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What are the particulars for renting out sandwich boards? I've built a couple so that coroplast or chalkboard panels can be inserted to change the faces out.
-------------------- Penny Baugh Lee Edmund Spyro Design Group
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-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I've seen aluminated signs on trailers for rent, but never sandwich board signs.
My first thoughts are...
How many people would want to rent them...is there a market? Do you deliver them to the customer or are they going to pick them up?
Who covers the cost should one be damaged? You or the customer? If the sandwich boards have changeable lettering, who covers the cost of lost letters?
Would they be weekend event rentals, or for longer peroids, like a few months?
The last one is what botheres me the most. If you are renting the for short term events (weekends or week long deals), I think it's inevitable that someone will eventually look into renting one for 3 or 4 months and expect a discount based on the that.
Personally, I wouldn't consider the paperwork, hassles and inconveniences worth the effort and just sell them outright.
My 2.5 cents... Rapid
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-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
I like my paint shaken, not stirred. Posts: 5648 | From: North Haverhill, New Hampshire | Registered: Apr 2003
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I have rented them to Realtors, Marina's, Restaurants, etc. for weekend events. It had worked out well. I charge them for whatever signage they want on it, plus $15. a day for the a-frame. If its a good cus', I just charge them for the signs and let them borrow the frame. The customer is responseable for pick up & return of the frame, the longer they keep it, the more it cost them. I did have one customer who decided to crazy glue the coroplast sign we made for them to the frame, they had to purchase the a-frame, they were okay with it.
-------------------- Devin Fahie Sebago Signworks Rt. 302, Raymond, Maine 207-655-6622 devin@sebagosignworks.com Posts: 96 | From: Raymond, Maine | Registered: Jun 2003
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yea..renting one means i still own it!!!! then there is the liability if it falls over and dents someones car, breaks their little toe, or a wind comes up and it blows thru a window down the street. renting means the person displaying sign has no liability for it!!! and where iam at if the sign cop dont like it he will PICK IT UP & take it to an impound and if you want it back(it will have your name on it)you pay the fine....naaaa i dont know nuttin ...and 30 yrs in this line of work....means nuttin...you sell it, they Own it.........good business...
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-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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We don't have much of a market for it here. I have sold a few a-frame type signs that people put out and in each day on the sidewalks but have discovered that they get bored with the hassle of it . . .they have to be heavy enough not to blow over and etc.
I personally would'nt wanna do a rent thing because I hate sign maintenance.
I a'redy have a coupl'a industrial park signs that I have to constantly go out and change tenants on and it's just a hassle for the time of removal-re`letter-re`install and for not all that much money.
I think tho' if your interested in doin' this, just go around to the cafe's, mabey take one with you all made up as an example and see how they like it. Sell one or two and then work those for a while to see if they are going to make the changes difficult, and to see if the change schedules are gonna be too hectic for you.
Aslo, I dunno about "sandwhich boards, but there are other types of advertising that A-frames do that would not require any changes.
The one that comes to mind for me was a lady who had a little antique shop and she loved her black long-haired terrier. She had the ink-drawing of him on her business card. I made cut-outs and painted him to match the business card and with the name of her antique store. I made it into an A-frame about 30" tall and 40" wide or so and she set it outside everyday 'til she moved from here.
Anyway, good luck, and I look forward to gettin' to meet you someday!!
-------------------- Signs Sweet Home Alabama
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Hate to be a dark cloud, but I'm with Joe on this one, though I could be wrong.
When you said "sandwhich board" I thought you meant the ones a guy would wear out on the sidewalk back in 1895.
When I first moved here, work was r-e-a-l slow, and the thought actually crossed my mind that I could offer that service.
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
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We have one of those Signcades that we "rent" for organizations. We sell them small banners that they keep. I try to talk them into something that they don't have to change every year ("Pancake supper this Thursday" instead of a date) We installed screws in the four corners of the face area of the signcade. Then when the Methodist church hosts their pancake supper, THEY pick up the signcade, install their banners, have it for less than a week, and return it to get their deposit back. It has worked out really well as they feel they are getting a deal and we are doing our "civic duty" to help out the non-profit organizations. They understand that they will be charged for the Signcade if it is not returned. We are pretty picky about who we lend it to. They can buy the whole unit if they want but most of them are just don't want to store something that large. It works for us, but we are in a town where you know most every organization in the area.
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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