Price check multiple order

[girlfromkent]

Hi All

Just comparing a couple of my prices to FRAMR (which I don't currently use) and think I might be undercharging.

Can I get a feel for what you'd be charging for
525x695 glass size
Double Hayseed 8065 mount
Lion ash L001 (approx £3/m +VAT)
Artglass 92
...On an individual basis, and then how much if there were 20?

Also,
840 x 650 glass size
L1647 black ash with A133 spacers
Heavy charcoal on paper float mounted over conservation foam
Onyx black mount
Artglass 70

Thanks!
Megan

[Tudor Rose]

Hi Megan

This kind of post usually gets a better response if you post the prices up too.

Many of us found we were undercharging when we started using pricing software. Particularly if you've gone from a multiplication of material costs only, onto a software that includes labour charges as well as those material costs.

If we are doing 20 identical items for a customer then we would consider a discount on the individual price - but that discount value would be based on our relationship with that customer and likely future work.

[NTG999]

Hi, answering across your 2 posts, if the price in the software is higher than you are actually paying then you would be overcharging?
I price all my work from the 'normal' trade price, any discounts are for my benefit.
In the quote for 20 frames I would look at buying it all on chop from Lion (when back in stock) for that number I would try for a discount and calculate from there
I like to know what I'm paying to the penny but with framing a lot goes out of the window depending on how accurate you have waste set as

[Justintime]

Hi Megan,
525x695 I'd be around £265
840x650 I'd be around £350
I can't help on the multiples as it's not part of my business model atm (and I'm not getting asked for it.)
One word of caution, from when I did do bulk jobs for artists, be very careful of how much time you spend head scratching, calculating costs and losing sleep over how much to discount. Settle on a figure that you're happy with and go for it. It's never the end of the world if you don't get a job and sometimes it can be a bullet dodged. If the sizes were any smaller than these I would highly recommend having a Cutting Optimisation software at hand to make cutting lists which very quickly helps to work out sheet quantities and how to cut materials for minimum wastage.

[theframer]

Im at £258.00 and £ 395.77
without looking at the job i would estimate 10 to 20% discount on 20 pieces

[Richard Photofusion]

One word of caution, from when I did do bulk jobs for artists, be very careful of how much time you spend head scratching, calculating costs and losing sleep over how much to discount. Settle on a figure that you're happy with and go for it. It's never the end of the world if you don't get a job and sometimes it can be a bullet dodged.

This is going on my office wall (in a white matt vinyl against white paint). I'll know it is there, precisely because no-one else can see it!

[Justintime]