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I did a ba-a-a-a-d thing...............................

Gino

Premium Subscriber
Well, we all say how we won't do this or won't do that and I just made a quick $65 on this one and then charged him an additional $15 to do it in metallic gold.


Okay, the thing goes like this.......

Jose comes in and wants a decal for his windshield the words El Prose in Spanish means The Professor :

Okay, so he asks for fancy fonts and wants to look at them in a book.
Sorry, don't have that. I'll type it in and give you two fancy styles from which you can choose.
Well, how can I pick what I want ??
You can't. I'll show you.
The top two are the two choices I gave him. Then he wanted it 6" tall by 15" wide. Then, he wanted it 4" tall and 28" wide.
He asked which one l Liked.
Honestly, none of them. Do you realize, no one can read this stuff in all caps ?? There's a reason they aren't supposed to be all caps.
Yeah, I know that no one can read them, but that's not the idea behind this stuff.
HUH .....??
It's just to look fancy. Everyone already knows me by El Prose, so I hafta put it on my glass..... see ??
No, but at least now I know why no one cares about the legibility of all these things around town.
He laughed, paid me the $88.60 and came by earlier today and smiled real big and said 'Perfect'

The bottom one is the one he went with and the whole process took about 4 minutes.


Oh, by the way, he's putting it on and he's doing it in reverse on the inside of the windshield....... )))

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fresh

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There is a flea market 5 minutes down the road from us with a vinyl shop who does this sort of thing. I'm pretty sure you pay per letter or something like that, and I often these jobs to them..

Sometimes they really want us to do it, and so we do, but I always charge them similarly to how you charged (but I'm on the fence about the metallic vinyl upcharge.) Anyway, these jobs keep a couple of bucks in our pockets, and if the client isn't too much a PITA and the shop is slow, then they are totally worth the $$.
 

Gino

Premium Subscriber
There is a flea market 5 minutes down the road from us with a vinyl shop who does this sort of thing. I'm pretty sure you pay per letter or something like that, and I often these jobs to them..

Sometimes they really want us to do it, and so we do, but I always charge them similarly to how you charged (but I'm on the fence about the metallic vinyl upcharge.) Anyway, these jobs keep a couple of bucks in our pockets, and if the client isn't too much a PITA and the shop is slow, then they are totally worth the $$.

Yeah, this was cash, so I'll probably get a nice bottle and add it to my collection from Christmas.

I might start doing these, as in the past, I generally turned them all away, but from start to finish, including making out a receipt, his paying and walking out the door..... not even 10 minutes went by. It took a minute to cut, I weeded it for therapy and taped it up in a coupla minutes today. I'll always have a free 10 or 15 minutes for $85 smackaroos. :rolleyes: Metallic weeds a little harder than regular cast. It was just a BS cost. I was feeling greedy and said, that'll cost another $15. Can't get it, if ya don't ask.
 

GAC05

Quit buggin' me
Gino as an enabler you should feel bad.
You know in a year or so this same layout is going to be featured on an episode of Tattoo Nightmares with some poor girl trying to get it removed from her butt cheek......


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kheebl

Member
I'm glad he can read it, because I sure as hell can't lol. Gotta love making that fast easy $$$$
 

phototec

New Member
They say you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but Gino can make $88 out of a piece of crap!


Oh, wait, beauty is in the eye of the customer....:omg:
 

Patentagosse

New Member
God must love stupid people, he made so many...

Usually I kick 'em out of the shop because they make me loose my time or end up expecting running out the door with perfect job installed by me for like $40.

Worsts are relatives or friends, thinking it's a side job (read hobby) I would do at my cost...

Gino, this one is hard to beat, even more you haven't applyied it!
 

Rick

Certified Enneadecagon Designer
People don't know how to spend their money nowadays...

That guy could have used that 88 bucks to buy a fake gold tooth...

That could have bought 176 tacos at Jack in the Box...

He could have tattooed that on his forehead for 88 bucks... okay, maybe the "EL" part...

He could have purchased a cheap bass speaker and played Beastie Boys "Paul Revere" really loud while cruising down the street while yelling out his name while he has everyones attention...
 

Gino

Premium Subscriber
It was very well spent money on his advertising campaign in my opinion. :rolleyes:

He had so much cash on him, I highly doubt he has any trouble buying any of those other items.
 

Rick

Certified Enneadecagon Designer
What does El Prose mean? I asked my parents and they had no clue... they would have went with the gold tooth.
 

Gino

Premium Subscriber
I have two gold teeth.... and not gangsta style. Mine cost a lo-o-o-ot more than $88.
Don't know where you get your facts.​

I ain't Spanish, so I only do as I'm told. For all I know, it means... f*ck off MF, I ain't messin' wit yo a$$. :noway:
 

Rick

Certified Enneadecagon Designer
I have two gold teeth.... and not gangsta style. Mine cost a lo-o-o-ot more than $88.
Don't know where you get your facts.​

I ain't Spanish, so I only do as I'm told. For all I know, it means... f*ck off MF, I ain't mess in' wit yo a$$. :noway:


That would be "V*te a la m**rda hijo de p*ta , no me voy a meter contigo culo" so it's not that... and that would be a lot more than 88 bucks... Imagine weeding that small stuff! Even on a tangential cutter it would be a pain.

A fake gold tooth is cheap... So he was a Spaniard eh? No wonder it makes no sense!
 

nikdoobs

New Member
the whole process took about 4 minutes.

Bull $h*%. Talking to him alone took at least 10.

Congratulations on making your $88.60. You just made everyone who is stuck behind this dude in traffic a little less proud of the city they live in.
 

Rick

Certified Enneadecagon Designer
Bull $h*%. Talking to him alone took at least 10.

Congratulations on making your $88.60. You just made everyone who is stuck behind this dude in traffic a little less proud of the city they live in.

You should drive through my town, that lettering would gussie up the place...
 
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