Help! How much to charge for pre-made scrapbook.

I totally agree with you Scrapbook Queen - we are artists and need to charge a decent amount for our work. I price my pages by adding the total materials cost and my hourly wage. For example.... say a page takes me half an hour, and I want a wage of $20 per hour. So - $5 for materials + $10 wage = $15 per page. Times that by the number of pages, and add the album cost.

I was going to start a business doing custom albums, but have decided to do framed pages instead (as has already been mentioned). They are much more afforable, especially in these tough economic times.

And a framed layout is finished quickly, so there's no risk of getting bored when I'm half way through an album, but have to keep going because someone is waiting for it.

I'll sell them privately or through gift shops, florists, bridal shops etc. I'm thinking of selling to shops at a 'wholesale' price, rather than putting them in on a consignment basis. That way I'll have my money straight away - no waiting until something is sold, then wasting petrol going back to collect my money.

Good luck wichever way you decide to go.

a snippet... I knew a CMC back in 2002 who was commissioned to make a 40 page wedding album. She charged $3000 for it - and the bride was happy to pay the price for a hand made original. WOW - put the "W" word in the equation and the skys the limit on pricing.

But that was in the days before digital scrapping made it all so easy for everyone. I can't see the average person paying that kind of money these days. But you never know................ lol.

2-4 for the page is seen in you gallery they do not have much to them .They are plain and simple. If they were more alabrate and hand more work to them then you could raise the prices. For one for my pre made book i charge over 300.00 do to the amount of work i put in to each page . Some of my pages take me up to40+ to do .

• Sparklie Said:

I agree with cost of meterials plus hourly rate but I think $5 isn't enough! You could make more working at McDonalds!

I personally think premade pages and customized albums are sold ridiculously underpriced and unless those of us making them decided that our time is worth more than minimum wage (or less sometimes) then we are forever going to be ripped off for our skill and passion. JMO!

I would sell separately - for around $10.00

I would think about price from a profit standpoint:

1. Calculate the cost of materials + $5 per each hour you worked on it. (Or whatever rate you choose).

or

2. Cost of materials + 20%.

That way, you make a profit and it's worth your time to sit there and sell it!

Thank you all, that is really helpful and I will probably take the suggestion of seperating the pages from the albums. My biggest concern was having too big a price (worth it or not) and not being able to sell.
Again, thank you!

I also think breaking them up would work well and make you more money...

Its so incredibly difficult to give advice on this kind of thing. Everything from location, cost of supplies, degree of embellishment, tendencies of people in the area, matter. For instance I'm guessing that in NYC you'd have a much greater chance of success charging $10/layout. Not only would you have more people so better chance that one would be willing to pay the price, but also, they would be more used to spending that kind of money.

I agree with the above post though that you'd probably have better luck selling by layout rather then as a whole. Few people I know are planning to pay more then $20 for an item at a craft fair unless it is an upscale one. The normal craft fairs around here tend to have things priced at the $5-10 range. Of course they are selling small items; cards, ornaments, ceramics, and such.

If you sell by layout you could even offer discounts as people by more then one set. It's a psychological thing that works on many of us. If they buy enough you throw in the actual scrapbook for free.

Good luck.

Honestly, I would probably sell them as 2 page layouts instead of whole albums. You can sell the scrapbooks at an addtl cost and the 8x8 layouts for $5-7 and the 12x12 layouts for $7-10. The reason I would do that is because you would get more money that way. If you sell it as full albums at the same price you're looking at $220 for your 22 page book, plus the cost of the scrapbook itself. I don't know about you, but I would never buy a scrapbook, premade or not for that much. You stand to make more money seperating everything. Good luck at the faire.

I have not done premade pages but I charge around $10.00 to 20.00 per page.

For premade pages I think I would charg around $5.00 to 10.00 per page.

Ok, so I'm making four 12 x 12 scrapbook albums (meaning whoever buys it just has to add pics) and one 8 x 8 All Girl album. I need advice on how much to charge for them at a craft fair that I'm going to be a vendor in. Any help? How much would you charge/pay for these? You can look in my gallery to see some example layouts.

1- Baby Boy book - 10 layouts

2- Family Album (covers all holidays) 22 layouts

3- Family Album (holidays included) 12 layouts

4- Christmas Album 12 layouts

5- All Girl 8x8

Thank you so much

Lyn