What would you charge?

[Kevin Flowers]

Hi
if he has sent you that then he is just taking another signmakers artwork & punting it around for prices.

Kev

[David Rogers]

Be confident in your own prices – you should have SOME idea of what to charge. If you think they are too high or too low for your local market – adjust accordingly.

Best advice I can give you is work out a formula for yourself that accounts for your skill level, materials & a reasonable profit margin.

…or get yourself a copy of the ‘price it’ guide – good ball park figures to help you out.

Dave

[Chris Wool]

how are you going to reproduce the print so it looks like the artwork.
will they supply all the required vectors and quality bitmaps.

could be fun

chris

[Dean Poulter]

I went in a about £175, that is for us to produce the printed vinyls, cut vinyl lettering and also fit. The price it guide said £215 should be about right, the guy still thought our price was expensive though. Thanks for your input anyway guys, i’ll just wait and see if he decides to go for it 😕

[Malcolm Elliott]

I would have been quoting around £240 for that so I guess that makes me expensive!!

[Jill Marie Welsh]

In my costs you would be doing an entire van for $288!
Just did a plumbers van on the weekend, $400 in cut vinyl, my design.
And it was just the very top portion of the van and two lines of copy on the back. Very simple.

I didn’t check your attachment as sometimes I cannot download those.
But as someone else suggested, it is probably the layout of another shop (never give out layouts because this is exactly what prospective clients do)
I would rather sit on my couch and starve than give away my work.
Love….Jill
PS I finally did check out the attachment.
That would be about $1000 if I did it (would have to outsource the prints)

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[Kev Cringle]

malk i think your still cheap if that print needs laminating etc i would be about £370 at least but its all about your local market price i guess but on the other hand why train buy long thousands of pounds worth of printers laminate etc etc unless you make a reasonable profit , Id rather do less work but charge a bit more than be a busy fool and at least you can then offer a speedy quality job instead of rushing about for very little reward also if the prints were to go wrong who will pay for that etc etc etc

reasonable

[David Rogers]

quote Dean Poulter:

I went in a about £175, that is for us to produce the printed vinyls, cut vinyl lettering and also fit. The price it guide said £215 should be about right, the guy still thought our price was expensive though. Thanks for your input anyway guys, i’ll just wait and see if he decides to go for it 😕

I’d be asking nearer the £250 to £290 mark – certainly no less than the £230 of the guide.

Even as a ‘mates’ rates job and if he supplied all of the artwork for the front & back – still be a couple of hundred.

£175 – sure you CAN do it for that and make a couple of quid.

Prices are only dear (or cheap) in the eyes of the tight fisted.
I had a rush job (24hr) for 8 signs @1050x750mm – two colour on 5mm PVC.

I thought £45 a pop was pretty good….order was cancelled as "we’re used to paying £17 each – for metal ones"

…what are they making per sign…£2 or £3…

Don’t be a slave to cheapskate customers – charge what it’s worth unless you really need some dosh – then take what you need to to stay solvent.

[Malcolm Elliott]

"we’re used to paying £17 each – for metal ones"

or " my mate got his done for £*** down the road" in that case, f*** off down the road….

Must admit I used to be the guy David’s just described, rushing around doing cheap jobs to make a couple of quid. I now make a living from this business instead of it running me.

[Gary Birch]

quote Malk Elliott:

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Must admit I used to be the guy David’s just described, rushing around doing cheap jobs to make a couple of quid. I now make a living from this business instead of it running me.

I think that the vast majority of people have been that man!

I look back to my earlier years and shudder at some of the prices I charged. I was just desperate to get work. Nowadays I wouldn’t mind the odd day with nothing to do apart from perhaps a days fishing here and there :lol1:

Cheers

Gary

[Jill Marie Welsh]

When I started back in 1985, I made 4×8 signs (painted by hand with Rustoleum and a hardware store brush!) on rough-ass plywood my cousin provided, for $50. What an idiot I was.

[Dean Poulter]

I’m really glad i started this discussion now, after reading through all of your posts it has made realise that we should be more confident with our pricing. We know we can do a quality job so why not have the price that we are comfortable with. Thank you 😀