Re: The Economics of Customizing Harmonicas

[Nicolas Fouquet <bbhcfr@xxxxxxxx>]

By the way, if you are in business, gotta look serious. If you sell your stuff too cheap, you may look not serious. The prob is to find the right price: not too expensive, not to cheap.
Meanwhile, myself, I try to explain to my customer that they are buying an ITEM and not buying a PRICE (if you c what I mean).
I do not think that custom harps are expensive because they worth it. A hohner Blues Badnis very expensive: alright, only cost few greens, but you can throw it to the bin after 30 minutes, while a custom, you buy it for an amount which seems expensive, but you keep your custom longer. Let's not confuse " Expensive" and " a lot of money" I think.
Expensive means that the gear does not worth its price (I found that in the Oxford Dictionnary of English). I we follow that, a custom harp is not expensive. It just cost more money than a factory made harp.
 
Froggy

Tim Moyer <wmharps@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Pat Missin wrote:
> That depends on the cost of producing such an instrument. Someone
> recently said that most harp players want a thousand dollar 
> instrument for a hundred dollars. Actually, I think most of them 
> want a thousand dollar instrument for ten dollars.

The irony of this is that buying stuff too cheap doesn't help 
anyone. Producing goods and selling them at a price that isn't 
profitable guarantees that the producer won't be in business for very 
long. I prefer an arrangement with my suppliers that makes it so 
they can continue to enjoy their business as well. Thankfully, most 
of my customers seem to feel the same way. 

- -tim

Tim Moyer
Working Man's Harps
http://www.workingmansharps.com/




		
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