Post #75891 by Benzart on Thu, Feb 12, 2004 10:18 PM

This is a good question. To charge or not to charge. y carvings were always sold one of 2 ways: I carved a Piece and set a price I felt was fair and that I could get and not lose money. Second were the commissions where a client wanted a piece they saw in my bookand were hagglers,They wanted a 600 dollar Pelican for 3oo dollars.I explained I could carve a 300 dollar Pelican and showed them the 300 dollar pelican picture. They would STILL try to get the 600 dollar bird for 300 dollars. I have been out of the loop,no carving for 10 years and coming back I'm going to do things differently.
I finish a piece and set a price for it and it sticks.I'm not going to get sucked into the "Ceap' art for no money. My time is too valubal and my carving time is limited,. I want every piece to be as good as I can possibly make it. Hope it works.