[amayausers.com] Re: large orders
- From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:35:05 -0400
I run into it with screenprinters all the time...
a fully automatic printer just needs 2 people-one to load, one to
unload...
the machine does the rest. So they can outproduce poor old me doing
it by
hand on a 4 screenpress. They also have dryers that are enormous...I
saw the
one Dick and Pat have up at their shop in Canaan Vt...along with 15
Amayas, their
screen print dryer alone is bigger than all the floor space I use for
screenprinting.
So their output per hour is quadruple or more compared to me.
WIth 15 amayas, set up in sequence, one person can just walk down the
line and
load and unload hoops, machines keep running while only the one with
broken
thread or bobbin stops...and with a stack of extra hoops (like they
have up there!)
you can get way ahead with hooping.
So your 'manpower' (labor charge per hour) is minimal compared to the
number of
pieces the machines can produce per hour. Overhead remains constant-
heat,
electricity, insurance, rent, etc. So the more you can produce per
hour, the less it costs
per piece to do it.
The guys with the big shops (and there are several places around
here) can't take the
small orders, single pieces, half dozens, etc.-so they will throw out
bargain rates just
to keep the machines busy...they have to pay people to stand around
anyways.
Hurts all of us...and some of it they recoup with 'hidden'
charges...'setup', 'digitizing',
incoming freight, anything they can think of.
And, like Walmart-there are those companies that will DELIBERATELY
underprice
you, the competition-simple to drive you out and control the market.
Local Walmart
admitted in city council meeting when they wanted variance to put up
gas pumps-they
were going to undersell competition even at a loss-to control the
market!
Still haven't built it...but they did get the variance!
I've had probably 2-3 businesses EVERY YEAR start up in someone's
cellar,
garage, backroom-screenprinting, embroidery, vinyl cutting-all
undercuttin me and the
other 'good' shops in the area. On average, they might last 12
months....and then they
disappear...no money left to pay the bills after undercutting us all!
We happily refer all PITA customers to them all day long! (Pain in
the A$$)
Just doing my part to help a new business! LOL
Roland
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