Jig Pricing!

[skiptomylu]

All my regular jigs I sell never reach $1 even. My average price is $0.82 or so. I don't know how people get that $1 or $2 because I sell a decent amount of jigs, but I doubt that if I had a price over $1 they would sell as well and you can't make money like this.


i pay for materials mostly for the last 3 years and now hope maybe just maybe I can slow down buying materials enough to actually make a few bucks.

If you want to do it mostly as a hobby like I do that is one thing, but if your intent is to make money, find something else to do.

I make as good a jig as anyone as far as quality and will hold together well and I know some sell their jigs for $1+ or even $2, but I guarantee they are no better than mine and most of them can't make them as good as I can. I am not bragging, but rather trying to make a point.

If you don't lose one of my jigs then you can catch way over 100 fish per jig and some even use that as a selling point, but if a jig can't do that then it's not that great of quality.

Now my Road Runners I sell for more than the .82 ($1.35 and maybe going up more), but they take a long time to do right. Not just the tying, but all the blade changing and painting takes for ever. If I paint with vinyl that is a 3 step process. If I powder paint then the blade needs to come of and tin foil put on to protect the swivel and then put the blade back on. The actual tying is not that much more time, but all the other stuff makes it very time consuming.

If you should decide to jump in the jig tying and selling market you better lower your expectations. I have a friend that has been tying a good bit longer than I have and talking with him the other day, he is not making money either.

So price them at what you can stand as you will be giving your labor away for cheap for sure.

Skip