be careful on those cash jobs..

[Mikey P]

a former MB'r got this FB review recently...

We refuse to take cash for this very reason.


How do you rationalize a "cash discount" with your customers?

 

[FB7777]

Also be careful to dispose of waste water properly... Your competition may be watching

 

[Ralph Pastorelli]

Nobody pays cash they either pay with a check or credit card for points.

 

[Nate The Great]

Cash is King..............

Harper on Nate's computer.......


We hardly ever see cash... And if we do, it goes in the same bank with all our deposits.....

 

[Desk Jockey]

Nearly all checks with some credits cards too. The small amount of cash we see is from retail items sold here at the office.

We do offer quick pay discounts to corporate accounts, but not cash discounts.

 

[mirf]

Checks or credit cards here too.

 

[hogjowl]

Almost nobody pays with cash anymore. It may be because my customers are mainly white collar or military. If I had Chavez's market, I'd have to worry.

 

[Desk Jockey]

If I had Chavez's market, I'd have to worry.

Fooker!

Almost nobody pays with cash anymore.

That's our experience too.

 

[kingjoelking]

No discount for cash. Except I may round down to the nearest 10.

 

[dgardner]

How do you rationalize a "cash discount" with your customers?

About all I could justify would be a small discount because I didn't have to pay the credit card processing fee.

 

[Dmreed4311]

Getting payed in cash is a rare thing these days.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Sometimes a customer pulls out a wallet packed with 1oo's and says I don't need a receipt.

 

[TomKing]

We rarely see cash 1 in 300 jobs.

We have a restaurant here in indy that has a card pay in cash 10 times and get your eleventh meal free.

We have 2 donut shops that only take cash.

how much is reported?

a chain of restaurants called rodeo has been fined 4 million dollars for how they handled cash just this last month.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

One of my favorite family owned restaurants, Hungry Bear, is cash or check only, no plastic....in a University town. I seldom carry much cash and it's a pain in the neck when I'm not carrying a checkbook. They say they don't want to pay the transaction costs. They will be out of business after 45 strong years here I suspect.

They also won't carry Splenda...so they deserve to go.

 

[WillS]

Cash is not so rare here. Alot of times for jobs under $200 we get cash. Probably money won gambling - finally could get the carpets cleaned.

 

[bob vawter]

The ghetto and ministers is where you find the cash..


or ministers in the ghetto

 

[steve_64]

looked to me like the problem wasnt the cash job, it was his writing a false letter that created a problem.

 

[Mike Draper]

We accept cash, but there is no discount.

 

[Brian H]

Cash is probably 15% or so of our business. It's the same price cash, check or credit card.

 

[Steve Toburen]

Uhh, I don't wanna throw any cold water here. But many carpet cleaning employees DO "accept cash" for their "upsells". (Don't ask me how I learned this.)

Steve

PS For those of you with employees working outside of your direct control this fact points up the need to gently "add accountability" to your routine operations. Don't do it if you don't want to but experience proves it is a wise thing to do. I'm just sayin...

 

[Mikey P]

Im not sure what it is you're just saying there Steve..

 

[Desk Jockey]

I believe it is subtly saying your tech's are being offered cash to do extra's (rooms, upholstery, rugs) and putting that money in their pocket.

 

[Mikey P]

My word!

 

[Steve Toburen]

I believe it is subtly saying your tech's are being offered cash to do extra's (rooms, upholstery, rugs) and putting that money in their pocket.

Yes.

Steve

PS And sometimes it is not "subtle" either. (Don't ask me how I sadly learned this.)

 

[Desk Jockey]

We had it done to us too about 30-years ago. (last time that we know of)

The only way we found out was a neighbor to a client called and wanted the same deal that they got. Then he explained.

We held a company interrogation after that.
There were few unmarked graves out back after that day.

 

[Steve Toburen]

We had it done to us too about 30-years ago. (last time that we know of)

I don't want to be the Grinch here, Richard. But the operative term here is "(last time that we know of)."

Steve

PS With the size of operation you run I PROMISE you it has happened since.

 

[ruff]

I did not think Steve was that subtle .

I had a neighbor approach me and ask if I wanted to do some extra money on the side. She thought I was an employee and was ready to strike a deal. Was it my cloths, the accent, my desperate look?

She was very disappointed to hear that I owned this little splash and dash outfit.
I didn't get the job

 

[Desk Jockey]

Very possible but we don't clean "that much" carpet any more like we did in years past. Of the carpet we do clean a share of it is commercial too. BUT that doesn't mean someone has figured out another way to weasel some other scam.

We actually employ some great people and we do thoroughly trust them they have keys and come and go freely with no supervision. Yes, we may leave ourselves exposed at times trusting so much. However if hire the good people, kick those questionable to the curb you limit a lot of the problem people.

All we can really do is build fences and mend any holes we find in the fences. It keeps the honest people honest and the dishonest people well lets hope their aren't many here.

 

[Desk Jockey]

She was very disappointed to hear that I owned this little splash and dash outfit.

I wouldn't have told her. I'd have just cleaned for her and then told her.

 

[TimM]

I accept cash, but I do not give any discounts for cash.