ORIGINAL: Michelles_Taxidermy
But I must ask you what is more important... Getting it back in 2 or 3 months and it falling apart in 2 or 3 years or waiting for a year maybe 2 and it lasting a life time. I think what bill was saying he can't believe people would give up quality in order to get their mount backASAP.
I look at it like this and I am sureI have said it on here befor. The customer spends lets say:
Camoflauge..........$200
Cover scents........$15
Rifle with scope.....$1000
4wheeler..............$7000
Treestand.............$250
Foodplots, salt licks, mineral blocks, supplements..........I have no idea on the $$ but it can't be cheap either.
Hunting Lease........$1000
Guided Hunt..........$ 2500 & up
Your telling me that a customer that spends that kinda money to get a chance to harvest a trophy buck can't spend $400 - $600 to have it mounted and wait 1 year to get it back. If it means it will last a life time? Now to you see why we find it kinda funny when someone goes to the cheapest guy to have a deer mounted. You get what you pay for most of the time.
Mike thank you for your post. I want to say first of all that I have talked to Bill enough on here to know that his post was not directed at me nor was he deliberatly trying to insult ME ...I was talking as being a customer in general who takes offense at being laughed at becasue I may want to save money and might want the job done well in an expedient way. I mean for christ sake they can build a house in less then a year ..as a mtter of fact they can build several nice homes in less then a year. I know it may not be in the volumn that you mount deer but hey it aint exactly rocket science...Second let me say in reference to your comment " Your telling me" I was not nor am I trying to tel lyou anything ...my point was not EVERYONE wants nor can afford a "show" mount ... I paid $650.00 + shipping from Canada for Brian Dobson to mount the buck I took in 04 and yes I can tell a difference in the quality of the work VS my other mounts but then again I paid twice as much for it so it should look better but this was a once in a lifetime trophy ..I left it with him in November of 04 and got it back in March of 05 about 5 months and the quality is EXTREAMLY good... I will say that I agree with you in one respect that in general you do get what you pay for which is just the way ecconomics work ..you do not get more for less I am a firm beleiver of that ..but I swear I can not for the life of me understand how a business could ask someone to wait for over a year to get their service ..I mean why not hire someone to help you to expidite the orders ... CUSTOMER SATIFACTION .... I suppose I get on my soap box about this stuff becasue I know a taxidermist that is local here ...pretty well known around your circles and been doing it for over 20 years and I think the reason he makes you wait so long is because he is out hunting when he should be working.
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