FYI:
I do humbly apologize to you for my having to charge you for shipping my hand
made leather goods. As you will read in the beginning ov my next paragraph, I
make very little “profit” & our United States Post office keeps raising the
price for their services {2025 recent increase ov 39.8%} at a minimum ov
$8.32 & up for mailing your purchase, + eBay takes 14.5% ov my selling
price. I personally look at this S&H price like putting this money as gas
& my time having to RUN to a brick & morter store. USPS
will increase their rates in the beginning ov 2026.
Looks like we have another USPS increase in the
beginning ov 2026 it will be 6.6%;=.55¢ = 8.87
I work awfully close with my selling prices! I
figure my cost of materials and about 5%-15% profit so I can afford to buy more
materials &/or tools.
Leather is expensive, TOOLS are VERY
costly & this is one ov my hobbies, you will notice that I re-use the
envelopes that I get my medications in from the VA so I can save money. Also
please remember that eBay takes almost 13.5% ov my selling price which does not
leave me much profit. This is way I can do what I enjoy and provide a
quality product that U can enjoy and pass-on from generation to
generation. People that do leather work as a profession usually take
cost of material + hours X’s 3= HIGH RETAIL, (not me).
I take my cost +/- 15% = what you pay Stai-Nu CUSTOM
Design Co, aka, (Bob B). Everything is Hand Made right here in
Dania Beach Florida, U.S.A.….. and YES I was a Military Police
Officer in the United States Army.
I ask you if you are happy with my service & product,
please respond to eBay & maybe even put my eBay address out in your face
book page, with all ov that said, this Old Vet thanks you once again.
FYI, I made my first holster in the year ov
1954…. U do the math.
I, as an ex-cowboy AND as a Leather craftsman, cannot
compete with Chinas’ prices. BUT what I can do that they
don’t do, is that I can AND do make ur purchase
personalized. Everything that I create starts out as a hide of
LEATHER. I make my own patterns and I then trace it, cut it
out. I then do whatever I have to produce a fine quality hand crafted ALL
LEATHER creation that you helped me create. I hand sew whatever needs to
be stitched. What I do is commonly known as "Saddle Stitching" and it
too, is done by hand. Some of my
customers want me to personalize their
order. Personalized work could
be anything as simple as dying (not paint) your order to your choice ov color,
or simply stamping YOUR initials or as expensive as "hand tooling"
their order, (floral, animal or even insect motif).
CUSTOM work sometimes requires me
making a "working" template along with a drawing of the tooling
(which involves hours of work). I then, either email this oak tag replica and
the customer and then they send me their approval at which time I give the
customer a quote on the price. with all of this being said, I then expect the
customer to pay me a 50% NON-REFUNDABLE deposit through
my account with "Pay Pal”.
My initials are BB and my # is 8 (eight) so you will
see my signature on everything that I create: My number is 8 & by
extending the down stroke of the Y in "by", to dissect the
8 in half, I now have back-to-back "B's". IF U don’t see my
signature, then it’s not an original.