12/03/2023
You’re Too Expensive!
“CLIENT – How much will it cost to clean my windows?
WINDOW CLEANER - Windows, frames & sills will be £15.00 on an 8 weekly basis.
CLIENT – That’s too expensive for this job!
WINDOW CLEANER – How much do you think it should cost?
CLIENT – £10.00 max! It’s a simple job!
WINDOW CLEANER - I can’t do the job for £10.00
CLIENT – Window Cleaners want to make a big profit!
WINDOW CLEANER – I’m sorry you feel this way. Why don’t you do the job?
CLIENT – But, I don’t know how to do it.
WINDOW CLEANER - for £5 I can teach you everything you need to know to do the job. You can then use £5 to do the job, and you’re still saving £5.
Also, you will obtain all the knowledge and the experience for the next time you need to do this job.
CLIENT – Deal!
WINDOW CLEANER – Great! To start, you need to buy basic tools. You will only need an 18 foot water fed pole for your house, and a backpack to deliver your purified water to the windows. You can get those for about £350.00
CLIENT – But, I don’t have any of those tools and I can’t buy all that for just one job!
WINDOW CLEANER - Ok. I can rent you my tools for another £3.00 You’re still saving £7.00
CLIENT – That’s cutting my savings, but I will rent your tools.
WINDOW CLEANER – Perfect! I’ll be back Saturday and we can start.
CLIENT – Wait! I can’t do Saturday. I only have time today.
WINDOW CLEANER – I’m sorry, I only teach others on Saturdays. I have to prioritise my time and my tools need to be on other jobs I have during the week.
CLIENT – Ok then. I will sacrifice my family’s plans on Saturday.
WINDOW CLEANER – Right, me too! Oh, I forgot. If you’re going to do the job yourself, you need to get some pure water. There’s a place just a few miles from you that sells it so your best bet is to go up there with two clean empty barrels and get some. Probably only cost you a pound or two.
We’ll start at 8am so we don’t eat into family time too much.
CLIENT – going to get that special water is going to take me an hour round trip and fuel to get it.
WINDOW CLEANER – okay well I’ll supply the water at cost so it’ll be £2.
CLIENT – You know what? I’ve been thinking. It’s probably better for you to do the job. It’s better to pay you to do the job right and not have to go through all that hassle.
WINDOW CLEANER – “Good thinking. let me get to work.”
This is the truth.
People are not just paying for a job, they are paying for knowledge, experience, tools, time, Public Liability Insurance, running costs for your van, tax & national insurance and other things you bring to the table.
Still think it’s expensive?
