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    Posted by Anthony Coats on 17 March 2014 at 21:11

    Appologies firstly as im unsure where best to post this as a Gold member, anybody have any ideas what the going rate is for a Double Decker bus wrap (colour change) and (Digital Printed) with Oneway Vision on all windows…..


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    Martin Pearson replied 11 years, 6 months ago 7 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    17 March 2014 at 23:35

    Forget about "going rates"* and quote what you need to charge to make this viable, profitable and therefore worthwhile doing?

    * (I have seen many businesses fail simply because they charge the "going rate" rather than what they should be charging to maintain a viable and profitable business :-?)

  • John O'Sullivan

    Member
    18 March 2014 at 00:35

    As Phil said sit down work out your material costs and fitting time and what profit margin you want to add and submit a price from there dont go chase’in someone elses price.

  • Simon Worrall

    Member
    18 March 2014 at 06:19

    Phill and John while I completely agree with you about costing the work properly, it certainly helps to know what the going rate is. You can decide whether the job is worth doing, if you are charging too much or indeed too little, and to arm yourself for a discussion about price with your customer.

  • Jon Marshall

    Member
    18 March 2014 at 09:53

    No idea what the going rate is but I would say circa £5k

  • Nigel Gresham

    Member
    18 March 2014 at 13:22

    I would imagine it depends how badly you want the job? Personally I would imagine working out what it will cost you with electric, media, printing etc, add a profit to it and you have your price, value your time. If you are going to make £50 on wrapping a double decker, is it actually worth doing the job?

  • Anthony Coats

    Member
    18 March 2014 at 16:02

    Thank you so much for your feedback to everybody, my appologies, where are my manners, my name is Anthony and I’m from Newcastle upon Tyne,, I’m new to UKSB’s and its great to have so many views on a subject.

    Thanks again for your insight.

    Anthony
    Custom Coats.co.uk

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    19 March 2014 at 08:28

    Difficult to answer that on the info given, are you talking about a one off job for a private customer or a fleet of vehicles for an operator, not that I would be able to give you a price for either lol.
    Point is that they would be priced very differently.

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