prices $ 650 or $ 325
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Topic: prices $ 650 or $ 325
Posted By: ezebill
Subject: prices $ 650 or $ 325
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 2:36am
| I quoted a job 4000 sq feet commercial $ 625.00 i was under bid by another company for $ 325.00 whats the going rate ? British Columbia? |
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Posted By: LilNiteRidrhood
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 9:28pm
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8 cents a sq ft is pretty cheap.
Maybe they are Cimexing it.
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 12:30am
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there is always someone that will under bid you... Quoting commercial jobs is like going on a job interview... you have to sell you..if they like you sometimes the price won't matter.
but like anything sometimes you don't get to present to the decision maker
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 8:46am
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Rule of thumb
If you get all the jobs you quote--your price is too low
If you get 70% of the jobs--your price is right on
If you get less than 70% your price is too high!
Can not comment on your question as every part of the country is different , and prices vary, for this time of year in our part of the country the $325.00 price would be fair. ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 2:56pm
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I would rather get all the jobs I quote............if the price makes the customer happy and I make money with that quote then I'm happy............I ca always up my price once they get to like me and my work
Nightrider
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 3:38pm
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So you like to leave money on the table. In this business if you are too low you won't be around to increase your prices! ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 3:59pm
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what you guys fail to understand it's really never about price...there is no such thing as the right price. We have all lost business to someone who charges more we have all lost business to someone who charges less.
In some cases it's about who you know...
In some cases it's about the reputation of your company..
sometimes it could be your colonge.
First impressions are everything...and it starts way back at your first hello.
------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 4:26pm
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You are right Steamer, just got a job we had quoted against three other companies, lady told me after that they where going with us no matter, just policy to get other prices. They had heard about us and I guess it must have been good. ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 6:04pm
It's just too bad that so many people buy on price alone ------------- 
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 7:05pm
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Will be a problem if the economy goes into the tank. ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 8:35pm
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I think we rarely buy anything based on other factors other than price . A smart consumer/shopper will weigh all options on material goods.............but when it comes to the service industry...........IT'S ALL PRICE.
Let's face it...........clean is clean.............cut grass is just cut grass...................a car wash is just another car without the salt stains....................anything you can do yourself with minium effort and tools that can be rented...........is not rocket science .
Carpet cleaning is NOT a BUSINESS............it's just a better paying job than working pumping gas , or stocking shelves at Wal-Mart .
Nightrider
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 9:16pm
NR. You're so depressing -------------
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 9:22pm
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Material goods..I totally agree...but service is never bought just on price....I have had a lot of work done for me in my home and on my trucks. Most time its all about trust...and comfort levels.
It's proven that most people will shop and use big named companies, because they feel that they can trust them... price has nothing to do with it. No one wants to higher the cheaper fly by night. Trust me I don't ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 12:04pm
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Steamer..................nobody knows who the fly by nighters are until they fly...........and your post is bull...............you are the cheapest cleaner out there who works on your own trucks to save money , tries to copy chemical formulas to save a few bucks , and penny pinch customers to try to make some extra beer money....................material goods is what people don't mind paying etra for.........................service is just a 2 bit high school drop trying to beat the system doing cash jobs while collecting employment insurance or welfare
Nightrider
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 2:44pm
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NR Some may be in the carpet cleaning business, not me we are the People Pleasing Business, we just happen to accomplish that by cleaning their carpets above their expectations! ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 4:04pm
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NR don't speak for everyone..just because you hire the cheapest guy everytime.
Don't get doing it yourself confused with hiring the cheapest tradesman.
Trust me when I say it's never about price. My wife worked in the Head office for Marriott Canada if it was about price I would have gotten the job to clean all the Marriotts in the GTA. But it's not about price it's about reputation. They clean with Servicemaster all throughout Canada and the United States They just believe in them and are more than willing to pay 50% more.
My uncle is a major contractor for the University of Toronto.. they have a million sq ft of carpet in over 200 buildings to clean. Again servicemaster cleans them all once every 4 years. They do it with 10 guys and portables...I've seen them myself....I put my bid in through my uncles firm and still I couldn't get the work...and trust me I was waaaaaaaaay cheaper. They just believe in servicemaster.
Your rep is very important... it's never about price...
so keep on spewing your bullsh*t NR....I've lived it first hand.
It's who you know...
it's your rep...
mom and pop operations like what NR runs will always go for the cheapest guy.
any good contract worth getting out there, wants the best company to do the work REGARDLESS OF THE PRICE!! ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 4:23pm
there a lot of us out here that provide EXCELLENT SERVICE but when it comes to the BIG SERVICE CONTRACTS we will never get the call REGARDLESS OF WHAT WE CHARGE. That contract was already signed at the country club, way before we got to the front door..
