Hello people!
I am shocked at what I have heard about digitizing prices.
I started on a Tajima punching to a tape machine.you had to be right the first time,or you had to match up the holes on the paper tape , then run the design on a machine.Pricing at that time was about 20$ per 1000.
OMG now people are doing it for 1$ per 1000. I cant imagine any quality for that.
You people are selling your work short.
I dont care what the sales people say digitizing equipment will never replace the puncher.
And it takes a min. of 5 years of punching every day on different materials to be considered good.Not to mention the changing of materials. Even after 28 years I am still learning new things.
What do you say?
Melody

realy,
yes,I think so,I think our price is so low ,only $3.00/1000stitches,but i can't imagine there are so many company,whose price is $1.5 or $1/1000 stitches.
Thanks
Helen

Dear Melody,

I can't imagine there are so many company,they are offer $1.00 or $1.50 per 1,000 stitches,But I offer VIP price following:
. Competitive Pricing - US$3.5 per 1,000 stitches
. VIP Pricing - US$3.15 per 1K stitches (up to 40 designs per month or deposit $200)
. Gold VIP Pricing - US$2.8 per 1K stitches (deposit $400)
. Platinum VIP Pricing - US$2.45 per 1K stitches (Deposit $600)
. Diamond VIP Pricing - US$2.00 per 1K stitches (Deposit $800)
. Top VIP Pricing - US$1.45 per 1,000 stitches (Deposit $1,000)
. Your first design order(for up to 10,000 stitches): discount 50% off
. Your second design order: 30% off
. Your third design order:10% off

Yours faithfully,
Nianhui Zeng

__________________
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Email to[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

EDS,

How much do you charge per 1,000? I think a reasonable price from my prospective (a retailer who outsources digitizing) is about $3/1,000 for simple logos. I charge a flat $30 to my customers for simple logos.

By the way I am up in McKinney Texas.

__________________
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Melody I agree with you. I too have been in this business over 25 years so I remember the paper tapes. I ran a machine until 93, then I started digitizing. Years ago digitizers were paid very well. When I started out in 93, I charged 15.00 per thou, and that was below what others were getting. Today's prices are ridiculous, they work for nothing. The internet makes these cheap digitizing companies vying for your business. Real good digitizers are haard to find. The embroiderer is looking for low price to increase his profit and get the business. I only make money once for the design!!and they want a bargain, meanwhile they keep getiting re-orders on that one design. How about us getting a percentage on the re-orders. I am sure some of the embroiderers don't consider the money they are losing on production (down time, too many colors changes, thread breaks. too many stitches) because of poor digitizing. The old saying you get what you pay for is true in this industry.Because I ran a machine for so many years and did run some lousey tapes, I had a headstart on the learning curve and picked it up quickly. Plus I had a passion to learn. I have managed to keep the same customers since 93. I test my designs before sending and provide a sewout using the fabric it will be going on.
With digitizing programs getting less expensive the last 10 years, and the internet, it has created a glutton of incompetent digitizers. While they go smiling to the bank, the good digitizers who deserve a decent pay are collecting food stamps. Isn't this a great industry to be in! Keep it in the USA EMBROIDERERS!

Thread,

Everybody is getting pinched. I offer digitizing to my customers for $30 because somebody's aunt knows how to get it done for $20.

We only hire USA based digitizers and the most I can afford to pay is about $3-4/thousand.

__________________
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

price for my 12 years of experience is never been calculated on a base of stitch count. Just never. All depends on the base of how much time will I spend to get the job finished.
The question how do I calculate the time to spend is.. well, it's calculated by me after little time of considering and thinking how many hours it will take. Sometimes I can not calculate the very right period of time about that job, and this means my estimated price is being set not such accurate, but thats much better, when look at the iamge to digitize, to make calculation about time spending than the stitches generated.
My calculations for last 5 years are set on 10 usd an hour.
The most complicated job is making small fonts digitized. Soon I did lettering with 2mm high. The stitch count was 800 and I realy spent a lot of time during digitizing them and followed editions, after 6 sew outs I got the result at last.
I would like to meet here professionals that share my idea about pricing.
And for those that search a real profesional, let me suggest to never trust pricing that base on the stitch count. If some of digitizers anyway can sell their work to customers that do care the stitch counting, it means the market is well set up. But thats ther market place, not mine.
Along to these points of my view, Id like to find industrial customers, that care about professional digitizers, about effective digitizing work, about mutual care to keep long relation business partnership.
thanks for giving me opportunity to share my points of view here!
Nik