Checkatrade

[lame plumber]

their site said they do dds to ease payment

 

[SimonG]

[QUOTE lame plumber;654426]their site said they do dds to ease payment[/QUOTE]

Found it in the faq's 🙂

 

[Linkyplumb]

Thought you had to pay it all at once?

You can pay all at once, two payments, quarterly or monthly.

 

[Millsy 82]

7 reviews since August 2013, isn't that many. Leave review cards with every job and you'll soon beat 7. If checkatrade receive a bad review they always check with you and give you a chance to respond before it is published.

Is it only on jobs that come through them or do you leave them at every job?

 

[Linkyplumb]

Is it only on jobs that come through them or do you leave them at every job?

You can leave them at all jobs, not just customers that have come through CAT

 

[cr0ft]

I give customers a £5 discount off their next job too if they get the feedback card back or do an online review within a week. Seems to work well for me and pretty much guarantees repeat business!

 

[TBServices]

I've applied today. Got the rep coming next Wednesday.

 

[smtplumbing]

tb recommend me lol

 

[IDCHAPPY]

I'll be phoning them back tomorrow, just had to dig out the PLI and certificates and get previous customers permission to be called for feedback 🙂

 

[TBServices]

tb recommend me lol

What does that mean for you dude?

 

[smtplumbing]

discount next year haha thats it, ian make sure you have everything there for colin when he comes up as you get a discount

 

[TBServices]

Send me all the details pal and I'll say you recommended me

 

[SimonG]

I have my appointment, they're coming to see me next Tuesday morning at 09.00. Blokes name is Colin Holborn.

 

[lame plumber]

they keep calling me but Ive been to busy to chat, so calling back Friday

 

[smtplumbing]

same guy then met me simon

Ps cardsave have not got back to me so i will be at them again

 

[SimonG]

they keep calling me but Ive been to busy to chat, so calling back Friday

Today was the first chance I had to speak to them, theyve been trying since monday. Id just breathed new life into an old grant that really needs scrapping and was admiring my handywork when they caught me.

 

[Leo21]

Guys, come on. Can't believe your all joining, we,ll all end up having to join like a monopoly.
Some one else with a finger in our all ready finger riddled pie.

 

[Nostrum]

How about we all hang fire (I spoke to them this week) and agree a reduced rate of we all sign up?

They offered me a discount if I have all documentation at time of meeting, I'm sure they can better though.

I think it was £569 +vat! you can pay quarterly but not monthly.

i reckon we could get it for £500 a piece if we can get 10 people to join as a group buy? They also offered a money back guarantee if I wasn't happy with the amount of work I got from it.

 

[Mike Jackson]

Guys, come on. Can't believe your all joining, we,ll all end up having to join like a monopoly.
Some one else with a finger in our all ready finger riddled pie.

I really can't see your issue with it. It's just a way of advertising really. £600 for a years advertising is cheap. A while ago people were talking about spending that sort of money on a website with SEO or some other jargon. When i started out I looked at the price of a small ad in the Friday Ad. It worked out to about £30 a week, that's over £1500 a year on a small ad.

 

[gasmanrob]

My only gripe with it is there are 2/3 pages worth of adds on my post code all with feedback of 10 9.9 9.8 so what is the point in me bothering I'd be bottom of the page for the first year until I got all the feedback in and scored