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Guido Possum
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I only do shopfronts at the moment, and only Fridays and Saturdays because I have another job weekdays.
I won't bother with any store that's worth less than $20 (£10), and though I've got a few worth $40, $30 is the average.
All three of the towns closest to me have old guys who have price-cut their way into doing almost every store in town, but while they might have the monopoly on commercial work in town, the idiots have simply locked themselves into doing the whole town for £2 per shop.
Day in, day out - they got the jobs by being dirt-cheap. Of course, no business owner will pay a red cent more than £2 - not when they've been getting it so cheap for so long - and so these old guys plod along each day; groaning their way through their work-load.
I don't ask in town where I live - because I won't clean shops for a piddly $15/hour.
If they were willing to go half an hour away they'd double their hourly rate for half the windows.
No wonder they always look miserable.
I won't bother with any store that's worth less than $20 (£10), and though I've got a few worth $40, $30 is the average.
All three of the towns closest to me have old guys who have price-cut their way into doing almost every store in town, but while they might have the monopoly on commercial work in town, the idiots have simply locked themselves into doing the whole town for £2 per shop.
Day in, day out - they got the jobs by being dirt-cheap. Of course, no business owner will pay a red cent more than £2 - not when they've been getting it so cheap for so long - and so these old guys plod along each day; groaning their way through their work-load.
I don't ask in town where I live - because I won't clean shops for a piddly $15/hour.
If they were willing to go half an hour away they'd double their hourly rate for half the windows.
No wonder they always look miserable.
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David K
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These guys are here too ! Let Them bury themselves .. 
Think it's handy to have a few shops in your local town, cheap or not. As said, it's good advertising locally for you. Also these local shops have local owners who may need a window cleaner,otherwise why isn't he doing the shop front too? May be price related/likely they don't have one though.
I picked up a cafe owner and her mum from this local shop cleaning, and they praise you to local customers if your nice/good. Free unlimited advertising really.
I would not do more than three or four **** priced ones though,and wouldn't step out of my own high Street for this ( mines 30 seconds from my front door anyway), due to pricing.
I picked up a cafe owner and her mum from this local shop cleaning, and they praise you to local customers if your nice/good. Free unlimited advertising really.
I would not do more than three or four **** priced ones though,and wouldn't step out of my own high Street for this ( mines 30 seconds from my front door anyway), due to pricing.
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