• OfCourseNot@fedia.io
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    14 days ago

    Who has $700-$900 to spend on a backpack? Even if it’s the coolest bag on earth, which this one might be… but it’s too much.

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      14 days ago

      Yeah, that’s a lot. That’s often the case with handmade stuff. I knit, and if I include the cost of labor in addition to yarn, a shawl would be at least $300-400. Not many people are willing to pay that.

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        14 days ago

        Certainly. But for those the price is a feature, it’s part (or even all) of the appeal for the people that buy them.

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      14 days ago

      The problem is that the materials and skilled labor hours need to make sense.
      If someone spends weeks designing and then building/creating it, that weeks amount of labor.

      Probably even calculating with minimum wage it will run really high.

    • lerba@piefed.social
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      14 days ago

      Someone will surely buy this with their trust-fund money and take it to Burning Man