2.00 for the scarf blank. 2.00 for the mailing of said blank to you. 2-3.00 for a 2oz container of ONE Procion MX dye color, depending on the color, of which you can get maybe 2-3 scarves out of IF you skimp on the dye, so say 1.00 for dye. maybe 10.00 for the water and electric you use to dye the scarf. maybe 50 cents -1.00 for packaging, depending on packaging. then 2-3.00 for mailing if you just stick it in a plain envelope and go regular mail.
Total- 18.50-19.00. You make ONE DOLLAR. That's it. That's not even minimum wage.
That's not even paying yourself for your time or the cost to list the scarf.
IF you list the scarf at 20.00 on, say, Etsy. Well, there goes another 20 cents right off the bat. You sell the scarf, there goes another 25-30 cents, roughly. You use PayPal for receiving payments, there goes ANOTHER 25-30 cents.
That's another 70-80 cents.
You make exactly 20-30 CENTS. That's it.
Could you make a living on 20-30 cents per item sold?
The only way you could make a living at that income, is if you sold in bulk to retailers who turned around and sold at a markup to other customers.
But that's not the point.
The entire point is a customer is going to see one price, then go elsewhere, see another price and expect to get that item at the lower price, because to THEM , it's only worth the lower price.
It doesn't matter if there's one solid color or 2, 3, even 4 different colors. They see a cheaper price, they are going to want every silk scarf at that cheaper price, because to them, anything else is overpriced, and in their minds, they can get the same thing at a cheaper price.
I think I bought half a dozen scarves when I thought I *might* possibly play with them as a hobby. I would have bought more, but I knew there was a good possibility that I wouldn't end up doing anything with them.
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Date: 2008-12-02 03:14 am (UTC)That's-
2.00 for the scarf blank.
2.00 for the mailing of said blank to you.
2-3.00 for a 2oz container of ONE Procion MX dye color, depending on the color, of which you can get maybe 2-3 scarves out of IF you skimp on the dye, so say 1.00 for dye.
maybe 10.00 for the water and electric you use to dye the scarf.
maybe 50 cents -1.00 for packaging, depending on packaging.
then 2-3.00 for mailing if you just stick it in a plain envelope and go regular mail.
Total- 18.50-19.00. You make ONE DOLLAR. That's it. That's not even minimum wage.
That's not even paying yourself for your time or the cost to list the scarf.
IF you list the scarf at 20.00 on, say, Etsy. Well, there goes another 20 cents right off the bat. You sell the scarf, there goes another 25-30 cents, roughly. You use PayPal for receiving payments, there goes ANOTHER 25-30 cents.
That's another 70-80 cents.
You make exactly 20-30 CENTS. That's it.
Could you make a living on 20-30 cents per item sold?
The only way you could make a living at that income, is if you sold in bulk to retailers who turned around and sold at a markup to other customers.
But that's not the point.
The entire point is a customer is going to see one price, then go elsewhere, see another price and expect to get that item at the lower price, because to THEM , it's only worth the lower price.
It doesn't matter if there's one solid color or 2, 3, even 4 different colors. They see a cheaper price, they are going to want every silk scarf at that cheaper price, because to them, anything else is overpriced, and in their minds, they can get the same thing at a cheaper price.
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Date: 2008-12-02 03:44 am (UTC)