[TheForge] Question...

[Demon Buddha]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:59:04 -0800 (PST), Michael Wolfe 
<coldsteel@ameritech.net> wrote:

> Just bid the job per the drawings!!!!!!
> Bid the job to make some profit!!
> You are a small fish in a very large barrel.
> You will find that jobs like this are usually given to
> a fence company's or a fab shops because most
> developers are very greedy and when they see your hand
> made quote over a fab shops or fence company,s quote
> they will usually puke on yours...

	I agree, but the real answer depends on what they really want to
	offer.  If it's ten houses at $13.5M apiece, it would be difficult
	to justify dogshit ironwork to the buyers.  People with that much
	cash to burn often have at least a basic clue about such things,
	or have decorators that will recognoze shyte in an instant.

	I'm anxious to see what this gig really is.  People talk a big talk
	but rarely walk it, so I will be very surprised if this turns out to
	be what I've been told it is.  But if it is and I can win the bid and
	make a decent buck at this, I will be a very happy boy.  My last foray
	into professional smithing, while artistically very satisfying, left me
	on the edge of chapter 7 ruin.  I have no need to do that again.  It's
	all a matter of marketing, and while I understand the principles of 	good 
marketing, I don't have the practical experience, by and large,
	to effectively sell such work; nor have I been able to ally myself
	with anyone that was effective at it.  That's why I'm still in the
	software biz.  It's something I know well and it pays well enough to
	justify staying.