What a guy!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Steiger [SMTP:stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 11:12 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: RE: DML: DML Stickers
>
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Hoegen wrote:
>
> > See-in that we are being brutally honest....I have the same issue. Don't
> get
> > me wrong, the decal is great, and I'd be proud to have it on my
> Dak...but
> > geez....why so long of a wait?
> >
> > Do ya have to order them in bulk to keep the price low??
>
> Yes. After this initial batch is done, I probably will have to
> raise the price as a batch is a lot less expensive than doing
> them piecemeal.
>
> The initial batch (which is everyone who has ordered a decal plus some
> extras for later orders) is "on order"... I'm just waiting for the shop
> to cut them out. It took them a few months just to tweak the designs so
> that they'll cut properly. They could have been faster about that,
> but in their defense, it definitely is a lot of work. I ended up coming
> in and working side by side with them to clean up the designs just to
> get this thing rolling. (Its not as easy as printing them out; a
> blade has to cut every single line, and we're talking about a physical
> medium; there are certain limits to what you can do, and different colors
> of vinyl have different properties. For example, white is pretty
> easy to cut and weed, but silver is a little more "gummy", some colors
> have metalics in them, etc.) A design that cuts fine on one color may
> get ripped to shreds on another. Anyway, that was the major reason for
> most of the delay, but from then on its been one huge comedy of errors
> (but for some reason, I'm not laughing). Either they've run out of
> vinyl or they needed to order new blades, or they've had other orders
> to work on. I got us a very good deal, and I suspect maybe they aren't
> making as much money as they'd like on these, so we get pre-empted for a
> big profit job. Its an election year, so the politicians have got them
> busy doing all sorts of stickers and signs.
>
> I've been going into the shop every day when possible to harass
> them about the decals; I'm not sure what else I can do. I do have
> the artwork in vector format, so after this initial order is done
> I think I'm going to look around and see who else might be able to
> cut them for us. It might be a little more money, but that's better
> than nothing at all I guess.
>
> So anyway, have no fear; I'm not trying to rip anyone off; if you
> sent me money, you'll get your sticker(s), one way or another. (Even
> if I have to have them cut somewhere else and take a loss.) Believe
> me, I want these stickers to get done as much as anyone else. As the
> various Toronto DMLers and the DMLers that were at Carlisle can attest,
> I don't have a sticker on my truck yet, and I don't intend to install
> one until each and every sticker that has been ordered is out the door.
> My truck will be the very last to get one.
>
>
> -Jon-
>
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