Pricing A Cartridge Belt?

[wildrose]

I priced how I needed to, I have no hard feelings if he shops elsewhere.

[Thornton]

FWIW from the grump: My prices run right in there with Dwight --- and ALL of my stuff is hand stitched. I just can't imagine how you get a $150 to $200 cost factor for dead cow skin. You have 3 square feet of leather at the most, (3" x 72", divided by 144, times 2) and at even $9.00 a square foot that's only $27.00 for leather, actual cost. If I buy a 'special' double shoulder for a specific holster, I can't charge the customer for the ENTIRE piece when I still have most of it in stock for later use, and my holsters use twice the leather as most do because I use two layers of skin for each holster; a patern costs nothing, except the time to draw it; buckles be less than $6.00 at most; rivets and thread be incidental cost. I just don't understand. Mike

If you consider rivets and thread to be incidental costs you are selling yourself short. If it costs money that cost has to be paid.

[katsass]

If you consider rivets and thread to be incidental costs you are selling yourself short. If it costs money that cost has to be paid.

FWIW, I just add a flat fee for the 'incidentals' based on average use, and don't actually figure in an exact amount of dye, thread, rivets, glycerin soap, finish and stuff like that. Mike

Edited June 23, 2012 by katsass