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I'm sorry, but are you saying that pay for nearly everything in your personal and business life in person and with cash? You literally go to your suppliers location and pay them in cash out of fear of being data mined? What about large purchases like printers, vehicles, your home, etc.? If...

Well, at least now after all these judgements being made, anyone not fully qualified for the position and reading this thread will think REALLY hard before applying. We and most shops have no issue with an employee using the internet during work hours to find clip art, images, supplies, to...

Looks great. Thankfully, you had a nice day and some sun to speed drying for applying the second coat. Nice rich black. That oughta hold 'em for a while.

They keep way better if you freeze them.

Every neighborhood has its own little pizza joint that folks grow up loving. Home Run Inn is on the Southside, we were Northsiders. Up by us, it was a place named Pat's Pizza that everybody loved. The original Home Run Inn is located not far from where the trade school I attended was. Every...

Those are fightin' words dammit. FYI, the average Chicagoan rarely eats deep dish except on special occasions. Thin, almost cracker like crusts cooked at high temperature with a savory, tomato sauce and good fennel in the sausage and/or pepperoni are the go to.

You go to Chitown and start talking that shite and you'll see how far you get. ;)

You're so addled and quick to jump on everyone else, you don't even see what you post. "Nothing I dislike more than liars and cheats, but crybabies is running a close second."

FFS...... The "Why" that we tell the customers is that we do great work, use only good materials and offer great service. For a guy who is constantly referring to his alcohol intake, you might want to look in the mirror before judging anyone else on what they put in their body.

I'm assuming you're responding to my post. First of all, who said we share anything about how we base our pricing on with our customers? This ain't the unmoderated thread where you have cover to insult and try to flame people, so watch your mouth old man. PLEASE.... PLEASE...

Domino's, Papa Johns? You my friend haven't been eating pizza for a lot longer than 4 years. LOL

There are so many overhead variables that affect pricing that it often is a hard thing to both keep up with and quantify our place in the pricing universe once we venture away from our own internal calculations. That's why the only time we concern ourselves with what others charge is when it's...

Can I ask how you "shop the competition" without divulging your identity or potentially building resentment about you wasting their time if discovered?

We have a slightly different approach but feel it works for us pretty consistently. I really like your system as well and will test against ours on the next few jobs and see how they compare. Of course, everything we're discussing is for standard "layout" type signs, not a design heavy, all...

Ok, those numbers sound more realistic, but I still wonder about the 2'x2's. If you get nearly $400 for a single sided 4'x8' with a print/lam and a 4'x8' yields 8 24"x24" signs @$45 each, that's only $360.00 for the 8 double sided signs with all that cutting, weeding and application time added...

We try to distinguish between the truly inexperienced sign purchaser and the haggler. We'll give a little hand holding to the inexperienced purchaser, but the obvious haggler types get minimum time investment on our part and get sent on their way. I'm shocked at the prices you quoted for the...

Sorry, but I've never seen anyone in my 40+ years of outdoor signpainting experience use a mahlstick on a wall job or while using any kind of a brush but a quill or flat on any surface angled, nearly vertical or vertical.

UV cured inks don't rely on solvents or heat to dry them making them incredibly tough and more chemically resistant than other types of ink. As another member has done, I've wiped prints with 99% alcohol right off the flatbed and it removed overspray or drips, but didn't affect any fully cured...