Price war ???????

January 11, 2005

Have been getting a lot of people ring me up just last two months,and ask for prices so I give them and they say is that your best price ie my price is ?180 they will say JOE BLOGGS down the road will do it for ?150 or some times LESS :dunno :dunno are we trying to put each other out of work or what ????????????????????????????????????? :wall .

How about if all tinters worked from set prices and stuck to them ??????????? or in the near future we might out price our work so we will work for F$ck all how about that and them low prices YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE :dunno

January 11, 2005

Hey Tint Wiz, where abouts are you in the UK?

In Barnsley we've had quite a few tint shops open up in the past 6 months.

Is it the same where you are?

From our experiences we've found that the newer shops are offering the cheaper prices... I wouldn't want to call them hacks, but without seeing their work I can't comment the quality :dunno

So the customers choose the job that's cheapest, and then have to come to the experienced Quality tinters to have all their problems fixed at a later date.

TintDude · January 11, 2005

Here's the trick...don't be just 20$ higher than the hack competition..be 100$ higher. When people see such a price difference, they know without asking which shop is going to be better and why.

Being that much higher, it's easier to illustrate to the customer that you get what you pay for, and that joe blow down the street is an entry level option, low grade film and intallation, yours however is superior in material and workmanship.

If you are only 20 bucks higher than Joe Blow, then your sales pitch will not ring true.

Please, TRUST ME ON THIS ONE. If you ignore my advice and get into a price war, then you and I both know where that leads. (Whoring out the market)

January 11, 2005

would agree with td!

or you can always have a less expensive film to offer for the match this guys price or phone shoppers, why yes I do have a lower quality film thats nice and will last a few years the price is this xxcc, once they come to your shop you can show them the differences between the two.

won't work all the time but its worth a shot to get em in and upsell them to a quality film.

BIG E · January 11, 2005

would agree with td!
or you can always have a less expensive film to offer for the match this guys price or phone shoppers, why yes I do have a lower quality film thats nice and will last a few years the price is this xxcc, once they come to your shop you can show them the differences between the two.

won't work all the time but its worth a shot to get em in and upsell them to a quality film.

[*]244647

Yes and tell them what cheap film looks like after a couple years. TD also brings up a very valid point $20 is not much in the quality improvment department but $75 or $100 might get the wheels spinning as to a real quality increase! :uh JMO

January 11, 2005

yep if every quote was within 20 bucks there would'nt be much difference except what the tinter was telling them! then they'd have to take it all in and pick someone!

January 12, 2005

Here's the trick...don't be just 20$ higher than the hack competition..be 100$ higher. When people see such a price difference, they know without asking which shop is going to be better and why.
Being that much higher, it's easier to illustrate to the customer that you get what you pay for, and that joe blow down the street is an entry level option, low grade film and intallation, yours however is superior in material and workmanship.

If you are only 20 bucks higher than Joe Blow, then your sales pitch will not ring true.

Please, TRUST ME ON THIS ONE. If you ignore my advice and get into a price war, then you and I both know where that leads. (Whoring out the market)

[*]244616

I only had the same thing happen to me monday TD

Boyracer calls me up to say that he can get his 106 and mates honda civic done for ?170 each if they were done athe the same time, I told him that I couldnt do it that cheap, itl be 225 for 106 250 for the honda at the same time...its not that I dont need the work im just not lowering my prices its just aint worth the agro, itold him if the tinters up the in the next town are doing that cheap then theres something wrong...you get what you pay for sunny...these prices came from the same firm that tried to put me out of business even befor I started, going around slaging me of to all the dealers YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.. :shock ..YOU CARRY ON...theres plenty of work out there for everyone in my area, there just being assholes :uh

January 12, 2005

I know how you feel! In my area tinters have been charging the same price since the late 80's. With all the improvements of one peice back glass and lifetime film they still charge the same and there's only 4 of us here besides 1 or 2 hackers. I'm the only one who offers lifetime film and most of my calls ask price I tell them and they say old so and so only charges this much and then I explain the difference in films and they say, well I won't have this car more than 2 or 3 yrs so I don't care what happens after that to the film. Makes me wonder why I don't offer a standard film to price match???? Hell, it cost more for a car wash around here now than it did in 10 yrs ago. WTF :uh