and thats the bottom line!!! ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
nightrider wrote:Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 4:48pm
| Remember gas price wars? If all you have to sell is price you aren't selling, you are settling. |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 6:03pm
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McDonals has the worst hamberger and fast food to offer Healthwise..............but the price makes them a winner ( THEY DON'T SETTLE, THEY WIN ) Wal-Mart has some of the Cheapest crap on the market Tools, Clothes, & electronics.........funny thing they too are WINNERS ( WHERE DO THEY SETTLE ) Canadian Tire, Sears, Target Wal-Mart all fight and advertise lowest price...........I GUESS THEY'RE JUST ALL STUPID AND SHOULD TAKE LESSONS FROM A CARPET CLEANER HOW TO MAKE MONEY. ZELLERS RAN A CAMPAGNE FOR 20 YEARS STATING THAT THE LOWEST PRICE IS THE LAW..............I GUESS THEY'RE DUMB TOO. Lucky there's all you carpet cleaners to teach them how to do it right
 Nightrider
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Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 6:14pm
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Mickey Ds, Wallyworld and the rest as just a sign of the times. When you outsource that is what you get. My customers are well healed for the most part. They own stock in those companies like I do. But they don't buy from them. Hey, NR, you were thinking about a glass of champagne when you meant to type campaign or were you having one?  |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 7:49pm
Plumers??? Electricains???? Dentists??I'm on my way to the guy the offers the lowest price Gas fitters??
Oh yeah Discount Police???
a cheap lawyer???
a cheap accountant???
NR stop talking out your ass... people don't always look for the cheapest service at least not smart people.
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 7:50pm
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oh mechanics???? our labour cost is 50% cheaper??? I have never seen that ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 8:09pm
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Mr. Steamer is right, merchandise vs services. There is a difference. You know, lap dances aren't getting any cheaper! |
Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 9:18pm
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Man........I've still got it..............I can make this forum hop with post as long as everybody hates me enough to prove their point................I'm just bugging you Steamer...................& DuckCountry you should know me by now
By the way it was a typo...........................but a drink does sound good
Nightrider
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 9:43pm
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naw naw NR....... Bull. You go to the cheapest dentist...when he screws up and you are bleeding to death you run to the discount doctors, he fixes you up and the you go to the cheap meds site on the internet to buy generic medication. the lowest price is your law NR ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 31/January/2008 at 9:51pm
Way to stir it up -------------
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Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 01/February/2008 at 12:52am
Meet you at the bar. I'm buying man. But you pay for the lap dance  |
Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 01/February/2008 at 8:35am
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Have you seen some of those jobs done by the cheaper plastic surgeons! ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 01/February/2008 at 10:04am
Like this one.........
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 01/February/2008 at 10:37am
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he paid full price for that...he would of had a foot instead of a nose if he went to the discount guys ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 01/February/2008 at 11:21am
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Yeah well, any way you look at it, he got ripped off -------------
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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 01/February/2008 at 1:46pm
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I buy all my stuff at the Dollar store................
Nightrider
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 01/February/2008 at 5:36pm
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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 01/February/2008 at 6:28pm
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I have a Roots # 68 for sale.................. $250.00 plus you pay shipping ..............any takers......................Steamer is that a smart deal for you.................if so.........grab it and I'll ship it to you.
Nightrider
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 01/February/2008 at 9:07pm
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thats a done deal...I'll buy it! ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 02/February/2008 at 1:22am
I'll take it too but only if it's in good working condition -------------
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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 04/February/2008 at 3:29pm
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Sorry.........I meant $ 1,250.00..........I pulled a Kenny on you
Nightrider
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 04/February/2008 at 4:05pm
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Whoops! Also you need to pick up no shipping ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: Dennis Conner
Date Posted: 04/February/2008 at 4:07pm
| Kenni sells cheap glides...how many would buy from him? |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 04/February/2008 at 6:15pm
Send me the blower and I'll pull a Kenny when it's time to pay -------------
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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 04/February/2008 at 8:47pm
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Send me your truck CMaster, and I'll install it for you..............
Nightrider
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 04/February/2008 at 9:34pm
Duh, OK -------------
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Posted By: Superglide Ken
Date Posted: 04/February/2008 at 9:37pm
Quite a few would and do. I still sell thousands of glides per year just from my site. ------------- Inventor of the Teflon Wand Glide and the Turboteck Rotary Air Duct Cleaners for TMs. |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 05/February/2008 at 12:30am
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NR you put it out there... now send me my blower ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 05/February/2008 at 1:27am
He can't. I already sent him my truck -------------
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 05/February/2008 at 5:26pm
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poor paul, he's going to put in the blower and take everything else out ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 05/February/2008 at 5:41pm
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Well he will at least have the biggest blower in Thunder bay ------------- Could somebody just clean my carpets! |
Posted By: Superglide Ken
Date Posted: 05/February/2008 at 5:43pm
No Steamer, but he is going to get a hell of a blowjob.  ------------- Inventor of the Teflon Wand Glide and the Turboteck Rotary Air Duct Cleaners for TMs. |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 05/February/2008 at 6:05pm
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Well Ken, if I sent it to you, I'm pretty sure I'd get nothing. So it looks like I'm still better off -------------
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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 05/February/2008 at 8:14pm
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I sold it to Kenny.......................
Nightrider
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 05/February/2008 at 9:12pm
Yeah. I'm f**ked now -------------
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