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May 4th 04, 09:38 PM

(basketball_jones) wrote in message om...
Jim Kelley wrote in message Well, the situation is likely that if I have to pay
the MOST, I lose money. Do I still lose money when I get to pay the
LEAST? (As far as getting the houses to quote a big project) I can't
get the big project funded, much less quoted until I understand that.

Look people. Determining the 'right' price is one of the 'killer aps'
of the internet. Use it.

I think the price is going to be fairly constant within a certain
volume, unless you can find someone that does it on the side for a
lower price. I used to work at a circuit board company about 20-25
years ago. "Chemetch". I don't think anyone really got any special
deals, unless the order was ready to be placed, and the volume
required was pretty much known. You just gotta dicker with the sales
person. That company was quite high priced actually. Maybe the highest
in town, but I didn't do sales. But the quality and inspection was top
notch. Thats how they justified the high price. But, the owner knew a
few people that did small volume board work on the side, and he let
them "rent" his facilities to make boards at night before normal work
hours. It's one of those types you want to talk to , as they are
always looking for work on the side. We made boards for loads of big
companies, and also NASA. The NASA guys were *real* picky about their
boards, and thats why we got most of their work. But they probably
paid through the nose... They used to have guys in MIB suits/white
shirts come around to inspect the boards during the construction
stages. We also made boards for loads of other companies, including
TI, medical co's, oil , etc. I use to make HUGE double side boards for
medical gear. But also little round boards for digital watches and the
like on the other end...I used to have to inspect so many of those
silver dollar sized things, it nearly gave me brain damage...The
copper lines, etching, etc is nasty work. My skin used to stay green
all the time from the copper dust, and my breath probably smelled like
formaldehyde fumes. :/ I had to give it up after a while. The crap was
killing me... MK

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