What price honey? How do you decide how much to sell your honey for?

摘要

It is interesting to attend a meeting of hobby beekeepers and listen to both boasis and complaints of the price they ask for their honey. It is difficult to make much sense out of the conversations because each - the low price beekeeper and the highprice one - is convinced that the chosen price is right. How do beekeepers arrive at a retail price for a one pound queenline jar full of honey? Sometimes the price is chosen because "that is the price I have had for years." This beekeeper is convinced that any rise in price will cause his customers to stop buying honey. Yet customers continue to buy postage stamps and bread even though those prices have risen over the years. Now if this beekeeper decides to raise the price of his honey, will a big jumpin price be called for? What if the price had risen gradually over a period of years? A gradual price increase would have been scarcely noticed, and then only by someone who likes to keep track of such things.