eashonk
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I don't know what free stuff your talking about, but send some my way. I just think that it was a great place to find deals. As far as people bad mouthing, this whole forum is full of that, so eliminating the classified section has nothing to do with that. as far as lost sales go, the real money is in the consumables people purchase, and if someone can get a used plotter or printer on here for cheap, and then start buying consumables from us cutter, how is that bad? they would lose some money do to people selling their surplus vinyl, but i think its minimal. Now I have one less reason to come to their site, and that is bad.
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What happened to the classified section of your forum? I know you don't make any money on this portion of your site, but it kept me coming back weekly to check for bargains. I bought my wide format printer on there, and saw a great many other deals also. You will probably see a large decline in visitors to your forum due to this decision.
anyone know of other sites dedicated to sign making that offers a classified section? I've been to signs 101, but they don't seem to have visitors very often, so their posts are usually old. I can't find another site with as many active member as this one where all the ads are recent.
Horrible decision by UScutter to shut down their classified section.
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I recommend going to a trade show and checking out the booths. That's the only place I know of that you can see first hand the cutters in action and have knowledgeable people at hand to answer any questions you may have. You may even be able to purchase a show special, or a demo machine that they don't want to pack up and take with them.
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how much do you want for the hand held grommet machine? is it the table top kind like the green and blue ones on uscutter, or is it really one of those little hand held ones?
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this will cost $25.99 for vectorizing and you can use it for printing or vinyl graphics. this will take like 9 hrs to do. charging $2.88 the hour ... just let me know
And this is concludes the lesson on why people with a degree in Graphic Arts can't find decent paying jobs. ($2.88/hour....Really!!??)
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My Jaguar II is used... The Jaguar II is a whole different animal than the LP. The Jaguar II is comparable to the ZenCut Black only difference is that it has an older version of the AAS Sensor.
Let's try this again:
to whomever owns the jaguar pictured here,
in regards to the pic of the jaguar cutter, it looks as if you have rigged up a home made vinyl catcher. Is this the case? If so would you mind breaking down what you used and how you attached it to the cutter? I need something like this and the commercial ones seem overpriced for what they do and how they are made. When cutting long rolls, my vinyl will pick up dirt and dog hair from the floor, (no matter how clean I think I've gotten it!!) and since there is usually static in the vinyl, it can be a pain to get it all removed before the taping process.
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for a heads up , USC has the 24" zencut black with a 3 year warranty for $1500
Mr, Karma,
in regards to the pic of the jaguar cutter, it looks as if you have rigged up a home made vinyl catcher. Is this the case? If so would you mind breaking down what you used and how you attached it to the cutter? I need something like this and the commercial ones seem overpriced for what they do and how they are made. When cutting long rolls, my vinyl will pick up dirt and dog hair from the floor, (no matter how clean I think I've gotten it!!) and since there is usually static in the vinyl, it can be a pain to get it all removed before the taping process.
!!!!ooops, just realized this isn't yours!!!
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press sold for $70!!
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you guys charge as little as you want, people expect what they pay for. If they pay more for something, they expect it to be of higher quality.
I focus on extremely well made plaques and signs that are not just vinyl on wood, they are vinyl on a piece of wood with a decorative routed edge, that are beautifully painted and finished with a clear gloss coating. People pay for quality, these things cost me less than $5 to make, and I can sell them for $35 all day long. Every time I deliver one, I end up getting orders for 3 or 4 more. I make a lot of them for booster clubs, give them a break on price (They sell them for me!!), and we all make a killing! If you can find a niche product that you can add value to your vinyl with, you don't have to run your equipment all day every day to pay the bills. Ideally, you want to run the thing as little as possible and still make money. Think of your machine as a utility, it costs you less not to run it.
I've never advertised at all, never ran out of work or money, even when the economy was at its worst and I've never had one complaint about price.
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how does it do with a full wrap where the 2 halves come together?
like I said, I never had much use for it, so, I'm not really sure. I do know that most mug presses that I've used are hit and miss with full wraps, even the ones that have no gap. Of course, I've only used older presses(pre-digital)in the shops I've worked in, so I mostly designed around the issue.
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hey can you tell me the shipping to 43138?
thanks
no, but you can go to the auction and type in your zip and it will calculate shipping for you. I typed in a zip of a town near me to get an idea of the cost and now I can't figure out how to change it again.
