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From: SummersEchos
Date: 12-22-2004, 11:51 AM (1 of 2)
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Does anyone have one of these are any advice on them. My daughters boyfriend is thinking about buying one. It will be used mostly for coats, hats, sweatshirts, those kind of things. (Example the whole golf team, football team) I will be the one using it, and since I do not own an embroidery machine and have no idea what we should be looking for? If he purchase a home machine will that do the trick or does he need the comercial machine? Any help would surely be appreciated. Thanks Summer Summer
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From: paroper
Date: 12-22-2004, 07:26 PM (2 of 2)
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There is considerable price difference. ...maybe double or more. I would certainly look at the Brother machine. It sells for about $6000 and I've heard that the hoops and attachments you may need for a full set-up would run about another $1500. It is a crossover machine between commercial and home. You'll need to weight how long it will take to depreciate vs. how much you realistically expect to make to "break even". I would expect the commercial machines to be faster and have some advantages over the Brother, but if you don't have an established clientelle it might offer you a place to get started. You can always trade in, trade up, sell or add another machine. In 1992 I priced one commercial machine (can't remember the brand) that was running $24,000. It was one that is used at some commercial shops around here. I would expect that machine to be about $30,000 by now. I've heard some prices that are less on other brands though. You would have to have a lot of business or charge some pretty good prices just to break even in (say) 5 years. You need to also take into consideration the prices of threads, blanks, stabilizers, etc. I didn't go that route so I'm not sure what the allowed depreciation time is on those machines. If I were going to do this now I'd do a total business plan including how much stock I planned to have on the shelves, what that stock would be, where I planned to get my customers, what type of services I could offer for how much. I would expect there to be a lot of seasonal planning in that type of work...baseball season, basketball season, marching season, soccer season, as well as different holiday-type promotions. Good luck on your new business adventure and tell us what you decide!!!!
pam
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