How Much Do You Charge $$$$$ For A Wallet ?

[Mattsbagger]

Yep. Just selling to cover the cost. More or less.lol

[Mattsbagger]

Yep when I was a O/O of a semi you learned to hate the thing you spent over 100k for. Get off the road time to fix stuff,change tI respect, change oil, brakes. And on and on and on. Now I drive for a company and let them worry about all that stuff. I just drive the truck.

[bikermutt07]

4 hours ago, nstarleather said:

Yeah that can happen, lots of people tend to envy those of us who run a business without knowing what's involved.  I tell my employees, that they don't realize what a blessing it is to be able to "leave work at work" which is something no business owner can ever do.  We have to be thinking and working and working out problems in our heads long after business hours.  I do enjoy it, and make sure I set some limits so it won't take away all my "down time" or priorities, but I'm able to do that because we're pretty well established, and I don't have to invest the time and energy into it that my Dad did when he started. 

Right. Just for reference, anyone thinking of starting a business should read "the e sqaured revisited". This will give you a great insight into how tough being a business owner can be.

Also, keep in mind, no matter what they say on wall street people are still nervous about spending money. I think everyone's idea of money spending changed in '08. No one that got left out in the cold in '08 is going to let that happen to them again.

This makes opening a business that much more difficult.

[Mark Peters]

On 7/11/2014 at 11:47 PM, DavidL said:

At the end of the day a seller that sell 15 dollar shirts can make more revenue than the company selling 100 dollar shirts, so pricing is not indicative of a better company.

With all due respect, the goal should be profit, not revenue.

[ConradPark]

Thankfully there are a plenty of companies and also a new wave of small businesses, that even though the rules of trade and profit still apply for us as well, the main goal is actually not 'as much profit in any way' but rather quality, craftsmanship, preservation of traditional skills and as good goods as possible as well as making enough profit to keep going, but never to compromise. Most of us might not make as much as if we choose the mass producing or outsourcing model that most businesses choose to do, but we are proud of what we are achieving and we know that we would never want to do anything else. And we don't need to make excuses to why we are in this business. It's just about the love of making the best leather goods produce as possible.