Banner patching.

[petesign]

I swear if I get one more customer that comes in here and asks me to patch over the date/sponsor of their banner from last year...

It's happened three times in the last two days. I'm growing weary of tire kickers and "how cheap can you make this?"

 

[omgsideburns]

If you made the banner I don't see what the problem is..

 

[petesign]

The problem is, by the time I design the patch, print it, and stick it to the banner -- i might as well have just made them the new banner. If I charge accordingly, they look at me like I just shot their dog.

 

[TheSnowman]

Then tell them the REAL cost. If I get a job like this, I normally just charge $25 because it's in the computer, and they're a previous customer. If a job comes in I hate doing, I charge accordingly to make it worth my time. Just do that and the job either goes away, or it's worth your while.

 

[ThinkRight]

Make a crapy patch out of different material...
Charge theme 75$ and tell them no warranty.

 

[Billct2]

I don't get it. If it's doable I tell them how much, usually it's a date- no big deal. If it doesn't make economic
sense, like when they want way too much changed, then I say so. Nothing wrong with recycling and saving a buck.

 

[petesign]

It's all in the value they place on the patch I guess is my gripe. I understand wanting to save a buck, but my time is not free. I dont want to give them a crappy product or overcharge to run them off, just get folks to understand that it takes us almost as much time to make a 1x8 patch as it does make them a new 4x8 banner. then i've got a lot of wasted material unless i can find a job to nest their job with...