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December 17th, 2006 Leave a comment Go to comments

Am seriously considering moving to a flat $40 price including shipping for everyone in the world, as opposed to different tiers for different places, as of 2007. Still thinking it over. I still wouldn’t be making a living wage, so it’s not like it’s an outrageous price from my end, but there’s also the matter of people being used to spending $5 at WalMart for some piece of third-world-country mass-produced gao se and therefore possibly balking at the price.

I’ve finished all the “you’ll definitely get it by Christmas” orders and am working on those which either didn’t mention Christmas or which got a firm “maybe by Christmas.”

Had a great time at the yearly Christmas cookie bake. Am now, as we say in the South, plum tuckered out.

Will make a better post later.

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  1. December 18th, 2006 at 00:12 | #1

    I wouldn’t worry too much about the Wal Mart crowd – there’s plenty of people out there looking to buy quality at whatever the price. The “handmade” label carries incredible weight with a rather large group of people who understand why the price is what it is.

    When I had started my wood working business back about 3 years ago, I found that even though I felt I might be charging a little much in comparison to what I actually spent on materials and my time, there were people out there charging(and getting) 10 times what I was for stuff I would have been ashamed to sell.

    I can see charging a flat fee, but I wouldn’t include shipping in the price. If you found yourself with orders needing to go out and suddenly faced with the shipping companies deciding to double their rates, you’d be the one covering the extra. As long as you charge an honest reasonable shipping rate, and not the wallet-gouging bs a lot of people do to make up for the money they would lose by selling the item at a lower price, I don’t think you’d have any problems. Fed Ex, USPS and UPS all have shipping calcuators out there to help make figuring the amount easier. Just post the weight and average dimensions of the packaging you use, along with your price for the item itself, and let them figure out the extra.

  2. December 18th, 2006 at 00:12 | #2

    I wouldn’t worry too much about the Wal Mart crowd – there’s plenty of people out there looking to buy quality at whatever the price. The “handmade” label carries incredible weight with a rather large group of people who understand why the price is what it is.

    When I had started my wood working business back about 3 years ago, I found that even though I felt I might be charging a little much in comparison to what I actually spent on materials and my time, there were people out there charging(and getting) 10 times what I was for stuff I would have been ashamed to sell.

    I can see charging a flat fee, but I wouldn’t include shipping in the price. If you found yourself with orders needing to go out and suddenly faced with the shipping companies deciding to double their rates, you’d be the one covering the extra. As long as you charge an honest reasonable shipping rate, and not the wallet-gouging bs a lot of people do to make up for the money they would lose by selling the item at a lower price, I don’t think you’d have any problems. Fed Ex, USPS and UPS all have shipping calcuators out there to help make figuring the amount easier. Just post the weight and average dimensions of the packaging you use, along with your price for the item itself, and let them figure out the extra.

  3. December 18th, 2006 at 00:41 | #3

    You could also look at having people send you the shipping materials to mail back in, pre-postmarked. In the live bootleg scene, that’s what we do – if someone wants a show we recorded, they mail us the CD, postmarked envelope and whatever else they need and we just use the materials. Granted, you can’t/don’t want to do the material part, but the shipping thing is something to consider. Flat shipping rates look great on paper, but in the end you could be shorting yourself and that could add up over time.

  4. December 18th, 2006 at 00:41 | #4

    You could also look at having people send you the shipping materials to mail back in, pre-postmarked. In the live bootleg scene, that’s what we do – if someone wants a show we recorded, they mail us the CD, postmarked envelope and whatever else they need and we just use the materials. Granted, you can’t/don’t want to do the material part, but the shipping thing is something to consider. Flat shipping rates look great on paper, but in the end you could be shorting yourself and that could add up over time.

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