[amayausers] Re: pricing for heat sealing

This is one of the places we bought our numbers and names from before
we got our own cutter.

This is the page with their pricing for names.

http://www.wellingtonhouse.com/stahls_playernames.php

you send them your names list online and ship the cut names ready to go
the next business day
as you can see our average name is 2" tall and straight
which costs us $1.40 for the cheaper film and $1.50 each for the better quality.
so with shipping to So Cal if you charged $5 each for individual larger names
(which is our rate) then you can be pretty profitable.

so if you make money on the garment and do numbers and names
12 shirts should take less than an hour you should be on track.

Ron Vinyard
Body Cover Design
1-888-435-0176
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roland R. Irish III 
  To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:54 AM
  Subject: [amayausers] Re: pricing for heat sealing




    Thanks Roland for the information.  Just to let you know, this is my first
    job with the heat press and my heat press should arrive on next Monday.   I
    found one of the catalogs yesterday and was surprised to find the prices for
    those.  But the quantities were high. 


    1. Full back sweatshirt: $20 for the application + sweatshirt.  How do you
    figure out the cost and the profit there?
    A 5 yard x 15" roll is $40, that's $2.60 a running foot. I can actually cut 
only 13" out of that-have to allow for border and pinch wheels that hold it 
down in the cutter. So my cost is $2.60 a square foot. Figure computer time to 
set up a name or logo or image to cut, then cutting time...I think we did the 
math and figured a half hour time from customer request to 'ready to put on 
shirt' and we get $40 per hour 'shop' time. For multiple orders we'd discount 
of course.

  Cost of sweatshirt-depends on what we paid for what is in stock. I only buy 
goods as needed for orders-and get an extra or two of each size in case of 
rejects. The unused ones are what we have for 'on the spot' retail sale. I 
don't promote or advertise at all-so we don't do much for retail-mostly 
customers coming in for a sign or something that just want a shirt or two for 
themselves.
  We mark up the shirts and sweats  according to a computerized pricing program 
I have-sets prices based on markup over cost and the number of shirts you get. 
Normally about 3 x cost for single, then discounts down to only 25% markup on 
144 or so. I'd have to look. So if a customer brings in his own 
garment-automatic $5 charge besides my lettering charge-otherwise we have to 
have two price lists for lettering.

    2. names: 3.50 /batch - 5.00 individual ( how big of a name - is it as big
    as the width of the shirt?)
    No, about 4" wide-the width of a normal 'pocket'. I get a hardware store 
that gets fleece and vests from their stove supplier, we just add his employee 
name to the other side. Switched to embroidery last fall. Other names are for 
'teams'- but for football, etc. that is a 12" wide name on the back- $10 for 
that. 



    3. Learnt the hard way about customer supplied garments.  I screwed one up
    on my amaya last week and was doing just names and did not get any profit
    for doing the job.  NO CUSTOMER SUPPLIED GARMENTS IN MY SHOP!!
    As much as we don't want to do it on other garments-there is always that 
odd ball size or color that we just can't get-or a good customer that we are 
doing a bunch of stuff for. So we bend the rules. Last week, did a paintball 
team- 100% poly sublimated shirts. The kids said they were new...I made them 
wash them anyways. What a disaster-the iron on digital print decals I made up 
lost all the color, the colors of the shirt sublimated right through the 
decal-and then we realized the shirts HAD been worn-and paintball ink is 
glycerine oil based-so the shirts were all contaminated with invisible oil!
  I told them never again-new shirts in the package or we don't touch them. I 
don't have a catalog on the paintball stuff anyways. Also realized the shirts 
have 'texture' bumps on the shoulders-plastisol...and they melted and stuck to 
the platen on the machine....another problem!
  good luck!

    Best Regards,
    Veena Viswanath




    Iris Embroidery
    www.IrisEmbroidery.com
    (510)-226-6171

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