$99 to paint up a whole guitar but they want $450 to turn my macbook pro black? Please, someone out there, break out some competition to colorware and share the colorful goodness!
Thanks James for the sarcastic, or perhaps honest "do it yourself" answer. I'm not a professional painter, and I prefer things to be done right the first time through. My point was that it seems colorware is INTENTIONALLY inflating the price of their services to some products, simply because they are higher dollar items who's clientele would probably pay more.
Again, I'm no expert, but it looks like they would need more labor and more material to paint these guitars than a shell of a smaller, hardly curvy macbook -- and yet the price is $99 for the guitar, and $450 for the laptop.
According to the site, they take the computer (or guitar) apart and paint the case. It may be more difficult to take apart a MacBook than a Guitar Hero controller. Still, custom painting services are always expensive.
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Ken @ Apr 1st 2008 4:32AM
$99 to paint up a whole guitar but they want $450 to turn my macbook pro black? Please, someone out there, break out some competition to colorware and share the colorful goodness!
Tim @ Apr 1st 2008 11:55AM
No doubt.
I'd be willing to buy lots of colorware products if they were cheaper.
James @ Apr 1st 2008 1:32PM
http://www.krylon.com/main/product_template.cfm?levelid=5&sub_levelid=10&productid=1751&content=product_details
Ken @ Apr 1st 2008 8:32PM
Thanks James for the sarcastic, or perhaps honest "do it yourself" answer. I'm not a professional painter, and I prefer things to be done right the first time through. My point was that it seems colorware is INTENTIONALLY inflating the price of their services to some products, simply because they are higher dollar items who's clientele would probably pay more.
Again, I'm no expert, but it looks like they would need more labor and more material to paint these guitars than a shell of a smaller, hardly curvy macbook -- and yet the price is $99 for the guitar, and $450 for the laptop.
That makes me a sad panda.
Munky @ Apr 1st 2008 11:14PM
According to the site, they take the computer (or guitar) apart and paint the case. It may be more difficult to take apart a MacBook than a Guitar Hero controller. Still, custom painting services are always expensive.