Did a quote today for a regular lawn and garden maintenance job. I gave my normal rate and the customer looked really shocked at my price, he said the last guy did the lawn and gardens for less than my lawn quote ($50) lol I laughed and asked where he was now? He just stopped coming was the reply.. I took him over to my trailer showed him all my tools, gave him a run down on my expenses, worked out how long the work would take to do, and basically after that he realized I was giving him a fair price. We did the job and he was very happy. He then said the same guy was doing the next door neighbors lawn/garden and had stopped coming there as well, so he took us over and introduced me, he went over what I had told him and his neighbor said can you do my lawn/garden? Yes but we dont have time for garden today just lawn. So we did his lawn. He then said he has 2 sons one of them lives 3 doors down can we do his lol Yes so we did his sons. He is going to get back to me on his second son after he talks to him.. You gotta love Lowballers sometimes
lol....nice one
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"All sin is washed away in the Holy goodness of Beer"
Book of Redeye, Psalm 69
Had a call recently where the potential client was unhappy with the current lawnies service. During the call I work out that I know the Lawnie and the figured the customer to be had work as they were nit picking. So to cut it short and test the water I told him my minimum price to which he got aggressive and rude so I asked how much he was paying. $11 a cut. Believe that? Haven't cut one that price since 2004.
Cheers
Bluey
Adelaide Home & Garden Solutions
http://www.ahgs.com.au
"Success occurs when no one is looking, failure occurs when everyone is watching."
Yep, I got a call on Saturday from a lady with 1200sqm block with trees all around it, wire mesh fencing etc. kept wanting to know my minimum houly rate, When I told her that it started at $60/hr depending on what the length of the grass and edges were etc, she told me it has been 3 weeks since last mow and the old regular never turned up when he was supposed to. She tried to tell me he used to cut and trim with a push mower for $40 and then have the nerve to tell me I had to better it for her. Walk away I did.
Dunno if its just me but I have noticed a huge amount of what appear to be garden maintenance start ups in the last week or two. It's a bit of a concern the way the economy is going. I don't blame people for having a go but hopefully not too many.