FOR THOSE THAT COMPLAIN ABOUT SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS PRICES A customer wanted to purchase a hand painted bath bomb for her child’s birthday and spotted a lady who did absolutely amazing work, but she charged £5 a bath bomb. The customer thought that the lady’s price was way too high so she approached the artist and in quite a brusk fashion stated "I want to buy a Unicorn bath bomb from you, but I think you charge too much." The lady was a little taken aback but replied, "Ok, how much do you think I should charge?" The customer replied “I think you should charge £3 because the ingredients will cost this much, and the paint this much, and the wrapping this much. I even factored in the price of your label” The final price the customer had calculated was a lot cheaper than the artist's original price, but she said "Ok, deal. You will get your bathbomb in a week". The customer was very pleased with herself and can’t resist telling all her friends what a fabulous deal she has negotiated and how smart she is, and that in a week she will have her gorgeous Unicorn bath bomb. A week later her parcel arrives in a lovely packaged box. She opens it and inside is 5 bags of ingredients, 2 pots of mica, a piece of shrink wrap and a label. Angrily she contacts the artist asking “How could you do this to me? I asked you for a Bath bomb and you sent me some bags of powder, 2 powder paint and a label!!!! The artist quietly replies "My dear, you got exactly what you paid for, you will have to work on the recipe, buy your own alcohol to paint with and the paintbrush (sable)........if you think there is something missing, then you will need to pay for it." Moral of the story, when you buy handmade you are not just buying the materials you are buying the artist's , time, effort, love and dedication that goes into making your pieces. I copied this from another post and edited it to suit my business......but thought it was very to the point. #smallbusiness #supportsmallbusiness #etsyshop #etsystore #etsyfinds #gifts #shopsmall #shopsmallbusiness #localartist #localbusiness #handmade #handmadegifts https://www.instagram.com/p/CC2cXDplqjB/?igshid=sjwa4ravtnjt