What would be a fair price?

[GaryC 7]

As some of you may know I do leather work for a hobby. I think I have gotten good enough at it that I can begin making things for others and selling them. Below is my latest project. The materials cost me $90 and it took me about 25 hours to complete. What would be a fair retail price on e-bay or a wholesale price to a specialty store for resale? Your input would be appreciated.

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

Great detail on the bags, impressive Gray!

I would not be able to tell you about how much to charge, but maybe have a look at etsy.com.. A few Vjers sell their handmade stuff on there (incl. myself). You could do a search for similar bags to get an idea for the price.

Good luck

[GaryC 7]

Here are some of my other projects. I could make any of these for sale. What do you think?

[Peikko 1,575]

A fair price or a price people will pay? Fair would be materials + cost of labour + profit (normally retail mark up is about 100% on cost for luxury items).

Whether anyone would pay such a price for a purse that didn't have 'Coach' or 'OXO' or whatever the current 'must have' name is, I somewhat doubt.

As for the designs themselves, I prefer something rather devoid of ornamentation, so it's just too much detail for me but that's just one opinion of many.

[LaL 418]

Great detail on the bags, impressive Gray!

I would not be able to tell you about how much to charge, but maybe have a look at etsy.com.. A few Vjers sell their handmade stuff on there (incl. myself). You could do a search for similar bags to get an idea for the price.

Good luck

Ditto - go to Etsy - its an artisan/artists site that you can sell your creations on. As ^^ above - check out what others are selling theirs for.

[AlHayatZween 2]

Here are some of my other projects. I could make any of these for sale. What do you think?

yes, definitely!

[LaL 418]

on the same subject :

adorable!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Cool stuff Gary.

Here's a story to make people sick - the wife was working in a store the other day and one of the sellers there made a $28,000 transaction for a designer handbag that had to be specially imported from Paris.

[giraffemd 0]

I'm not much of a handbag person, and I never shop, but I must say that those are really nice bags...I know in our store designer bags are $300 and up for similar.,

[poochie 0]

Here's one on ebay, maybe you can try the ebay market, auction one off and see how much buyers are willing to pay for it.

hand-made leather purse/bag

Edited March 9, 2009 by poochie

[Mrs.J06 4]

Beautiful pieces Gary.

I would certainly be willing to pay more for something handmade and unique like this than for a regular leather handbag from a store. Since the regular ones go for $ 250.00 and up I guess that's where I would start.

[caybee 21]

My sister also uses etsy, and she found a website with a formula for computing the value of handmade things. I'm waiting for a response from her about that site.

Your bags are gorgeous.

[Nessa 23]

awesome job, Gary. I'd go for a 100% profit.

[Ban Hammer 13,643]

so this is what gary has been doing rather than posting on vj.

[Nessa 23]

so this is what gary has been doing rather than posting on vj.

yup, he's a better husband than some...