Recent content by David Moore

Thanks for the clarity. The average price per Kwh of electricity had doubled. They corrected the problem and my bill was cut in half.

Guys, My monthly electric bill at one of my locations has been running from $500 - $650 consistently over the past 4 years. Two days ago I received my February bill and it was for almost $1,000. Nothing has changed as far as business. I called the electric company and they said there's...

A 6/1 self serve car wash in my area was recently foreclosed. Same story - built a $800,000 self serve car wash with little experience and couldn't make the note. The location is very good, bordering on great. In fact, I'm not sure the highest and best use is a ss car wash, but that's the...

This is my 5th year of carwashing and up until November, I'd never had a negative cash flow month and sales were always somewhat predictable. Then December hit and sales off 30% and January is down even more - I'm having to feed the carwashes over $5k this month alone. I own 3 locations in...

I don't do advertising so I can't cut back there. Utilities and chemical costs never go down. The only savings I could do is cut back the hours of my clean-up guy. I'm not to that point yet.

Some Jackass is using a magnet to activate both the vacs and bays. He is then collecting money from customer's who wash using free time. I've put on the magnet shields from Ginsan, but these don't seem to be working great. The scratch marks from the magnets keeps getting worse each week...

I am generally an avocate of raising prices; however, I went too far last time. I raised to $1.25 for 3.25 minutes and vacs to $1.00 for 3 minutes. Keep in mind that all my competitors are 75 cents for 3.5 minutes. While my wash is newer and nicer, I lost business and since went back down to...