Unbeatable Pricing Plan

[Grasboy]

I actually have a good idea. What I want to do is offer people a free summer of mowing if they pay $21.95 / month. It's kind of like AOL and Compuserve. They would get unlimited service at a low monthly rate of $21.95. Think about it - no one else is offering this service. It would destroy all the competition and make customers happy. They won't expect a good job - therefore, I can keep this Murray 21&quot; and my electric weed eater and blower. <p>Have any of the rest of you tried a low monthly rate ($21.95). I will mow the yard a max of 3 times a month (with full service). Also, like internet - they can get the service any time they &quot;dial-up&quot; between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. <p>Feel free to use my idea - I'm sure it will provide you with many clients and service!!!<p>Thanks,<br>Grasboy

[geogunn]

grasboy--I think you've stumbled onto something. I for one would like to take you up on your pricing plan. can you come to TN and get started on my lawn right away?<p>GEO

[Eric ELM]

I wouldn't unload my equipment for that price if I got that much each week. I feel you are way to low.<p>----------<br>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.townserver.com/elm/&quot;&gt;Eric@ELM&lt;/a&gt;<br>

[HOMER]

LOL, if you come to my town expect an unfriendly welcome!!! Gee I hope this was a joke, but if not, give it a try. I guarentee Jenny Craig will hire you as a spokesperson by the end of the summer after you've pushed 1000 yards and not eaten worth a s$44!<p>Funny Guy!

[lawrence stone]

He could buy the garden weed wessel and<br>make his own dandelion salad.

[cjcland]

are you cutting grass or smoking it, lmao

[bdemir]

my minimum is 15 dollars for a lawn per week if you would mow for that price i could really get you some work up here in michigan.(some of the 15 dollar lawns take me 5 minutes to cut)<br>

[ashlandscaping]

Hey grassboy your hired I have 180 lawns for you to mow. I will sub all my work out to you. Can you come to the Chicago area??? You would save me thousands on my labor costs. So when do you want to start???????

[Grasboy]

This is NO JOKE!!! None of you seem to see the incredible client potential! Sure, I may start out a little rough - but so did America Online! Just look at them now! They are a multi-billion dollar business. The most successful part will be the fact that they (my customers) can call me any time of the day they need me. Unlike you all - who dictate when you will cut and on your terms. I will be open to the customer. <p>My other option is $45.00 / month for UNLIMITED services. These include, but are not limited to :<p>1)Mowing<br>2)Edging<br>3)Weed Whacking<br>4)Bush trimming<br>5)Weed pulling<br>6)Leaf Raking<br>7)Dog poop clean up<br>8)Flower planting<br>9)Aeration<p>It'll be just like the internet - &quot;Call me up, and I'll clean you up!&quot; -&gt; That's my business moto. Are there any other suggestions you all might have for my business? It is in the Florida area.<p>Thanks,<br>Grasboy

[bdemir]

come up here to michigan i can get you a billion dollars in work.<br>

[AB Lawn Care]

Give it a try,pain is great teacher.Go for it,or listen to the advise here by people who have been in the business for years and know that cheap prices will get you no where(look at the discussion I started ''cheap prices will get you no where'' on this subject).At those prices you could make more working at your local Kwikie-mart!By the way prices for internet are totaly different from lawn cutting.<p>from:Adam<br>AB LAWN CARE

[Millertime34]

Why would you want to work for such a low hourly rate and provide such poor quality work? How will you pay for insurance, gas, phone, vehicle, equipment, advertising, licensing, etc. After all is said and done, what do you net? You'll have to further explain your plan to convince me. Let's hear it.<p>----------<br>Bryan..Heartland Lawn Care<br>heartlandlawn@hotmail.com

[Finecut]

Stay out of the sun or move to Pennsylvania where the sun isn't quite as hot.

[HOMER]

When are you going to be home????? Your gonna be pushing your skinny butt off to keep up, and how will you respond to customer A when you are on customer X's lawn 55 miles away? I suggest you read every post on this forum, find more forums, books, T.V. and anything else you can, you ain't thinking right here. Lets see, you want 1000 customers at $21.00 per month? It will take you 2hrs per yard, might get 5 a day if your humpin it and they are in a row. Its gonna take you 200 days to make a circuit.<p>Reformulate your plan,<p>Homer

[Eric ELM]

Grasboy, I will go along with Ashlandscaping on this. You move to the Chicago area and I'll pay you $21.95 a month to mow each and all of my lawns and I'll even furnish the equipment and gas. If you get 10 customers down there at that $21.95 a month, you will make about what I do on 1 acount a month. Re think your plan. Now at $219.50 a month for unlimited service, I would even have to re think this deal. They will run you raged having you do this and that. Like others said, read every post in here and then make a lot better plan or move up here, we will give you a job, all the work you want.<p>----------<br>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.townserver.com/elm/&quot;&gt;Eric@ELM&lt;/a&gt;<br>

[Charles]

Comparing aol to the lawn service business is like comparing apples to oranges. You cannot handle 11,000,000 customers LOL in one day or in your lifetime.

