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Yoohoo, Mommies!
What are Barbie clothes going for these days?
We're trying to put a reasonable price on some for a craft fair. Don't want to say $10 for a dress if they can buy something similar at ToysRUs for $3, but don't want to say $3 if ToysRUs is selling them for $15. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit WIP: Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ |
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Yoohoo, Mommies!
Karen C in California wrote:
What are Barbie clothes going for these days? We're trying to put a reasonable price on some for a craft fair. Don't want to say $10 for a dress if they can buy something similar at ToysRUs for $3, but don't want to say $3 if ToysRUs is selling them for $15. Bwahahahahahahahaha! I can't help you, Karen, because LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! my DD has outgrown Barbidols. Free at last, I'm free at last! ;-D You don't say whether the clothes you want to sell are secondhand Mattel ones or home-made ones. Genuine Mattel clothing is very expensive, especially if it has accessories like shoes or bags. Good secondhand can never command the same price, but even having said that, I made quite a bit of money for school fundraising with Barbidol ballgowns made out of bridal and formal remnants. It takes hardly any time at all to gather a skirt and stitch it to a strapless bodice. If you can get hold of good scraps from a seamstress (satin, silk, brocade etc), you can make really spiffy ballgowns and little girls just *love* them. I'd charge $7 or $8 for such a thing if I were donating my time for free, $10 or $12 if you wanted to charge for assembly time. It's worth presenting the clothes nicely: stitch them loosely onto a bit of pink cardboard and add a tiny artificial flower or ribbon bow. Good luck! ;-D Oh, PS. You can also make a *bundle* of money by picking up secondhand Barbidols from the Op Shops. You take them home, clean them up, soak their heads in fabric softener or conditioner for a couple of days and style the hair. Dress them nicely and you can charge whatever you like for them! PPS. Despite my whinging, making Barbidol clothes is enormous fun when you can get access to nice fabric remnants. A rctn friend sent me a packet of great patterns about ten years ago and boy did I get some good use out of them. Now, my friend is using them to make stuff for her DD and has promised to pass the patterns on when she's finished with them. PPPS. The most popular thing I ever made for Barbie was a miniature replica of DD's school uniform. They sold like hotcakes to kids from her school! |
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Trish Brown wrote:
It takes hardly any time at all to gather a skirt and stitch it to a strapless bodice. That's why we were thinking of a corner of Barbie stuff to fill out the table, because she CAN whip up a dress a minute on the machine and I can knit them up in a jiffy. Much faster than the other craft items, and because they're smaller, we can spread them out to fill up space. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit WIP: Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ |
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Yoohoo, Mommies!
On 8/17/08 1:46 AM, in article , "Karen C
in California" wrote: What are Barbie clothes going for these days? We're trying to put a reasonable price on some for a craft fair. Don't want to say $10 for a dress if they can buy something similar at ToysRUs for $3, but don't want to say $3 if ToysRUs is selling them for $15. I'd go on the "This is an Original" idea and charge $3 to $7 for them. Outfits at Toys R Us are $12. (according to the Toys R Us website) Now - I'm going to point you in a different direction. Webkinz are the rage of the moment. DD loves them. They come in "Little Kinz" and "Big Kinz". DD loves them and actually will dress them up. http://customerservice.webkinz.com/c..._en/index.html All the clothes close with velcro and mostly seem to be "vest-like" or shorts with room for a tail and retail for $3-$5. Cheryl |
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Cheryl Isaak wrote:
Now - I'm going to point you in a different direction. Webkinz are the rage of the moment. DD loves them. They come in "Little Kinz" and "Big Kinz". DD loves them and actually will dress them up. Ah, but then we've got to buy Webkinz to custom-fit them to. We already own Barbies, and have patterns for them. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit WIP: Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ |
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Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 8/17/08 2:28 PM, in article , "Karen C in California" wrote: Cheryl Isaak wrote: Now - I'm going to point you in a different direction. Webkinz are the rage of the moment. DD loves them. They come in "Little Kinz" and "Big Kinz". DD loves them and actually will dress them up. Ah, but then we've got to buy Webkinz to custom-fit them to. We already own Barbies, and have patterns for them. Only one of each size... $20 investment. The point of this venture is to make money, not spend it. Barbie is proven to be enduring, Webkinz are flavor of the month, and by next year our $20 investment might be worthless junk and no one want to buy what we've made for next year's sale. Besides, most of the clientele at this thing are grannies and great-grannies -- Barbie they will recognize, Webkinz they won't have a clue. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit WIP: Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ |
