[amayausers.com] Re: Contract with business
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- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:00:55 UT
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There was a big discussion months ago-someone was asked to take their machine
to a fair or expo or something. I'd say 75% or more replies said 'don't do it'.
#1- moving your machine. It's a multi person job-cannot be done every day-and
you won't have it at home to do night or weekend work
#2-every time you move it-risk of damage-dropping, bending, pushing needle head
out of whack
#3-who's going to insure YOUR machine-them or you? Will your insurance cover it?
#4-security-is it in a locked room or out in view of customers? What happens
when you aren't there? Can anyone else mess with it?
#5-can you get access to it when the store is closed?
#6-what happens if you have a big order of your own customer to do-and store
customer walks up and says I want this hat NOW...or are you off in a back room
just doing whatever the store sells as someone sticks it through the window at
you. Again-you are in the middle of a big order-and the store has ONE piece to
do for a customer-not the right thread color up, wrong hoop, or you are doing
hats and need to switch hoops.
#7-it's been figured out by many of us-when your machine is running-you need to
TAKE IN over $40 PER HOUR to pay for the upkeep, lease, supplies, insurance,
and some profit. Can you afford to sit there day after day and do 'maybe' 5 or
6 shirt names in an hour because each one is different, different shirt,
different hoop, different name and still make your $40 PER HOUR? No, you can't.
Can you do it at HOME if the store brings you all the pieces each afternoon to
do overnite and they pick up the next morning?
Yes, if you don't have a life.
If you have your 'own' little storefront-separate entrance, separate keys, so
you can come and go whenever you want but you are still 'associated' with the
store-then that can be beneficial. But if you are working 'for' the store-they
will expect you to drop everything to take care of THEIR customer immediately.
It takes 20 minutes or more to switch from hats to speedframe or hoops...then
what do you do? You have 10 hats left to fill YOUR order...maybe an hour and a
half to make the deadline for your customer. Dan's Dynamite Discount Depot has
a customer buying a shirt and wants his kid's name on it-NOW...
and you are going to charge DDDD only $3.00 to do it. Are you going to drop
everything, change to hoop, do the shirt, get $3, and blow the deadline on your
$500 hat order?
Okay...you say you can buy a second machine and have one at the store and one
at home so you can run orders at home. Then who's minding the store?
Other Amaya owners like me have been asked to bring our machies to the Chamber
of Commerce Home Show or something like it-and guaranteed we will be doing all
the shirts and hats at the show for everyone...but no word about who pays the 4
guys and a truck to take it apart, deliver and setup, then bring it home again.
And they smash it into the steel door frame on the way in-who pays the Tech his
$300 to run out and fix it? So I haven't heard of anyone taking that offer!
Think long and hard about it.....
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