Tailor Archive
Thread: Sold out again last night.. oh the insanity!
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revatitarq
Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:16 am
#14
Wow I think I'm underpricing my clothes. I also make a Dark Sith lord outfit and a Light Jedi outfit both of which sell out in a day when I stock them. I try to make at least 6-10 of them by hand daily. However I'm only charging 9k per outfit and that includes the travel pack it comes in, so I guess I'm undercharging?? But really how can you charge so much for say a cloak that only takes 60 units of chemical and 50 units of hide? I don't think i could charge more then 2k and feel ok about it. But I guess to each his own. No wonder I sell so much clothing, I'm wayy underpriced I guess lol oh well. I do it for the fun of it not really the money. If I were looking to make money I wouldn't turn down as many bulk orders as I do.
Beswa
Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:37 am
#15
lol, no wonder my clothes sell so fast, I am so underpricing, I sell 10 - 20 sets (Movie CostumesOficer uniforms, han solo costumes etc...)a night, work out cost on a CPU basis, and the most expensive set is 5350 lol, thats for a greedo outfit (the one he is wearing when he gets shot by solo), time to put the prices up!!!
Starphire
Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:56 am
#16
if you are pricing a thing at 5432 you are clearly doing a lot more math then I am 
I price for fun, I craft for fun. I do want to make money after all, to buy more fun things. I try a price, if they sell out fast, i raise, if they sell out slow, i lower. It's that easy then i dont have to do math.
then i dont have to do math.Like I said I was charging 22k and they sold like hot cakes, and i was worried that would be to high.
but yeah I spend a lot of time making them, and I put my own special flair on them, so i feel no remorse charging 20 or 30k for them. They are worth it.
Also I like to think of it this way. MOST people wont have but 1 or 2 outfits on their person at any given time.. so why not charge more? THey will probably have it for 6 months or so.
So I don't price it by what it costs me to make it, but by my time, and the value i think the item presents.
Beswa
Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:41 pm
#17
Sorry wasnt having a go at you, I want to make more money too, lol, so up with the prices
leekoehler
Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:55 pm
#18
Well, this thread inspired me so I set up my outfits vendor two days ago. With packaged items for 20k. I havent sold out - I a run of 25 for each outfit - but it has been selling decently. Of course the items arent worth more than 10k at cost, but the time it takes to assemble the outfit, package, wrangle enough inventory space to lay them out efficiently means I'd rather not make them every day. I'd rather be making cute outfits for myself and friends, restocking, chatting, etc.
There are some parts of tailoring I do for the customer, 4 socket, BE, huge runs of black cloaks /giggle and some I do because I enjoy it. To me its about balancing the monetary with the time it takes. With a well stocked vendor what the customer pays for is the amount of time it takes me to keep things stocked and running smoothly. That has a fair price. Too high and you dont sell anything. To be honest there is a part of me that wishes that people didn't buy things so I could achieve the perfect zen of a totally stocked vendor with ~26 of everything. Of course, making a profit at the end of the week feels good too.
So if your outfits sell out faster than you are willing to make them, raise the price. The key isnt what they are worth but rather the balance between the effort you put in and the market demand.
There are some parts of tailoring I do for the customer, 4 socket, BE, huge runs of black cloaks /giggle and some I do because I enjoy it. To me its about balancing the monetary with the time it takes. With a well stocked vendor what the customer pays for is the amount of time it takes me to keep things stocked and running smoothly. That has a fair price. Too high and you dont sell anything. To be honest there is a part of me that wishes that people didn't buy things so I could achieve the perfect zen of a totally stocked vendor with ~26 of everything. Of course, making a profit at the end of the week feels good too.
So if your outfits sell out faster than you are willing to make them, raise the price. The key isnt what they are worth but rather the balance between the effort you put in and the market demand.
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