[thelawnguy]

Could somebody tell me how to spell &quot;T-R-O-L-L&quot;<p>Bill

[Davis TLC]

Grassboy,<br>You really need to rethink your pricing strategy. Your time and equipment are worth more than that. My cheapest is a $30 yard takes about 40 minutes to mow and trim. You will do much better if you will set a schedule for your mowing and specify the services. If you do a quality job people will be willing to pay more. I have customers who worry that they don't pay me enough. <br>You should figure your time for a respectable hourly rate, better than min. wage. Your time should be worth at least $10 per hour minimum. If it takes you 2 hours to mow a lawn ea week, then this comes to $20 per week or $80 per month. Your plan of 21.95 per month won't even cover your labor. I really advise you to seriously reconsider this plan. Even your $45 per month is way to low for all the services you list. <p><p>----------<br>Richard @ Davis Total Lawn Care<br>http://townserver.com/dtlc

[MOW ED]

I'm waiting for the first 5 acre commercial account to sign him up. He will change his name to 6 feet under the Grasboy.

[mattingly]

This is just too funny to believe. There are so many things wrong with this idea. A lot of them have been mentioned but there are many more. I beg of you not to do this but if you do you will definitely crash and burn. I am a meager 23 yrs old. I believe you are 16 right? Well just three years ago I thought I knew everything and could take on the world. Well, now I am working on my second degree and finding that there are so many things in this world to grasp ahold of such that it is impossible to know everything. Moral of this story? Listen to these guys. They've been there and for the most part done that. Did you break your figures down any what so ever? 21/3mowings equal 7 dollars per time mowing. I don't care how small the yard is you will lose money in the long run. Don't get me wrong you won't lose everything, you will gain a wealth of knowledge in the mistakes you have made. Sorry to be so negative but this is your case in point of poor business management skills. Grassboy, this is why so many people have entered the field only to fall flat on their butt in the same year.<p>----------<br>Integrated Landscape Solutions<br>Lexington, KY

[Evan528]

im also sorry to be so negative but are you crazy? it bad enough your 16 but to be doing a unlimited amount of services for 45.00 your jusk asking for people to take advantage like you cant amagine. in in the end will be working for about 3 bucks a hour. the same people will be callin you every other day to rake up 5 leaves that fell off there tree and two water the two potted flowers on the front porch! you can make your 45 bucks doing 2 lawns in a couple of hours with a 21inch mower....why cut yourself short of all that money? beleave me...ive been there and done that, charge by the job and make sure you get at least 20 bucks a hour to start. this is hard labor intensive work and youll be sorry and ready to quit after the first month when you relize you did a thousand bucks worth of work for 100. take that 1200 bucks you have and buy a nice used 48 inch commercial mower...a good commercial weedwacker and a good blower. better to put the money up now and have the equipment for years than to buy cheap home owner sh*t and have it be braking every week. beleave me there is absolutly nothing more frusterating then having equipment down when there is money to be made and a schedule to follow. if you do a good job and act perfessional you will have no problem finding lawn....satisfied people tell there neighbors and they tells there friends, its how i got most of my lawns. if you do quality work you should be paid for quality work....i could go on for ever, just really think about everyhting i have said. 45 bucks a month for unlimited work would be a waste of your time and would drive you crazy. id love to help you more. any quaestions or comments email me at Evan528 @aol.com

[klite]

Mabey he has to attend the School Of Hard Knocks , Before he will understand this is not the way to go about it.<br><p>----------<br>Ken...Lightcap's Landscape Service<br>

[kermit]

This post is great, please write more funny stories about fools working for $2/hr this cracks me up. This is a joke right? If not please pass this idea along to all my competition, nah, on second thought even they wouldn't touch it.

[PLS]

Oh now guys. If he get one of <br>&quot;those customers&quot; he will have only one customer. Because she (with his unlimited servics) will have him doing everything under the sun and then some. This has to be a joke. And whats worse is I wasted time replying to it.

[Lanelle]

So you are willing to work for somebody for three months (hey gas isn't free) in order to buy ONE N64 game? I doubt that I could pawn that deal off on my ten-year old.

[Grasboy]

You guys crack me up - you actually believed me!<p>:)

[Green Acres]

I don't think you was trying to pull our legs. You just realized how crazy your idea was.

[Lanelle]

If this was May, you wouldn't have gotten nearly so many replies or so much attention. But hey, its Feb. and we're a little bored and need a good laugh. So what's your next brain blip?

