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Just had someone stop by with specks from a internet "banners depot" for a 2'X 5' 14oz banner with 3 color hp vinyl copy and clipart images for $107.29...Can you beat that price?...aaaaaaa NO!
Jeff
-------------------- Jeff's Lettering Lisa,Luke,Dara, and Jeff Spradling 5742 Shattuck Rd. Belvidere, Il. 61008 815-544-0167
Surviving another day. Posts: 626 | From: Belvidere, IL USA | Registered: Jul 2000
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I've had customers come in with ads like that, usually sell them at my price!
1) they want it asap 2) they would like an "idea" of what it can look like 3) I walk away when they demand too much for too little 4) they can see and feel my banner material and banners hanging, the quality is here v/s the unknown/unseen on the net
Even though it's only around $165 for what you discribed according to Estimate.
[ February 18, 2005, 10:58 AM: Message edited by: Michael Latham ]
-------------------- Michael A Latham Tee's Me Shirt & Sign 16462 Jefferson Davis Highway Colonial Heights Va. 804-835-3299 signdogopie@aol.com Posts: 379 | From: Colonial Heights, Virginia | Registered: Feb 2004
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"Are you selling cheap Coroplast signs?" "No, I don't!---But I do sell Coroplast signs" silence "Well...how much for a 2'x2'with(reads the text)" "$37 each" "$37??!How much if I take 3?" "$37 each" silence "I only need it for a month, you know. I can rent a sign for that" "Up to you, sir" "I'll be thinking about it" KLICK Next day "I'll be taking those signs, but only two" "Great, I can have them done tomorrow" "Oh, I need them today!" "Tomorrow morning, 11:00 at the earliest" "That doesn't fit my schedule, I'll have to think about whether I want them then" KLICK Three hours later "I'll come for the signs tomorrow at 1:30" --No, I didn't say, "How come it suddenly fits your schedule?"
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Jeff - What were you thinking? I could beat that price. They'd be $107.28 each. In quantities of 100 or more. Done deal
Lotti: The rental thing reminded me of a recent experience. You should have said,"Oh! You only need them for a month?? In that case, I can rent them to you for $37 a month each!"
-------------------- John Stagner Action Graphics Salem, MO agraphics02@earthlink.net Posts: 98 | From: Salem, Missouri | Registered: Aug 2003
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I have a vendor that will sell me a full color banner with hems and grommets @ less than $4 a square foot. It's a solvent based inkjet print on 13 oz. banner material. He has no minimum order and he'll even deliver it to me for free.
So, I could make money at the internet price qoute, throw in a "free design" and still come out ahead of the game. Shipping and handling would be extra though
Havin' fun,
Checkers
-------------------- a.k.a. Brian Born www.CheckersCustom.com Harrisburg, Pa Work Smart, Play Hard Posts: 3775 | From: Harrisburg, Pa. U.S.A. | Registered: Nov 1998
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I can make good money on them digitally printing them in house. At $1.00 a s.f. my cost, and selling them for $10 s.f. I can have it done in a half hour. These days vinyl can't compete with digital printing. The labor is what kills you with the weeding, taping and application involved. Not to mention the cost of the vinyl and application tape as compared to ink.
I'm enjoying banners now for the first time in a long time. Easy money!
[ February 18, 2005, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: Bob Stephens ]
-------------------- Bob Stephens Skywatch Signs Zephyrhills, FL
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Cheryl & Lottie have cooked up and flavored the recipe for this bad meat, and turned it into a cure. For anyone who wants to work fast & cheap, this is what you will hear and what you are getting into. If you like it, maybe you're cured. Whatever, C & L's exchange belong in the archives.
-------------------- Bruce Williams Lexington KY Posts: 945 | From: Lexington, KY, USA | Registered: Mar 1999
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. . .LOL Jeff . . . LOVE it when they call here . . .
I get to 'suggest' they go to Pepsi Cola or Bama Budweiser....they make banners totally FREE...nice bold block, black type . . . as much copy as they want... if they dont mind those logos takin' up that little 1/3rd of the banner . . .all nice and shiney with them little 16" ropes and everything . . .
..bet I'm drivin' 'em all to 'drinkin' up' their profits dealing with these tire kickers . . .
-------------------- Signs Sweet Home Alabama
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Print one basic design on a bit of A4 or foolscap paper, and photocopy 99 more of them for him. Maybe throw in a packet of thumb tacks or drawing pins.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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"you got no overhead, you won of them wimin signpainters, you just got to push buttons, you can letter my racecar and I won't charge you to advertise.... reply... yu got good life insurance doncha? don't let the door hit cha..... lol, a million bucks and I'm all yours..(50 percent deeeeposit, yahoo!)
-------------------- Deb Fowler
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney (1901-1966) Posts: 5373 | From: Loves Park, Illinois | Registered: Aug 1999
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got a storefront sign shop here..with a banner out front 2x5 and its big letters THIS BANNER $25.00!!!!! i dont wana beat that!!!
-------------------- 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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