The £5k detail
Discussion
The results are outstanding and whilst I knew this sort of thing was expensive, I had no idea just how expensive. Not a bad job at £100 an hour...
http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.p...
http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.p...
Impressive, but significantly more money than sense from the customer, IMO.
It's a better job that you could achieve at home, but for a car that apparently gets used, you could achieve something that for practical purposes will be almost as good with £200 on a machine polisher and a bit more on some other bits and pieces, and be able to do it again for free in six months or a year.
Still, if people will pay it, fair play to the guys doing it. Nice line of work.
Edit: the £7k job seems like more sense and better value for money, with some hard work like removing the film, but a lot of those shots like the wheel arches beg the question 'who cares?', unless it's going in a museum. Some nice ideas in there though like the plastic repainting.
It's a better job that you could achieve at home, but for a car that apparently gets used, you could achieve something that for practical purposes will be almost as good with £200 on a machine polisher and a bit more on some other bits and pieces, and be able to do it again for free in six months or a year.
Still, if people will pay it, fair play to the guys doing it. Nice line of work.
Edit: the £7k job seems like more sense and better value for money, with some hard work like removing the film, but a lot of those shots like the wheel arches beg the question 'who cares?', unless it's going in a museum. Some nice ideas in there though like the plastic repainting.
Edited by trashbat on Sunday 15th June 12:28
B0DSKI said:
That was excellent...but £7k..wow!Martin_M said:
B0DSKI said:
That was excellent...but £7k..wow!mini1380cc said:
Martin_M said:
B0DSKI said:
That was excellent...but £7k..wow!and the fact the car linked is due back this weekend.
The high price tags on DW threads has been banned as it was very clever marketing which bumped threads to the top constantly with arguments of what its really worth, and now seems its caught the attention on people on PH.
The True threads don’t have silly figures posted to help keep them alive.
Firstly my thread linked was nowhere near 7k in fact almost 5 times less, the price tag of 7k has never been linked to any of my work or threads.
7K was tagged to another detailer, in fact it was 7.2k to trump the 5k detail from many years ago. Again, absolutely nothing to do with us.
I feel that KDS is well enough established in this trade to be able to see a "real" world of detailing.
we currently process 200-300 cars and customers per year due to working long hours and have 7 staff members, this means i get many new enquires and customers from all over the country from all back grounds and wealth.
There is a perceived value to "car cleaning" from a customer point of view
Also to back this up as I train pupils from around the world , (my bookings at present are into October as i type) it seems the same thing is happening around the world , this being: readers believe the price tags and think they're all going to be rich. The reality is not the same.
Not a very hard investigation, once found a Ph'er posting he had his car done by a detailer on here and posted the cost when asked. The same car and indeed photos from the detailer on DW was 3 times the price. Do you believe what you read in the newspapers ?
I once sold a very nice fully restored integrale to friend in Essex , to see in it a car mag 6 months later with quotes "owner personally imported it from Italy", "350 BHP" , " high lift cams" when the car was returned to me for some mechanical work and was still completely standard ????
When i asked my friend he suggested the mag wrote the article to make it more interesting.
I digress.
what would you think if i was to say that we had many enquiries over the years for detailing with actual inspection of potential new clients, and while viewing their car and gave them the best solution and price for turning around their pride and joy, these being people who have used "expensive detailers in the past".... i lost count the amount of times i been told we are 'more expensive' than the famously expensive detailers even when we're quoting £500-£600.
Something does not add up and you can make your own conclusions from it.
summary we processed over 3000 cars and customers now so hopefully have a very good gauge of what people will pay. And it's not seven grand. FWIW, all our prices are on our website.
kelly
Edited by kds keltec on Friday 20th June 11:31
Totally agree Kelly, Marketing is a wonderful thing fall for it and you will pay for it.I would have charged around £600 for that job and for those who know who i am it would be no different if not better. Also why apply four coats of EXO that tells me it is not as good as people make out for durability just marketing again.
Tony Spears
Tony Spears
Edited by spearsy on Friday 20th June 20:40
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