Vote: My competition.....

[Debra Gorgos]

Do you check out your competition?

 

[OurTown]

On a regular basis we do the first three.

 

[washnshine]

Some fall in the category of #1,2 and 3. Some fall into the category of #5.

 

[Tom Thumb]

Do you check out your competition?

It is more fun working to be the competition.

 

[MEP001]

My real competition are friends. I do test out other washes, sometimes read the online reviews of the worst ones.

 

[Rfreeman]

Not worth my time. I'd rather invest it in my washes to make them top tier therefore the competition is worried about me not vice versa. At one location I put my competitor out of business he even came to my site and said I can't and don't have the energy to compete with you....his last ditch effort was $5 for 30 minutes in his self serve bays!

 

[soapy]

I casually check if I am driving by but do not go out of my way to do so. I am more worried about my business and how it is running.

 

[Earl Weiss]

I drive by and test. On occasion I have checked reviews when I wanted to see if they had some of the same idiotic reviews I had. They did and usually worse.

 

[MEP001]

....his last ditch effort was $5 for 30 minutes in his self serve bays!

How did that work out for him? Not at all, or did it prolong the inevitable?

 

[Greg_T]

When I use other carwashes in our area, my main aim is to find things that I could improve at our wash. Trying to pinch any good ideas they might have!

 

[Waxman]

I am friendly with one of my competitors and the other one is a gas station who I don't know the owners.

I drive by both locations in the course of a normal business day and I do look around and see what's going on.

 

[Rfreeman]

How did that work out for him? Not at all, or did it prolong the inevitable?

I reopened my first wash (bank foreclosure I purchased) then about 2 months later he had a big banner across his mansard BEST DEAL IN TOWN $5 FOR 30 MINUTES!!!!

He lasted one year and honestly he probably could have closed 3 months earlier because the place looked abandoned. It was gutted then demoed and now I don't know what they are building on the site.

 

[I.B. Washincars]

I don't know what they are building on the site.

I’d put my money on an express wash…

 

[Kimberly Berg]

I don't even consider the 2 dirty, run-down car washes around me competition. I drive by both of them on the way to my car wash. It has become my guilty pleasure reading their 1 star reviews and reading what customers are complaining about. It validates my hard work and keeps me motivated to stay on top of cleaning, maintenance and customer service!

 

[Rfreeman]

I’d put my money on an express wash…

Well one is already next door now....so that would be 2 side by side....It could happen.

 

[washnshine]

Well one is already next door now....so that would be 2 side by side....It could happen.

Sure can!