Is this bait and switch

[Jtuseo]

If I put on my website or on my post cards two rooms $69.99 up to 180 square . Is that considered bait and switch if the customer has more than 180 square feet when I get to the home?

 

[Neil]

No because it's in the ad so there's no switch. 180 sq/ft seems small for 2 rooms though, I would probably bump it to 250ish.

 

[Goomer]

Up to 180 each room or 180 total of 2 rooms???

 

[sam miller]

No Bait and switch is advertising $69.95 for a 180 sq ft and when thay say here is a 180 sq ft clean it and You refuse saying I need $99.95
Advertising something You never intend to do? even a coupon for $16.95 for 2 rooms isnt bait and switch if You actually do it for that price!

Its disengenous especially if You upsell with out warning!

Its called a lost leader in advertising! Automobile ads are full of lost leaders where they advertise 1 car for a great deal to get traffic into the dealership. It would be bait and switch if they bever sold a car for the deal price!

 

[Jtuseo]

Guys remember I am in NYC Square footage is very small here. most rooms are small, plus im only measuring the areas I clean

 

[Brian R]

Not bait n switch...But if you're hiding the text too much then it can be close.

Smaller text is fine.....Just not so you need a magnifying glass to read it.

You absolutely have to put sqft limits on coupon ads or people will knock down walls just to get the best deal carpet cleaning. :shock:


Everyone is a sqft cleaner.....Just some word it differently.


Remember...People read what they want to read.....I still come into places and they say "900 sqft of carpet cleaning right?"

NO, it's 3 rooms UP TO 900 sqft of carpet


Funny how that works.

 

[Ron Lippold]

why not just go by and give them a free estimate, you would be supprised how much more you will pick up.. dont give your price away, its all we have....

 

[Ron K]

Everyone is a sqft cleaner.....Just some word it differently.

Wrong Brian we are all hourly, unless you really do live in another world of Bonnets and Lolypops.

 

[truckmount girl]

As long as the limitation is in the font and text of the offer (not added in tiny print at the bottom) I would not consider it B&S, however you might want to clarify whether you are referring to total room sq. footage, or cleanable areas (unless you move all furniture) as a customer could protest that there was less than 180 sf cleaned. You may want to add that additional s/f is billed at the rate of $$ per s/f.

Take care,
Lisa

 

[Brian R]

[quote="Brian R":22evwn1w]
Everyone is a sqft cleaner.....Just some word it differently.

Wrong Brian we are all hourly, unless you really do live in another world of Bonnets and Lolypops.[/quote:22evwn1w]


Time is money...I agree

But sqft will generally dictate time, expense and income.

Try charging and hourly rate for carpet cleaning in your ads. :roll:

 

[GeneMiller]

don't have the time to look at every job, i know the neighborhoods and the models. saves me loads of time , which is money.

gene

 

[Lee Stockwell]

No Bait and switch is advertising $69.95 for a 180 sq ft and when thay say here is a 180 sq ft clean it and You refuse saying I need $99.95
Advertising something You never intend to do? even a coupon for $16.95 for 2 rooms isnt bait and switch if You actually do it for that price!

Its disengenous especially if You upsell with out warning!

Its called a lost leader in advertising! Automobile ads are full of lost leaders where they advertise 1 car for a great deal to get traffic into the dealership. It would be bait and switch if they bever sold a car for the deal price!

LOSS leader

 

[Royal Man]

No Bait and switch is advertising $69.95 for a 180 sq ft and when thay say here is a 180 sq ft clean it and You refuse saying I need $99.95
Advertising something You never intend to do? even a coupon for $16.95 for 2 rooms isnt bait and switch if You actually do it for that price!

Its disengenous especially if You upsell with out warning!

Its called a lost leader in advertising! Automobile ads are full of lost leaders where they advertise 1 car for a great deal to get traffic into the dealership. It would be bait and switch if they bever sold a car for the deal price!

You have to warn a client before you can offer them other services they may need?

?????????

Do they warn you at the restaurant before the waitress asks if you would want a drink or desert?

Sounds like you may be suffering from salesfobia.

 

[sam miller]

[quote="sam miller"bl8cy1p]No Bait and switch is advertising $69.95 for a 180 sq ft and when thay say here is a 180 sq ft clean it and You refuse saying I need $99.95
Advertising something You never intend to do? even a coupon for $16.95 for 2 rooms isnt bait and switch if You actually do it for that price!

Its disengenous especially if You upsell with out warning!

Its called a lost leader in advertising! Automobile ads are full of lost leaders where they advertise 1 car for a great deal to get traffic into the dealership. It would be bait and switch if they bever sold a car for the deal price!

LOSS leader[/quotebl8cy1p]

TY thats what I meant

 

[sam miller]

[quote="sam miller":hojkgs6f]No Bait and switch is advertising $69.95 for a 180 sq ft and when thay say here is a 180 sq ft clean it and You refuse saying I need $99.95
Advertising something You never intend to do? even a coupon for $16.95 for 2 rooms isnt bait and switch if You actually do it for that price!

Its disengenous especially if You upsell with out warning!

Its called a lost leader in advertising! Automobile ads are full of lost leaders where they advertise 1 car for a great deal to get traffic into the dealership. It would be bait and switch if they bever sold a car for the deal price!

You have to warn a client before you can offer them other services they may need?

?????????

Not talking about add ons talking about carpet cleaning like $39.95 for 2 rooms then show up and say its gonna be ex amount more without imforming the customer there was a potential for more costs.

I would say if I did business this way that the advertised price covers X in these conditions Y costs more and then when You show up they're expecting it.

To not warn and just show up and offer extras will create problems if thats Your business model.

I charge $30 per room and tell people pet stains and odor control costs more they expect it before I get there.
Do they warn you at the restaurant before the waitress asks if you would want a drink or desert?

Sounds like you may be suffering from salesfobia.[/quote:hojkgs6f]

 

[khentich]

as far as i know advertising does not allow switching it is fixed!

 

[rhino1]

Ever have the customer do the bait-b-switch? "I only have a few bad spots. It's a very small house, really. I don't want much furniture moved. Can you just clean this one small rug for me?

 

[Brian R]

Ever have the customer do the bait-b-switch? "I only have a few bad spots. It's a very small house, really. I don't want much furniture moved. Can you just clean this one small rug for me?

I got the shakes when I read that.

Funny how people can be sometimes.

 

[Ed]

Geez..you guys need to get hip. How politically incorrect can you be? There's no such thing as Bait and Switch anymore. It's called "Cafeteria Pricing"....

 

[Jimmy L]

LOOSE


LOSE

 

[Royal Man]

From the title.

I thought this thread was tips about changing hands in the middle of pleasuring oneself.

 

[Greg Cole]

Geez..you guys need to get hip. How politically incorrect can you be? There's no such thing as Bait and Switch anymore. It's called "Cafeteria Pricing"....

I am proud of you! you are embrassing the "new World" LMAO shiteatinggrin

 

[Lee Stockwell]

From the title.

I thought this thread was tips about changing hands in the middle of pleasuring oneself.

...and thus you looked?

 

[Connor]

[quote="Royal Man":2izest25]From the title.

I thought this thread was tips about changing hands in the middle of pleasuring oneself.

...and thus you looked?[/quote:2izest25]

 

[Brian R]

:shock:


Yeah, Lee has to use 2 hands at the same time. !dork!