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Re: Pricing for Straight and curved glass

Posted By: SVP Neon Equipment
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2006, at 12:31 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Pricing for Straight and curved glass (jake)


> OK, I checked with another neon shop I know
> and they said charge $25ft. I looked on the
> web and found a wholesale price of $20/ft. I
> use the ^*#@!^& Neon price book and
> could not make heads or tails of it. So, I
> quoted $15/ft straight. $18/ft curved.

The web price probably includes transformers and misc. hardware for installation. For local wholesale glass only $15.00/ft. is way too high.

> I called the price book guy later and had
> him help me figure it out. Sure enough, for
> straight 6500 white they rate $3.60/ft
> straight $$4.80 curved.

As Sean mentioned, prices vary depending on your location. Don's prices are in line with the Southeast, but you can even get straight border units cheaper than that in some areas. For the SE area, $3.60/$4.80/ft. are too high.

> Can you tell me how you can live off $34/8
> ft 6500?

See Sean's comments. And you should be charging for 9 ft. - 1 ft. for the electrodes. Btw, your math doesn't jive with the prices you mentioned. $3.60/ft. for an 8 ft. border would be $28.80. 9 ft. would be $32.40. Even at those prices I would make clear straight border units all day long and love every minute of it and smile all the way to the bank :-)

> Am I missing something????

Apparently so. Even if you are really slow and can only make 4 units per hour, at $3.00/ft. that is still $108.00/hr. Materials for clear border are cheap - less than $5.00 per unit. And unless your shop is in the high rent district your overhead can't be more than $10.00-$12.00/hr. - probably less. If you can't make a living at those wages then, yes, you are missing something.

> By the way, I am neither handsome or
> smart....Indeed, I'm as thick as a hockey
> puck and ugly to boot!

I was just going by what your profile says: "Very handsome....talented with neon.....high intellect....and handsome......" So what you are saying is none of this is true? Does that include the part about "talented with neon"? Perhaps you should change your profile statement - LOL

> O

Cute, Jack, real cute.


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