Pricing a Lorry with digital print and cut vinyl

[Warren Beard]

Anybody?

are we talking £750 or £1500 or more?

[John Harding]

warren I’d wouldnt want to do i for less than£900 but its not somthing ive done and maybe you can get more – hopefully someone will have better insight for you

John

[Kevin Flowers]

Warren
might be worth giving some dimensions of prints or truck also if side is riveted etc and has the design taken rivets etc into account

Kev

[Warren Beard]

14m of print at 1200mm wide
about 5 meters of 610mm vinyl
No rivets
outsourcing prints
Fit on my own

Hope that helps.

cheers

Warren

[James Martin]

laminated prints?

[Warren Beard]

quote James Martin:

laminated prints?

Yes

[Kevin Flowers]

Warren
I reckon its going to be £1000 – £1300 subject to what you are paying for print & quality of vinyl etc

Kev

[Kev Cringle]

Hi Warren
I would say you have got £750 for the prints £250 for cleaning and cut graphics and £280 for installing i see that as a fair price for whats involved but all comes down to your area i guess and what people around you will charge ?,

Regards
Kev

[Warren Beard]

Thanks Kev, appreciate it.

cheers

Warren

[James Martin]

I would say a grand then.

Wouldn’t be to hard to fit would it?

[Robert Lambie]

i would say £1300.00
that’s me producing in-house… ide definitely not go under £1000 mate…

[Peter Normington]

Warren
kev is somewhere near the mark, but if you are competing with a company that already supplies and fits their own print, then you will have less margin by buying in.

It looks like you have been asked to quote for an existing job,so you must first establish that the artwork the client wants is not copyright,
and then consider if you can compete by buying in the print.

We do often ask for advice on prices etc, but based on our own work.
I am a bit unsure if we should be given advice on work that is competing with other sign makers, it sort of goes against the principals of the boards.
but please correct me if i got things wrong your artwork looks like a photo of a real truck, if its not then well done on your visual!!
Peter

[Kev Cringle]

Maybe not hard for the guys in the know to fit james but my view is you mess up plenty on the way to learning to fit, therefore it is a skill and for skill you have to pay, lets say we were plumbers for example, You wouldnt say ah im faster theses days ill do it for half the price as i can fit faster theses days , you always get those days where it all goes wrong and if it dosnt all the better, But me personally i think if your to cheap sometimes that will put people off, thinking your job will be inferior and after all your van is your best form of advertising so many people see that 1st and 1st impressions count i think for sure, but thats just my line of thinking, also id rather do 1 job for reasonable cash than 3 tight budget jobs that if go wrong have no margin to replace the graphics esp if you are buying in your prints

regards
kev

[Robert Lambie]

so im about right too peter? :lol1: 😉

i agree kev…
we could print the lot in about an hour. another two hours on cut vinyl, weeding app tape and laminating and finishing of prints. fitting an hour and a half…ide still be looking for a minimum of £1300+vat
it is irrelevant to how fast we can produce and fit… if you can do the lot in a 1/4 of the time to the next guy, its more profit in your pocket. not pass the savings onto your customer. not in my book anyway…

[Warren Beard]

No issues with artwork, this particular lorry was done elsewhere (I don’t know by who) but I have been doing all the work for this company for 2 years now and they hold all their own artwork and are pictures of their own products so no copyright issues at all. I have done one lorry for them so far and only now more have come up (they keep them for a while) It’s really the fact that this customer tries to squeeze me on every single job and often tells me he has other quotes but I think he is just trying to pull my price down, some times I give a little and other times I stand my ground, he is a good customer however and does pay so no complaints really, just wanted to make sure I was giving him a reasonable price as the first Lorry was much bigger but did it for a tight margin as business was quiet then so needed the work and wanted a large vehicle in my portfolio.

Thanks for all the advice and PM’s guys, much appreciated.

cheers

Warren

[Peter Normington]

quote Kev Cringle:

Maybe not hard for the guys in the know to fit james but my view is you mess up plenty on the way to learning to fit, therefore it is a skill and for skill you have to pay, lets say we were plumbers for example, You wouldnt say ah im faster theses days ill do it for half the price as i can fit faster theses days , you always get those days where it all goes wrong and if it dosnt all the better, But me personally i think if your to cheap sometimes that will put people off, thinking your job will be inferior and after all your van is your best form of advertising so many people see that 1st and 1st impressions count i think for sure, but thats just my line of thinking, also id rather do 1 job for reasonable cash than 3 tight budget jobs that if go wrong have no margin to replace the graphics esp if you are buying in your prints

regards
kev

Warren is more than capable of fitting on flat sides
so not really an issue?

fit faster charge more, can be the same as charging to cheap, people like to see you work for your money, I often do not phone my customer when the van is ready, in case they think I have done it to quick for what i have charged.

Peter

[Robert Lambie]

couldnt agree more on that point peter… if i do a wrap i tell the customer two full days and pick up the third morning after we call them…

[Kev Cringle]

Yep im with you 100% rob i try to work for my benefit and do as little as possible for as much as possible if other guys want to work for nothing well let them but once you do a cheap job that customer will always expect a cheap job and when you want to charge more then they will start looking elsewhere so charge what you should from day one and stick to it and if they want it they will pay for it and be back again because you have been able to use good vinyl, good laminate and take your time on prep and deliver a class job instead of a cheap short term job, one happy customer speaks volumes 1 unhappy customer tells the world and there mother and posts it on facebook bad news has a knack of traveling very fast 🙂

[Kev Cringle]

Couldn’t agree more peter and that’s the point i was making warren is very capable so charge for your hard earned skills don’t give them away i’m sure warren has an idea now on the sort of price we would all charge the rest is up to him and there are a few of us around the same price so we all can’t be wrong or can we ha ha ???