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Is my price right
I have sets of numbers to to for shipping containers Two colour black letters with a white background
The background is 870mm x 340mm and the black letters are 75mm high and come in roughly 840mm x 320mm I have to apply the letters to the white and they fit themselves.
Vinyl used is 18m white and 10m Black
I priced this at £360 Is this price reasonable. -
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I would say very reasonable, my price would be £420
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Also think very reasonable.
I’d be ballparking around £460 as two layers of 7yr or £360 as printed white since it’s just fire & forget.
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thanks for your input guys.
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Just an update the guy wanting the quote called me back saying that the other quote was much cheaper. I asked him what it was £114.00 Well I told him he better get him to do it then as I wouldn’t even begin to compete with that
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i think you were right to stick to your guns mate…
many ways of lowering your prices due to how you output the work. by that i mean machines being faster, cheaper inks, vinyls etc but at the end of the day, dont compete with the cowboys, you have a living to make. -
he’ll be back when it’s all peeled off!
lets face is, minimum of 18m required (at whatever width you use), gonna cost you (if good cast 610mm) maybe £50, then the black another £20+, 20m of app paper and time to put it all together, gotta be £80-90 in materials,
even with print it’s gonna cost a fair bit to produce, just aint worth it for £114!
trouble is, and i’ve seen this a lot with ebay and the like, people don’t understand that there’s a difference between vinyls, they think a 7yr vinyl is the same as any other 7yr vinyl, they don’t understand that i can use a branded calendared 4-5yr vinyl which is probably far superior to many of the cheapo 7-8yr vinyls,
i got offered 1220 cast vinyl for the equivalent of just 90p per metre recently (new stock etc), they thought i was crazy to not at least try it, even when i said why should i risk a cheap material and the potential to have to do the job again while trying to rebuild my reputation,
i’ve lost plenty of jobs based on materials / price rather than layouts etc, i won’t use cheap nasty crap to make a sign with and tell the customer just that when they tell me joe bloggs down the road can do it for half the price! probably why i’ll never get rich in this game!
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Funny thing is I beat him on prices for plain coloured lettering!! (black)
I more or less only use 751 but am thinking of trying 651. -
personally, i am not keen on 651, but it is a very good vinyl in comparison to other brands on par with it.
if i were you i would consider 551 Gordon, its is basically the OLD Oracal 751 before it was changed to a cast. which in my view had to be one of the best calendar films on the market. -
Thanks for the advice Rob
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