[amayausers.com] Re: Contract with business
- From: e3m@xxxxxxx
- To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:00:02 +0000
Dude,
You must type fast!
Ed
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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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