I work awfully close with my selling prices! I figure my cost of materials + my Shipping & Handling and about 5%-15% profit so I can afford to buy more materials. 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 meds in from the VA so I can save money. This 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).
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. Looks
like we have another USPS increase in the beginning ov 2026. Looks like we have another USPS increase in the
beginning ov 2026it 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.