged? I said anything under £15 is cheap. She said £2.
I then proceeded to tell her that she didn't have a window cleaner, she had some crook not paying tax etc and probably claiming the dole, pretending to be a window cleaner.
You called me because someone referred me to you, and they gave you my number, you will also find us in the yellow pages e.t.c we are licence and insured e.t.c. which comes into it, and by law I am not allowed to pay employees less than minimum wage, and wouldn't want someone to work for less than minimum wage either.
Any I got the job, but how thick are people at times. If she seen a news report about children in foreign countries being put to work for £2 an hour, she would be sitting there shocked while she has a dole boy at her windows doing a job that would probably take her a couple of hours at 15 windows, and she would pay a window cleaner £2 for doing them. Even worse to think anything more than that is expensive.
She became a problem custi and was dropped latter on.