Yes! This! I try to at least figure out my break even point & then if people want to haggle a bit I don't feel pressured to bring it down too much

Fully agree! I think most people don't even break even with a lot of their plushie prices unfortunately

@@crochetmezaddyI think you are so right. I watch sooo many “market prep’ videos and the hours, days, weeks, that go into prepping and then I see people say for instance, “this plushie dinosaur took me 3 hours to make and my yarn cost me x amount and I am charging $25” and I am thinking, ok, even if you had zero cost because someone donated all of the supplies, which they didn’t, then you are still only making $8.33 an hour. So for anyone who is not working a regular “pay the bills” job and is only doing sales and charging like that, I have no idea how they make ends meet?!!? My thought is they are doing no something else that makes it worth while such as selling their own patterns which once you sell enough copies to reimburse yourself for the time it took to design and the yarn it took to test it, then it is all profit. Also wanted to tell you there is a software out there designed specifically for crafters. You can enter something like “safety eyes, 10mm, 10 pairs, $4.67” and it will calculate per eye. Then blue premier yarn. 1 skein, 150g, $11.99. It will tell you the cost per gram of yarn; same thing with stuffing. So then when you make an item you weigh the item made and put in the materials and the weight and the number of eye and it calculates your cost. You tell it how much you want to make per hour and what % of profit you want to make and the enter the amount you out in your time it takes to make the plushie. It will utilize all of the input you gave it and calculate the exact cost to you AND will give you retail prices including a profit margin. It will also a t as your inventory tracker, will tally you when you are low on inventory (you set parameters for that too) it tracks all of it. It’s pretty cost effective too and it’s time consuming to set up but not when you repeat purchase! Anywho. Any crafter could usw something like that to keep track of all your needs and know when they are undercharging.

@@m.k.1543 what is this software's name please?

YES YES YES - exactly this, it's strange but people do notice and are willing to support on people who value their work

hahaha my friends watch these videos too and they don't even crochet

Omg yay!! I want to hear how they do ❤

Hope you loooove it

He had to start doing it at the end hahah

You're welcome!

Yup! Probably cheaper online - I'd say that if you're selling online, you would need to consider things like shipping (if included in the plushie price), packaging, website fees etc as overheads, and then potentially anything like customisation if it's a custom design

In my experience that right customer will come along and pay the right prices - my last market I had someone come and buy from me purely because I had put my plushies at a correct price. I'd say give it a try and if it's not working out - maybe try a different tactic, like maybe bundle deals etc.

@@crochetmezaddy Thank you for your answer! I've had custumers like that, but only one or two on each markets, it's still not profitable enough 🤷‍♀

hahaha I took a hot minute! I'll come back with part 3 REAL soon

​@@crochetmezaddybeen watching for it like a hawk!

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Wait omg HELLO FRIEND

@@crochetmezaddy HAHAHA hello lovely! :D very excited for your adventure to finders keepers

@@LilDittis Please make sure you come say hi!

Ahhh I’m not sure what’s happening there! You might have to reach out to Patreon directly that sounds a bit suspicious- I appreciate it though!

@@crochetmezaddy who is patreon 😂😂😂 I’m the owner of the phone..iv looked in settings, can’t find anything.