Client Cost Sharing for Custom Stamps

[Hasbeencowboy]

Right, wrong, or indifferent, as an ex-contractor, I would factor in the cost of the stamp and prorate it amongst the first order and say nothing to your client.  If and when they give you a second job, you can reduce your price "out of the goodness of your heart" and they will be happy

[RockyAussie]

This is how I normally go about it. Customer sends their logo design to me in high res. As this stamp to be made has to go on 1 or more products I put the outline into corel draw and make the stamp size down to suit. This often has to have some modifications and wording added as well.  I send this art work for them to agree on and request any changes they may want. All up I know that the stamp is going to cost me something like $65.00 au to be made so I round the customer cost to $100 or $120 which is a separated cost to them. They get 10 pieces or a hundred pieces is their business and I don't have to do any more factoring in. In over 25 years and many hundreds of stamps I have only ever had one customer ask me for their stamp. Most times you are left to hold stock of the leather,thread, zips, fittings and such so for them to fully cover the cost of their own logo is more than fair.

[Northmount]

Commercial outfits here require the customer to purchase the stamp and they can have it whenever they want if they go somewhere else.  I have a stamp in my drawer that was loaned to me by such a customer, and they have never asked to have it back. They wouldn't know what to do with it!

Tom

 

[blue62]

1 hour ago, fredk said:

the client has cos you have put the price on each item

Not unless it's all split on the first order, in your example your talking years, 

 

1 hour ago, RockyAussie said:

This is how I normally go about it. Customer sends their logo design to me in high res. As this stamp to be made has to go on 1 or more products I put the outline into corel draw and make the stamp size down to suit. This often has to have some modifications and wording added as well.  I send this art work for them to agree on and request any changes they may want. All up I know that the stamp is going to cost me something like $65.00 au to be made so I round the customer cost to $100 or $120 which is a separated cost to them. They get 10 pieces or a hundred pieces is their business and I don't have to do any more factoring in. In over 25 years and many hundreds of stamps I have only ever had one customer ask me for their stamp. Most times you are left to hold stock of the leather,thread, zips, fittings and such so for them to fully cover the cost of their own logo is more than fair.

I like this idea, sounds like a artwork fee to me.

[RockyAussie]

6 minutes ago, blue62 said:

I like this idea, sounds like a artwork fee to me.

Exactly. I will add that it should always be advised to ask for their artwork to be in black and white as well. Some multicoloured logo's take a lot of time to work out how to separate the sections without losing anything in the process.

[mikesc]

^^^ as a designer and someone who also had a printing works ( letterpress, litho and silkscreen )..what RockyAussie and Blue62 said..

Artwork has to be supplied "camera ready"( B/W separated etc* ) ..and blocks or stamps etc are paid for 100% by the customer ( they are not a "shared cost" ) as additional to the first order invoice which is based upon the number of pieces required..

 

Check with whoever is making your stamps as to what they require as artwork "format"..you do not want to have to buy or rent expensive software and do "conversions" ) because the customer supplies artwork in a format that the stamp-maker does not accept without them charging extra..

[chrisash]

When I started a Embroidery company in 2003 the cost of converting a company logo to digital format for the embroidery machines was £100 and upwards depending on complexity and number of stitches (nowadays i used to get them made in India at £5)

What we offered is the customer paid the cost of the conversion, but the digital format belonged to them , so that if they wanted to use another embroidery company they could request the copy back as they had paid for it

You could do the same the customer pays for the stamp and you just use it but it belongs to them