[TheForge] Prices

[GRAF]

Andrew Vida wrote:
>     This is a really important point IMO.  One has to know when a job 
> is simply not worth doing.
Andy, I have several thousands of dollars of income from GOOD jobs that 
were generated by thankless, miserable little jobs.
The trick is not doing the miserable ones while leaving the good ones sit.
I just tell the pesky jobs owners that they can pay me $100 an hour if 
they need it right now, or $50 an hour if I can do it as I see fit. 
Either way I win.
> Design time should probably be a separate cost item.  
If it is truly a one time project with no overlap I charge a separate 
set up fee.If I need to build dies I either charge a lot and give them 
the die, or if I think I might be able to use it again a little less. 
The same goes for drawings.
It then works out often to, "The first one costs you $800, the second 
$250 the third and more in batches of four or more $150 each.
> If you chalk it up to overhead and don't charge for it directly, you 
> may be passing several times the purchase price of those $100 coat 
> racks to another customer.
That depends for me whether or not it is a "tuition piece".
Spending two days learning to do something is little different than 
going to a school and dropping $1500 with travel, meals, class charges, 
other than  with the tuition piece I get to sleep with my wife at days end.


Mike Graf