Name my boat internet site - prices way too low

[gabagoo]

namemyboat.com.....customer comes in with a printout of a name for his boat...19" high letter spanning 64" 2 colours vinyl cut.... his price? $35.00 which also includes the city below the copy in about 2 - 3" copy.

I figure my cost on 2 ml vinyl alone for this job is close to $40.00 and that does not include getting it here, cutting it or premask.....

I told the customer I would never match this price, but will give him quality product. I can only think they are using 3 ml vinyl, but even still that price is way too low.

 

[J Hill Designs]

namemyboat.com.....customer comes in with a printout of a name for his boat...19" high letter spanning 64" 2 colours vinyl cut.... his price? $35.00 which also includes the city below the copy in about 2 - 3" copy.

I figure my cost on 2 ml vinyl alone for this job is close to $40.00 and that does not include getting it here, cutting it or premask.....

I told the customer I would never match this price, but will give him quality product. I can only think they are using 3 ml vinyl, but even still that price is way too low.

wow this is rediculous

Exact Lettering:	Beaver's Bounty
No. of Letters:	14
Letter Height:	19"
Length:	295.65"
Letter Price:	$6.50 / letter
Letter Style:	Batman Forever
Letter Color:	Burgundy
Drop Shadow:	Bottom Right
Outline:	No Outline
2nd Color:	Black - add'l 25%
Hailport Text	Shreveport, LA
Hailport Color	Black
Hailport Font	Arial Bold
TOTAL:	$113.75

 

[Baz]

For sure it is calendared vinyl.
Most likely a person working out of the house or garage without additional rent.

 

[ChaseO]

At those prices, they won't be in business long!

 

[Jester1167]

Or they charge and arm and a leg for shipping and handling...

 

[Jester1167]

Wow, that's under $2 a square foot...

 

[BIG EASY DOES IT]

and it comes with a free squeegee. Has reviews from as far back as 2003.

 

[tattoo.dan]

And check out their install guarantee/warranty...wowza

 

[HDvinyl]

Mosh must be doing boats now.

 

[tattoo.dan]

Their site is pretty easy to navigate at least.

 

[ams]

I'd be around $100

 

[7oaks]

I want to see the final application to the hull

Ken

 

[royster13]

At those prices, they won't be in business long!

Since 1985.....do not see them going away anytime soon.....

 

[Mysigns4u]

in my face

Printed and mounted and sent out for them to install 65.00 ?

 

[ChaseO]

They can work for beans if they want to, I'm not going to.

 

[visual800]

yep thats pretty cheap BUT you have to admit, the customer pretty much tells them ht and font and the color blah blah blah, all you gotta do is cut it and send it!

No site visits, no measuring, no back and forth about art or color, I think they guy is pretty damn smart

 

[0igo]

its probably a worker stealing product from a sign company and selling this on the side. heard a story from signarama sign shop out here that their designer stole close to $8-9k of material in a span of 7months. no telling how much he stole before that or how much he made after he sold off the stuff off. anyways that dude was pretty well off till he got caught now hes a delivery man for ups.

 

[Sign Works]

its probably a worker stealing product from a sign company and selling this on the side. heard a story from signarama sign shop out here that their designer stole close to $8-9k of material in a span of 7months. no telling how much he stole before that or how much he made after he sold off the stuff off. anyways that dude was pretty well off till he got caught now hes a delivery man for ups.

Mario, so where are you buying your vinyl now?

 

[0igo]

Mario, so where are you buying your vinyl now?

sf sign supply in San Leandro?

 

[player]

You could probably go around to all the local sign shops and dumpster dive for vinyl and scrap boards.

 

[rossmosh]

I don't get this mentality. I see it all over the place. People selling $500 worth of stuff for $150-200. Why? What's your justification? Because before you were making $12/hr at your other job and now you "own your own business" and make $15/hr?

It's one thing to undercut the competition. That's selling for $190 when everyone else wants $225. It's a whole other land of stupid to decide to sell for $100. You're leaving a minimum of $90 on the table on every single job. That's insanity.