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North Ogden, Utah<br />
Bays: $3 to start, $1 for 1:04 minutes<br />
Vacs: $1.50 for 5 minutes<br />
Central City, Nebraska<br />
Bays: $2 to start (cash), choice<br />
of $3, $5, $7, or $10 for credit cards<br />
Vacs: $1 for 5 minutes<br />
St. Louis, Missouri<br />
Bays: Cash $3 for 4 minutes,<br />
credit card $4 for 4 minutes<br />
Vacs: Cash $1.50 for 4 minutes,<br />
credit card $2 for 4 minutes<br />
Albany, New York<br />
Bays: $6.48 credit card startup<br />
(because we have to charge tax<br />
on credit cards in New York State).<br />
Count up timers $.92 per minute<br />
Cash startup/count down timers:<br />
$4 for 3.5 minutes, $6 for 8 minutes<br />
Vacs: $3 for 5 minutes<br />
I think that generally speaking car wash prices are too low. I see a lot of that<br />
evidenced here in this survey.<br />
My car wash is in a middle to lower income region of Massachusetts. I also<br />
offer car detailing. We have gone up considerably on our prices in the last 7 to<br />
10 years. I realized I was working far too hard and never seemed to get ahead.<br />
Our overhead is very reasonable, so a price increase was implemented. People<br />
do complain about the detailing prices and for some reason they think they can<br />
negotiate. However, I have a good manager in place, and I delegate customer<br />
service in the detail department to him. I tend to get insulted when people try to<br />
“talk me down” so I removed myself from that part of the business.<br />
When I had Autowash Maintenance install my new razor a few years ago I ran<br />
Numbers and contemplated pricing for quite some time. I finally settled on a nice<br />
high price and while some customers do protest it’s actually not that many and<br />
you would be surprised at my percentages for the top package. I also raised my<br />
start up price in the self serves and vacs.<br />
Business is much more enjoyable when there is a bit of extra money to make<br />
improvements etc. that’s why we’re here!<br />
We have the cleanest & most modern SS<br />
car wash within 25 miles. We have in-bay<br />
dryers, new vacuums, accept credit cards,<br />
offer mobile payment app and absorb all the<br />
card fees. No complaints from customers<br />
& we’re still busy on a cold, winter day!<br />
- Waxman, Western Massachusetts<br />
I am scared to raise<br />
the prices. I feel<br />
like, my customers<br />
will run away.<br />
I don’t understand, with the cost of business going up every month<br />
how you can not raise your prices to match and keep your bottom<br />
line where you need it? Every situation is different but let’s presume<br />
in your opinion you have the best wash in your area, the cleanest, upto-date,<br />
and everything works 99% of the time. Just as an extreme<br />
example, if you raise your prices and lost 10% of your customers<br />
which is almost ridiculous. You still have 90% paying your increased<br />
price and you’ve probably lost your worst customers anyway. You’re<br />
still making more money with less customers! Over the last 34 years in<br />
business 28 of those attended, when I raised my prices, the attendant<br />
only had to deal with the people who didn’t put enough money in the<br />
box and said “my bad” I should have noticed. Do the math otherwise<br />
you’ll end up working for nothing. You’re in business to make a fair<br />
PROFIT on what you’re doing.<br />
- Timmb, Albany, New York<br />
I’m going to raise prices on the SS I just bought, and I am<br />
not going to display any signage about it. The thing is I am not<br />
going to change the $2 start. I am only going to change the<br />
time per quarter. Right now, its 30 seconds per quarter and I<br />
am going to drop it to 25 seconds.<br />
The next price increase will come whXen I switch from<br />
quarters to dollar coins and people will be forced to pay in<br />
dollar increments instead of 25 cents (We will still accept<br />
quarters if the customer brings their own).<br />
Western Massachusetts<br />
Bays: $5 start, $1 per minute<br />
Vacs: $2 for 4 minutes<br />
Houston, Texas<br />
Bays: 50 cents for 1:40 minutes<br />
Vacs: 50 cents for 3 minutes<br />
Maryland and West Virginia<br />
Bays: Cash $3 to start for 4 minutes<br />
Credit card is $5 to start at the same rate as cash.<br />
Vacs: $2 for 5 minutes<br />
Ocean Shores, Washington<br />
Bays: Cash $2 to start, $1 per minute,<br />
credit card $3 minimum, count up, $15 max.<br />
Vacs: $1 start for 2 minutes<br />
Citrus Heights, California<br />
Bays: $4 for 5 minutes (.80 / minute)<br />
Vacs: $2 for 4 minutes (new Doyle vacuums)<br />
Southern California<br />
Bays: $5 for 6 minutes, 83 cents per 1 minute<br />
Vacs: $2 for 5 minutes<br />
- Kimberly Berg, Citrus Heights, California<br />
- Designflaw, Houston, Texas<br />
- UtahYoutubeGuy<br />
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