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Please PM or email the name of this company that you're referring to. Thanks!!

Re lowballing, it happens everywhere. We have a lowballer here in Northern Virginia. He's simply poisoning the well so to speak. If you get underbid, just move on. Up your gamer, polish your salesmanship some more, and let them eat your dust in the long run

BTW - while he's lowballing, we're raising our prices. Inflation....

Good luck!

ksroofs · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

it happens.. You never know too, he might be doing the neighbors.. Or the guy told him you put a bid in and he dropped it just to mess with you.. Or he got them his 10k square foot church that he goes to.. You never know, I wouldn't worry about it too much it happens to all of us..

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ksroofs wrote:
it happens.. You never know too, he might be doing the neighbors.. Or the guy told him you put a bid in and he dropped it just to mess with you.. Or he got them his 10k square foot church that he goes to.. You never know, I wouldn't worry about it too much it happens to all of us..

I don't sweat it. It was a little too big for me anyway. My bid was after the company gave him a bid. The homeowner told me what they were charging him in person. They will have 2 trucks and 4 guys at that house and be done in half a day. That's something I cant compete with.

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Stay Clean wrote:
ksroofs wrote:
it happens.. You never know too, he might be doing the neighbors.. Or the guy told him you put a bid in and he dropped it just to mess with you.. Or he got them his 10k square foot church that he goes to.. You never know, I wouldn't worry about it too much it happens to all of us..
I don't sweat it. It was a little too big for me anyway. My bid was after the company gave him a bid. The homeowner told me what they were charging him in person. They will have 2 trucks and 4 guys at that house and be done in half a day. That's something I cant compete with.

Like Lee and Ted said, move on my friend.

If I am in a bar full of girls, and one don't want to dance with me, no big deal, there are plenty more.

But, if there is only one girl in a bar, and she says No, then I am out of luck.

If you have plenty of roof cleaning leads, you do not worry, if you loose one.

The real trick is, to get so many roof cleaning leads, you sit back and laugh when a competitor works for nothing!

Central Iowa Roof Cleaning · Certified Cedar Shake Roof Cleaning Specialist

You may want to consider what the owner tells you someone else quoted with a grain of salt. Could very well be a tire kicker.

Anyone can get a worse job done cheaper!

When I get a request for a quote, I e-mail my quote " one" time they either take it or I move on. I never follow up, that indicates I'd potenially lower my price, which I won't.

I also never quote in person or on the phone.

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Central Iowa Roof Cleaning wrote:
You may want to consider what the owner tells you someone else quoted with a grain of salt. Could very well be a tire kicker.
Anyone can get a worse job done cheaper!
When I get a request for a quote, I e-mail my quote " one" time they either take it or I move on. I never follow up, that indicates I'd potenially lower my price, which I won't.
I also never quote in person or on the phone.

Roof Cleaning Sales 101- Buyers are sometimes liars yawn

Advantage Roof Cleaning · Apr 4, 2014

Central Iowa Roof Cleaning wrote:
You may want to consider what the owner tells you someone else quoted with a grain of salt. Could very well be a tire kicker.
Anyone can get a worse job done cheaper!
When I get a request for a quote, I e-mail my quote " one" time they either take it or I move on. I never follow up, that indicates I'd potenially lower my price, which I won't.
I also never quote in person or on the phone.

I found in my local market it pays to follow up. I email my quote to the HO. If I don't hear back from the HO in a week I will call. Many times the HO will authorize me over the phone to proceed. I think many people procrastinate or get distracted from responding to my email. A quick phone call helps to prompt them to action.

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Advantage Roof Cleaning wrote:
Central Iowa Roof Cleaning wrote:
You may want to consider what the owner tells you someone else quoted with a grain of salt. Could very well be a tire kicker.
Anyone can get a worse job done cheaper!
When I get a request for a quote, I e-mail my quote " one" time they either take it or I move on. I never follow up, that indicates I'd potenially lower my price, which I won't.
I also never quote in person or on the phone.
I found in my local market it pays to follow up. I email my quote to the HO. If I don't hear back from the HO in a week I will call. Many times the HO will authorize me over the phone to proceed. I think many people procrastinate or get distracted from responding to my email. A quick phone call helps to prompt them to action.

