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  1. Sign Lady
    Not shocked at all.
  2. Sign Lady
    I was wondering where you were too!! Good to see you on here! Hope all is well.
  3. Sign Lady
    What we have noticed with the whites we have used is they do have a blue tint to them - I would LOVE to install something like that around here. Folks would lose their minds because it would look so much better than anything else around here. I will certainly use yours next set I have to do!! I have never seen a white halo look like that. You have a right to brag. Ain't nothing wrong with that either. That sign looks amazing. Never seen a halo show up that far out from the letter and still be so crisp. Most that you see are fairly bright right at the letter, but then just fade away to nothing. I am very impressed with the way this radiates from the letters without losing any color at all. Very, very nice job.
  4. Sign Lady
    Does it matter where they are located??
  5. Sign Lady
    Very nice!! All of the colors look amazing, but the white is so crisp! Do you have a price sheet you could send me??
  6. Sign Lady
    Just put in Image Works and their website comes up Jones Signs. I had not heard this at all and we have done work for Image Works recently.
  7. Sign Lady
    I just added my 2 cents to the Signweb post! These people that want to shove that BLM crap down our throats is really wearing on my nerves! They should be classified as a hate group! They continue to repeat that LIE of "hands up don't shoot" when it has been PROVEN to be a lie. If she is going to continue to write about social and political things rather than about sign industry issues, then she needs to GO. Pisses me off.
  8. Sign Lady
    It's infuriating to see these fly by night people working at night and on the weekends to avoid the "permit police" around here. You say something to the City/County and they say "well, we can't catch them and if we can't catch them, we can't do anything" --- well, if you would get out any night or any weekend, you COULD catch them!!! Those of us that DO play by the rules, just like anything else, have to PAY for those that don't! One of the trucks has zero insurance and no business license - doesn't even THINK about permits. As long as these Cities and Counties don't do anything to them, they are going to continue, and those of us that play by the rules, will continue to do so. If I were to do it, they would catch me the first time!!
  9. Sign Lady
    WOW! Old Mother Nature can do all kinds of things to signs, huh? Think you are probably correct, Boo Hodges!!! That's what skimping corners will do for you.
  10. Sign Lady
    A few weeks ago I had to quote for a job that required about 40 hours of install. I believe I quoted for $ 6200.00, which is $ 155/hour. When I had asked the project manager, he told me I was not the lowest one. So it seems like that is the usual price here... Maybe I should move my business to a different part of the country. At $155/Hr you probably weren't the lowest. Not knowing what the 40 hour job entailed, it's really hard to say, but at that rate you were actually probably on the high side. The $450 channel install and the $100 surveys is what I think we thought you were questioning and what we were all saying was on the very low side?? It's kind of like all over the map. You need to be kind of middle of the road. You were definitely too low on the $450 channel and the $100 survey.
  11. Sign Lady
    I agree with the others, the reason you aren't getting the jobs is because your pricing is way to low. Most of the PM's with the Nationals will tell you that they get several bids and they typically take the one in the middle of the road. Very low bids like yours is a red flag to them that the company either a. doesn't know how to price things, or b. is new to the industry and doesn't know what they are doing. Good luck getting new jobs when you get your pricing right. But like the others also said, before accepting jobs from the Nationals get on here and see what the rest of our experiences have been with them before accepting the job. Some of them are amazing to work with and pay excellent and some of the others, not so much!
  12. Sign Lady
    Hahahaha ....... Changin' is an understatement!!
  13. Sign Lady
    Hahaha ...... I thought that's what it said too until I looked at it again. There are a few extra letters in there that must have spelled something. But that was my original guess too!
  14. Sign Lady
    A good one for wheel of fortune! Name this?? Hahaha
  15. Sign Lady
    What the hell?? Were they not attached AT ALL??? THIS is what we all fight against every day. Pisses me off!
  16. Sign Lady
    Just when you think you have seen it all ....... WOW! We say it a lot on here, and it likely rings true with this one - the customer got 2 or 3 quotes, and went with the lowest COST! At some point you have to stop feeling sorry for these customer that just wants to save $100 bucks or so without regard to quality. They don't even do their homework and check the company out - they just see that number on the page, and BAM - that's who they go with. It's true, they can do their homework and still get screwed, but not as likely if they do. I have customers complain all of the time because I won't install a sign without permitting it. They don't want to have to pay for the permit acquisition fee and the permit. I tell them they should go somewhere else if they want to break the law. That's now how I work!! The folks that did this should be charged and if they have a license, it should be revoked. There is no excuse for "work" like this.
  17. Sign Lady
    EXACTLY!! No insurance, no permits, no license, no overhead ........ Giving the rest of us a bad name. Pisses me off every time I hear it!! LOL
  18. Sign Lady
    WOW!!! Wonder what that means for folks like me that they owe money to????
  19. Sign Lady
    I am with the group - I would not leave my yard to install 2 sets of channel described for $1,000!! Never. That's a joke. If I am going to lose money, hell I'm not going to use my truck(s) to do it. At least I don't have the wear and tear on the truck(s) added to the insult. I would be at a minimum of $2,400 as well - depending on what I found when I did the site survey. If anything out of the norm, likely a tad higher! I just don't understand Fast Signs putting themselves into the position of having to try to find someone to install for such a ridiculous amount. Wonder if they ever found anybody to do it for that?? It would be interesting to find out.
  20. Sign Lady
    Tried to put a photo of the sign I was talking about, but it must be too large.
  21. Sign Lady
    Great post, Erik!! I know that the "hacks" will always be around. No way around it. But like you said, those of us that aren't will be the ones that survive because we are able to offer the customer more than one option, and are able to do it well. It amazes me some of the things being installed around here. My guys worked on a sign a few weeks ago that the lamp sockets were installed on blocks of WOOD because the manufacturer was to damn LAZY to build the sign right. Ballasts attached to nothing, just free hanging in the sign. And this was for a MAJOR title loan business!! They had NO IDEA what they had purchased. They went with the CHEAPEST quote, and that is what they got. Now they are going to have to have that sign completely rebuilt by somebody that gives a damn.
  22. Sign Lady
    I thought I was the only one that all of this script stuff you can't even read that is being put on signs by "graphic artists" was driving nuts!! I see them and just have to wonder what the "designer" and the customer were thinking. It's one thing for a "designer" to do it, but as a customer why are they accepting it?? Something that you can't even read. There is one company in this area now that you can even get to repair neon, and they charge accordingly and you have to drive an hour and a half one way just to get it done.
  23. Sign Lady
    Nice looking work! Great job for both RNS and you. Are their prices comparable for someone as far away from them like me?? I have a sub need right now actually.
  24. Sign Lady
    I saw that yesterday and commented on it. Haha - Maybe you gave somebody an idea!
  25. Sign Lady
    Well look at you way back in 2012 calling it on YESCO being featured!! Looking forward to seeing what this show will be about. Something for discussion here on Monday??
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