[Woodcarver] Re: First post- how to price?

[Joe Dillett]

Hi Rip,

The big problem with changing pricing based on what the people will pay is 
that there is an obligation to protect the customer's investment. When a 
customer payes a higher price for your work and finds out that it is being 
sold at lower prices you've lost that customer plus all the people that 
customer talks to.

The other problem is you never know the real value of your work. The real 
value of your work is the price it sells for on a consistant bases.

Joe Dillett
The Carving Shop
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Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] Re: First post- how to price?



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> In a message dated 9/23/05 7:22:42 PM, nancydenis at iowatelecom.net writes:

>

>

>> However, I have a follow-up question - how do you do your calculation for

>> "in the round" carvings?

>>

>

> As someone just said, "What will the market bare."    We had a carver in 

> our

> club who had to retire due to health and turned to carving full time. To 

> make

> a living he had to sell at every show he went to...so he had about seven

> different price ranges.   In a poor community his prices were low and in a 

> rich

> town his prices were high.   It all balanced out in the long run.    Rip

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