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Jgrden

Jgrden

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Here is a question you can get your teeth into. About seven pens are always on display for sale along with the other pens. As soon as I tell the prospectie buyer that the pen is made of Corian they say that is nice and look at other pens. Obviously the name Corian turns people off. What are YOU doing to sell Corian? Are you calling it Faux Marble? What is the trick to selling these?
 
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I don't try....they don't sell for me and there are much nicer materials with which to make pens. I think corian pens are more of a novelty than a traditional material for pens. But, several do very well with corian pens and I do hope you become one of them. Best of luck. Oh, and when I did try I called them corian pens. Maybe I should have called them something else.
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Don

Jgrden said:
Here is a question you can get your teeth into. About seven pens are always on display for sale along with the other pens. As soon as I tell the prospectie buyer that the pen is made of Corian they say that is nice and look at other pens. Obviously the name Corian turns people off. What are YOU doing to sell Corian? Are you calling it Faux Marble? What is the trick to selling these?
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They are Corian, to call them anything else is disingenuous.

You may want to advertize that you can make Corian pens from scraps of new countertop construction. I made one for a friend using a piece she gave me and she loves the fact it is the same as her new kitchen counter.
 
...which is why I called them corian pens. The only ones I make are for gifts such as Cav reported. I routinely get scraps from a counter top mechanic friend of mine and give the corian to other pen makers. I make pens and give them to the counter top guy.
Do a good turn daily!
Don
wdcav1952 said:
They are Corian, to call them anything else is disingenuous.
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Like any novelty, it will only fetch you such a price with such a customer base. I have noticed that when I am selling pens at a local church show, people ask me about corian and antler all the time, because that's what their kids are making pens out of in shop class. But when I'm selling pens to 7 figure executives, they are completely turned off by antler and things such as this. If you're selling your products as novelties, then corian can be a great seller, but if you are trying to fetch a premium on your pens with a focus on you as the craftsman to showcase your work....corian will seem like a gimick and probably won't sell. IMHO
 
GouletPens said:
Like any novelty, it will only fetch you such a price with such a customer base. I have noticed that when I am selling pens at a local church show, people ask me about corian and antler all the time, because that's what their kids are making pens out of in shop class. But when I'm selling pens to 7 figure executives, they are completely turned off by antler and things such as this. If you're selling your products as novelties, then corian can be a great seller, but if you are trying to fetch a premium on your pens with a focus on you as the craftsman to showcase your work....corian will seem like a gimick and probably won't sell. IMHO
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Brian

When you are selling to these 7 figure people, are they more interested in wood pens or acrylics or both??? Corian is an acrylic. What turns the 7 figure people on??? Are they interested in a certain style, how about rollerball or fountain??? Are they interested in engraving their names??? May want to tap that field in the future. Of course I probably will have to go out and buy a suit to get into the door but who knows. :)
 
The only Corian pens I've made are for Wolftat's pens for Armed Forces, I think it looks OK but I'm not going to make any Corian pens for sale, I find it does polish up real nice, but I've had some problems with it.
I volunteered for the job, but I sure won't ever try and sell any, I think the Red White and Blue does carry forward a great theme, but I'd rather make pens out of nearly any wood or acrylic than mess around gluing this stuff up.
I love it for counter tops and cutting boards though!!
 
jttheclockman said:
Brian

When you are selling to these 7 figure people, are they more interested in wood pens or acrylics or both??? Corian is an acrylic. What turns the 7 figure people on??? Are they interested in a certain style, how about rollerball or fountain??? Are they interested in engraving their names??? May want to tap that field in the future. Of course I probably will have to go out and buy a suit to get into the door but who knows. :)
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They are a different crowd. They are interested in things they've never seen before, and things that are rare. I find the more spectacular looking woods are the best sellers with them, but generally men like wood and women like acrylic. The one thing that's hard though is that they don't want to spend time browsing my website. They want to deal face to face, and see everything in person. It's a different type of selling though, because they don't care so much about price, more about quality and rarity. If you walk in there with a couple of deer antler bullet pens, you'll soon be walking out the door (generalizing of course). This is the D.C. crowd I'm talking about here.
 
Jgrden said:
Here is a question you can get your teeth into. About seven pens are always on display for sale along with the other pens. As soon as I tell the prospectie buyer that the pen is made of Corian they say that is nice and look at other pens. Obviously the name Corian turns people off. What are YOU doing to sell Corian? Are you calling it Faux Marble? What is the trick to selling these?
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Corian is made from acrylic and is totally true to say so. I market them as great for purses and pockets because how well they stand up. Alice
 
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