Ingasbo's Weird Growth.
Nov. 30th, 2009 08:49 pm.....This evening I fielded yet another e-mail from someone in Montreal who wants a deal on a set of eight to ten circlets. We've been bantering back-and-forth on price and availability and this guy seems pretty serious as he sent me a list of specific circlets and a request on a final figure with shipping.
.....I'm going to give him 15% off of each circlet if he orders at least eight of them. But the novelty of batch orders has now worn off and he gets no freebies, unlike the guy from England. :-)
.....In any case he hasn't committed, yet. So I'm not going to hold my breath. But maybe this is the order that actually buys my Kindle from Spamazon? Probably not, but it WILL be the order that finances the new sheet of designs from TBT and myself in December, with at least one sample sheet before the end of the month? That would be excellent!
.....Or possibly an order for a sheet of designs in actual silver. I'm toying with the idea, but the price per circlet would be pretty steep (upwards of $80 to $100 for a single narrow circlet). I'm not sure that the marketplace would pay that kind of money for a narrow circlet in silver, especially if it doesn't look a whole lot different than a circlet of the same design in nickel.
.....Will have to pick TBT's brain for some advice.
.....This is like the third or fourth inquiry for a batch order this year. Usually I field maybe one a year, and not very serious ones at that. I'm kind of curious at what demographics are driving this trend.
.....Looks like the vacation schedule now has at least three days devoted to circlet Research and Development. :-)
.....Played a little with TBT's dishing block yesterday and dished out some blanks that could be made into spoons with etched patterns. Just have to figure out a good way to attach the dished metal to the patterned pieces. Soldering is messy and riveting still looks weird. I'll have to play with that some more. Another item to add to the vacation schedule. :-)
.....I'd better hurry up and put that thing together before I end up with a list of stuff to do that is longer than the amount of time I actually have off of work for the vacation. :-)
.....Aaron / Arontius.
.....I'm going to give him 15% off of each circlet if he orders at least eight of them. But the novelty of batch orders has now worn off and he gets no freebies, unlike the guy from England. :-)
.....In any case he hasn't committed, yet. So I'm not going to hold my breath. But maybe this is the order that actually buys my Kindle from Spamazon? Probably not, but it WILL be the order that finances the new sheet of designs from TBT and myself in December, with at least one sample sheet before the end of the month? That would be excellent!
.....Or possibly an order for a sheet of designs in actual silver. I'm toying with the idea, but the price per circlet would be pretty steep (upwards of $80 to $100 for a single narrow circlet). I'm not sure that the marketplace would pay that kind of money for a narrow circlet in silver, especially if it doesn't look a whole lot different than a circlet of the same design in nickel.
.....Will have to pick TBT's brain for some advice.
.....This is like the third or fourth inquiry for a batch order this year. Usually I field maybe one a year, and not very serious ones at that. I'm kind of curious at what demographics are driving this trend.
.....Looks like the vacation schedule now has at least three days devoted to circlet Research and Development. :-)
.....Played a little with TBT's dishing block yesterday and dished out some blanks that could be made into spoons with etched patterns. Just have to figure out a good way to attach the dished metal to the patterned pieces. Soldering is messy and riveting still looks weird. I'll have to play with that some more. Another item to add to the vacation schedule. :-)
.....I'd better hurry up and put that thing together before I end up with a list of stuff to do that is longer than the amount of time I actually have off of work for the vacation. :-)
.....Aaron / Arontius.