Part-timers are ruining me.

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ToolePressureWash

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I've been seeing a lot of my regular customers getting their houses cleaned by a couple of different people who are using very small walmart pressurewasher. Working out of the trunk of their cars. Not paying taxes.

I'm sure they are college students (normally is).

It's sure hurting me this time.

Kinda bugs me but I'm not going to get bent out of shape over it.

Maybe it's time for me to quit and get started on that retirement fishing.

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It happens to all of us, has been happening for many years all around the country.

You have to adapt, educate the customer or look for better customers.

There will always be someone with a lower price, you have to sell around that issue if you can or find customers that want quality work at reasonable prices.
 
ToolePressureWash said:
I've been seeing a lot of my regular customers getting their houses cleaned by a couple of different people who are using very small walmart pressurewasher. Working out of the trunk of their cars. Not paying taxes.

I'm sure they are college students (normally is).

It's sure hurting me this time.

Kinda bugs me but I'm not going to get bent out of shape over it.

Maybe it's time for me to quit and get started on that retirement fishing.

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Nah man, just keep plugging away at it.
You knew what you were getting into.
Spend more time refining your company and less time on the part timers.
You know they won't be around this time next year.
Keep plugging man.

( unless of course the "retirement fishing" includes deep sea fishing lol):killingme:
 
they will wash out eventually. A few years ago, there was a new guy in town for fleetwashing. His pricing is still biting contractors. Imagine this, $1 for a complete exterior wash, $5 for a garbage truck, with reclaim.
One night, even though he was getting every contract with the various cities, he rolled up and vanished. That is what happens, and it happens all the time. It happens on these very boards. Someone comes on, talks about how they are making bank, and how busy they are, are internet guru's and they vanish, because they could not support their own business model, or their wife came along and told them it was time to get a job that made money. It is also interesting to me how frequently people will claim to be something, or have been something, that they are not. It is part of life, and doing business.
If they are hitting you hard and causing you problems, then hit them where they are not.
 
Devil's advocate. How do you know they are not paying tax? Maybe they are paying for college or feeding a family. Rather see someone working than not. There are a lot of guys here that use 4 gpm or little machines. Who cares as long as they are doing a job good enough to please their customer. Either they will go away or grow their business. Either way they are serving a need or people would not hire them.
 
offdutyfireman said:
Devil's advocate. How do you know they are not paying tax? Maybe they are paying for college or feeding a family. Rather see someone working than not. There are a lot of guys here that use 4 gpm or little machines. Who cares as long as they are doing a job good enough to please their customer. Either they will go away or grow their business. Either way they are serving a need or people would not hire them.
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Believe it or not, I agree with you.
It's a normal occurance for a college student to pop up occasionally doing some pressure washing to help with college expences.
I know they aren't paying taxes because the only way someone will take an old client from me is by cutting my price quite a bit. And if a persn cuts my price very much, they can't possibly pay taxes cause I don't make that much as it is.

But I do hand it to the student who's out trying to earn some money.
 
That is an easy one........Animal House
 
Larry's been doing that down here for years !! But he's so loveable that we dont mind anymore.
 
Sorry, never seen that movie. I have heard of it though. I saw a Movie called "Inner Space" in the late 80's and that was the first and last time I went to a movie at the theater. I wasn't allowed to go growing up and after seeing that one I couldn't fathom why people would pay money to sit elbow to elbow with a stranger in the dark and waste 2 hours that you could never get back.
 
offdutyfireman said:
Sorry, never seen that movie. I have heard of it though. I saw a Movie called "Inner Space" in the late 80's and that was the first and last time I went to a movie at the theater. I wasn't allowed to go growing up and after seeing that one I couldn't fathom why people would pay money to sit elbow to elbow with a stranger in the dark and waste 2 hours that you could never get back.
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You're an odd duck! Are you kidding? InnerSpace- 1997 - Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Martin Short. Classic 80's movie.

I love movies!
 
Mike V said:
You're an odd duck! Are you kidding? InnerSpace- 1997 - Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Martin Short. Classic 80's movie.

I love movies!
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I like old westerns and have all the andy griffith's on vhs. I am pretty sure the movie I saw was in the late 80's, not 1997. I may be wrong though. It was about some guy that got shrunk and went inside of someone else.
 
I remember that movie, it was a good one.
 
ABC said:
Nah man, just keep plugging away at it.
You knew what you were getting into.
Spend more time refining your company and less time on the part timers.
You know they won't be around this time next year.
Keep plugging man.

( unless of course the "retirement fishing" includes deep sea fishing lol):killingme:
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Although I enjoy fishing the deep, when I retire (and it won't be long) I'll be fishing the hydrilla of Lake Seminole, Georgia.
10 pound bass.
 
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