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Used Mug Heat Press
I'm selling my mug heat press on E-Bay. I've used this press in the pass with good results. I purchased a business several years ago and this was included. Never really had much use for it, so I've decided to finally sell it. It is rather heavy, so shipping is a little pricey, but local pickup can be arranged if you are close enough. Everything on the press works including the heat control, timer and both lights. This would be a good press for someone just getting started in sublimation. If you already have a press, you can use this one as a backup or instantly double your capacity for large orders!!
Pictures are available in the auction which can be seen by following this link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160581242409
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not my competition? any money you make in the same field as I, is money you take away from legitimate business owners who have invested time and money in this field to learn how to deliver a high quality product. Anyone such as yourself who doesn't have a clue as to what they are doing diminishes the perceived value of my service in the marketplace, so I find it offensive when you belittle the investment I have made in my education before entering this field to make money.
i'm sorry, i guess you are trying to learn, so i shouldn't be so harsh, i just hate the way the graphic arts industry has turned into a bunch of hacks.
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"Competition" means you want to do the exact same thing someone else does only do it better...I, sir, am not your competition nor have any desire to be...I am just trying to learn something so that I can do it well and hopefully make some money in the process.
not my competition? any money you make in the same field as I, is money you take away from legitimate business owners who have invested time and money in this field to learn how to deliver a high quality product. Anyone such as yourself who doesn't have a clue as to what they are doing diminishes the perceived value of my service in the marketplace, so I find it offensive when you belittle the investment I have made in my education before entering this field to make money.
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I have alot of friends online that's been scammed by people with Paypal helping the crooks.
They ship their item with tracking, the customer received it, then sent a block of wood or something like that back and Paypal refunded the customer their monies. That put them out of hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
that is not paypal's fault, that is the people using it. when coming up with the idea, i'm sure no one at paypal foresaw this kind of dishonest activity, and until it happens, how do you expect them to take action against it? I'm sure they have done so, it would be in paypals best interest to keep things like this from happening, that way more people use their site. I think you had one bad experience with paypal, and now you say the whole thing is bad and refuse to use it. New technology always has hickups, it is a good idea to keep a smaller separate account for these types of things, although i do not.
the whole sears thing is not a good analogy, because you are buying new from a corporate entity, with paypal and e-bay, you are buying old from a private individual. This allows a virtual "garage sale" where you may buy used junk from someone in guam, and use a credit card to do so. This was never possible before the emergence of paypal, or similar e-commerce tools. just like at a yard/garage sale, buyer beware, that guy selling the used laptop for half what it seems to be worth may not be the most trustworthy person in all of guam.
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Do you have to use a machine that lets you combine the 2 pictures to make them look like one...Tomorrow I'm staying on this computer and reading several of these forums trying to figure it all out...
wow, amazes me to find out how little my competition actually knows about the field in which they choose to conduct business. no machine, it is magic. give me $30,000 and i'll tell you where to go to college and what classes to take in order to become a photoshop magician.
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i don't understand your condescending attitude, you are clearly insecure about your old age. you should get your dr to subscribe some pills. and everybody on the internet is a successful worldwide business person, just like everyone in jail is innocent, so I call horse shit. just wanted to give my opinion, from my experience paypal has been good, never had any probs.
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well, i've been using paypal since it came out and have never had a problem. People want their products now, they want to be paid and pay for their products now, and if you don't have high enough volume of credit card sales to justify leasing a machine or paying the often large transaction fees associated with card processors, (yes I know paypal charges as well) then paypal is a good option. especially with you can just go to the sight, create and e-mail an invoice to someone that they can then pay in less than five minutes with a credit card is great to me. I am wondering why the seller of your laptop didn't just do this for you in the first place, unless you don't have a credit card or a debit card, again, you are old, so maybe you don't.
as far as not knowing what i'm doing, well as someone who is younger than you in this business, i'm here to tell you, sending someone a money order with all of the better options available today makes you look like you are outdated in a technology driven market. as far as an $11,000 transaction in paypal, well that is just stupid. why on earth would you use your own cash for such a large transaction? why not let the bank pay for it and pay them back, keeping your capital on hand, or get a credit card with a high enough limit to make the purchase, paying with your own cash makes you look like you don't know what your doing.
