[TheForge] pricing

[Andrew Vida]

john ortery wrote:
> I still have problems knowing what to charge for what I make.  I want
> to be fair to myself and to the person buying it. Also in my case I
> feel like I have some responsibility to other blacksmiths.

	What responsibility would that be?

 > If they are
> selling it for $30 and I am selling for $10 then that is not fair to
> the rest of you. 

	If you can make them here in this market and sell them for that money, 
then it is the market's responsibility to follow suit - market 
efficiency and all that.

	If you are working in Mexico or China for $0.10 per hour, then the sale 
of your work here is not based on free markets, but on artificially 
maintained labor arbitrage conditions.  In that case you should eat it 
and go to hell.

	One thing I will admonish people is not to fall for "free trade".  It 
has NOTHING to do with free markets and everything with cornering 
markets via labor arbitrage while placing the USA squarely in the 
crosshairs.

 >  So I am still trying to learn what is the right
> price.  Get really bad at it if it is art work.
>   I have no problem doing traid and being happy is the main thing, but
> I would also like to pay the bills. so I feel like I have much to
> learn with blacksmithing and what to charge.
>  Just trying to learn in Illinois, Allen Ortery
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