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

[Bill Smith]

some times u go to a new show and ned to make the
extra cash to pay for the trip then  I have cut down
some of the price but not to much.

Bill

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


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> Hi Bill,

> 

> If you find a place where you are getting the best

> price, why would you go 

> to any place just to sell it it for less?

> 

> Once you learned what to do to get the right price

> expand on those methods 

> to further open up that market.

> 

> Joe Dillett

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> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Bill Smith" <baydolphs at yahoo.com>

> To: "[Woodcarver]" <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>

> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 1:40 PM

> Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] Re: First post- how to

> price?

> 

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> 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.

> >

> > Joe Dillett

> > The Carving Shop

> > 645 E. LaSalle St. Suite 3

> > Somonauk, IL. 60552

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> > ----- Original Message ----- 

> > From: <WdcvrRip at aol.com>

> > To: <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>

> > 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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