And yes, 42 is old, for god's sake you were out of high school, and possibly college a decade before the internet was even used by the general public. There are kids and entrepreneurs today that were born well after the internet was being used by millions to shop online. the good old days when sears sent you a massive 1000 page catalog in the mail that cost them thousands of dollars in printing and mailing are over and have been over for quite some time, and they are not coming back. i'm in my mid thirties, and i'm telling you, even i am considered old, so yes, i'm sorry to inform you, you are indeed standing with one foot in the coffin, just keep using those money orders and your competitors will happily nail the lid shut with nails they ordered yesterday off of e-bay and paid for with paypal.
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people still use money orders? you are old. pay-pal is cheaper, faster, more reliable, and you have buyer protection similar to a credit card. it is now the 21st century, let e-commerce commence.
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wow, you are way over thinking this, 2 years for a 1k-2k investment? just figure your cost, find out the markup for your area by getting a couple of things quoted locally, watch some how-to's, ask the occasional question or two about material types, take into consideration its usage, (for instance, don't use top of the line vinyl on a dirt bike, because its going to get dirty, its going to get scratched, and it will need replaced.)
i worked in a sign shop for a couple of years, I have a degree in graphic arts, and I actually forgot all about the vinyl industry until I was looking for something to spend my tax money on. All it took for me was a $1200 investment, and 2-3 months later i've already made back my money, have $1000 in the bank, more supplies in house than I started, and a whole bunch of work i haven't even started yet. I've not even handed out 1 business card or advertised at all.
i really think you are causing yourself more grief than required. you will make mistakes, you will probably have to redo a couple of jobs here and there, and you may piss off a customer once in a while, but really the only way you can fail is by not charging enough, or just making stupid decisions, like buying top of the line vinyl for a dirt bike. I mean really, we're talking plastic stickers that peel off. you can replace, or remove anything you have to, and no harm, no foul, you're out a few dollars, and you hopefully learn from your mistakes so it doesn't happen again.
don't spend all your time thinking about how to implement you business, just do it, otherwise the guy down the street will beat you to the punch.
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It is interesting to see how others do things to accomplish the same job. No right or wrong way to do it but I would have cut and layered that differently. Maybe I'm a oddball!
yes, I would've added a black outline around the red circle, then your first layer would've been black with the white portions removed, and the red layer would go on top, with no worry about lining up exactly where the edge of the colors meet.
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Unique Vinyl Decor
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I always show the low quality aspects of the image to the customer, explain what it will take to fix, show them a large copy, and explain the shortcomings could be fixed in say 30 min of cleanup, explain that this will greatly increase the quality of their product and the appearance of their business. Of course you dont offer this cleanup for free. If the customer still doesn't want to pay the extra cost to clean it up, well that is his business not yours.
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Thanks for both of you guys' hard work!!! I grabbed it and plugged numbers in it and it is working. I am trying to figure out the less then 50 and more than 50 and 50 - 100 blocks, but it seems to work pretty smooth!!!
The different quantity boxes have different markup ratios. The markup is denoted by the number codes next to the different quantity boxes (A,B,C..etc.), you can see what markup you are using by referencing the markup box on the right. So if someone orders 10 stickers, they pay more per sticker than if they were to order 50 stickers. The yard signs are not setup this way yet, but they will be. I wanted the markup tables to be easy to edit so you could adjust your markup on the fly without having to modify the formulas. For the same reason I wanted the profit shown so you could know exactly where you were at and could haggle to get those tough customers.
Also, you need only to set the numbers in the box corresponding to the quantity you want to quote, for instance, say you are quoting a job for 35 stickers, and then they change their mind and want to know how much 100 are. Before you plug in the numbers in the 100 or more calculator, you will have to change the quantity in the less than 50 calculator back to 0. However, lets say they want 35 3x5 stickers, AND 100 4x8 stickers, you can plug in all the information in both boxes and it will give you an accurate total. This however will give you a per sticker price based on the total quantity of stickers regardless of size. You can even add yard signs, and stakes to the order and get accurate results, which will give you a per sign price separate from the per sticker pricing.
Where are the classifieds?
in Website and Company Feedback
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ok, I see it now, didn't realize they changed it so you could only see it when signed in.