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As I mentioned, I give most of my work away to friends or donate it to SCA/Kingdom/Calontir online auctions/raffles. I haven't tried an actual money making auction site like ebay yet. For the most part, the belts I've actually sold were custom designed for the purchaser and that person had come to me to order one. I much prefer to teach people how than to do it for them. :) I haven't ever just made a bunch of belts and tried to sell them. The friend that I mentioned did make them and merchant them but they were thinner, bulkier and less time intensive than most of the ones I make. The ones I donate to auctions are also custom designed for the winner. In the auction description I give a delivery date for the finished belt/trim. The one I just raffled for a Calontir fund raiser was already made so people could see what was being raffled. I really like that $.50 x # of cards X yardage rule for cotton. I had never thought of any formula, but that at least gives you a starting point for pricing. --Johanne/Bonnie Subj: � Re: Selling tabletweaving Date: � Tue, 11 Dec 2001 4:01:47 PM Eastern Standard Time From: � Guido Gehlhaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: � [EMAIL PROTECTED] by TWIST > I've sold them for $50 for a simple warped in, > counted turn pattern up to $150 for a double > "Rams Horn". Uh my God, what was I doing in the past? I sold a double Rams Horn about six weeks ago at a length of 1,50 meters (something about 1.7 yards?) for 95 German Marks (which is about 43$) in 10/4 mercerized cotton... Are you really able to offer at such prices? Here in Germany (re-enactment markets) people look at some belts (example: 28 tablets, nearly 2 meters long) for about 30$ just shaking heads.. (too expensive is the most sentence I hear on such markets) Johanne mentioned auctions. What experiences concerning different online auctionaires do you have? Guido Send private reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
