Quotes
I don't post on these forums because of these reasons, I look at most of them and quote jobs that I can do comfortably and that I'll make money at.
Like the quote on here for the plastic turbine, super high production jobs or anything that looks remotely hard I don't do. I'm trying to do this full time and I would like to stick to local customers just to try and build my name up, but every once and awhile something on here strikes my interest I bid on it and I have been told that I'm super high on pricing and sometimes super low.
The fact is that some people don't know what it takes to properly machine or to even quote jobs for that matter, I can't stand when 10 mins after someone posts an Rfq, bang theres a bid, cmon. The best if possible that I can do on a quote is at least 1-2 days.Then you get shops that do this full time and this is there livelyhood and they have to charge for the lights on, the electric bill, the $1200 a month machine payment and they quote there jobs accordingly. People don't think about the little things that are required to run shops.
I have been in this business for a long time and I finally have decided to venture on my own, I work my A$$ of for what I have and I'm finally starting to build a back log so I'm starting to bid my jobs accordingly to what I described above, before I would have done these for $.50 a piece and been happy with it, Now it's becoming a little different and I charge more accordingly to the job.
Fred, like I said I watch these alot and on some jobs I think to myself how in the Heck do you things for that price and on some things its the opposite, I'm twice as more. I see Andy berg's response on here and I bet it's the same way with him and with other people also.
But on these particular pieces, I can't see where you can charge $15.00 a piece, but yeah whatever it's like I described above maybe your electric bill is bigger than mine.
Please don't take any of this the wrong way it's not meant to offend anybody. I just had to say these things.
This also, I just love when I see some goof quote a job for less than it costs me to get material, some of these guys quote jobs for less than the cost to put gas in my truck and drive to the yard and steal the material.
These are the guys that have to get off this forum and it would produce more customers on here, because there the ones that give the $1 a piece jobs and do crap work and cause bad experiences.
I had to vent a little,
