[C320-list] boat graphics pricing

[moondancer5 at comcast.net]

I'd like to ask anyone who has gotten vinyl graphics done for their boat about pricing.

I had 2 sides done for the 320 last spring, and had a bad time with the vinyl place I used (they did a less-than adequate job on the output, and then "forgot" to send me the second side and delayed my boat launch and delivery by a couple of weeks). They charged me around $325 for the set. I took it off at the end of the season and got a refund, and I thought I had a NJ place that could output properly but they now seem to be balking at doing a soft drop shadow behind the type. (I'm a graphic designer, please bear with me.) I found another place online that's cross-country in Washington, and they want $490 to do both sides (and want me to pay for my own fedex if I insist on seeing sample chips of the vinyls.) Is this pricing out of line? It seems expensive to me, but at this point I don't know what's normal.

The original graphic is here on the site in Moondancer's (admittedly not very full yet) photo album.

Thanks!

Susan

p.s. I vote for Mystic, at least then I can drive up for it. We're already set to come to the Rendezvous there in August, and school schedules will keep me from Florida in November.