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Dec. 12th, 2011 10:29 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maypirateAND SO YOU SEE.
I have finally finished the Loki doll I was working on for![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jou, and because he's probably my most fabulous creation to date I present him now
Regular Loki!
Loki with hat!
And now I have some questions for you all! I'd like to open my etsy shop and start taking doll commissions, but I'm very bad at pricing my goods, so I wanted to offer this poll. If you could just take a moment to throw in your input, that would be awesome.
[Poll #1802525]
Thank you for your help! :D
I have finally finished the Loki doll I was working on for
jou, and because he's probably my most fabulous creation to date I present him now Regular Loki!
Loki with hat!
And now I have some questions for you all! I'd like to open my etsy shop and start taking doll commissions, but I'm very bad at pricing my goods, so I wanted to offer this poll. If you could just take a moment to throw in your input, that would be awesome.
[Poll #1802525]
Thank you for your help! :D
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Date: 2011-12-12 04:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-21 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-12 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-21 04:25 pm (UTC)*makes all the tiny hats*
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Date: 2011-12-12 06:44 pm (UTC)I'd look at Deadly Sweet's pricing. Although she's on holiday break right now. But her pricing should give you an idea of where you should be.
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Date: 2011-12-12 08:08 pm (UTC)I'm not a follower of these fandoms, and so price isn't really the deciding factor for me. However, for a doll of this type, I would pay in the $10 - $15 range.
On an unrelated note, I really admire the stitching on the Loki armor and hat.
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Date: 2011-12-12 09:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-21 04:26 pm (UTC)I so appreciate it. ;_;
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Date: 2011-12-13 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-21 04:28 pm (UTC)The hat was kind of my favorite part, actually. I dunno, I enjoyed Loki much more than Erik and Charles, even though in the long run I got a lot scarier about his years of "embroidery."
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Date: 2011-12-13 04:46 am (UTC)/wants one! bad!
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Date: 2011-12-21 04:29 pm (UTC)Someday I'm gonna try an Asuka. But that's gonna take some mental preparation.
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Date: 2011-12-13 05:35 pm (UTC)So, I put $15 for the X-Men (each) & $20 for Loki, but upon further consideration, I would think more like $20 (each) for Charlie & E, and maybe $35 for the pair? And then $25 or $30 for the Loki, since he comes with a removable hat that is adoraballs.
Also, putting on my economist hat, it's been shown that:
A) Most people will naturally round up or down to the closest number ending in 5 or 0, so if you price at $21, people will just think of that as $20, and buy at nearly the same rate they would if it actually were $20. Same thing with $24 (i.e. people will think of that as $25), but that'd hurt you, not help you.
B) People generally don't consider shipping prices as much as they should in their buy-or-not-buy calculations. So more people will buy an item that is priced at $10 with $3 shipping than will buy an item that is priced at $12 with $1 shipping.
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Date: 2011-12-21 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-13 07:42 pm (UTC)eta: and I would do $10-15 for a basic figure as you start out, going up in increments of $5 based on complexity.
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Date: 2011-12-21 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-16 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-21 04:31 pm (UTC)