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Post by greenpesto on Feb 8, 2006 17:00:03 GMT 1
Bear is totally correct! .... Charge what you can for the blinds, ... over charge if & when you can ... discount by however much you like to get the order.
I often put table 7 fabrics in the '2 for' offers & can sometimes charge 'Capri' at £240 on '2 for' if I can.
I tell the customer to ignore the offers & choose what they want & I'll give the best deal I can for them ( & me! ).
I have noticed recently that since using SAM I earn less than I did with Paper orders.
e.g. The past 25 'paper orders' which left me with satisfied customers would have been sold on SAM at around £760 less than the 'paper' ones.
So charge what you can & try using 'paper' ... you might earn more in the process.
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Post by farmer on Feb 8, 2006 21:01:41 GMT 1
This forum is a bad influence, Last week I gave a massive discount on a Whole house order as the customer wanted specific Colours and as i had been there for two hours plus an hours travel I was not going to walk away. So I just gave promotional prices for the Grade of Fabric they had chosen. Trading standards trading standards Trading StandardsMust do my lines I would have done the same. Do the business at the price that you can do it at. Two hours there, plus one hour travel is --plus 2-3 hours to fit meant you had to do the deal at the best price you could. REMEMBER on the renewed(again!) conservatory offer Hillarys can afford to do £1217 full list of a List 7 fabric for £349 so why should you worry??? They are happy at any price as I have discovered. Bear says " Magnitude of bollocking for no conversions is enormous, and size of bollocking for big discounts is non-existant"---so fill yer boots!! ANYONE DISAGREE??? Bear Spot on Bear. With crap fabric about 18p a metre, and good about 28p, average 35 metres per blind..........work it out ..................... |
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Post by inkjet on Feb 8, 2006 22:15:55 GMT 1
In the past I have rarely charged extra, but I have noticed on Sam that there is no overide for extra.
Recently I had a Customer with Very Large Barn Windows who ordered 3 Capri Blinds
However this place was out in the Stickks The Window is very tall and long. so I charged her for 4 to made sure I had a minimum income for the time I spent getting to the customer to make the sale extra travelling time to fix at weekend my daughter gets time and a half for Saturdays and double for Sundays and she is only 22.
Plus extra time needed to fit large windows.
Customer very happy with my price.
Sam would not normally allow me to do this.
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Post by RED on Feb 8, 2006 23:56:33 GMT 1
In the past I have rarely charged extra, but I have noticed on Sam that there is no overide for extra. Recently I had a Customer with Very Large Barn Windows who ordered 3 Capri Blinds However this place was out in the Stickks The Window is very tall and long. so I charged her for 4 to made sure I had a minimum income for the time I spent getting to the customer to make the sale extra travelling time to fix at weekend my daughter gets time and a half for Saturdays and double for Sundays and she is only 22. Plus extra time needed to fit large windows. Customer very happy with my price. Sam would not normally allow me to do this. Sam will not allow you to do this because it is illegal. If a price is stated in a sale promotion then it should be adhered to. You take it upon your own head if anything comes of it. Imagine if this lady were to find out that she had Been overcharged and decided to bring Trading standards in. You would be the one that would have to explain why you upped the price. I am not saying you should not do it but you should be aware of the possible repercussions. Red |
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Post by greenpesto on Feb 9, 2006 3:44:37 GMT 1
I've been doing this for years!!!!
Remember ... customers are happy to knock us down from the correct selling price .... so make it up where you can. If you are convincing enough you can sell anything at any price!!!!
It is my opinion that there should be a button on SAM allowing us to over-ride an offer price if we wish.
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Post by BlindWizard on Feb 9, 2006 9:40:31 GMT 1
Yep, like that button or allow negative discount that would do the trick.
This facility is required in case the SAM discount is incorrect.
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Post by Blind Scout on Feb 13, 2006 17:38:11 GMT 1
So week-end mailer (10/2) tells me and all other agents that the 50% Jan offer has ended for Vens and Robs, and we should no longer sell these. My weekly paper, advertises Vens, Robs and Verts at 50 % off untill 18/2.
So communications have cocked up again. Should I refuse to sell these Vens and Robs and ask the customer to take it up with trading standards to take Hillarys to court, or just take the sale? I did 'phone my stand-in FSM, but guess what, no response apart from the Answer machine.
This is something that could have been sorted quickly, but the left hand and the right hand don't seem to be connected.
Footnote: I was leaving for another appointment when he phoned. Well done he.
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Post by desmorse on Mar 1, 2006 0:09:12 GMT 1
2 weeks ago I got letter saying extended January 1/2 price sale now finished on rollers & venetians. Put an aluweave in SAM today, still 1/2 price. Shouldn't marketing tell SAM people these things? Perhaps they don't realise that some of us actually use it for generating prices.
Fitted my first ever aluweave in manila today - God they look awful! No wonder they're 1/2 price. Headrail looked more like a Scottish kilt than a blind
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Post by greenpesto on Mar 1, 2006 0:14:19 GMT 1
You'll make the Scottish contingents angry with that comment!!!!  Joy will have to edit that!!!!! ;D |
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Post by desmorse on Mar 1, 2006 0:18:52 GMT 1
You'll make the Scottish contingents angry with that comment!!!! Joy will have to edit that!!!!! ;D My apologies to all our Scottish readers. I didn't mean to demean your national dress by comparing it an aluweave venetian. Please don't censor me again Big Sister |
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Post by greenpesto on Mar 1, 2006 0:21:31 GMT 1
It is a kind of 'Skirt' though!!!!!!!  OOOPPPS!!!!!!  |
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Post by Blind Scout on Mar 1, 2006 23:52:21 GMT 1
It is a kind of 'Skirt' though!!!!!!! OOOPPPS!!!!!! Can't let this go. The Scottish traditional garment, is more like a blanket, 5 yards x 1 yard, that is folded and wrapped around the waist before securing with a belt. The remainder is then passed around the chest and over the left shoulder. In its original form, a rough woollen cloth worn as a plaid, tartan had a highly practical function of providing warmth and shelter from the harsh Scottish weather. Over the years, the plaid became modified into the kilt which was in fairly common use along side the plaid by 1795. Each clan or family has developed its own distinctive "sett" distinguished by the number of threads of each colour in the pattern. Nowadays, tartan has virtually lost its function as a hardwearing cloth for hunting and working purposes, and the more traditional and sombre colours, based on vegetable dyes, have been replaced. |
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Post by greenpesto on Mar 2, 2006 0:16:25 GMT 1
I stand corrected!!!! The fact it goes over the top half as well .... that makes it a 'dress 'then???!!!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D OCH ... AYE ... the NOO!!!! |
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Post by dodgybracket on Mar 2, 2006 0:29:29 GMT 1
The really useful thing I find is that when wearing FULL HIGHLAND DRESS to a "Black Tie Function" I never ever miss out on the opportunity to respond to some thingy-like remark from a weak-chinned Sassenach, is to pointedly confuse him with the bar-staff and order a round of drinks from him and tell him to get a bloody move on!!!
The only think stiff and rigid about a Sassenach in a cheap suit is his upper lip, which is to found 4 cms above a weak ill-defined chin.
( Now that should get the wassocks among you up & running!)
Dodgybracket
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Post by greenpesto on Mar 2, 2006 0:35:57 GMT 1
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