[Lucky7Graphix]

Ok here is my question. Most of my print work I have been doing for a while now is for people at my local ball park where my kids play. I have tons of people asking all the time how much, how much. My question is how do you deal with quotes on the fly? Most of the jobs I have done are screen printed on the front and vinyl on the back. I have really just been flying by the seat of my pants and on some jobs I have done well others not so well with the pricing. How do you deal with this? The biggest problem is when they come to me and say, "Hey we need some shirts done but I don't know how many it will be we just want to know your prices?" Well I mean I base everything off the exact numbers and this is throwing me off. Any suggestions?

 

[Preston]

Ok here is my question. Most of my print work I have been doing for a while now is for people at my local ball park where my kids play. I have tons of people asking all the time how much, how much. My question is how do you deal with quotes on the fly? Most of the jobs I have done are screen printed on the front and vinyl on the back. I have really just been flying by the seat of my pants and on some jobs I have done well others not so well with the pricing. How do you deal with this? The biggest problem is when they come to me and say, "Hey we need some shirts done but I don't know how many it will be we just want to know your prices?" Well I mean I base everything off the exact numbers and this is throwing me off. Any suggestions?

Most of the time when they just ask "how much" without any specifics it is because they are just fishing to get an idea. What they really want is a ballpark number right then. The easiest way to handle this is with a price sheet. The sheet would include the price per shirt within a certain quantity using a white t-shirt and all cost included. You could have a white shirt price sheet and and a dark shirt price sheet or you could have a white shirt price sheet and then just state "Add X Amount for dark shirts". The you just hand them the sheet or email it to them and explain that once they have everything nailed down you can give them a more accurate price.

A price sheet would look something like this for the first side.

I am writing a piece of software that will create these sheets in a mater of seconds and it will be free for anyone who wants it. If you would like a copy when I have it done please PM me and request it. Please do not request it in this thread.

 

[binki]

Having a retail price sheet will help keep you from getting screwed. That can be your high price and once you have finals on artwork and colors you can go from there.

Beware of customers that change their order after pricing and expect the same price. They will increase the number of colors or change the shirts from light to dark or go from just a few 2XL's to half the order, all of this increases cost and should increase price.

Good Luck.

 

[beanie357]

We all keep a range in our head. We have some specific deals like for teams with a front screen and rear vinyl for name and number.

We have a very short dtg grid, as time and ink costs are the same for each.

So we would say "From x to whatever", and hand a biz card which directs them to our website with a qr code. They usually go sit, scan the code and we hear from them in a day or so.

Seems to work.

 

[Lucky7Graphix]

Thanks for all the help I am soaking it in