Cheap and Nasty…
What a great word – Cheap !
What a way to advertise your services – we are cheap…
Well I’ve got to be honest, I’m 48 and if there is one thing I’ve found in life …it’s that you get what you pay for.
Cars, food, clothes, shoes - even accountants.…you name it…if its cheap….then its cheap for a reason.
My mother always used to swear by Marks and Spencer – saying that it was good quality – you could tell it was good because you could wash the clothes repeatedly and they stood up to the test of time.
Obviously in the world of invasive weed eradication there is massive scope of cutting corners (if you are unscrupulous). There is massive scope for saying that a plant is dead when actually it is still alive beneath the soil surface….
I have even known certain companies to take credit for Japanese Knotweed losing its leaves….. – in Winter - !!!! – (in case you didn’t know…. it does that EVERY year!!!)
So take my advice, if you see an advert on Google saying that a company is cheap….stay well away.
Here at Japanese Knotweed Solutions we don’t say that we are cheap, we have even been called expensive by some companies. BUT as with the recent banking fiasco – IF……a company is giving a service away for little or no margin – IT CANNOT BE SUSTAINABLE!!!!
The whole point of being in an industry that deals with invasive species that are capable of lying dormant, capable of re-growth from tiny fragments, or in the case of Giant Hogweed or Himalayan balsam – growth from seed….
…then you need a company that’s going to still be around if problems occur….
We aren’t cheap – maybe that should be our new tag line?
Mike C
