[C320-list] boat graphics pricing

[jpmesa at aol.com]

  check out: http://www.boatus.net/boatgraphic/default.asp?cmdPreview=true&#theImage.
 It's not that hard to put it on yourself. I've used them on my last three boats. Even if it is not straight the first time you have almost a hour to apply water again and fix it. I used pencil marks to line thing up. My letters are not that big about 6" I think it was about $60.00 for both side. You can try different setup at the website but make sure you call the order in. JOHN
 PS: You can always hire someone to put it on. It took me about a hour a side. (measure, mark, clean & apply)
    
 -----Original Message-----
 From: moondancer5 at comcast.net
 To: c320-list at catalina320.com
 Sent: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:44 AM
 Subject: [C320-list] boat graphics pricing
 
  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.



   
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