mrs
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Post by mrs on Feb 23, 2008 8:02:15 GMT -5
I suppose we all get "the opportunity" to do mounts for family and close friends. Some of you may have a big family and a large circle of friends, and the requests to do their mounts is not infrequent. My questions is...Do you follow your standard business procedures (contracts, deposit, posted prices, etc.) with ALL of them or do you throw out those formailites and make exceptions/give breaks or even do freebies for them? This is always a very difficult issue for me to deal with.
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Post by jwj4856 on Feb 23, 2008 16:20:50 GMT -5
Only ones I do as family and without charge is my wife, my kids and grandkids, all others are business as usual.
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Post by donw on Feb 23, 2008 23:58:34 GMT -5
I have all kinds of friends during hunting season not much discount here.Sons and brother are the only ones who get freebies.
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Post by fishhead on Feb 24, 2008 10:00:02 GMT -5
With family and very close friends that I have been friends with for years, all I ask for is cost of materials. But when they see there finished fish I usually get paid full price or at least half of what I would get from a regular customer.
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Post by whitetail8 on Feb 24, 2008 14:31:40 GMT -5
Most of my family does not hunt. The only friends that I do mounts for cost are the 2 brothers who own the 1500 acres I hunt on.(One time only offer) I do a couple of pheasant mounts for the owner of the pheasant farm who gives me as many birds for practice as I want for free. I also gave a 10 % discount to any one in our shotgun camp for the first year of opening business to try to get the word out about my business. I got 2 mounts that way. I am the president of a local chapter of the NWTF and put a half page ad in our program this year for our banquet with a $25.00 coupon to any member at that banquet only to also try to get some more business. I got a life size coyote out of the deal.
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Post by circleh on Feb 25, 2008 19:10:49 GMT -5
I only charge my dad and brothers my cost, but they usually make me take at least a little extra money. I give the rest of the family a 10%. I don't have a lot of hunters in my family but the ones that do have told everyone about me. I have a few good friends that get the 10% but they are a select few. We have been freinds since grade school.
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