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"Karen C in California" wrote in message ... Cheryl Isaak wrote: On 8/17/08 2:28 PM, in article , "Karen C in California" wrote: Cheryl Isaak wrote: Now - I'm going to point you in a different direction. Webkinz are the rage of the moment. DD loves them. They come in "Little Kinz" and "Big Kinz". DD loves them and actually will dress them up. Ah, but then we've got to buy Webkinz to custom-fit them to. We already own Barbies, and have patterns for them. Only one of each size... $20 investment. The point of this venture is to make money, not spend it. Barbie is proven to be enduring, Webkinz are flavor of the month, and by next year our $20 investment might be worthless junk and no one want to buy what we've made for next year's sale. Besides, most of the clientele at this thing are grannies and great-grannies -- Barbie they will recognize, Webkinz they won't have a clue. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit WIP: Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ Excuse Me!!! Why would you think grannies, or great-grannies wouldn't know about the latest hot toy that their grandkids want? Some of us GOW's actually get out of the house on occasion and keep up with the trends. Some of us older folk even play games on one of those new fangled puter thingies and drive to stores and watch TV and nowadays we actually know how to read and write and get out of the kitchen. I do hope you were kidding when you underestimated grannies!!! Lucille |
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"Karen C in California" wrote in message ... Cheryl Isaak wrote: On 8/17/08 2:28 PM, in article , "Karen C in California" wrote: Cheryl Isaak wrote: Now - I'm going to point you in a different direction. Webkinz are the rage of the moment. DD loves them. They come in "Little Kinz" and "Big Kinz". DD loves them and actually will dress them up. Ah, but then we've got to buy Webkinz to custom-fit them to. We already own Barbies, and have patterns for them. Only one of each size... $20 investment. The point of this venture is to make money, not spend it. Barbie is proven to be enduring, Webkinz are flavor of the month, and by next year our $20 investment might be worthless junk and no one want to buy what we've made for next year's sale. Besides, most of the clientele at this thing are grannies and great-grannies -- Barbie they will recognize, Webkinz they won't have a clue. Hey!! Watch what you say about Grannies! I'm a Grannie and I know all about Webkinz! I can even go to their website, play 'Cash Cow' to earn money and then 'buy' the little critters new cloths, furniture for their rooms or some nutritious food! The kids improve their computer skills and even learn that they have to 'work' to provide for their adopted family! Mavia |
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lucretia borgia wrote:
What ??? I'm a great-grandmother and I know a Webkinz when I see it ! If I was there I definitely wouldn't buy Barbie stuff but I might consider Webkinz. It is a matter of knowing the clientele. Most of these would accuse us of thinking they're gullible, trying to scam them by pushing them to buy stuff for a toy they've never heard of. And especially the name "Webkinz", on first hearing it, I had the image of something that exists only online, like the web-pets that were the big craze about 10 years ago, and I'm sure that would be the reaction of this decidedly un-hip crowd, too. (My first thought was "So you scan the dress into the computer and paste it over the picture of the Webkin? Couldn't the kid just google up pictures of clothes without me paying for it?" And when I mentioned it to Mom, who's of the same age and background as a lot of the clientele we'll be dealing with, she had pretty much the same idea I did, that Webkinz implied it was a cyber-toy that doesn't exist IRL, so why should she spend her hard-earned money buying imaginary cyber-clothes for it?) And, frankly, having followed Cheryl's link, I would not even want to try to explain to them the notion of putting clothes on a horse or a tiger! They'd definitely think we've lost our marbles with that one. Again, if I can't sell that idea to my own mother, I'm not sure I can sell it to the clientele at this event. If we get enough requests for Webkinz, we'll certainly consider them for next year, but I actually think that we'd have more requests for Barbie clothes if we only stocked Webkinz, than vice versa. Of course, at this point, Mom/I/co-booth-holder are all at that stage where the children we deal with are either late teens and too old for Webkinz or babies who are too young for Webkinz. The only one in the family who is the same age as Cheryl's DD has never mentioned them to me, and neither has the girl who's a couple years older (nor their mothers in suggesting birthday gifts). I'd put money on it that I am not the only person in the world who's never heard of them. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit WIP: Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ |
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