pricing help please

[Derek Heron]

hi brian
i do a fair few of these i now charge £10 per name thats with gold and drop black shadow
fiddly but they bring the boards in once its set up its ok 10 min job

derek

[Martin Pearson]

Brian, just to be clear so people know. Are we talking about vinyl here or traditional type sign writing ?

Just remember that there is probably a big difference between the price of the two, there aren’t a lot of traditional sign writers about these days so if the club want the names painted it will be more difficult for them to get a cheap price.

I’m guessing from Derek’s reply that he does them in vinyl

[Rod Gray]

70p per letter at 1" with a minimum order of £40

[Brian Little]

Hi people …martin its just vinyl as my xboss has done a lot of them (gold leaf), i seem to remmember doing some of them in the late seventys when i was a lad!!, they want to save money so ill be doing in vinyl

[Martin Pearson]

I’ve done a few in vinyl, probably to cheaply so I won’t mention pricing here. Plus I have had to pass others on to other people when the customer wanted them done by hand which I can’t do.

Did a few with standard gold vinyl and a couple with signgold which is a more expensive way to do it but the difference in finish is chalk and cheese.

How you going to do them in vinyl ??? Thought you needed a computer for that 😉

[Brian Little]

Well mr pearson ii have six llovely malaysian girls who painstacenly cut all the letters indivigely after that we all jump in the hot tub ….failing that ill cut them on me trusty plotter

[Graze]

Hi,
£60-80 per name doesn’t sound outrageous.
A visit to site and a single name, about £160? Central London maybe £220? Depends where you’re located and if there’s a few writers in your area.
How much do you charge per hour for signwriting?
I agree, it’s a tricky call and a lot of clients will grumble but they can get them done in vinyl and they’ll look horrible. Price of gold has trebled in the last 3 years, lots of signwriters are retired or gone to the great sign shop in the sky, there’s a supply and demand consideration here. Interesting to see anyone else’s take on this.

[Jean Oakley]

i charge around £20.00 for one or two names plus year. I see it as a good will thing
and dont really see it as a job.

[Jill Marie Welsh]

I’m with Graze.
(we don’t have many honours boards around here, bear that in mind)
I would only want to do something like this by hand, not to sound like a snob but I think it looks tacky in vinyl.
Brian, since you do know how to hand-letter, offer them that option as well.
Love….Jill

[Neil Davey]

Hi Brian, you can persuade them not to go down the vinyl route by saying these boards have a prestige about them. They look awful and so impersonal in vinyl. Hand lettered in my opinion is the only way to go.
I could get 60 – 80 (sorry can’t find pound sign on this cr@ppy PC) for a single name here but then if there’s a bunch of names and you can do it at your place I’d probably be looking at 12 – 15 per name depending on letter style.

But then again it’s down to locality etc.