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    Quote Originally Posted by Bluey View Post
    Was doing my last job this arvo. Been dodging rain and getting wet in the process. Was nearly finished when I looked up the road and noticed another lawnie just sitting in the street a couple hundred meters away watching me. Didn't think much of it but about 10 mins later I am packing up and he is still there. I am starting to think whats going on. Anyway I sit there for a while doing the paper work and he is still there. I drive off and go around the corner but it gets the better of me so I chuck a u turn and go back just in time to see him walking back across the street from my clients place which he is now parked directly opposite. So I drive down and pull up behind him. I front him about what he is doing and he is all jittery. So I go across to the clients letter box and sure enough there is a flyer hanging out of the box. I take it out and have a go at him about pinching clients. His excuse is that he is new and finding it hard to find clients. It would seem he thinks it is better to try steal them. He is really lucky I controlled my temper because I was not bloody happy about it. Told him to F*** off and find his own clients. Makes me wonder how long he was following me around.
    mate i would have smacked the guy. I have been to do quotes where people say the other guy did this and did that and sometimes have even said to them have you spoken to him about it there may have been a good reason if it was a once off. I will put in a quote if someone asks and if its less than the other guy and they chse me thats fair but i would never deliberatly try and steal someone elses work. If you get clients by stealing there work the next guy thats cheaper will just steal them off you. I belive we all want a good run with regulars not loosing them cause someone else is cheaper.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    my advice to a new comer instead of trying to steal your clients he should have tried talking to you i had a new guy stop and say hello a few years ago I've passed on his name to heaps of people wanting work that I've been to busy to handle
    Yep, agree. I have a commercial guy who has passed on 5 or six resi jobs that he had enquirys for. Inturn, I have passed on one large commercial contract from an enquirey from me, and have offered a number of other one offs to him.
    I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather.....not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tender Lovin Lawn&Garden View Post
    mate i would have smacked the guy. I have been to do quotes where people say the other guy did this and did that and sometimes have even said to them have you spoken to him about it there may have been a good reason if it was a once off. I will put in a quote if someone asks and if its less than the other guy and they chse me thats fair but i would never deliberatly try and steal someone elses work. If you get clients by stealing there work the next guy thats cheaper will just steal them off you. I belive we all want a good run with regulars not loosing them cause someone else is cheaper.
    Mate if someone calls me as a result of my add in the paper, as far as I am concerned they are in the market for a new lawnie for whatever reason. If they don't go with me they will go with someone else. I will never go out of my way to knowingly "steal" another bloke's work. Nor will I try and undercut anyone. But I pay my hard earned money for my advertising in order to gain more clients so I treat each call I get as a potential client regardless of who currently mows their lawns. The thing that makes me grumpy is all you insecure little men crying about people stealing your work. Firstly do a good job and the good clients will not even look at that flyer. And secondly if they are gonna go with someone cheaper they will go eventually anyway and you are better off without them. Get over yourselves FFS. It's a business and competition drives the market like in any other business. If someone says that bloke is cheaper your reply should be "Maybe. But I am better!"

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    Your missing the point Jason. We all agree that we are in competition, and do expect to gain existing clients of others, also occasionally lose clients to others.
    But to follow you around with the intent on calling on your clients as soon as you leave shows more -they are not satisfied just to 'win' clients, their intent is to take them away from you.
    It's an attack on YOUR business, therefore an attack on your livelihood, and by extension - it is an attack on those whom you support.
    Would you be pissed if someone attacked your wife/kids? (I know I would be.)
    Would you be happier if then told to get over yourself?

    This isn't a tactic that you use to build your business, is it?
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    I think in this environment if you cant get gardening/lawnmowing work your not trying hard enough, i think it was just a story he gave Bluey to avoid being punched in the face really its poor form and it was good that Bluey stood up to him, in an ideal world we should work together for the greater good not against one another there is plenty out there for all at present or is that just the hippy coming out in me.

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    Leaving your catcher at the tip and upon returning with hope that it is still going to be there, but alas nothing! Bugger!!!!!!
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    dropping your dog on the concrete (he wriggled). spending all night stressing until the vet opens and finding out he has a broken leg.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fairdinkum View Post
    The thing that makes me grumpy is all you insecure little men crying about people stealing your work. Firstly do a good job and the good clients will not even look at that flyer. And secondly if they are gonna go with someone cheaper they will go eventually anyway and you are better off without them. Get over yourselves FFS.
    Well go back and read the post before you make a stupid statement like that. This bloke was not contacted by my client. He watched me do the job and waited till I left and then went and put a flyer in her letter box. I am sure if it happened to you it would piss you off too. I do a good job and have gold clients and this one is one of those that I have had for quite some time. This weed was trying to steal the client off me.
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    Bluey, we know u have a passion 4 what u do, we know u would do an excellent job.
    Your client is not a gold client if he would dump u 4 a cheaper price.
    I wreckon the sleeze would have been better off just sticking a flyer in & continuing on.
    How many flyers would u get out a day following ppl around & waiting for them to go?
    I can understand your anger, particuarly the way he went about it, & I would have loved to have seen his face!
    Chances are it will happen to u again over time in 1 form or another, dont worry about it too much.
    Again, is your client really a gold client if they'll dump u 4 a cheaper price?????
    Cheers fred

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bluey View Post
    Well go back and read the post before you make a stupid statement like that. This bloke was not contacted by my client. He watched me do the job and waited till I left and then went and put a flyer in her letter box. I am sure if it happened to you it would piss you off too. I do a good job and have gold clients and this one is one of those that I have had for quite some time. This weed was trying to steal the client off me.
    If the guy had any clue, he would introduce himself to contractors that he comes across, explain that he's new to the game, and mention if you have any excess clients or extra work you need to off load then here's my business card. He'd pick up a fair bit of work this time of year, and he wouldn't have to keep looking over his shoulder when doing a lawn in which he lowballed from another contractor. AND HIS TYRES WILL STAY INFLATED ALL DAY

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    +1 Fairdinkum. Do a good job and what will be will be. Violence is never a a good option.

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    Bluey,

    That would PMO too big time.

    I reckon you did well not to do a "Milton the Monster" and blow your TOP OFF at him.
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    hope the prik pissed his panties too bluey.
    i did a job today, where the fella lives next to his mum (please bring on the jokes@!). he wanted a price on his and his mums togethor, and then told me another dude was already mowing his mums lawn. i said i dont want to take it on if he is doing a good job. ...anyway he went and spke to is mumma, and came out and told me that it was up to me. the bloke doing her lawn was doing a good job yadayada. i declined. life is too short for those shenanigans. $100 for 2 houses in one hour by me self, but i wont do it. see even jimbos have honour. haa!
    .... you can make serious coin in this biz, in this country. you dont have to screw people to do it. if i wanted to screw people i would go back and work for telstra again!
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    ........... and no fairindiankum i wont give ya the adress!


    haa!
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    p.s. sorry for big notin meself with the post, just one of the few things in me life i can be proud of me self for lol!
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