First off don\u2019t worry. It\u2019s incredibly rare to have any problem and even then they\u2019re generally minor things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019re starting up a marquee hire business you\u2019re probably worrying about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The marquees blowing away \u2013 make sure they\u2019re always well anchored down. We never had this happen to us and I don\u2019t know any hire business this has happened to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not being paid for the job. If you take a small deposit but then have the balance payable when the marquees up but before it\u2019s used then you never have any bad debts (don\u2019t allow any exceptions). It\u2019s easy getting payment when you can still take the marquee down, if you leave it until after the event you have no leverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Realistically the only problem we really encountered (and to be honest it did happen a couple of times a year) is the customer complaining that the marquee roofs are dirty. If you put a marquee up under a tree when it rains all the dirt drips down off the leaves on to your marquee, this is the main cause of dirt building up. If it\u2019s in your busiest time of year and it\u2019s going straight back up you just don\u2019t get time to clean it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The solution? We\u2019d give the customer a roof lining for free.This covered the dirty roof and the customer\u2019s also happy because they\u2019re getting a higher spec marquee than they\u2019re paying for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was always reluctant to knock money off to solve any problem, you end up haggling and compromising so neither of you are happy and it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Are people going to recommend you afterwards?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end of the day a happy customer has always got to be your goal, you need to do whatever you need (within reason) to make sure every customer is happy. You\u2019d be amazed, some of our best recommendations came from people who\u2019d originally complained but we\u2019d sorted it out for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m a firm believer that you see the true side of a business (and a person) when things go wrong, make sure you react well and your reputation will only benefit from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thanks for reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spencer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First off don\u2019t worry. It\u2019s incredibly rare to have any problem and even then they\u2019re generally minor things. If you\u2019re starting up a marquee hire business you\u2019re probably worrying about: The marquees blowing away \u2013 make sure they\u2019re always well anchored down. We never had this happen to us and I don\u2019t know any hire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}