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Help us...What is it supposed to look like in the end? "U" one color, circle another (or is there a fill and a circle?) are the feathers a third color? It sure isn't cut ready! First, delete the white background. Most of your objects have a stroke (outline) around them...they need to be deleted. If you view your art in outline or wireframe you will see that your feathers are in several pieces they need to be combined if they are all one color. Probably easiest to trace the feathers and delete the original mess of fills, strokes and pieces. Sue2

Adding to Slice&Dice's realistic post , saying the above is silly & ancient thinking IMO . Price .. does it matter ... watch everybody pull into the most expensive gas station .... ahh NOT . The above business sense is only for dinosaurs that won't accept the technology & its benifit that cheapens EVERY lucrative business . Being able to buy everything you need to sell decals for $500 & running it in a no overhead enviroment is what is now , not history when it would cost $10K plus . I am sure some of the people who were doing what you are doing now , when you went into busiiness had the same outlook about you , but you went into business anyway . People now have the same choices . If they want to buy the stuff , BOOM they are a business !!! There is many places that don't have business licenses available ( Morgan County , Tn being 1 .. i know , i have property there ) Should somebody there rent an address in New York City JUST to be regulated ?? Most places , anybody can get a busines license for a few bucks , how does that change things ? I think it was back in the 80's that BIG business wanted to charge a much higher tarriff on products ( Harley davidson was 1 of the most vocal ) , I remember the president of Radio Shack testifying to congress , his company would live or die on their abuility to compete fair & square & did not need any handicaps & I really respected that then & now . Japenese motorcycles went up about $1K because of the tarriff . the price never went down , so i think it made them money overall . Buying supplies is crazy also ... with the internet , you can buy from overseas or across the country cheaper than next door many times ( fact is USCutter ships supplies to me cheaper than anywhere around ) . It has been like this for quite awhile , but welcome to 2012 .... I have always liked the saying " If you can't stand the heat , get out of the kitchen " .. I have gotten out of " the kitchen " in several types of business because of technology & level of competition & the resulting profit margins . Finding a niche is a great thing . Like S&D said , the places he mentioned & e-bay is NOT a secret .

Walgreens pharmacy has in-store Large Format Printers that produce signs now, so does Kinko's/FedEx. Soon, WalMart will get machines that print signs. I do thousands of $$$ worth of cutting jobs monthly out of a small Main Street shop that I rent, and purchase from several established local wholesale suppliers that deliver next-day (GRIMCO, FELLERS, HARBOR SUPPLY, etc.) as well as buying from places that ship to me at excellent prices (including US Cutter). I compete with SIGNS-By-Tomorrow, FAST SIGNS, Sign-A-Rama, and many other places that offer sign-making to the public. When I do a banner for $60, is that destroying the market? Hell, no, because banners can be had for that price online (See: Vista Print) -- what do you think, VistaPrint is a huge secret? I offer my production skills, my time, my design abilities, and get all sorts of sign jobs every day from a variety of clients, at prices which are competitive and provide my clients with the feeling that they've been well-served.