Tell me you couldn't sell that shit if you wanted to, @bonifartius ;)
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@ThatCrazyDude tbh that's why i was interested in the machine.. :D
@bonifartius i mean, don't get me wrong. It's a real good combo machine and all, but if you want to do embroidery commercially, you prolly want a dedicated machine with like 10 needles, and one you don't need to babysit and change threads every 10 minutes;)
@ThatCrazyDude
> one you don't need to babysit and change threads every 10 minutes;)
well, if the pay is good :D
@bonifartius well, think of this in this terms: the minimum wage now is what, like 10 euros? Now, not counting the graphics work, embroidering this genesha picture took like 45 minutes on my machine, trimming the fabric took like 15, because it was rather delicate job, so.... Say at least an hour of your time. If you were to buy the materials instead of recycling your wife's wardrobe like i do, it would probably be like 15-20 bucks in fabric for a couschin cover. Now....
@bonifartius how much can you sell it for, really? 40 bucks, maybe. 30, more likely. Anyways, with this kind of machine you're likely to make more working at McDonald's in California 😂
@ThatCrazyDude
> Anyways, with this kind of machine you're likely to make more working at McDonald's in California 😂
while sitting in your home! :D
with these things i always can't imagine that there's a market for it, but maybe that's just lack of imagination :)
@bonifartius oh dude, just go to Etsy look up embroidered shit and read the comments. People definitely buy that stuff and they love it. The market is there, no doubt. The question is what kind of profit margin you can achieve without real industrial setup
@ThatCrazyDude it's just that i usually am overly hesitant of buying things i don't really need and i sometimes can't imagine the crazy stuff people buy :D
with 30€ you'd have to sell around 30 items to break even. not good not terrible i guess
@bonifartius that's kinda what I'm thinking, which is why I don't really go there just yet. But that being said, having a machine that does the same job in 10 minute while changing colors on it's own and that does not require constant supervision (and you can bu those for like 5-ish grands), it kinda becomes a viable concept. Assuming you can buy fabric in bulk at a good price and you know what you're doing z of course. Personally I'm not there yet 😂
@bonifartius well, i wasn't really thinking about making it profitable when i got the machine, it was more like, you know, an extra feature you want to have in something you have to buy anyways, but now After over a month of having the sucker having fun fucking with it and talking with it, i do see a financial potential there. It would prolly pay up the costs in less than a month if you knew what you're doing. Not this particular machine though