[Jewelry making - Article 00457] - Re: [Orchid] Gemstones Purchase price vs. market price

[Roseann Hanson]

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>         I don't mean to be a pain in the butt, but I gotta wonder... 
>     When you congratulate yourself for finding your stones for less at
>     Tucson, are you factoring in all the time and money you spent going
>     to Tucson in the first place? I'm not trying to pick on you,
>     Roseann-- I address this to anyone and everyone. Because, as much
>     as I would *love* to go to Tucson, I can't justify it as a
>     business/economic proposition, only if I consider it an expensive
>     but worthwhile vacation (I haven't ever felt I could afford it
>     yet). 

    I live in Tucson. For me, it's on the way to the grocery store and
    liquor store ;-) 

    Of course I always factor all costs into my pricing. And by way of
    example, a customer wants a very specific tourmaline cab (teardrop
    shape, pink, for his mum's birthday) and I looked in 2 shows, thens
    topped, realizing it was a waste of my time because he had already
    found one at Thai Gem online, which was $35, and that's what he
    expects to pay - as I was not having luck in Tucson, I decided to
    tell him to just order it and send it to me. An hour of my time was
    all I wanted to try to put into such a buy, when I'd not make much on
    it anyway, b/c of the online thing. As they say, "Why make it hard on
    yourself?" 

    Anyway, one should always factor all costs, not just cost of stones,
    into all art. Well, all goods and services for that matter! That's
    where so many artists go wrong...and bankrupt. 

Roseann

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