[amayausers.com] Re: Shirt Prices Mark Up?

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You should make a profit of $40-$60 PER HOUR for your work-part of this would 
be your charge for embroidery, the rest is markup on the item. For small 
amounts (under a dozen for example) you take your cost of item (1 sweatshirt, + 
shipping) and DOUBLE that. Then your digitizing-did you just use stock design 
from the treasure chest and a name, or did you create the whole design? 
Creating a design is YOUR TIME. TIME= MONEY and you need to charge for it. Just 
to add a name on a shirt that someone brings in-(we didn't supply) we get 
$10.00. That's $5 for the name and $5 for the 'hooping charge' which covers the 
time and backing and thread for a small name. We try as hard as possible NOT to 
sew on 'customer supplied goods' because if you screw it up, you bought 
it...and couple months ago I had to 'buy' a half dozen crap shirts from 
discount store because the sewout was terrible. Sometimes you just can't get 
around it, but we've turned down several jobs since then-trying to stick t
 o our 'own' supplies.
There are many links posted (in the archives here) to commercial companies that 
screenprint and embroidery-and the pricelists have been posted-so you can 
compare to see what the 'big guys' get for their services. But YOUR goal is to 
MAKE MONEY. Don't give your time away just because you don't think the customer 
will pay it!

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