03-15-2012, 03:33 AM
I make my own hand tied lures, and rabbit is one of my favorite materials. I managed to get some rex rabbit pelts at a good price and decided to sell some of the extras on one of the other fishing boards I'm on.
Tanned whole hides for this breed usually cost anywhere from $30 to $45 each, and individual 1/8" x 12" ready to use strips cost $1.75 each. I decided to sell my hides for $25 shipped but also offered to take trades. Each hide can make approximately 48 strips, so there's about $80 of strips in each pelt.
A teenager on the board messaged me saying he had 1000 jig heads a friend's relative had given him for free and asked if I wanted to trade jig heads for a pelt. I can get jig heads for about $8 per 100, so I told him I would trade 400 for a hide, figuring he may want to negotiate. He said that was too many, so I explained the cost of the pelts. I know kids don't always have ready access to more heads, so I decided to do a pay it forward good deed and offer him half of a hide for 50 heads, which is less than I had in the hide.
Now he wants me to strip the hide for him too, even after I pointed him in the direction of instructions on how to do it. All it takes is some razor blades, a couple of nuts and bolts and some washers. Even if you don't have the stuff on hand, it costs maybe $5 from the hardware store. It's not expensive or difficult, just time consuming (which is why I'm selling them whole.)
I'm already offering him half of a very expensive hide for basically nothing, and now it feels like he's looking my gift horse in the mouth. I'm about this >< close to telling him to forget it.
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Tanned whole hides for this breed usually cost anywhere from $30 to $45 each, and individual 1/8" x 12" ready to use strips cost $1.75 each. I decided to sell my hides for $25 shipped but also offered to take trades. Each hide can make approximately 48 strips, so there's about $80 of strips in each pelt.
A teenager on the board messaged me saying he had 1000 jig heads a friend's relative had given him for free and asked if I wanted to trade jig heads for a pelt. I can get jig heads for about $8 per 100, so I told him I would trade 400 for a hide, figuring he may want to negotiate. He said that was too many, so I explained the cost of the pelts. I know kids don't always have ready access to more heads, so I decided to do a pay it forward good deed and offer him half of a hide for 50 heads, which is less than I had in the hide.
Now he wants me to strip the hide for him too, even after I pointed him in the direction of instructions on how to do it. All it takes is some razor blades, a couple of nuts and bolts and some washers. Even if you don't have the stuff on hand, it costs maybe $5 from the hardware store. It's not expensive or difficult, just time consuming (which is why I'm selling them whole.)
I'm already offering him half of a very expensive hide for basically nothing, and now it feels like he's looking my gift horse in the mouth. I'm about this >< close to telling him to forget it.
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