Author Topic: what to charge for printing only? customer providing apparel  (Read 807 times)

Offline royster13

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Re: what to charge for printing only? customer providing apparel
« Reply #15 on: December 21, 2011, 05:23:59 PM »
It is very hard for a "retail" shop to live up to demands of a "contract" client without thinking you are getting the shaft....Most true contract printers turn jobs in 3 to 5 days, never makes misprints my problem, picks up or gets shirts delivered without any cost to me, schedules my job when it is ordered not when the shirts arrive, etc. etc....In order for a retail shop to do this, your orders will suffer.....So best to stick to retail work and send the other work away....It may suck cash flow wise in the shot term but in the long run you will build a better book of retail business....

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Re: what to charge for printing only? customer providing apparel
« Reply #16 on: December 21, 2011, 05:50:05 PM »
What I used to hate about this customer was that I had to say "no" to other work in order to keep her from throwing a fit. For instance, I had a job she asked for on a Friday but I knew her customer planned to pick it up on Monday. So then, I got a call on Thursday from a guy who needed something the next day and asked whether I could get it done. Well, I actually could have done both jobs because in reality I had the whole weekend to finish the first one...but the customer threw a tantrum when I asked if I could have the extra time, and I had to tell the guy I couldn't take his job....So it cost me a couple of hundred bucks just to stop the contract customer from bitching. I'm much more profitable since I fired her.

 

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