gdaneowner
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2010
I was concerned when I asked for yet one more change to our shirt design, the black outlining, because I had already gone back and forth with the artist they are paying to come up with a design for us. They have no firm commitment that we will be buying anything from them and unlike some of the other companies I called, they do not charge for their art work. Other companies I called had the info on their web sites that indicated they had more to offer then Becky's does but when I called them it turned out they don't really have what their site implied. They all are about the same but I like working with people who are up front. I believe Beck and her family are.
This morning I received the following message from Becky
"...We are delighted with the prospect of creating your custom Hawaiian shirt. However, we have reviewed what we have paid our artist to create the design up to this point and it has exceeded our amount allocated per project. ... Normally all of our artwork and set up fees are included in the price but we have really already gone above and beyond for this project. We would feel more comfortable doing additional artwork once we had an order or commitment in hand."
I responded with
"I completely understand. Right now people tell me "they will order". However, the catch-22 is that until I have their payment all I have is their statement that they want them. I can't collect money until I know how much to charge and I don't know that until I know how many will be ordered.
I am spending a lot of time on this but understand you are spending time and money on the artist and this is your livelihood.
I can promise that these are the last design changes I will ask for. I am not doing any more work on the design but understand if you have already reached or exceeded that point.
I had been working with someone at Pay Pal earlier this morning to setup the account people can use to deposit their order $. I planned to open an account at the bank this morning for this. My next step was to build an order form, based on the info you have given and have you confirm this.
I can only promise you that while I have gotten quotes from other shirt makers (while doing my due diligence I found the cost is about the same) it is my intent that when I order shirts for this group I plan on it being from you.
I'll post a notice of your concern and my issues and see what response I get."
I completely understand this it is still months from when our final cruise payment is due. Additionally, I can't tell you the cost of the shirts until I know how many we would be ordering and the difference is a lot - about 35% if we order 50 versus 200 shirts.
I did hear back from Becky that she intends to have Todd make the black outlines. Your thoughts and recommendations on how to proceed? Should we proceed?
Kids and toddler sizes are going to be available correct? I say go with it!.. Seems most everyone likes the latest and greatest design that you have come up with. But, I am just one person, and that is just my one opinion. Please still put me down for 4. (2 adult, 1 kid, 1 toddler)..