The Bacon Factory (a long-time valued customer) asked me to add a new logo to their factory front facia. No problem. I gave them a price based on two of us painting and airbrushing for a day off 4m mobile scaffold. Not much short of a grand.
They gave me a "bigger" .jpg file on a CD to print out and do a scale layout to go by.
My Corel Draw download maxed out at 70% !!!! Damn file was 119MB !!!! Oh well, my mate down the road maybe can open it for me.
Only after reducing file 50% and making a cup of coffee while it downloaded did the final pic show. Detail? You could see the individual hairs on his arm!
Then Alan asked if I wanted a full size 8x5ft print! Tempted, I asked how much and when. Laminated and ready in the morning for $300!!
Profit talks! Besides, we are booked solid at the moment and this was going to save us heaps of time. My Excuse #2002-4.2
It took us two hours total to instal and that included travel,picking up and erecting the scaffold etc.
Customer was delighted! Asked if they were suitable to put on their truck fleet too!!!!!
Promise I won't do it again. Well ..... maybe
Don't know what Ned Kelly has to do with Bacon Burgers tho!
[ December 14, 2005, 07:59 AM: Message edited by: Jon Butterworth ]
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Thirty lashes with a stiff fitch! Love....Jill PS Brooce, doesn't that look like an Isaly's ham BBQ instead of a bacon sandwich?
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i'm a daily sinner(i'll burn in hell with all my friends...bring marshmellows dude)...and i would have charged more than $300 for a 5ftx8ft print...so ya done good dude...nothing wrong with making money in this business...the easier the better!
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for your sins I believe you should have paint all the text in your qoute, in 1" helvitica, with a worn out 1/2" sable on corrigated steel 1' off the ground.
(oh, also make it white on black metal)
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OMG... that does look like Isaly's ham BBQ...
Dammit, now I am hungry!
BTW, Jon... don't let it happen again. At least for today. Tomorrow is a different issue.
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5 x 8 = 40 x $12/ ft (approx) = $480 .. and as Si says,, Plus install
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Jon,, I think ill come down and have you do my bids for me,,,
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Is that a concrete wall you've stuck it to, Jon?
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7016 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Thou art absolved of thy sins my son. Repaint and thin no more.
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