making and selling your lures

after yall make and tie yalls lures how do u go about selling them and how much do u charge for them i know you have to figure up how much money you have invested in your materials and what not but how do i figure out how much to charge per jig(s) cause i have all theys molds and jigs made up and fishing weights made that ill never use and probaly never use and im not sure how much to charge and how many to sell per pack so im in question here im not trying to sell anything on C.C im just curious how yall do it so i know what i can tell my friends and co-workers when they ask me how much i charge to make fishing weights and lures i dont want to tell them some outragous price for something i enjoy doing and making

thanks C.J.

this has been discussed alot...check back into the past threads and you will see it

you need to factor in your materials and your TIME! I sell my crappie jigs for .99 cents each.

Give them away to friends or trade them for other stuff... is what I do.

i do the same gcd. trade alot of jigheads also

I keep it easy, I pick what I want to sell and price them to buy what I need to make more. I doubt I will ever get much more than that out of them.

My advice would be trade for stuff or just give 'em away. Would never encourage anyone to try to make money at a hobby they enjoy. Sure way to kill the enjoyment. Now if building baits is your passion then jump in whole hog.

i usually just give them away but i have some older friends that insist on paying me and im just not sure what to tell them

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Originally Posted by soswine

My advice would be trade for stuff or just give 'em away. Would never encourage anyone to try to make money at a hobby they enjoy. Sure way to kill the enjoyment. Now if building baits is your passion then jump in whole hog.

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+1

if they insist on paying you. tell them to buy you a soda...

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Originally Posted by PBUG2009

if they insist on paying you. tell them to buy you a soda...

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Or a new boat:D

with a truck to pull it...might as well go all out

I've always traded mine. I've got enough hooks to outfit 100 guys in jigs and I don't have them poured yet, but does that stop me from picking up more NOPE!!!!!!!!

I got into the fly tying/fishing bug and it's all I did for 3 1/2 years. When that urge to pour jigs came I was really low on supplies and the costs had gone WAY UP!!!!!!! especially when you buy things by the 1000.

Fatman

you make a lot of friends if you give away your jigs. Course you might make a lot of enemies if they fall apart.

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Originally Posted by dpiscator

you need to factor in your materials and your TIME! I sell my crappie jigs for .99 cents each.

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We do not mention prices on the forum. That is what the business directory or the PM is for.

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Originally Posted by crappie josh

i usually just give them away but i have some older friends that insist on paying me and im just not sure what to tell them

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Then show us your work and it will be easier to say. I tie and sell lots of jigs, but the price matches the material cost and difficulty or how long it take to tie them. So show us and I can give you a better idea as can some of the others here, but very hard to say without seeing.

Skip

but watching you on that video....shoot skip i bet you can tie 2 a minute.....lol

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Originally Posted by crappie josh

i usually just give them away but i have some older friends that insist on paying me and im just not sure what to tell them

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If you were going to give them away anyway, just tell the "old timers" to pay you what they're worth to them... even if they give you a nickel apiece, you're still money ahead.;)... but I find people are more generous than you would be if you let them put the price on something that they want.

good point gcd

im in the sweet 16 jig swap so skip u will be reciving one of my jigs :) my camara isnt real good or i would put pictures up ive gotten a lot of good info from yall in the past and so thats what im going take some of the advice from yall in this topic i would rather trade jigs with people any how its more benficial to me in the long run any how and plus never been good in marketing anyhow :) untill this post never actually knew what to tell people when they ask me how much for my products from my hobbby

I question my self all the time about if I really still want to keep selling jigs. I started tying to have something to do and just fell in love with tying jig, flies, Poppers, what ever I just like doing it. However selling them and being busy so much you can't fish as much as you want and then you can't even tie what you want to even for your self. So you got to want to do this and like it enough to put up with the down side. It's a beautiful hobby and great to just make this stuff and then catch fish with it and probably would never burn out like that and enjoy this for life.

If you find your self at some point saying to your self, I got to finish these before I go fishing then your in trouble, LOL!

Skip

here's how. take how much work you put into it,how much money it took to make and how many the customers likely want and put it together. then come up with the price you think is right. like, if it was easy to make, cheap, and it is most likely going to be bought in large amounts. then make it cheap. (50. to 75.) but if it took hours of work, was very expensive, and may not be bought so much. then make it expensive ($1.00 to$5.00)

I would rather do some horsetradin' than sell my jigs..it is alot more fun !!:)





MaryLou~~

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Originally Posted by skiptomylu

It's a beautiful hobby and great to just make this stuff and then catch fish with it and probably would never burn out like that and enjoy this for life. If you find your self at some point saying to your self, I got to finish these before I go fishing then your in trouble, LOL!

Skip

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That is so true Skip. Perhaps that is the main reason I shut my website down and just tie for friends and myself. I am 65 and I want to fish...not be tied to a bench. (No pun intended):D:D:D:D:D

My wife sells "dip mixes" at local craft shows. She was looking for a name for her products and I suggested "Dip This" trying to be funny. That is what she calls them. LOL I've tied some to just package and sell with her for fun and I needed a name. Skip suggested "Dip This In The Water". So I guess that's it. LOL I'm not gonna let selling jigs take over the things I wanta do. I'm just gonna give them to friends, have enough to fish with, and sell a few for fun.

i think im just going to give them away cause at some point your either going to get some jigs back in return or some one is going to take you fishing or bring/give you somthing in return so its going to be a win/win eventualy :)

I sold them for year and was so busy with orders that I never could fish.Just like Skip says. It is really not worth it
I sold them for 1.25 a piece and it still was not enough to pay me for my time. I gave my website and my jig tying up totally.
I maybe selling all my jig tying supplies and bare jigs very soon .

The worst part about selling your jigs is doing it legally. if you sell jigs you are supose to charge a excise tax of %10 This requires you getting a E.I.C # from the goverment. then you are supose to in my state anyway charge a sales tax of almost %8 so that means I had to get a state salels tax ID #. So for every jig I sell for $1 18cents goes to the goverment. This means I have to keep very good records of every sale and of the supplies I buy. also every 3 months I have to send in my excise tax payment and at end of year send in my sales tax payment then bring all my records to my tax guy so he can say dude is this worth it for a extra 2k a year lol well I'm starting to think it isnt so after this year Ill probly close my site and just trade my jigs/plastics or just sell them for cost to friends and others because i do like to tie and pour alot and there is no way I will ever use as many jigs as I tie.