How much would you pay for hand made exotic hardwood dice?

How much would you pay for hand made exotic hardwood dice? I have made a few sets for friends and everyone tells me I should sell them, I don't know if people would pay enough to make the time it takes cost effective though
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Thats the general idea, I usually fill in the pips with some bone or turquoise or something like that and polish it up more but thats the bones of it.

 

if they have renaissance festivals near you then I would say go for it. youll have to wear a tunic and grow a beard though.

 

ETSY is pretty hit and miss for eye level "market research" like that, plenty of people just post a product and never sell anything. I'm curious how much Dr. Sokolov "the dragon" "master of men" "the one true bandito" himself would pay for some fancy cocobolo dice. What if they were themed even?

 

Implying I don't already wear a tunic and a beard.....it is on my ***** though so I see what you mean.

 

Show me the product first?

dammit that sounded like this is a drug deal.

 

#1 Tha

#1 that came off as pretty rude man

#2 finding out what uninterested people would pay is still important, I am not only asking you or only this forum. I have a fairly successful etsy store selling wooden rings and part of what made it work is that I asked around much like this and found a price people would consider paying even if they initially werent interested. If someone is out there selling hand made dice for 40$ a set theres no way someone like you or I would be interested, but if you ran across a set of neat wooden dice for like 10$? You might consider it, I would for sure, even just to replace the dice in my settlers of catan box I hardly play. I'm just trying to find out what that sweet spot is for dice like this, is it 10$? Maybe its 15$, or 7$. It isnt the most important thing, but finding out how much uninterested people are willing to pay is someting worth finding out.

#3 ↖ I feel like you should be doing something else

 

put em out there for a price point that "makes" you money. people devalue cheap things anyway. $40 is diner for 2 and temporary so who is to say $40 for cool dice you can roll forever is too much.

and marketing is key, put them in cool box etc etc. beats by dre are way "overpriced" and he made a billion off em

 

Are you telling him to put metal weights in them?

 

heck yea! lucky dice are worth more

 

and heavy things are vallued as more.

 

Now thats helpful input. My ring business is my only experience with this but online the things that seem to matter are 1. the price 2. the pictures 3. your reviews/sale count (credibility). Maybe I'll have a cheap set for people that aren't really interested but won that 10$ scratch n sniff lottery, and a nice set with a dope ass box for interested serious collectors for like 40$. I totally agree with the heavy = more worth thing too, the problem with dice is they have to be centered and adding weight to them would likely "load" them. I do have some super dense ironwood though, like the kind of wood that sinks in water, maybe I'll give that a shot.

 

Now that is helpful input, thanks Dr Cactus man.

 

We fight fire with blood debts where I'm from, an eye for and eye, its called hakmarje and it means if I think you were rude i'll be rude back, even if you werent really rude, even if it goes on for 1000 years, even if all the text you write is green - no one trumps hakmarje


*im joking man I just LOVE Firking with people, I really do.

 

Knowing you would be willing to spend up to 15$ as a gift is useful to know though, someone that is very uninterested in wooden dice might be willing to look at them still, even as a gift, if they are priced low enough. Its not the most valuable information but its worth knowing I think, since people generally are willing to pay a lot more for gifts than they would spend on themselves your 15$ gives me a pretty good idea of where the bottom of the spectrum of interest x price is. That does make sense right? I don't feel like I'm being crazy, but you never can tell apparently.