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Poll: What's a fair price for cabinet plans?
ChadTower:
Charge what you think is fair based on what it cost you to make the package. People will either buy or not buy - but you obviously can't take less than it cost you to put together.
protokatie:
How much does it cost to do a limited printing for a full sized cab? (In general that is). This has got me thinking that I should (if it isnt too costly) make a printing of my basic plan, since I am a bit fearful of measuring as I am new to woodworking... Also, what kind of companies out there will do a printing that is like 7 feet by 3 feet or so. Im sure Kinkos doesnt go that large.... :dunno
IA1NY:
Check several of the online Woodworking sites. www.u-bild.com has woodworking plans ranging from $6-$21 US depending on complexity. Keeping the cabinet plans around $10US seems to be about the going price for plans of a cabinet of this complexity. If you are including wiring schematics and parts lists, you might want to bump it up some. Full scale layouts are typically worth more than $20 to print except in small parts, so that probably won't make sense to market. A well dimensioned scaled drawing will give anyone the ability to replicate fairly complex shapes easily. Remember that this is a small niche market and that high prices won't get many sales.
A more easily marketable plan would be to offer kits of parts that are not easily found (ie not at Home Depot) such as buttons, encoders and the like along with your plans. The price on that would vary widely and you would have to find your costs before you dove into that.
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: samshaw946 on February 12, 2008, 04:42:41 am ---Why oh why can't we have a Home Depot? Seems like our brothers across the pond get everything from there! We have to deal with whatever Homebase, B&Q or Focus
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B&Q is Home Depot....... It's the same company.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
ratzz:
--- Quote from: protokatie on February 12, 2008, 08:06:10 pm ---How much does it cost to do a limited printing for a full sized cab? (In general that is). This has got me thinking that I should (if it isnt too costly) make a printing of my basic plan, since I am a bit fearful of measuring as I am new to woodworking... Also, what kind of companies out there will do a printing that is like 7 feet by 3 feet or so. Im sure Kinkos doesnt go that large.... :dunno
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Look for companies that print architectural plans. Staples here in the UK have plotter printers which is the kind of thing you need. They are about three feet wide, but length doesn't matter as the paper is rolled through.
They're pretty cheap to print, and I'm pretty sure that if you have a smaller scale image of a cab they would re-produce it at full size. So, ruining them for a project wouldn't be too big a deal.
:cheers:
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