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Dave Sherby
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I've seen something like this several times but can't seem to nail down the exact quote. Does anyone have this little story tucked away in their computer? I thought I saved it but can't find it anywhere.

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Dave Sherby
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SherWood Sign & Graphic Design
Crystal Falls, MI 49920
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need a little more info as to what your lookin fer)))))
1. SOMETHING i had bought fer cheap, and got screwed)))
2. A CUSTOMER who thought i was charging to much....and got a schit job done elsewhere THEN CAME BACK TO ME TO FIX IT????
3.OR some anecdote......i had heard over the years.......of YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR?????

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Dave Sherby
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Closer to #3 OP. The anecdote contained several reasons why the lowest price is not always the best deal, value, what ever and included information about why. It's been posted in Letterville before but I can't remember enough of the exact phrases to come up with a match from a search.

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Dave Sherby
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SherWood Sign & Graphic Design
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Is it the one about three categories, Cheap, Fast and Quality? Customer chooses the first two and you decide the third.

Cheap and fast will be low quality
Fast quality won't be cheap
Cheap quality won't be fast

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No Dennis, not that one. It was more about the cheapest price for something will not be the best value because there has to be a reason why it's cheaper. It went into some detail about planning on extra money to replace a cheaper item sooner, and that you'd be better off paying a little more for the better product in the first place.

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Dave Sherby
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Seems like Dan wrote about that referring to tools.

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I think I got this one a long time ago that someone had posted here on this website but I don't remember who (I wish I could give credit where credit is due...

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten."

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Robert Graham
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If you want to pay peanuts, hire monkeys!

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Preston McCall
112 Rim Road
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"Good work ain't cheap, and cheap work ain't good!"!"

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Bob Ficucell
Glass Arts
Woodland Hills,Ca

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I have this on my front counter.

It's unwise to pay too much...but it's worse to pay too little.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money...that is all.

When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything,
because the thing you bought was incapable of doing
the thing it was bought to do.

The common law of business balance
prohibits paying a little and getting a lot....
it can not be done.

If you deal with the lowest bidder,
it is well to add something for the risk you run.
And if you do that, you will have enough
to pay for something better.

John Ruskin.

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Bob Rochon
Creative Signworks
Millbury, MA
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Shirley Carron
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If you want to pay wholesale, open your own damn business!

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Shirley Carron
Black Sheep Designs
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Arnprior,On.,Canada
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I like a quote from this months Signcraft.

"You'll make more money from this lettering than I will".

Priceless.

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Mike Duncan
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I once read something that said that the best cost more to make. I'd rather explain the quality than apologize for its absence.

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Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus

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Dave Sherby
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I haven't been back on here to keep up with this thread but Kevin Betz found it for me and tried to post the image but was having difficulty so he ask me to do it. Bob Rochon also found what I was looking for, but I'm going to post what Kevin sent me just because of the born & died date of the author, John Ruskin. Interesting.

Rick, I like that one, Rob and Bob's too. Mike, I've used that one before...another gem.

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[ July 11, 2014, 08:47 PM: Message edited by: Dave Sherby ]

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Dave Sherby
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SherWood Sign & Graphic Design
Crystal Falls, MI 49920
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