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Wholesale Detailing?
- Thread starter MirrorDetailing
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Barry Theal said:What matters is the end result. Is you pocket getting Fatter!
Everyone knows that volume work is where the money is but not at $30 a car for all the work he is doing. I would love an update from the OP to see how he is making out with this dealer.
DaVinci Detail
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BUMP.
How'd it go?
How'd it go?
JPostal said:^Agreed. You and I both know that $30 is too low. All I am trying to say is he may be able to turn a profit and support himself on $30 a car. If he can in fact do all the work required in an hour he can in theory make aprox $20 an hour after expenses. Not great, but not horrible if his only other employment option is McDonalds at $9 an hour. I'm sure he would rather be making $60 an hour doing correction work, but right now he is taking what he can get to survive. It may end up being a bad business deal, but he needs to be able to make that decision himself after doing some work for the dealer.
The problem is that when people do cheap work, it can cheapen it for all of us. You get too many people thinking a $89 full detail is the going rate when for quality work, it isn't.
MirrorDetailing
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DaVinciAutoSpa said:BUMP.
How'd it go?
Holy ****, I forgot about this thread.
It went. I was only helping him till he was able to hire a full time detailer, that he could pay hourly. We worked a deal, but it was pretty basic work for about $40-60 a car. Which was not bad, as some days I was doing 6-10 cars for him. But it was enough after a few months to know that it was not the greatest work to be doing all the time as I kept having to let stuff slide that I wanted to get fixed. Paint correction and such.
Scottwax said:The problem is that when people do cheap work, it can cheapen it for all of us. You get too many people thinking a $89 full detail is the going rate when for quality work, it isn't.
Yep, but for dealers they are just wanting to get it onto the sales floor for potential customers. But, yeah, when you prefer to do more higher end detailed work...doing low end work for dealerships is torture lol.