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if I wrapped something I would probably say 6-12 months. never had one come back so I guess it would just have to be a 'depends' sort of answer. most of the time with edge prep, edge sealer and proper wrapping techniques unless the failure is with the actual material it should last a year or 3...

we had a customer last week that was being a pill to everyone in the shop ... so I crop dusted him.

This. I get a lot of these jobs ... I just quote and if they like the price ... we are off. otherwise I just have to shrug and move on with the day.

I feel you on the store front thing ... lately it seems like if someone owns property they are going to try to milk it for everything it's worth (or not worth) ... I was looking into just some warehouse space possibly for my studio ... 500 sq foot warehouse area ... $1k a month and the d-bag...

starting over is a ***** ... and she has sisters to match. the key to just about every start over is foot traffic and getting your name out there fast, hard and cheaply. Since you mentioned retail I will go by what most retail stores can do to easily get their name out. Coroplast signs are a...

just draw it yourself, pull out some sharpies, a ruler and get to drawing ... scan in, throw into inkscape to vector ... done .. or scan in rough drawing convert with pen tool, done ... at most ... hour worth of work. 2 if you're rusty at it.

Back when I still had my silk screen business ... I had a person out on a delivery that should have taken about 30-45 minutes and low and behold he came creeping in 2.5 hours later ... I simply asked what took so long, and that a simple delivery shouldn't be a quarter of the day, followed up by...

I blame the ladder that caused the worm.

any typeface can be a monogram. monograms are initials or letters combined to form a cohesive design. I mean ... **** and a half ... GE and Channel are monograms and neither one uses that weak sauce script-ish lettering. find something better, start over and show them the power of your...

If a customer was reallly looking to cut a few dollars for a digitally printed graphic on their vehicle (logo, maybe a graphic or two) and wasn't being compound curve wrapped (just stuff like sides of a panel van or a rig ... simple stuff) ... I would probably suggest the 3551 and tell them the...

I love The Oatmeal.

hmm ... i went from owning my own shop to moving and working for someone else ... eventually I will own my own business again ... will I buy this one ... no. Things I will do differently next time ... not a whole lot, one reason I liked my own business was I factored into the cost going TO...

you can ... just takes some practice ... worst day i ever worked was when a tropical storm was passing through orlando ... customer needed his vehicle on monday, it was friday with the front half to finish wrapping and wouldn't have seen the vehicle for another month. ... storm was going to hit...

I would love to see what you think about the fact that I'm currently working on a mixed media vinyl job since the dude wanted a metallic fade with brushed metallic accents and as of such ... haven't seen a printer that can do that yet ... especially with flat black elements involved under that...

my first wrap took a lot of practice before hand ... my boss at the time thought I was a loon for taking scraps from jobs past and wrapping everything (powerade bottles, the fridge, work stools, couple tool boxes, etc, etc) ... learned a lot ... between that and 2 wrapping dvds my first wrap...

I would probably buy it for that much ... but then again I would also try to haggle down to 1.5k.

Not at all, if there is someone I consider 'competition' ... this situation is the spoils of war. Victor gets to pick the bones.

assumptions ... not really, equipment devalues as a resellable component extremely fast and if it comes down to it ... I will go by ebay pricing for equipment then quote at 50 - 75% of that price, software I will only take with a machine and it only holds value with the ability to have the...

**** this ****. buy her **** at 10-20% it's value for materials, maybe 25% for the equipment that has been beat to **** and **** her ******* computer files ... computer files are probably pieces of **** you have to fix every ******* time you open one up. and the clip art ... next to nothing is...

Only funny sign I have is a piece of back sprayed acrylic that reads "Bad planning on your end, does not mean it will be an emergency on mine."