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Individual panels of maxmetal, with vinyl trim, painted aluminum angle iron on the ends. Graphics are Sherwin Williams oilbased enamel matching their Pantone colors. The client didn't want to cover the address panel, so here it is....
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7403 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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Well, to tell you the truth, I was...was mind you....glad to get the work. But 78 emails later, counting inbox and outbox, with no less than 4 different people.....and a whole bunch of those were layout changes...with no deposit...and this has been going on since MARCH....and I haven't seen a dime yet.....
Then the hospital "engineering director" had the gall to complain that I charged him $13.75 extra for climbing a ladder to take down his temporary banner while he sat safely on his keester watching in his car.....
Yes...it looks cheezy. But as long as I get paid...
[ October 14, 2010, 06:14 PM: Message edited by: Wayne Webb ]
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7403 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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Wayne, please don't take this personal, but I do not like it.
I understand it is a job and Yes I would have taken it too BUT! I would not have applied a new panel like that over the old without covering the whole sign. Bottom line is it looks tacky and when asked who did it, it's your name on the line.
I find it hard to believe there is not enough margin in prices to not be able to extend a piece of dibond or whatever material used to add on a new address and make this sign the best it can be for what they were asking for instead of it looking like an add-on.
Bottom line is we are the experts and we still have an obligation to make signs have class when finished no matter what materials are used.
-------------------- Sam Staffan Mackinaw Art & Sign 721 S. Nokomis St. Mackinaw City, MI dstaffan@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1694 | From: Mackinaw City, MI | Registered: Mar 2004
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Tacky...... Yes, that was my exact word. I don't like it either. But I didn't tell him that. Should have I guess. Hey, the guy didn't even want to pay us a measly $13.75 for taking down their banner. And he also fussed about the price of a adding a doctor's name sign, when I had already given him the price in advance, and he had approved....all in datestamped emails of course.
It would have been no problem for me to cover the whole thing and what I did cover, I did a neat, professional job. Looks to me like people will just think the client was a cheapskate with no class. But I could be wrong. If he doesn't hurry up and pay me very soon, I may just get ticked off enough to tell him how tacky it does look.
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[ October 17, 2010, 01:00 AM: Message edited by: Wayne Webb ]
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7403 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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we have bills to pay and food to eat. Being a artsy fartsy snob about design is goona get us nothing but an empty stomach.
Getting paid is what it is all about. We can get work and get paid to support ourselves until we get the real artsy fartsy stuff.
Besides, them hospitals can pretend to have a lot of money all they want. In reality their stipends are being cut by the ins co's as we speak. They are getting tight and watching every penny until they see what our pres's tax rules will bring.
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