Oh, is it now? Just an FYI, he's not a "competitor" by any stretch of the imagination. Have you seen me offer a better price in this thread? Have you seen me SLASH THE PRICES in this thread? Have you seen me do anything other than making a tongue-in-cheek statement about the morality of me doing so?

Nothing personal against badmunchkin but he is a print broker. He does not own the equipment, he resells a product. They [brokers] have cut prices so low that it's hard for us printers to cover our overhead and stay in business. There have been over 5 printers in the Bay Area alone that have closed down within the last 2 years because of this. Brokers are basically whoring themselves out at rock bottom prices and expect printers to take the actual monetary hit. They don't have any overhead that they have to worry about.

My Karat74 costed me $550,000 and the Heidelberg was well over a million. I have a 13,000 square foot facility with a $12,000 monthly electric bill and 40 employees I have to pay. If the price cutting trend continues then I will eventually have to close my shop. I have over 100 brokers that resell my product and depend on me but what they don't realize is that I don't make enough profit off of them to cover my overhead because of this price slashing bullshit going on in our industry.

If I wanted to I could offer the EXACT SAME PRODUCT for $30 and still make about $5 profit, I just choose not to. :2 cents:

HOA, relax. I was simply stating what it looked like to me as a potential customer.

You aren't the only service provider that handles resellers and brokers. Everyone experiences things like that. Hit me up when you want to talk about the hosting wars and you'll have a nice little chuckle.

I am a print broker - I have never once denied it. But to say I'm not a competitor - you can believe whatever you want. I do a TREMENDOUS amount of business - that's why I get obscenely low prices from my suppliers & pass it on to the customer.

I've heard some complaints about your company - although we're filling runs every week we're not getting complaints. I spoke with you once on ICQ - you gave me a high and mighty attitude - didn't exactly impress me or maybe you would have received some of my considerable business. The suppliers I do business with are extremely happy working with me - like I said, yea, that's why my prices stay so low.

Also, honestly I think the 14 pt is a much better product & we pride ourselves on offering it. I've got fast turnaround, great product and a great price - so whatever. I don't get in your threads & start drama - so nothing against you or Dre, but... stay outta my announcement threads & I'll stay outta yours :2 cents:
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I contacted you before to tell you to remove art that you had posted in your portfolio THAT I FUCKING DESIGNED AND NEVER GOT PAID FOR!!! - so if I came off sounding a little pissed then I'm glad my feelings correctly bled through our ICQ convo.

I'm done with this thread. I wish you the best of luck but once you cut all your printer's throats I sure hope you're willing to toss out $1M to buy your own press.

Like I fucking knew anything about the art. A client supplied his logo for a business card design and then you contacted me to say he never paid you for it! That was between you and him - I removed it but for you to take an attitude with me over something that you should have taken care of is ridiculous.

Then you would show up in every announcement thread I made and say shit like "these brokers make me laugh" - yea, :321GFY
I think you've got a shitty attitude honestly, so don't expect me to feel bad for you.

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He got a shitty attitude ? next thing you know he'll be having a 50 $ special just for you

that you've even got the balls to still post here after all the orders you've fucked up is un-fucking-believable :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

welcome to capitalism.

and munchikin is your competitor.
you both compete for print clients.
nuff said.

being cheeky and then saying " If I wanted to I could offer the EXACT SAME PRODUCT for $30 and still make about $5 profit, I just choose not to" in munchies thread is not only unprofessional but also being a dick.

thank you.

And hey, now that I'm being all free & open about things, fuck it - I think HOA comes off like a prick most of the time :1orglaugh - yea, this is GFY, so maybe that doesn't bother some people here.

But we take care of our customers - that's why I WILL be around for the long term & if you want to be treated right, give us a shot next time you want something printed. We've got a great product & we'll take good care of you :thumbsup

one-time bump for the weekend

lol. good thread!

Quick question: High On Acid, didn't you announce the other day that you sold your share in acidflyers? I remember you changing your sig on it as well, but now I see acidflyers back? Did something happen?

He's going on his own ...

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pathetic business card reseller. go do 10 $ from your orders while I make 1k a day in porn . You don't have a clue who I am right ?

EVERYBODY except drinking hard got their cards on time . EVER . And DH got a 50 % refounds + the cards.

1st : Get your facts / story straight

2nd : Learn to know what people do in the industry before you open your big fucking mouth dumb ass

I just never exported cards before that and got caught up with christmass late shipping ... we do our own gang runs here locally too ... I aiin't no reseller like you . I fucking reprinted everything overnight and went there to deliver it

http://cuttingedgedesigns.us/images/omni-logo.jpg
What a kickass design man ... WOAH you guys are great ... total amateurs

STFU please ... or just answer if you really wanna start beef over nothing . You should just have shut your mouth up in the first fucking place cauz I didn't attack you.

i summon the lord of darkness on you all

http://www.djjace.net/forum/images/s...o_ani_fire.gif

You don't have a clue who I am - go do a search for most any business category for business cards & myself or my partner at latenightprinters will come up at the top. I like this board but this board doesn't make up the smallest fraction of my business.

I've never seen so many complaints about anyone on this board. Everything you were doing in the states you were brokering through Acid so wtf are you talking about?

You're an arrogant fuck who needs to be taken down a few hundred notches. Fuck off.

Wow.

Dre, a while back it came out that you designed but HOA printed and shipped your orders. That isn't true?

And what does your porn sales have to do with this thread?

I've done business with acid on this one time deal ... becasue it's kinda impossible to offer competitive rate and ship through the border .

And your design still sucks ... My 2 years old daughter can draw something better

Only for US orders ... the net isn't the place where we do business ... it's a local biz

Ah ok. That makes sense.

well that's entirely subjective now, isn't it? We have 3 different designers & we are not a high-priced design outfit - we offer designs incredibly cheap as a package deal as I think I've explained to you numerous times. We're not in the same type of business as you really. We're high volume, very affordable & quick turnaround on designs. And most people love our design work - you can pick out one example and have a laugh - it's not going to be representative of the full spectrum, but thanks for proving again what a childish jerk you are...

I'll give dre props on his design work - there's no doubt you're a great designer. There's no doubt that you're a better designer then anyone I have. I'll admit that.
I just don't think you have a good attitude. And you charge a helluva lot more for your designs - you're in a different market.

We create attractive, marketable designs (see first page of thread) for mass consumption - kind of like the wal-mart of design. We do a lot of design, fast, efficiently and cheaply. You're going for the top-shelf - it's a totally different market. It's not fair to compare them...

The print biz = 10 % of my business ... rest is adult and mainstream

I don't have a good attitude ? I didn't attack you, you did . read the thread again .

That was my first comment in this thread . if that's bad attitude, you tell me budy

what? like this wasn't total sarcasm? I didn't say shit to you 'til after this. You also started earlier about beating my price IN MY THREAD. You guys come as a pair in every thread & try to bait me - I didn't ask for either of your opinions...

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That was 0 % sarcasm ... I'm TOTALLY serious right now . I care less about customers from this board ... we were just hooking people up with the 150 $ deal ... Actually that's just less job for me .

all right, fuck it, I don't even care now, we'll just call it a misunderstanding - your buddy sure does have a short fuse though. Tell him to work on that anger management.

It's called beeing drunk and having resellers fucking with your prices :P lol

well, we're not going anywhere so he can just learn to make some room :glugglug

This is the last day we'll take orders for Internext - if you still want in, hit me up now.

These prices are still good for the rest of the month.