Well I expect that most of you guys have lost a customer or two due to them wanting to in house laser.
I've a relatively new and local company that does a lot of imports and they have a new product they need laser engraved.
Will be Fiber lasered. Text and in most cases a small logo.
I've done samples and one small order and given them what I consider decent pricing going forward, but they can get large quantites lasered for about two cents in China. And I'm WAY more expensive than that. Figure that.
(I quoted $.54 which gives me decent price and I include my setup time (all graphics conversion expense) in that price.)
I could get down to half that and be ok, but only text. I don't like to give my time up converting other folks graphics. Guess I could price that separately, but still I'm way over China. So they want to spend some money and do themselves.
They approached me about helping them decide on machine specs and machine needed and potential on training their employee on operation.
Question I've got is how do I price? Set fee? Hourly rate to train? I've usually got some time that I can do this, but both want to be fair and get most out of it that I can as this will probably be only $ I obtain from them...