price?????

[dakota101]

48x47 1/4in metal sign I am wanting to sell and i'm needing to know what you guys think on prices!!!! #newbie to all of this any help would be appreciate it very much thank you
cut distance:850.2449in
number of pierces:90

[volquartsen]

you figure in your price of materials--then how many times it pierces the metal.. then your cut labor for the machine time-- my guess would be around 210.00$ then you painted it add another 50.00$ ---260.00 --- i can be wrong also--

[little blue choo]

I just sold one of these at the Southern Spring Home and Garden show for $55. I made it from 16 gauge and scaled it to 24" x 24". At $52 a sheet, $1.63 per square foot that comes up to a cost of $6.52 in metal. I painted it using Silver hammered paint, cost of paint and mini roller just about $1 for a total of $7.52 material cost. Consumables and power less than .50 cent for a total of about $8.00. Sold for $55, That's a $47 profit or about a 600% mark up. Not bad money for something I had about .3 man hours in. Some will quote you very high prices and if they can get that fine. I bet you'll sell 5 times the pieces if you price yourself reasonably. At the Spring show other metal artist were selling their products a lot higher than mine and the 2 others I spoke with didn't sell enough to pay their booth rent. The last day of the show I cut my prices by 50% the last hour and sold 35 pieces. At 50% off of my show prices I was still making an average of 400% profit and didn't have to pack much up to come home. Masons forge from here on the forum was their helping a friend with a booth and tried to talk me out of cutting my price at the end of the show but I took a gamble and it worked. Just my 2 cents. Hope this helps.

Rick

[dakota101]

Thanks this helps a lot!!!