kindling

[eggsarascal]

roughly speaking, everyone is making a quid!!

 

i'd be interested in popping over one evening and seeing your set up egg. im probably over bures harvesting my wheat tomoro

 

I wouldn't be making a quid on a net at £1.60.

 

You are more than welcome to drop over and have a look at my set up, not much to see though, a small fordson, hakki pilke eagle and a rented barn that i can't use at the moment as there are a pair of barn owl chicks in there, and the dedham wild life trust are monitoring.

 

I spoke to the people from dedham and they told me that they think they will be gone in the next few days......fingers crossed.

[gensetsteve]

I know what steve charges, i pm'd him last week, if you are selling for a quid extra what price are the farm shops knocking them out for ?

 

By the way the nets i'm looking at aren't the ones in the link.

 

Our customers retail them at between £3-£5 . We have sold them with our log deliveries for two years now 3 for £10 and they fly out very rarely do they not sell on a delivery. We dont sell them on the phone we hold them up and show the customer on delivery and give them the choice.

[eggsarascal]

Our customers retail them at between £3-£5 . We have sold them with our log deliveries for two years now 3 for £10 and they fly out very rarely do they not sell on a delivery. We dont sell them on the phone we hold them up and show the customer on delivery and give them the choice.

 

Steve, i wasn't knocking your price or your product, what i've done is speak to the local shop owners and they want 100% mark up, i'm just trying to guage what is a reasonable price to ask for wholesale nets, from what ben as said he's selling to shops that are happy to make about a 33% mark up.

[gensetsteve]

No offence was taken. We all have to make a margin. I dont know why retailers get so hung up on % margin. Fast moving non returning items like this must be ideal for them in the winter.

[renewablejohn]

Really does annoy me this % margin. One of the shop keepers I wholesale briquettes to only makes 20% on the stuff he sells so I offered to sell him my briquettes with a 25% markup. I went back to see why sales were sluggish only to find he had increased the price to 125% mark-up. I think it is pure greed on the part of the shop keeper. Needless to say his sales have stopped due to the price hike.

[sandbach-sticks]

Similar here I sell kindling at £1.50 to see it being sold for £3.99, so i am trying to sell more and more direct to customers and pushing advertising. I have even started doing local markets with firewood and other wood products, and am starting to build up a client base that way.

[davetaz]

I sell a few nets (300-400/year) of softwood kindling (60x40) to a couple of shops/retailers. They buy them off me for £2.50 and retail them at £4.50

[mikey10]

I sell a few nets (300-400/year) of softwood kindling (60x40) to a couple of shops/retailers. They buy them off me for £2.50 and retail them at £4.50

 

This is what i do with steves kindling, Selling at £2.50. the price cpl charge the garages is about the same price but not as good quality, near the end of the season 2 years ago cpl's kindling was soaking wet because they started running out of dry stuff.