[crew]

Heres one...the customer pays by the pound!Grasboy could get a big scale and weigh the clippings after each cut.the customer decides how often you cut.Ireally feel YOU cant miss with this strategy.

[yardsmith]

Why did you put multiple entries on this post if you were just kidding? I also think you found out reality's stand point on your idea. The idea might be ok if you quadrupled your price, however.<br>Please don't cry wolf on this forum either, in case you may have thought about it. Most guys want to help others out there, but won't take time for practical jokes. Just some friendly advice :-)<br>Where's lawrence Stone on this one??????????<p>----------<br>Smitty ô¿ô<br>

[grasscapeinc]

First off- Dial-up anytime is rediculous.<br>The reason we have schedules is because we have to. <br>You don't have enough clientel yet. When you, you will see you can't drop everthing because some homeowner wants her weeds pulled now. Try dealing with 100+ customers calling you &quot;whenever&quot; they feel like it.<br>Secondly, the best stragety is to do a great job. Period.....<br>If the work is done well, people will pay for it.<p><br>Having said all that, come to Michigan and mow all my lawns. I will pay you $25 per month each as you request, and you can even use my equip. &lt;grin&gt;<p>----------<br>-todd<br>Grasscape Lawn & Landscaping, Inc.

[Toroguy]

I agree with Smitty, is your next post going to cover flying a helicopter upside down to cut grass? I hope this forum isnt just a joke to you...

[cjcland]

i thought of using an airboat to blow parking lots, maybe a helicopter would work if you were a good pilot you could fly sideways and edge :)<p>----------<br>CJC Landscape Management<br>Winter Haven, Florida

[Toroguy]

Are there two Grassboys?...One is spelled Grasboy (one &quot;s&quot;) the other is spelled Grassboy (two &quot;s&quot;)...

[little green guy]

hey toroguy I think there are two grassboy's. There are different profiles for each of them.

[DMC300]

WOW, I'LL GIVE YOU 1 ACCOUNT THAT WILL KEEP YOU BUSY 36 HOURS AMONTH,IF YOU REALLY HUMP. AND MY FINDERS FEE IS ONLY $550 PER MONTH.PLEASE CONTACT FOR MORE INFO.!!!!<p>----------<br>DON<br>LIANNES' MOWING

[Charles]

I havent even see grasboy on here since this post

[manr]

Hey I think the grassboy is on to something<p>If we could convince 5-10 customers to pay us each 1000.00 a month (they must be small lawns 3000-5000 sqft) that might work

[osc]

Grasboy:<p>If you are still checking this post then imagine this: you have just won the Powerball Lotto in the amount of 1 billion dollars, payable $ 10.00 per month for eternity. Feel rich? Oh by the way, you have to do 40 hrs./ week hard labor to keep it going. Moral of the story is take the cash up front at the appropriate price and settle for fewer customers.

[Guido]

Richard and Kirby, I brought this one back up for you guys to get a good laugh. Check it out!!<p>----------<br>&lt;a href=&quot;http://communities.msn.com/guidosequipmentpics/&quot;&gt;&quot;Guido&quot;&lt;/a&gt;<br>David M. Famiglietti

[KirbysLawn]

I found this doing a search on pricing a couple weeks ago. This was the funniest thing I have ever read! I'm sure whoever this is they have changed their username due to shame and humiliation.<p>Ray

[MLS]

I was not around when this thing was started so thanks for the laugh Guido. LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[KirbysLawn]

An oldie but goodie! :)

[gusbuster]

Why did you guys bring this up again?:p Now I won't get any sleep because I will be laughing all night long.:D
John

[jason2]

There's actually somebody in my area that's advertising lawns from $8 to $15. At Grasboy's suggested 3 cuts a month, that equals $24 to $45. Not out of line with Grasboy. It completely blew me away when I saw that ad. Never in my life would I have thought that somebody would charge that low. The guy probably has to mow for three months just to pay for running his ad 1 week.

[kutnkev]

maybe somebody can send him a coupon for sylvan math tutoring

[Guido]

:EEK:

I can't believe this post still lives!!!!

Is it safe to say that the idiot who started this thread has failed out of this industry and no longer "plays" here??

Too bad I don't live closer to him, I could have worked out a sweeeeeeeet sub-contracting deal with this guy!!

:)

Thinking to myself: (So this is what it feels like to beat a dead horse...........not as bad as the first image that came to my head...........it was a cross betweena scene from Godfather and a scene from Mr. Ed !!) :) :)

[bob]

Guido, Grasboy has not failed. He's probably working 23 hours a day trying to get all of those $21.95 lawns cut and doesn't have time for the computer!

[Guido]

Bob,

Thats still an 'F' in my book!!