Sign companies raping other sign companies

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@ skyhigh

what are the specs on that truck?

 

[fresh]

You could do what we did when the bucket truck guy screwed us (quoted a job for us, including all the electrical, and then POOF, disappeared the week we were to do the install.) Get a GIANT Little Giant... its a PITA to set up and take down, but its a lot less expensive than a bucket truck, and its allowed us to do many jobs more safely than we were able to do in the past.

 

[signage]

I hope OSHA doesn't see you work on electrical from a metal ladder!

 

[WrapYourCar]

from experience the travel time and getting the machinery is the most expensive, i pay about $140 for the machine, and $70 each way for the delivery, that's already $280 without a guy to install it for me (i do it myself, as I agree it is expensive to outsource this work, especially if you're a small operation) i'd be over the moon if i could get someone to do this for me at that price! I understand why they charge a lot though, of course someones gotta risk going up there, imagine if the machine failed forcing you into the ground to become a quadriplegic, the risk is there, we sometimes become oblivious to it, but a bit of bad luck and 1 job could be your last. Most of the people have let it rip into you, and rightly so i guess, Firstly you just need to quote properly so the costs are not your problem but your clients, you might want to invest in a couple of lift machines and rent them out, (perhaps a second business?) since you said they seem to be impossible to find?. The idea of the Scaffold system isn't bad either, if you have the time/muscle to put it together i own a mini scaffold which has already paid for itself on the first job i used it on.

 

[DrCAS]

Dave Darlak... Love the way you think, Brother.

Why does anyone think that they have any sort of right to dictate what the other guy should make for a living?

I just quoted some design work for a sign company in Arizona. The owner told me she found my terms unacceptable. Cripes, all I did was tell her that no vectors got released before payment and no work was released on a due bill. I told her that she was free to find a designer who had terms she did find acceptable.

We all have the privilege.

 

[ironchef]

Drcas. U look alot like walter white lol

 

[DrCAS]

Yeah, maybe, but I have more hair... LOL!

 

[ironchef]

Doppleganger! Lol niice

 

[Gene@mpls]

My Sweetie is *nuts* about B Bad. I would be OK with looking like Walter.

 

[brian_fellers]

Surprised that someone would complain over $250. That is more than fair when you take into account overhead, expenses. etc. I mean.....they need to make money to right?? Geez....