Sales Tips and Strategies

a place to discuss sales tips; and strategies for marketing your art and crafts.

Pricing

It does affect the sale, so how to price without costing yourself anything? What an item's worth is what the market will bear, imo, as opposed to what it should be sold for. What think?

Btw, when I got home after buying something a week ago, the sticker on it showed a lower price than what I'd paid. That left a bad taste in my mouth. I understand that prices do go up, but I couldn't help feeling that I should've gotten it for less. I was totally fine with what I'd paid until I saw that "hidden" sticker. :) If I didn't know the person selling it to me, I would've decided to not buy again, or, buy with great wariness. Trust is an issue in pricing, imo.
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    cheryl

    I got burned on eBay by following common advice to start my bids at $1 or less. What a disaster. I didn't even sell the books at cost. I am glad that my books are in others' hands, though. Do you succeed in selling on eBay? If so, how? Tips welcome!
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      cheryl

      You're right, the energy that goes into making books only I know. Learning what it's worth is difficult to determine. From my experiments I know what my 4 x 6 books will easily go for, but I wonder if the most people will pay easily is higher than that.

      In any case, some of the books I will price differently. That is, it would hurt to not have them for myself, so the price will be what I'm willing to part with them for, at minimum. Perhaps it's silly to allow emotion to dictate pricing, but I'm gonna do that anyway. :)
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