You timing is spot on, Lorina. Sad but true. I started to get rid of my patterns and laces as well at a loss on Ebay. I get, if I am lucky one bid on the patterns and when the last of the laces sold, I had someone email me and give me righteous sh*t for charging shipping out high - which was a genuine error on the Post Offices' part, and I didn't catch it. I go to the trouble of making sure exact shipping is charged out. She railed at me for gouging the shipping to make extra income - heh, I wish. That lace went out at less than half of wholesale. Making *profit* wasn't an option. And I still refunded her the overage on the shipping. My 100% cotton imported French and Swiss lace sold at what that crap poly/nylon stuff sells at retail, if that in some cases. I tried selling a few Vic underpinnings and got no bites at all, even at less than half of their value. I was looking up other period costumes and someone is selling ladies ACW day and ball gowns for $325, all included. That wouldn't even cover the materials for mos! t of those dresses, let alone the labour! I'd love to know how they're doing it. Sure volume, yeah, but jeez! That's a lot of sweat for little pay, much less they must be stealing the fabric! And my husband thought *I* was on cheap crack...
Off to work on my newest theoretical bodice - The Galizia "Judith" painting. I create because the Fabric Gods tell me so..... Listening to the little voices in my head, Kathy Ermine, a lion rampant tail nowed gules charged on the shoulder with a rose Or barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved vert (Fieldless) On a rose Or barbed vert a lion's head erased gules. It’s never too late to be who you might have been. -George Eliot Tosach eólais imchomarc. - Questioning is the beginning of knowledge. http://www.sengoidelc.com/node/131 > There are days in the past two weeks I think I've made a horrible > mistake. And then I look at the reports, lack of growth, loss of sales to my > suppliers and the Big Three, and I know I've decided to bow out while > there's yet grace. You do what you gotta do. I've seen the market for costume clothing change in the last couple of years too. Beats me how some of the people who sell on ebay are making any kind of money with the prices they charge. Unless they are getting fabric for free. ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail – Tired of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
