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Re: Startup will wash your car wherever it is located

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Post by personlurking »

herval wrote: post #27
rdouble wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never seen lockers on beaches in the US, Australia, Canada or Mexico, either.

they're quite common in brazil and spain (on the most touristic / surf beaches) - some times operated by companies, other times by the city hall itself

I'm guessing you aren't talking about Rio. I live in the Zona Sul and haven't come across lockers on the beach (though I had the idea literally a few days ago). If they do exist here, whereabouts can I see them?

Re: Startup will wash your car wherever it is located

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Post by Cmccann7 »

2 comments on usability if the site owner is reading this.

1) On the payment screen you have Paypal has an option but I can't actually click on it to allow the paypal option. I'm using the newest version of Chrome.

2) I went through the whole registration with credit card details and everything and I got an error message back saying "We're closed" and to come back 9-5pm. It would be much easier for me and probably for you just to take down all my information and process it when you're open or let me pre-pay for a wash or something. It's a little frustrating that I will have to do that all over again.

Re: Startup will wash your car wherever it is located

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Post by nlh »

Interesting (and clever idea), but immediate concerns come to mind:

1) "Wherever it is located" might be the wrong approach. In a place like NYC, I can assure you that if your car is parked on, say, 74th & Lex, you're not going to get away with doing a car wash there. Same goes for almost every commercial parking lot in the city -- they're not going to let a random guy come in and start washing cars (they don't let owners do that).

2) As others have pointed out, there are environmental considerations here, not for tree-hugger reasons, but for legal ones. Car washes are one of those things that many places are quite strict about technically, but when it's applied for personal use it's overlooked. So in other words, Jonny Law isn't (necessarily) going to give you a ticket for washing your car in your driveway and not recycling the wastewater/solvents/etc., the situation becomes completely different when a commercial enterprise is involved. Similar to my point above, you can bet your bottom dollar that NYPD is going to give any semi-commercial car washer a VERY hard time if he's found washing a car on any public street in Manhattan. Likewise for the local PD of a smaller town if it's a guy washing cars in an office parking lot.

This may be the sort of business that works only in suburbia or places where a Cherry-supplied vendor is literally replacing a guy in his driveway - which, to end on a positive note, is most of the country.

Re: Startup will wash your car wherever it is located

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Post by keeptrying »

In India this is something thats offered by your security guard. They will wash your car EVERYDAY for $20 a month.

I'm kind of saddened that the idea never even occurred to me.

I think its a great idea in practice but they are going to have the environmental police on their ass in the USA.

Re: Startup will wash your car wherever it is located

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Post by wheels »

I'll qualify this with the fact that I don't own a car, nor did I have mine washed often when I did, but...

Isn't having your car washed one of those things where portability matters least? It really feels like the ultra-local meme taken too far.

Car washes are abundant and reasonably fast, and a car, in its usual course of being driven, will pass them often.

It just seems like sunglasses for the blind or something ... a product where its benefit is negated by the nature of the problem.

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