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Dave,
I was considering applying with gaurdsman. Was there a reason behind your termination?Yep,
First, I terminated them and asked to be removed from their listing.
Several reasons…1) I cannot refuse taking a job 2) pricing not consistent and 3) attempted to use leverage on me to do a job I did not want to do and was informed that I could not cherry pick jobs with them.
I will not do certain jobs, and that includes cleaning unspecified bodily fluids all over a sofa in 3rd floor apartments in the heart of the city. These are ugly jobs and we do not like to have the van even seen there. And not for $80, for 7 panels of a sofa.
If anyone wants the specifics, call. I can see where in certain parts of the country, this would be a great opportunity.
I now know why I have never heard of them in 5 years in the business in this market.
Dave
717-898-6340
Thanks Dave!
I totally understand your reasoning.
$80 to clean that? You could make good money off that. $3.50 for gallon of gas, $.10 for a match. IT’S CLEAN! $76.40 profit for 2 min of work.
Don’t blame you for not wanting that one Dave.
I always post spray with Orange Deodorant after I clean a mattress.
It does very well at preventing “water rings” or post browning.I keep 3-4 oz. mixed into a 36 oz spray bottle on my spot tray.
I also spray O.D. liberally while I am cleaning the mattress.
There’s no reason why every operator shouldnt be signed up with guardsman. It’s easy work. Usually in and out in 15-20 minutes. $80-$120 for 20 minutes of work? Free advertising? Can’t beat that. Every once in a while you’ll get a job that’ll take you 45 minutes or so; but the good definitly out weighs the bad. Leave your business card and you just made yourself another customer. Highly recommended.
My number one reason is my reason for terminating Guardsman…is listed above. Anyone that tells me that I must do a job for them, or be terminated will not have me working for them any longer. Especially cleaning blood and whatever all over the place in a slum area of our town…for $80, on the 4th floor. No thanks.
We do not do that work here…
Just my 2 cents worth of experience with Guardsman.
Dave they give you an option to turn down a job. But if you do, it negatively effects your “success rate”. The higher your success rate the more jobs are assigned to you. I personally have declined about 4 jobs in the past year and am still employed with them as a technician today.
I declined a job and they told me that they would not continue using me… I said ok…
Maybe markets are different for them…
Guardsman has used us several times. My experience is that it was usually unpleasant work and sometimes the pay wasn’t great for the time spent. The last time they made a request, we were too busy to get to them in the time requested so we turned it down. I haven’t heard from them since. My bottom line is, I’m not passing up ‘good’ work to hit their timely requests.
I notice there has not been a response on this chain for some time. Does anyone still do work with them, and if so does someone have a link where we can register?
Thanks so much for the help.
Darrick SchubertGuardsman is great but I dont get enough work from them. Too many operators in my area are hooked up with them I guess. But when I do get an email form them its a big woo hoo. Does anybody know of any other companies that do the insurance thing like valspar/guardsman does? Someone mentioned scotchguard…….do they have a similar system? If anyone knows….please let me know>
There is another company called guardian, very similar to guardsmen. There is a little more paper work to get involved. We haven’t dont anything with them yet mostly because we don’t get much work with guardsmen. I don’t think they activly sell it up here in AK so the only people who have it are implants from the military, and by the time I go through the rigamoroll to get on base there isn’t much profit margin left. It’s good slow season work, but I hate doing their jobs when I’m busy with real work.
I’ve had only one job with them. They contacted me to do the work 2 yrs ago. I signed up but had no other work from them since.
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