david n
Diamond
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2007
- Location
- Pillager, MN
What a joke. Another shop owner and I job work back and forth all the time. Great guy, straight shooter. He has and "in" at a big pump mfgr. His buddy is an engineer at "Big Pump" who helped design some specialty tooling for their VTL's. They had protos made by a shop @ the rate of 6pcs $12K/each. Wow! Talk about gravy train since these are not tough parts. Now they want 6 of each part(36pcs total). Us two shops scratch together some numbers that are more inline with the work. I quote(with very juicy margins mind you) about $2250/each. At that these are GRAVY parts since I have only about $350 into each for material, heat treat, fixtures, and tooling. Thinkin' this will buy 1/2 of a new turning center for my shop. Submit our quotes, engineer buddy puts in a good word. In a few days ENG Buddy calls back: NO GO. Big Pump's shop foreman personally makes sure they go back to the first shop @ $12k each(6 parts X 6 of each X $12,000/each = $432,000!!!!!). No questions. I'm sure our quote was filed in the trash. He's buddy buddy with the other shop. We could have saved them $351,000.00. Yes $350K!!!!! THESE ARE NOT, I REPEAT NOT $12K parts!!! WTH? I can't believe it. Other shop guy can't believe it. Engineer buddy can't believe it. It's a huge Corp. They have no clue what kinda of $$ is being wasted.