Indeed I now understand but you didn’t mention in the first place that you were not referring to hats sold elsewhere so naturally assumed you meant your cheaper hats for sale here.
I do agree that 10x10cm Dichroic at £16.60 vs Muffle at £3.16 does make for a massive price differential …However though I might, if asked, make a pendant for a dog I would make it out of normal bullseye at £4.30. I would not even consider using my seriously expensive Dichroic stocks as dogs get into all sorts of messy situations and to be honest I don’t think the dog would appreciate the finer qualities of the dichroic 
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I never cease to be amazed at what people will buy for, and spend on, their dogs!!
I’m sorry it irritated you and you felt i’d been sneaky.
I do appreciate all advice but felt a little disheartened that you compared pure wool, handknitted hats to something off Amazon, Tesco or wherever.
Why wouldn’t we charge for our time spent in making something - it takes days to make even a small garment
I do appreciate all advice but I was slightly confused about comparing price points of hand made garments and pure wool with something mass produced from a large corp.
I’m sorry to whoever said my feelings were uncalled for - they are still my feelings.
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I am really sorry if you think i have insulted your work by the mention of Amazon. I googled for knitted dog jumpers and lots came up on Amazon so that is what I referred to. I was simply doing a price check which is, I thought’, what you had asked for.
I do need to clarify a small point you may not be aware of . There are lots and lots of things for sale on Amazon which are not mass produced from a large corporation. There is a Handmade section on Amazon where people just like you or I could if we wished apply to sell. I have no doubt that some Folksy sellers sell their things on Amazon.
And of course you should charge for your time but I am simply saying it is probably unrealistic to expect to make a living wage especially when you are unestablished with no customer base, reviews to prove the worth of it.
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This irritated me today. Looking at my record of orders since 1st Feb… Where F = Folksy, T = my other platform and P = Private.
They are in date order… the two at the bottom are dated 1st Feb. !!
People are suggesting that Folksy has gone Google blind again… Hmmmmmmm
I just had the weirdest experience with an Amazon delivery driver. I was working in my van parked on the drive, and he walked past and went to the door, right next to me. I had earplugs in so couldn’t tell if he’d knocked or not, but he was standing at the door looking at his electronic thing. So I shouted hello (no response from him) and got out of the van and walked towards him to get the parcel. He put the parcel through the door then walked towards me and passed not two feet from me, and as he passed he held up a large envelope over his face like he didn’t want me to see him. He didn’t look up or acknowledge my existence at all. Snubbed in my own garden! How weird, and how bloody rude.
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I had words with one the other day. He knocked on the door then buggered off. I caught him just as he was shutting the garden gate. I was like…can you give me at least THREE seconds before you skedaddle?
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Do you get the same drivers? We do including postie so always stop and say hello. Never had that rudeness, just not on. Perhaps he did not think you were the householder.
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What annoyed me was our printer. Bought a new one Feb last year, returned and exchanged by May. 3 months! This one although an upgrade is now playing up. Almost flew out the window. I print a lot and keep getting lines, aligned cleaned about 4 times. New cartridges last night, okay for a test print if pale pink trying a darker colour today. If no good ringing JL to change again. No more HP going back to Epson, maybe the eco tank as comes with 3 years, or in my case 1 year, of ink.
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I haven’t seen this one before, but I have another Amazon delivery due today, so we’ll see…
Don’t get me started on printers!! Ours started playing up a couple of months ago, where we can’t connect with it wirelessly anymore, and no amount of troubleshooting has fixed it. But I was able to connect my laptop with a USB cable at least… but that stopped working the other day as well! It’s a Canon, only a couple of years old and really has had light use. Printers are useless these days.
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I threw my canon printer/copier out a few months ago, i could literally spend half hour trying to get one sheet printed, constant errors and I had to hold the tray and keep clicking it in and out or it wouldn’t print at all so I bought a HP small office printer/ copier. The best one I have is a bog standard, cheap Brother laser jet printer (currently in a cupboard as I don’t have room for both and it wasn’t wireless). I opted for black print this time as the cartridges on colour printers are so expensive and I found last a fraction of the time they are suppose to.
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