Litster: Well, I've given a lot of thought to how I can do this if you can believe it. Originally I thought we'd get almost as much additional orders as we'd lose them. This turned out to not be true.
Do I start this new thread and give an exact price breakdown for each quantity? Will this give unrealistic expectations as to what price to expect? EX: If we have 112 orders, people would expect that price range, but if we lose 20 orders after everyone pays, then what? We just wait for more orders to come?
If I list a price without a price breakdown, will people think I'm inflating the price just to make a profit? Ultimately, despite this downside, I felt I could list the price at $19 ($19.25 was the price point at 100 orders), and lower the price later if we got a lot more interest. I felt that lowering the price later would be fine, but raising the price was almost a non-option, so starting at $19 felt safe.
When we were above 100 orders, I felt I could lose a little bit on shipping, because I was making a tiny bit on the orders. When orders fell off more than I expected them to, I had to raise the shipping costs slightly in order to make sure that I wouldn't lose money, since per order I was actually losing money now. But raising the price of the orders would scare people the most I felt.
This has caused a lot more anxiety than I ever would have thought. It sounds like you're worried about being ripped off here, when I can assure you the chances of me losing money are greater than gaining a few bucks.
Conclusion: I'm not here to make a profit.
IWuzHere: I wouldn't worry about it. So far the payment process has been going pretty smoothly. Absolute worst case scenario, I refund everyone's money and we all go about our lives. But we all want our awesome Moogle Kit too badly for that to happen!
