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City Link vans
Been getting a lot of enquiries lately for wrapping City Link vans.
Anyone done any of these?
We must have been too expensive as we haven’t won any of the jobs. Someone must be doing them silly cheap.
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29 Replies
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Walk away Jon. They’ve been doing them up here for £150
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experienced wrapper or not, those kinda quotes are what is damaging our industry. to me it spells cowboy or desperate, maybe both!
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quote Mark Jahn:Walk away Jon. They’ve been doing them up here for £150is that just labour? I would assume its just for fitting, how much work is involved?
I looked on tintrernet at their corporate colours, how much of the van is a wrap? -
quote Robert Lambie:experienced wrapper or not, those kinda quotes are what is damaging our industry. to me it spells cowboy or desperate, maybe both!
Rob, without knowing all of the facts, how can you say cowboy or desperate?
it will go on, people will quote what they "think" they can make a profit on, so no matter what you say though, people who are window cleaners come on uksb for advice on how to make signs, so are we not promoting cheap prices by helping them?
make up your mind mate…..Peter
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regarding the whole, "who is eligible for advise and who isnt, here on this site". i am not going to go round in circles peter, been brought up several times by you in the past in the UKSG section and my decision was final then too.
as for the City link vans… I’ve was asked to quote on doing 30 of them last year, so assuming they were given the same spec i was. I DO know what is involved and my opinion still stands.
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Sorry, this is for full wraps in the green and yellow with the logos on top.
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quote Jon Marshall:Sorry, this is for full wraps in the green and yellow with the logos on top.
If they are really getting them done for £150. there is no arguement
What did you Quote Jon?
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yep, same as i was talking about mate… the price quoted is a joke!
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No Peter. It wasn’t just labour. The vans are supplied plain yellow and the green livery is with 751. We were asked to quote for the fleet and were shown quotes from other local sign firms beforehand.
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so someone is having a laff.
Peter
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I feel I have a bit of knowledge on this as I’ve done City link vans for 3 various company’s over about 5-6 years.
The company I fitted for who shall not be named subbed them out to various contractors/sign companies to fit. It varied from full yellow wrap with green added or just green on yellow vans. Yes the media vas 751 where the panels where flat but vws on all else.
I can asure you all who replied to the thread the £150 is way of! I wouldn’t have set the alarm clock for that!
All I can see is that a company has been sub contracted and trying to put the work out to others at a prophet!
I know the company who has the contract for these on a 5 yr contract and they supply the vinyl, all cut to shape, you get there and fit it. NO WAY for £150!!
There based in Wrexham……
Matt
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There’s only one person on this thread mentioning £150, so you calling me a liar or what Matty?
I’ve seen with my own eyes what was quoted and this was backed up by two of the self employed drivers who are personal friends of mine and who were forced to accept the quotes by their contracted depot. And one of the quotations was provided by a very local competitor who shall remain nameless.
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sorry matty, but you are wrong mate…
ill give my angle on this based purely on what i was asked to quote on and have heard since.Full wrap, flood coat yellow on a white van. flood coat green. then graphics put on top.
i "was asked" what i would advise/prefer to wrap it in and why? i was asked this because they were willing to let me use what i advised because a great majority of the ones they had already been getting given had failed badly.
I was speaking with some "folk in the know" only last week about this very job. Initially the contract was given on the basis of a screened 3M vinyl. which i can beleive due to the size of the fleet rebranding and the warranties 3M offer over their products.
Now like most re-brands like this… reps from companies selling the vans look for folk willing to do it cheaper. the rep hasnt a clue what they are talking about and before you know it… KPMF, Oracal, MacTac and so is being used. failings here and there because the fitter doesnt have a clue what they are doing and so on… it happens allot unless one company is assigned to over see the whole project.In fact, I believe the late John Childs was given this very role on the Virgin media national rebrand.
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look what i found…[removed] … bit confusing tooo
think we approached ‘someone’ in the past about city link vans related to the boards…. this might be wrong or another courier
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well all that has been said on price. i know of two owner/drivers that have purchased new shape sprinters resprayed yellow and then sent to glasgow for company branding . the green was applied and the cost was £650 . so these prices are just silly
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quote Dave Rowland:look what i found…… bit confusing tooo
think we approached ‘someone’ in the past about city link vans related to the boards…. this might be wrong or another courier
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There is also a virus on that web site Dave.
better delete the linkPeter
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whoever quoted £150 is not going to stay in business long …so get on with more profitable business until that day, I wouldnt waste time fretting about it.
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Mark
I wasn’t calling you a liar.
Merely pointing out that I’ve fitted and still fit these vans although not as many these days, and I certainly get more than £150 per van, and thats with material supplied.
Don’t take things so personally!
Matt
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peter… where?
its bog standard html.and the courier company in my post was TNT, not city link
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quote Dave Rowland:peter… where?
its bog standard html.and the courier company in my post was TNT, not city link
Its in the gallery
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£150 for that someones having a laugh, I would’nt be getting be getting out of bed for that, nice way to kill the trade through and when it falls off.
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I’d get out of bed for £150 !!!!
but would get in bed for less !!!!
john
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I have been approached three times in the last 6 months for this also. Twice when I was with John Childs and once just this week. I have also been told of £150.00 quotes but have not actually seen them. All requests were for white sprinters with green and yellow wraps and graphics on top. All vinyls supplied fit only.
Matt, you and I have done a few vans together, I know you wont get out of bed for £150.00 to answer the telephone 😀
Certainly not to wrap one of these monsters. They are big and mean and take a bit of work.
Whoever is quoting this ridiculous price will regret after fitting the first panel, believe me.
And yes, you are right Rob, John did handle the project for Virgin and with the work involved, £150.00 might just cover the admin!!
Good luck to them.
Peter
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I had the same virus pop up
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ok thank you… after googling as i wanted to know a little bit more….
the flash detection script on that site have been hacked and a little bit of java has been added, fascinating!
sorry to those who now have a problem, you should be fine if u do windows and java updates often
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hi,
not a problem i have been testing Microsoft’s free virus scanner and I’m going to hate saying this but it seem OK.
Ian
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It seems that people are doing these full wraps on Transit Jumbos/Sprinter LWB for under £1800.
I think it’s way too much work for that sort of money.
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it’s probably a window cleaner with a spare hour 😀
Lynn
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quote Lynn:it’s probably a window cleaner with a spare hour 😀Lynn
on form tonight 😀 😀
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