brooklynbeaver
Making my spirit ready for new trapping season
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Post by brooklynbeaver on Jul 24, 2023 14:20:36 GMT -5
Dear comrades, I'm looking for your feedback or a comment regarding sale prices for tanned fur.
I try to sell mine on Farmers Market but got confused ( a little) by price creation. Impulse purchases are typical for such marketplaces but seriously I'm looking for your advices or experience. Fur auctions results are not good for a true price because a buyer is merely a first middleman in a chain of re-sellers. Of course he or she is willing to buy tanned fur as cheap as possible. Same time I cannot understand the selling price building mechanism.
For example, if I pay $35.00 for tanning a beaver, how much should I sell it to the end user customer assuming my added labor + selling environment associated expenses?
If tanning a skunk costs me $9.50 , what the retail price to a customer supposes to be ?
Any ideas, experience, standards for the retail market navigation ?
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tmc
#2 Newhouse
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Post by tmc on Jul 29, 2023 11:17:01 GMT -5
I'm not going to comment on what to charge, but the fact is most of your potential customers will have no idea what the fur market is doing. I've had people say that they expected mink "to be a LOT higher" because old ideas of what a valuable fur item is still persist. Start high, it's always easier to negotiate down instead of up. Remember, if selling online, many a NYC or other larger city dweller will likely have a camp in the Adirondacks, Catskills, or just their man cave and don't care about the price, they just want something cool hanging on the wall. A $2 raccoon at the auction might sell for $65 to that type of clientele, subtract your costs of tanning and you're making out many times better. Of course, things have changed with the low fur market prices, and the number of trappers selling online has increased exponentially, so the prices I get are NOWHERE near what they were even 3 or 4 years ago. Competition develops everywhere things are sold.
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Post by tmc #2 Newhouse on Jul 31, 2023 11:02:53 GMT -5
Thank you for a very wise reply. What online marketplaces you could recommend for such tanned fur offers? One negative point that been grown recently is modern society natural fur rejection. Specifically here in NYS/NYC I can observe those Farmers market visitor's looks/glances on my "products". They do identify me as an animal murderer first, such a pity. That is why I wonder if you or anybody else knows a marketplace that is mentally safe for a seller like me.
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