Lee’s Cost Embarrassment Thread

[lee8]

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timdowning wrote:Lee I enjoy your stance on things, and enjoy your posts.

Thanks.

But could you tell me your secret in completing 2 jobs an hour. The jobs must be next door to each other and only need the filter unblocking?

I live in a large city and calls are not far away most of the time, I also do chargable work, agent work etc.

I’m Gas safe and refrigeration.

The agency work sometimes take longer, sometimes not, most of the time its below 30 minutes work.

I completed 33 calls this week. With booking the calls, doing the jobs, dumping old machines,banking,travelling, ordering…etc I didn’t have time to wipe my own….

Me neither some days it feels like that, I don’t sell appliances or take them away, so I don’t dump old machines, to me thats a complete waste of my time for the money.

And two jobs an hour isn’t the ‘large part’ of your business?

That was reference agent work for £30 a completed call, that isn’t a large part of my time, if it went tomorrow I wouldn’t lose sleep.

Do you wear a red cape? 😆 🙂

Tim.

I don’t try to come across as a hero, it’s not my intention to put people down or to be top dog, I maybe lucky in my location and the jobs I get.

Its not easy, I have been doin it a long time though and I spent many many yrs rushing around like an arshole for companies, for far less than I earn now doing my own work, maybe that helps, maybe not.

[richardable]

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back to the top….see post 01/07/10…
…..”and what costs are dropping”…..
answers on a post card or here ….
what a can of worms!!!!
richard

[lee8]

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Drama queens, we smell better than worms.

As for costs “work it out”, it shouldn’t be too difficult. 😉

[richardable]

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lee,
give me a break.. specifically….what costs have dropped…
van insurance, road tax, fuel (ok it’s a bit up and down), community charges, rent, mortgages, you know, stuff WE have to pay with no appeal. are the dropping costs you mention passed onto US?

[VillageIdiot2]

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Lee,

There is 1x large meeting in September, come along, it’s in Coventry, so that’s near enough for everyone (Mid UK), details can be seen in the appropriate thread, but seriously, come along!

A man that makes a ‘Good’ living out of doing calls for £30, WITHOUT fiddling parts or getting Diesil from a Farmer half price is a man we ALL need to meet! You obviously know something we’re all missing!

Adrian 🙂

[Jonah]

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Ditto Ade 😯

[Allsorts]

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richardable wrote:are the dropping costs you mention passed onto US?

Sorry for taking the pisc .. but.. yes they are.. just shop at argos, currys, comet, or euronics.. you may lose your dinner afterwards but you will have the satisfaction that you have tried to outdo the littleman.

George

[lee8]

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I did not mention costs to us as in fuel etc.Sorry if I gave that impression, but this is about D&G and there restructure, not a thread about our business running costs.

The costs are the prices D&G and there clients (Not Us) are faced with, which D&G are loosing out, there repair network is not as efficient as it should be, compared to others knocking on D&G door.

[lee8]

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washdoctor wrote:

A man that makes a ‘Good’ living out of doing calls for £30, WITHOUT fiddling parts or getting Diesil from a Farmer half price is a man we ALL need to meet! You obviously know something we’re all missing!

Adrian 🙂

Adrian, I’m an appliance engineer, I have two options, I work for myself or I work for a company.

The going rate for an appliance engineer is around £80 a day as a wage, give or take.Now I’m self employed because I make more than that a day, with all costs deducted.

I don’t only do £30.00 calls, I repeat for the hard of hearing that it makes up a small amount of my business, for instance yesterday after writting here I did 2 calls, took around an hour 5 minutes from office to calls back to office, cost me 3 miles in fuel and £5 in parts, I took from the clients £140.

I don’t have staff, I don’t have expensive lifestyle, I never stated doing £30 a call was going to allow me a rich lifestyle, but I’m faced with doing the calls, getting free parts for those calls 😉 ,it gives me access to a large client base, far more than if I advertised. I’m already there for that appliance, the kitchen is full of stuff I can repair away from the contract, they see me, no my work and I’m the friendly reliable engineer who’s number will likely be kept and used or spread around the area, to me that saves thousands of £’s, or I stay in bed, but since staying in bed does not pay anything, give me free parts or speak to potential clients I will continue to do them until I can steal more profitable calls from my competition, which may well be other members on UKW goods, so no I’m not about to meet up with people who I intend to stress out now or in the future. :rolls:

I may be arrogant, wrong, stupid, a retard, poor, rich, flash or a complete knob head, I can’t help that, but today my business is giving me a large percentage of what I want from it, may not be ideal to most, its not ideal to me, hell I’d love to be earning several hundred pounds and hour, in the current climate, in the industry we are in that is unrealistic.

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