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Vehicle Wrapping on TV: vw camper van
I was watching wheeler dealers on TV today and they were doing up an old VW Camper type van. as an alternative to a custom paint job they had a couple of guys in to wrap the whole thing in digitally printed vinyl, including the roof. everything was done pretty good and the guy wrapping explained things ok considering this was just a general chat on what vehicle wrap vinyl is. however, my gripe here was they quoted the full thing for £1000… which i would imagine to be designed, printed, laminated and fitted all for a grand! i can hear the phones ringing all over the country now with boy racers asking for this sort of thing and handing over a little picture taken using a phone stuck on a floppy disk saying… "i saw this van guy on TV mate… full van and roof, printed and wrapped for grand… im just wanting me bonnet done wiv me girlfriend smoking a joint printed on it "… how does £50 sound mr sign maker? 🙄
the actual graphics on the VW was just water drops on a blue background but you can see what i mean by this… 😕
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Cool, did you get their names, we can all sub them out our work.
I love the ‘here mate I just want ……’ boy racer talk. Always upsets them when you point out you actually charge for time to design and fit.
One I have had a few times is a jpeg of a scanned magazine picture and ‘can you do this for my focus’. They often go queit when you mention deposits etc.
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Maybe they just did it for a grand for the TV show to get some cheep advertising – their wholesale cost price – and the show goofed by quoting it as retail?
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I saw it too – and couldn’t believe the price. On the program they reckoned it would take two people possibly two days to complete which I thought was about right. However, I don’t think I want to go down the vehicle wrapping route if that is all you can charge for it. I would have expected it to cost more like £2000.
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to be honest, i think Bill is probably right!
as Phill says, there is no point getting into this skilled, time consuming line of work if there isn’t any money in it. the inexperienced and the cowboys of today are really having a good go at devaluing this line of work before it even gets off the ground. 😕
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Never saw the programme but I know from experience that vehicle wrapping is an art in itself. It take hours to do a proper job and £1000 seems really cheap.
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Was the car a 1/10th scale model? 😀 His making a tone of cash at that rate.
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£1000 def sounds too cheap. I’ve got a 3/4 wrap on my car and a guy called up saying he wanted something like I had on my car, but when i told him the price (about £750) he was a bit gob smacked! He said he’d been quoted £90 by another company, but i explained for that price wouldn’t even cover the labour for fitting!
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