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  • From: SaladG AT aol.com
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] Cheap market prices
  • Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:48:37 EDT

As I see it in the markets we attend we have some vendors that really don't need any money and this selling at farmers markets is just a hobby and something for them to do.  We have a couple of markets that is very true with their pricing, and buying them out sometimes will work but sometime it won't.  I have and old guy in one market selling beer flats of tomato's for a buck, and these are really good tomato's, I as him why he is selling so cheap and he said they have so manny that someone should get the good out of them????.    I guess they really don't get it.    There is the other extreme as well.  In one market a lady was asking 6.00 for a head of cabbage and was telling the rest of us we were to cheap because we were selling by the pound. 

Prices have always been an issue in ay market that I have ever been in and our method of pricing is all done in the winter when I have time to do all my cost figures for that previous year, and then is when I set my prices for the coming year.  Very seldom does it vary from my original estimated selling price.  

Back to the guy selling tomato's for 1.00 a beer flat, last week he sold 7 flats, and I sold two lugs, around 18.00 a lug. Who came out on top.  Price is not the main factor in sales, you might lose a sale this week but more and likely good produce will always win out.

Phil


  • [Market-farming] Cheap market prices, SaladG, 09/22/2004

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