$1 per minute seems fair to me!!!

[jack954]

I’ve been $3 for $4 minutes for about a year and a half now and want to raise my price. I decided to go ahead and wash my midsize suv myself to see how long it actually takes moving at a slightly quicker than casual pace. although i have all the extras in my bays, i decided just to use foambrush, hp soap, hp rinse, and spot free rinse. it took me just under 10 minutes. so now i feel really comfortable going to $1 per minute as for $10 people are using my space for 10 minutes, my water, my chemicals, my trash cans. then after that i get to pick up their trash, get their dirt sucked out of the pits, supply new hoses, fittings, brushes, flojets.
you barely get lunch for $10! i just can’t understand how some washes are still at $2.00 or less

 

[Waxman]

So are you going to raise your start price as well? Or just keep it three dollars to start and give three minutes time? I'm for five dollars to start for five minutes. I get some complaints about price now and then but not too many. In my area that price is becoming the norm.

We're in business to make money, not to just do a lot of manual labor and barely squeak by.

 

[jack954]

yes. i will be going $4 for 4 min. i am also upping my cryptopay to $5 min snd $20 max

 

[washnshine]

I had to bring an outdoor rug to a laundromat last week to use one of their large oversized commercial washers. It was $13 for cold water, $14 for warm water and $15 for hot. I didn’t think it was unreasonable at all. There was no other way I could wash it. We can’t be hesitant to charge 2025 prices.

 

[OurTown]

We reopened in October after a massive remodel with $4 for 5 minutes. I believe we are the most expensive around and definitely in our city. There is still one wash that is $1.75 to start. (4 minutes I think) We got very little pushback and the ones that said something about it do not see the value in what we are now offering. They can go to the $1.75 wash.

 

[AnalyticWash]

We're in business to make money, not to just do a lot of manual labor and barely squeak by.

This.

Anytime I get customers that complain about price I give them a list off all the run down washes near me they are welcome to go use. I generally see them back within a few weeks.

Working equipment, clean bays, and top notch service has a price...

 

[jack954]

i agree. come to my place and pay up for the Starbucks, or go down the street and pay less for the four hour old gas station coffee

 

[getnbusy]

Im a dollar a minute and $4 start. Made the switch last year and going to $5 start soon. It was a good move. Ive been working for peanuts for years and years. As operators we deserve to be paid like everyone else. Im behind on my automatic pricing but will be correcting that soon. My belief is that the self sere carwash has been dang near free for my entire life. With a low price point, the customers act like your place doesnt matter and they can do whatever they want. Raise the price and they will come wash their car.

 

[DJWashCo]

I run $4 cash to start for 5 minutes, and $5 for 6 min, $10 for 12 min, $15 for 18 min, $20 for 24 min presets on my Nayax readers based on the pulse multiplier.

My nearest SS competition is 10 miles in either direction... I have not looked at their prices recently but think I am in line with where they are - both of them are on lower volume roads though (I am 65K cars AADT). My disadvantage is that I am total self service, however I have a much better traffic flow and am in a very affluent area and market myself as a premium wash which does tend to bring in a mix of nicer vehicles.