The possible risks of a cheap service

Generally in life you get what you pay for and quite often a cheap product or service fails to deliver that which is promised. Carpet cleaning is no different in this respect. My machinery excluding the van is worth over £20,000 but I am still in competition with people who buy machines for maybe £500? These cheap machines can't deliver the powerful suction, spray and heat of better machines. I have regularly been shocked by the poor quality of some of the work that I have witnessed. A cheap operator still has to make mone, perhaps they live a frugal lifestyle living on bread and water or maybe they dash around not having the time to care for the customer? Really I am musing a bit but it is a little food for thought.