$1.80 Too Much For These Cupcakes W/ Color Flow Tent?
Baking By laddybug Updated 4 Mar 2011 , 4:32am by FromScratchSF
Someone ordered 36 cupcakes and she wanted a circus tent on them.
I ended up making it with color flow. It took me forever and woke up w/ a sore neck the next day.
Price too much or too little?
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1959939
Aww how cute!!
Honestly, I think they're priced too low. How much did material/ingredients cost?
I would have charged $3.00 per cupcake, since the decorations were so time consuming.
The cupcakes alone where I live would be 2.50 to 3.00. Then I would have charged a per hour charge for the tents too. I haven idea how long it took to do each tent, but I'm pretty sure your time is worth the pennies you were probably paid.
I charge more than $1.80 for a basic cupcake without filling! But I guess that doesn't matter... 
As long as you charged enough to cover your expenses and made the profit you needed to make, you charged the right amount. (But I think it wasn't enough. 
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Way too little!! Next time before you give someone a quote for an order make sure you know how much it is going to cost for your ingredients and figure out how much do you want to be paid per hour. I don't think that you want to work with a sore neck for a little bit of money.!!!!!
Way too little!! Next time before you give someone a quote for an order make sure you know how much it is going to cost for your ingredients and figure out how much do you want to be paid per hour. I don't think that you want to work with a sore neck for a little bit of money.!!!!!
Thanks again everyone...
Luckily I haven't sent her a price yet. I only quoted her $1.25 for plain buttercream cupcakes. I told her it would be more for the tents and polka dots. That I'd have to see how much work they were first. I'm just worried to charge her too much, don't want scare her away since she's my first real customer you know. Maybe I'll tell her $70 for 36ct.
Thanks again everyone...
Luckily I haven't sent her a price yet. I only quoted her $1.25 for plain buttercream cupcakes. I told her it would be more for the tents and polka dots. That I'd have to see how much work they were first. I'm just worried to charge her too much, don't want scare her away since she's my first real customer you know. Maybe I'll tell her $70 for 36ct.
Very valuable business advice...
If you do not value your time and product, nobody else will.
Since you are Japan (Konnichiha!) it's hard for us to help with pricing, but even though your instincts are to try not to "scare" the customer away, this will only hurt you in the long run.
Good luck!
Jen
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