ladyblacksmith wrote:
It's priced at $500+ for any type of hand-mades; and that is for "my time" only; george; and no one asked me to put them on! either.
Comes as no surprise. Seems your pricing strategy toward your targeted market is just a little off. Try $499.99 maybe:rolleyes:
guys here charge $400 for glue-ons here! or $200 a hoof.
and what's that got to do with the price of tea in China? We're talking about bar shoes here not unnecessary BS.
It's different if pre-made barshoes and I do charge more than most guys around here.
They cost entirely too much money. You're screwing yourself not to mention spending your kid's inheritance..
Last one was $170. plain jane. nothing else.
I have 1 client that I charge $100 for barshoes up front/trim behind.
$100 for one heartbar shoe put on that racehorse and
$130 for aluminum KB-N1 eggbar/KB-1T & trim behind for the other lame racehorse at fair hill.
Let me go over this nice and slow so the spectators can fully grasp this. If they cost you $20, your addition to the bill should be no less than $40. If they cost you $30, you should be charging no less than $60. Everybody with me? If you hand make them you can still charge the same without having to shell out those exorbitant sums for overpriced shoes. See the profit potential yet from not being lazy? (Once was a time I'd never tell guys what they ought to be charging. Today there are so many out there who are clueless about the nuts and bolts of their own trade I feel is necessary)
I prefer to figure it by time. A pair of bars is worth a half hour of work. Whether bought or made it should cost about half of a shoeing job. Thus, we see again that the profit potential is much greater in making them than in buying them.
I would agree that regular keg shoes are cheap enough that there is still more profit in buying them. Preshaped and clipped is starting to really push it though, I'm talking regular plain keggars. Not bars though. No way no how. They are entirely too much money
hey, I am not giving my work away..period; and besides; I am way more cuter than Ralph Casey:D
love linda
Certainly can't argue that sister.
mmhorseshoeing wrote:Gary
Most business do (what is called Keystone) products that is double the cost i
There are certain products I use a triple mark up on, sorry I shoe horses to make a living. And doing it cheap is not what I want to be known for. I want to be Known for doing the best job possible at any given time and the extra cost is for having to carry inventory a cost of doing business.
Exactly. Well said.
Dogwood Forge wrote:Not a bad point. There is a guy that doesn't live to far from me that has shod horses since he was a teenager. He is still trying to shoe 1 or 2 a day even though he is 63 now. His average price for 4 shoes is from 45 to 65 dollars. He will tell you that to charge more than that is robbery. (That statement is somewhat ironic coming from this guy considering I know many people that he has cheated and stole from over the years, including his own children.)
Sounds typical:rolleyes: Bet his customers love him to death too right?
This guy in his day always worked full time help and did a pile of horses. There is no telling the money he made over the years even working as cheep as he did. Today he is broke. He doesn't own his home, he doesn't have any retirement, he doesn't even have a savings account. Now he is to cripple to really shoe any more. It is a sad case.
Maybe so but maybe not. Sounds like the guy thoroughly and single handedly ruined the work environment around there for a lot of people and left a lousy legacy. Perhaps it's a case of justice.
One of the reasons I started this tread about "how much does it cost you" is because I was looking at last years numbers trying to project for this coming year how much my wife and I could put back for retirement. Your back has only so many horses in it and when you get to that number you are done. You better spend your health and your youth wisely.
Good thinking. Best of luck to you;)
George