Cheap Bandit Signs Anyone?

I would either purchase online or go to printing companies or sign companies locally in your area. I know for right now we buy blank ones for $2 a piece locally from a print shop but you can get them for about a buck a piece on line if you buy at least 100.

Call and ask around. Also if you belong to an investment club in your area ask the other investors where they get theirs. They should tell you pricing and so forth.

In the edge videos someone said a website too but I don't remember what it was.

This is a link from Randy's journal. Enjoy

http://www.deansmedia.com/play.php?vid=160

Lea

$4 dollars per blank sign is about the going rate for sign companies with over head. What I did was call on a bandit sign myself that read " 1000 biz cards for $15"

Low and behold it was a guy that does signs out of his home that is cheaper than n e one else. Sells them to me for $2 a sign. Then I go to home depot instead of purchasing the metal steaks, I buy wooden stakes 25 for only $10 bucks or so. This is the most cost effective way to do your bandit signs.

Go to Walmart, they make a small poster-board type sign that is about $1.00 for four of these, get a fat sharpie and you are in business.

If you dont mind a little work, I went to the local liquor store and they was elated that I would take there boxes off their hands. I used a utility knife and made all different sizes... some to tie to post, others I mounted on Wooden Stakes I got real cheap. Had some white paint and a roller... I made several hundred in one day...... I may be better at making bandit signs then I am in investing ! Good Luck !

Very creative.

How do those poster board signs hold up in the rain?? I'm in seattle

I put my signs out a month or two ago and Im still getting calls so they must have help up pretty good. For attracting sellers I like my signs and ads to look a little more professional. Check this site out Buildasign.com, you can design your own. I love it ! Hope that helps

Here is a web site you can go to get 25 bandit signs for free, all you have to do is pay postage and handling. You create the way you want them and then wait for them to be shipped. Never tried them myself but found them in the internet some time ago. I do my the raven way I use carboard that I get from time to time when I or my son orders stuff online then cut up the boxes to different sizes and have my daughter do the writing because she has great writing skills.

ba

http://freebanditsigns.com/105

What size should you get? They have some you can get on walmart's website, at 28" x 22" mostly in bulk.

You can get them at signwarehouse.com 24x18 50 signs for $58.00 and a box of 50 wire stakes for $36.00 plus $12.00 shipping or so.

Hope this helps!

Were those 50 wire stakes the 15" or the 24" wide stakes? By the price, I'm guessing they were the 15" wide.

I found another good website that IMO is MUCH easier to navigate. I spent too much time on signwarehouse.com just trying to figure out where to find anything...and still never found the corrugated plastic sign blanks or stakes. So I looked elsewhere.

Just ordered 25 Yellow Sign Blanks 24"W x 18"H - $28.75 and 25 Step Stake Sign Holders 10"W x 24"H - $24.00 from http://www.hhsignsupply.com ...they are located in Kentucky, just below where I live, so I expect shipping to be fairly quick. For this order, shipping was $20.11 via UPS Ground. My total was $72.86, which I feel is reasonable. The shipping price is a little higher, but believe it is due to product weight? I went with the 24"W sign holders to provide a little more support and strength for the sign.

I may explore other sign supply stores to see if there is a better deal. We'll see how quickly this gets to me, and how satisfied I am with the order. If anyone else found other good sign supply companies online, please let us know. I'll post others as I find (and use) them, with my personal review.

Update: Just found everything on www.signwarehouse.com, and actually I see the prices are better....dang. Well, unless you do a search on their site you can't find them. Not a very well laid out website if you can't see all their products they have available from the main page. So, get your signs from www.signwarehouse.com ...but you MUST type in the search box at the top-right these two things on two difference searches "corrugated yellow" and scroll down until you find this "Box of 50 Endura Cor-Plastic Sign Blanks - 24 inch x 18 inch - Yellow"....add to cart. Then search this at the top again "sign stakes" and scroll down until you see this "EnduraSTAKES - Box of 50 - 10 inch x 30 inch" (btw, that is 10"W by 30"H on the stakes)...add to cart, create account (if you don't have one), and check out. Shipping is much cheaper!

I checked out Walmart's selection for signs...not very good. They only have foam-core paper-backed type signs, and regular card stock. Neither will last any outside elements such as rain, so you're "in business" until you get a couple rains...or a big one. Go with a corrugated plastic signs. They have the holes in the middle to slide the sign holder bar inside, your sign won't peel off or rip (like what will happen with paper-backed signs), and it will last through all seasons and weather (except hurricanes, tornadoes and high-speed straight-line winds!).

It's a good offer to get something for free, but at the same time 9"x12" signs are too small. Get a ruler or tape measure and look at how big this sign is. If you are further back in traffic, you won't be able to see what's on the sign until you're right up on it. Well, at that point obviously traffic is moving and you won't have time to write it down....possibly even to memorize the correct number and then write it down. You may not be able to read it even at that point depending on how good your vision is due to the size of the text you'll be limited to use. I agree with Matt Larson saying to use the 24"W x 18"H signs in the RBB because you can write bigger so vision won't be an issue or reason why someone couldn't see it, and for the money you'll make off the signs the cost really isn't an issue.