honestly, I find this to be insulting, when I do a disc there are a bunch of things that go into a good dye. This dye would take awhile to get a good clean, well sized image to work off of, then the cut would take an hour or so. Add in the time to actually dye it, which can be anywhere from a 10 minute dip, to 30 minutes if I'm not doing other dyes, to heat up the dye. Add in materials, and you're talking about maybe $5/hour of work minus material costs. I've never vectorized an image and maybe the plotters out there can get it done a bit quicker but I doubt it's much different.
With all that being said, I don't dye to make money. But I also don't dye to lose money. I dye because I love to dye, and a paying customer offsets the cost of dyeing for the most part, and give me new ideas, new challenges, and plastic to put dye on. Not to mention how much fun it is to give somebody their disc back and see their face light up, it's like giving gifts at Christmas. But to have someone come on here and say I don't care about quality just whoever can do the work the cheapest, by the way can you spend your free time working on my images for me, for no pay? So that I can give whoever undercuts your offer a dollar or two?
My rate is $10 for a single color which can go up for detail of a cut. I've gladly gone down to $5 for many people to get more of my art out there on the course and to make people around me happy. And there are dyes I've done which are known by name on the course that I only did for $5, but that was my offer to do a dye cheap, not someone coming in and saying here do this, cheaper than that guy. Low bid process do not work, and you get what you pay for. I'll do it for a buck if you want me to, but I will put in exactly a dollar's worth of work. Which honestly isn't true because I am not willing to do work that isn't my best. Which is why I would not touch this with a ten foot pole, you want a dyer than hire a dyer, not the cheapest labor you can find.
I actually wrote something similar to this to you twice before my initial response and deleted it both times. My best advice to you if you are still reading this, is if you think this is so simple and easy. Read for five minutes, spend $10 on a cheap pot to dye in, and a pack of dye, get in on the free vinyl, and do the dye yourself. You'd be amazed at what you can do, with the guys around here helping you. There is an amazing support group here that will help you through the bumps as long as your willing to put in the effort reading and listening to what they have to say. I spent three weeks just reading before I attempted my first dye. This way, not only can you get this dye done for $10, you'll be able to do other dyes also.
