On a whim, I decided to go back and include what I charged for my cakes in the description area... I only went down to the third row on my first page of pictures, but will continue posting the amounts on my future cakes that I post... a lot of them are free, so maybe on those I'll put what I would have charged.
Anyone care to join me in including your pricing on your pics? I'm hoping that you all will see a trend of the prices going higher and higher We'll see on that one though...I actually just read on a FB aquaintances wall that she really wants a cake from me for her upcomming anniversary...I was so flattered ...that is, until her mom commented under her post that my cakes are "uber expensive" ...luckily the lady responded that they were worth it, the best part is that her hubby called to place an order today!
I'm hoping some of you out there will be willing to start including your prices...I'm always curious,when I see all your fabulous cakes, as to how much you charged.

That's a great idea could you include the dimensions also? Your cakes are beautiful.

awesome idea... btw I LOVE your cakes

cutiepie- your cakes are so cute too, in fact I recognized the christmas tree one right away since I had favorited it back in Dec.!
And that's another thing I wonder about, I see you are in Australia and want to know how pricing cakes is similar or different compared to the US...I was lurking on some cake company's website, that was based in England and saw they had prices listed...I went to the trouble of pulling up a currency calculator so I could see what the American equivalent price was and was shocked at how low some of the prices were, and most of these cakes were listed as fruitcake..which is,most times, a high-cost-ingredients kind of cake to make (well in the US anyways!). But then I wondered if the same phenomena occurs in other countries, like in the US, were the rural areas tend to charge less than the urban areas... I don't know why I'm having such a fit of nosiness, inquiring minds want to know!

I did the same thing on most of my cakes. I will do this in the future as well. I think it would also be nice to see an extimated number of hours it took to make each cake, though this would be harder to calculate.

urban areas tend to be more expensive than rural areas. when i was a young man, i was voluntarily homeless living in long beach, CA, and worked at taco bell making, as their minimum wage for that area, what someone starting out at GM (a good job at the time) here in dayton, OH, would probably have started at. and i'd imagine that that's probably still true, that the cost of living in your area greatly impacts the price structure of what employees earn and the price of the product.

anyway, maybe her mum still prices everything from what she remembers from what they charged back in the 60's. my grandma has this problem, particularly when it comes to quality of products and how business should be handled. then again, some people suffer from a wal*mart mentality. it simply comes from ignorance, it just sucks when they say things like that. trust that people who'd be interested in your product are knowledgeable enough to realize the difference, and if not are open enough to have it explained to them. otherwise, maybe they're not the right customer for you.

i find this problem in my business quite a bit, where some monster online place offers a finished product for less than i can buy the components for. however, they're not looking at the fine print or the quality, they're simply dazzled by a ridiculously low price that makes it impossible for an independent to compete with. quality-wise, there's no question who does the better job. all some folk care about is the price, then, in this case, might be comparing a crappy grocery store sheet cake that serves 30 with a scratch made, sculpted 3D thing that serves 50 and just can't make the leap in their minds?

funny thing is if her mum was asked to make one, i'd bet she'd think your cake was priced spot on! lol.