I always quote and close roof cleaning jobs over the phone. I try my very best to get out of sending email quotes, because quite often, customers here in Tampa will use your written roof cleaning estimate to shop. Once they show an emailed estimate to a local competitor, it is game over!

The local roof cleaning competitor not only beat your prices, he will also know them!

Central Iowa Roof Cleaning · Certified Cedar Shake Roof Cleaning Specialist

Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa FL (813) 655-8777 wrote:
Advantage Roof Cleaning wrote:
Central Iowa Roof Cleaning wrote:
You may want to consider what the owner tells you someone else quoted with a grain of salt. Could very well be a tire kicker.
Anyone can get a worse job done cheaper!
When I get a request for a quote, I e-mail my quote " one" time they either take it or I move on. I never follow up, that indicates I'd potenially lower my price, which I won't.
I also never quote in person or on the phone.
I found in my local market it pays to follow up. I email my quote to the HO. If I don't hear back from the HO in a week I will call. Many times the HO will authorize me over the phone to proceed. I think many people procrastinate or get distracted from responding to my email. A quick phone call helps to prompt them to action.
I always quote and close roof cleaning jobs over the phone. I try my very best to get out of sending email quotes, because quite often, customers here in Tampa will use your written roof cleaning estimate to shop. Once they show an emailed estimate to a local competitor, it is game over!
The local roof cleaning competitor not only beat your prices, he will also know them!

I see your point and in your location that may well be the case. I think it is location driven also. Though I am in another market, which is niche, and don't have that issue of others quoting. I have yet to close a cleaning over the phone or in person. Again, I don't have the competition either. Most of the home owners I deal with are private people, live in gated communities and tend to be professional people themselves and perfer the e-mail exchange. When I was cleaning asphalt roofs I found alot of tire kickers. Having changed my service to cedar cleaning I don't find that any more. So I must agree it is location and market driven. Point well made.

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Central Iowa Roof Cleaning wrote:
Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa FL (813) 655-8777 wrote:
Advantage Roof Cleaning wrote:
Central Iowa Roof Cleaning wrote:
You may want to consider what the owner tells you someone else quoted with a grain of salt. Could very well be a tire kicker.
Anyone can get a worse job done cheaper!
When I get a request for a quote, I e-mail my quote " one" time they either take it or I move on. I never follow up, that indicates I'd potenially lower my price, which I won't.
I also never quote in person or on the phone.
I found in my local market it pays to follow up. I email my quote to the HO. If I don't hear back from the HO in a week I will call. Many times the HO will authorize me over the phone to proceed. I think many people procrastinate or get distracted from responding to my email. A quick phone call helps to prompt them to action.
I always quote and close roof cleaning jobs over the phone. I try my very best to get out of sending email quotes, because quite often, customers here in Tampa will use your written roof cleaning estimate to shop. Once they show an emailed estimate to a local competitor, it is game over!
The local roof cleaning competitor not only beat your prices, he will also know them!

I see your point and in your location that may well be the case. I think it is location driven also. Though I am in another market, which is niche, and don't have that issue of others quoting. I have yet to close a cleaning over the phone or in person. Again, I don't have the competition either. Most of the home owners I deal with are private people, live in gated communities and tend to be professional people themselves and perfer the e-mail exchange. When I was cleaning asphalt roofs I found alot of tire kickers. Having changed my service to cedar cleaning I don't find that any more. So I must agree it is location and market driven. Point well made.

Our roof cleaning markets are totally different brother. There are few people who can do justice to a cedar roof, but zillions who can clean tiles and shingles!

LOL, and I most likely taught them too.

One beat my price, did the roof, then actually called to apologize to me for taking one of my potential customers (he said was 2 weeks late on rent, on his weekly trailer) yawn

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