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i go to eat the other nite and less the 1/2 mile from me i see the 1st 18x24....of this guys and hes got em about every mile on this road. http://www.dsgprinting.com/index.html web includes prices.......only thing hes near is vinyl 18 x 24.......but i dont see if its 1 sided or 2.....and his price for a 4 x 8 coro is $85.00... $2.65 a SQUARE FOOT.....iam i being to harsh if i say IDIOT WITH A COMPUTER & CUTTER?
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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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-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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I would also contact the city or county about his solicitation signs and have them removed. He's not a politician and has to abide by the rules like the rest of us.
-------------------- Jeff Poitevint Sign-A-Rama Augusta 4015-M Washington Rd. Martinez, Ga. 30907 706-364-6393 augustasigns@comcast.net www.augustasigns.com Posts: 102 | From: Augusta, Ga. | Registered: May 2004
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This fool will be broke in less than 6 months at these prices.
When you get a customer that is trying really hard to get you to lower your price give them this idiots name, let them deal with them and help him go broke instead.
The only way they could survive is to advertise LOW prices then upsell them BIGTIME. and obviously he is using inferior materials and probably doesnt guarantee the stuff past the doorstep.
-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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When eating out, Frank highly recommends the clams, OK?
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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I am with Harris. Have copmuter will do signs. A few years back there were two new guys in town. Both were "have computer will do signs." with in a year both were gone. Cheap does not hide lack of quality. If their best is a vinyl one storke quikie, don't sweat it.
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Harris is totally right. I had a employee that I fired that opened up and did the same thing. I got upset about it at first and started to sue him for breach of contract but was advised against it. About 3-4 months and he was gone. Don't over-react and don't waste your time unproductively; you'll be fine.
-------------------- Ricky Jackson Signs Now 614 Russell Parkway Warner Robins, GA (478) 923-7722 signpimp50@hotmail.com
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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Take a quick digital pic of one,make some duplicate signs that look exactly the same and lower his prices even more, and about 3am put those out.
-------------------- Gavin Chachere Plotter in the garage,New Orleans La.
"Sgts Shugart and Gordon again request permission to rope down to crash site two" Posts: 1223 | From: new orleans.la. | Registered: Mar 2000
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Who's picking me up and will you have coffee and donuts?
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
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his prices are on his web page....not on his signs....
-------------------- 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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what I see on his website is extremely basic layout and color choice.
If this is your competition then I'd say you need to up your level of signage to requiring a skill level that would command a higher price and not allow entry level people to take food off your table.
But on a lighter note he does have a wide selection of colors....red, blue AND black lol
-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you." Posts: 5149 | From: Millbury, Mass. U.S. | Registered: Nov 1998
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I never was affraid of people who charged less than me, my main concern always were the people who charge MORE.... "Only az hooker can place a price of a hooker", and "hookers" selling their same wares for more than I did, made me scratch my head. on what did they know I didn't...
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Oh, fa Chrissake, OP. This guy is "competition" to a real signman about the same way a faith healer on TV is competition to a board-certified graduate of Harvard Medical School.
-------------------- "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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If what this dabbler advertises is the direction of the sign business, he can have it, AND his prices. I'd rather paint walls or dig ditches. The only typography on the website is in Political Signs. For those, one must collect in advance, because if a candidate loses, he's broke, and if he wins, he's hard to get at.
I love Gavin's tactic, and would save it for a more formidable opponent.
-------------------- Bruce Williams Lexington KY Posts: 945 | From: Lexington, KY, USA | Registered: Mar 1999
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cam merry xmas...hehehehe i like your anaology. i posted it as my competion, but i dont care what he does i do what i do for what consider a fair price. it all in how you treat your customers...and the quality of them. my business has been great since sept....and i dont see it slowin down, except for this problem i have slowin ME down a bit.
-------------------- 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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""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3488 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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