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Pricing help needed ... (corrected link)
Thanks, TL -- I aded the pricing formula you came up with to Bead Notes for all
to refer to. ~~ Sooz ------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html |
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It was a PITA, but a satisfying and educational one in the long run.
And what I learned in the process means doing another in the same vein would be less difficult and time-consuming. But with me in the retailer's role via Eclectic Beadery, I am far more inclined to price it at somewhere in the neighborhood of double your $40 suggestion. That might be just barely do-able as a wholesale price for a buyer who wanted many other things as well. Is that totally unreasonable? Would it sit there forever on Eclectic Beadery, being noticed but not bought, at such a price? I've seen single-strand strung necklaces for more, with comparable semi-precious stones as focals -- and this took considerably more time to create than a strung necklace would. Even the strung jasper necklaces in my offering I am inclined to put at $60 or more, and if the seed bead stuff can't return at least minimum wage for the time they take, then making them at all (for sale, at least) just makes no sense. Am I being unrealistic in my needs and expectations here? Deirdre On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:37:01 -0700 (PDT), (rainbow) wrote: If the copper necklace was fast and inexpensive .. $25 if it was a total PITA and expensive $40. |
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Whew!
Now I just have to hope that the buying public is in tune with them, too. A more difficult and uncertain question to answer, but one I can only test in the laboratory of everyday life... I don't want to price myself right out of business by asking less than it costs me to make things. And I can't afford to keep making things that don't at least pay for themselves, plus a bit to grow on... Deirdre On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:44:53 -0700, vj wrote: vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. : ]Am I being unrealistic in my needs and expectations here? no. ----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com (Jewelry) http://www.vickijean.com ----------- It's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you; it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis |
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lol Yeah, that's the big question for all of us, isn't it?
Will anyone buy what we make at a price that will keep us going? Deirdre On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:32:11 -0700, vj wrote: vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. : ]Now I just have to hope that the buying public is in tune with them, ]too. well, you didn't say THAT! ----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com (Jewelry) http://www.vickijean.com ----------- It's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you; it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis |
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So, the final answer will always be "What the market will bear". So always
do some comparison pricing too. Tina "Deirdre S." wrote in message ... lol Yeah, that's the big question for all of us, isn't it? Will anyone buy what we make at a price that will keep us going? Deirdre On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:32:11 -0700, vj wrote: vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. : ]Now I just have to hope that the buying public is in tune with them, ]too. well, you didn't say THAT! ----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com (Jewelry) http://www.vickijean.com ----------- It's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you; it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis |
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And try stuff that doesn't fly in one market ... in as many other
markets as you can get access to before you either lower your prices to an unsustainable level, or give up on that particular product... Deirdre On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:42:32 GMT, "Christina Peterson" wrote: So, the final answer will always be "What the market will bear". So always do some comparison pricing too. Tina |
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