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

[Bill Smith]

joe I agree with u on what u are sayin howeve when
someone is lookin to see what the prices should go for
u explain that to your curstomer n most of the time
they will inderstand I had one customer come to me and
ask me why he paid so little at another place in even
in a different state and I said i was not sure how my
stuff would market. Like I had to learn at my other
shows.

Bill 

--- Joe Dillett <jdillett at thecarvingshop.com> wrote:


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> 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.

> 

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> From: <WdcvrRip at aol.com>

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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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