[amayausers.com] Re: contract Emb

At $4.25 you aren't making any profit...when they supply the shirts!
You aren't charging anything for 'hooping' twice on each shirt. (once for name, once for logo). When YOU supply the shirts you have a markup (profit) on each shirt, so $4.25 is still way low for TWO sewings but liveable if you are making at least 30% or more markup on the shirts. We charge $5 just for hooping (which covers backing, solvy, etc.) for ANY customer supplied item, in addition to embroidery charges. And we charge full rate per thousand stitches on customer supplied goods-when we supply the goods, the stitch 
charge is 25-50% less because we make a good markup on shirts.
For screenprinting-we try not to do any customer supplied goods- because we can't guarantee the quality of the shirt, we have to screen on defective shirts, etc. since they are paying for EVERY shirt we print. Again, we charge full rate for screens, setup, per print charge-so that 
we make the SAME profit per hour as if we supplied the shirts.
When pricing, you have to figure your TIME for the job and how many you can do per hour. With one machine-two hoops per shirt-you would be lucky to get 6 shirts an hour-because hooping and aligning takes 5 minutes per, X 2 per shirt= 10 minutes=6 per hour. Average everyone has tossed around here on pricing threads over the last couple years has been $40-60 PER HOUR that you should be billing above and beyond material cost. That covers your equipment lease/loan, insurance, electricity, overhead, supplies, etc. So 6 shirts per hour would be a minimum of $6.50 - $10 per shirt for a job like this. Just 'name' alone was one discussion, and it ranged from $5 (you supply shirt) to $10- 
customer supplies shirts.
The only reason the customer is supplying the shirts is because he got them cheaper than 
buying from you...so why should YOU lose profit because HE got a deal?
I have all kinds of catalogs from commercial embroidery houses, and most of them have a minimum 
wholesale of $5 just to do a name.
Remember-YOUR TIME is your money-don't give it away!

Roland
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