The other day while typing into Frontpage2000 "sorry, I can no longer take on award, trophy, plaque or most personalization jobs" for my webpage, the phone rings...
"Hi! I'm wondering what you'd charge to engrave plates for some awards we're having made up?"
== what kind of plates, plastic, metal, size?
"Oh, regular sized, and metal."
== [groan]== ok, like brass, 1" x 3"--
"yes, brass would be good, and they need to be 1" x 6".
==['regular size', lol]== Ok, that sounds easy enough--
"so how much to engrave them if I bring the plates in once I find some?"
== I can make the plates, that's no problem...
"Oh, great! Well everyone else wants like $7.50 each, and..."
=== is that just for the engraving?
"umm, that's with the plate..."
==[so why were you going to bring me plates if everyone else quoted WITH plates? hmm]== well, $7.50 is about right for that size-
"Oh, well, that was a little more than I was hoping to spend".
==[of course it is]== Ok, so how many plates do you need?
"There will be 16 plates."
== Ok, let me see, [calculator time], I'll do all 16 for $75, that's just under $5 each.
"Ok, that should work, I think the others will go for that."
== It's a fair price, yeah...
"OK then, so I'll have 2 names at the end of month, and 2 more names at the end of May......... "
AAAGGGHHHH!!!!!