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Well, our survey found "other" to be most popular, but that will be ignored for the moment.

Blue beat out purple, red and orange, which were within a "nose" of each other.

My blue pens don't sell for spit!!! Is this a regional thing?? Do I just make a LOUSY pen, every time I use Blue?? Red and orange and carmels attract attention--purples sell like crazy, green is next----------am I not "average" or "median"???

I am looking for comments, now.

Thanks
 
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I'm not much help either. To date, my biggest seller is the WC cartridge pen with walnut. However, that is about to change. I've been told that I'm about to get an order of 30 wallstreet II/Sierra pens with the "Buck$" blanks.
 
Make some blue pens and then make some red pens. If the customer says they prefer purple, you grab a red and a blue pen as shake them about in front of the persons face really fast and they will blurr into a purple color! :biggrin:
 
Of the few I've sold, 2 were Black Walnut, 1 Red Crushed Velvet acrylic and two blue swirl acrylics.

I have an order to fill this weekend for two Cigars. One Red Cedar the other "green" stained Curly Maple.

Does that help? :biggrin:
 
My best selling "medium" priced pens are swirled acrylics and PR's. The color seems to be less important than the "design" in the swirl. I tend to make darker colored acrylics, etc because I am too lazy to paint pen tubes. In the midlines (european, sedonas, etc) I sell acrylic about 7 to 1 over wood.
 
Blue is well down on the color list for me. Purple, including everything from orchid to plum, is a strong leader, pink is a good second, orange and red are equally strong and not far behind, then green is nearly as good. Yellow suprises at times. Assorted darker shades of red (burgandy, wine, russet) are important as are various browns (khaki, non-metalic gold, amber, butterscotch, coffee). Blue falls somewhere in the lower selling group, almost as bad as wood.

Also there are plenty of low end blue blanks available, I like them, but they don't sell. Possibly some of the reponders were telling you what they like, not what sells.
 
Purple is my top selling blank. 2 local high schools are that color which may help with sales. Then pinks, followed by greens. On higher end kits darker shades (browns, dark blues, black) do better. I've sold a few whites but they were wedding gifts.
 
I think you need another poll and ask who is buying what colors??? Who is buying the purple pens everyone is talking about. I sell the blues and greens and woods to men. I sell the reds, yellows, pinks to women. I do sell the red celoplast pens to men especially when combined with white pearled.
 
I'm not an expert, as I've literally just started selling pens. Total sold is 17. But where I live is HUUUUUUUUUUGE Basketball country. I mean people kill each other over the Louisville vs. Kentucky basketball game every year. That being said I've found blue and red to be equally as popular. Just happens to be each schools colors. But I've found any form of purple sells like crazy. The women just love em.
 
From my limited pen sales brown tones were 6 to 1 on any other color. red and Blue came in second Other colors green and Black & Red combo
 
Bright colors attract customers to the booth but are not the best sellers for me. Men want more of the darker subdued color or what I call business colors, women you would think pinks or yellows, I can't give away a yellow and pinks are slow. Women prefer greens, turquiose, creams and white's. Also find that things like Pheasant feathers, Carbon Fiber....men, Tru stone, Casein, women but both sexes like the casein.
 
My whole family was here yesterday for Mother's Day. I brought out my acrylic pen blanks I got from exoticblanks.com, and all of the women went ga-ga over a 'freebie' YELLOW blank that I had. They all wanted a pen in yellow! I made some PINK pens as well, and they went like hot cakes.

That's not a color you hear a lot about, but I am making some yellow pens now, and if they turn out I'll post a few pics.
 
OKLAHOMAN said:
Bright colors attract customers to the booth but are not the best sellers for me. Men want more of the darker subdued color or what I call business colors, women you would think pinks or yellows, I can't give away a yellow and pinks are slow. Women prefer greens, turquiose, creams and white's. Also find that things like Pheasant feathers, Carbon Fiber....men, Tru stone, Casein, women but both sexes like the casein.
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This is almost exactly the way it works here, too. Additionally, I have found that the pens made in sterling silver do better with women than the other choices. Copper is a non-starter here.
 
Okay, now don't get all hyper on me, these pens were turned really quick.

The first one is a 'freebie' blank from exoticblanks.com. The bottom had to be turned narrow to get a bubble or two (that I did with the gouge) out.

The second pen is a alumilite concoction I made up last night. I don't know what causes the darker part on the bottom of the pen barrel, it only shows up in the picture, not when you look at the pen in your hand.

Well anyways, just an idea of some yellow. They are going to be given to my college daughter, whose favorite color is yellow, but she gave me about an hour to get them done before she left.
 

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I've found that the only blue pens that sell well for me are those with blues mixed with some more vibrant or contrasting coolors.
 
My 2 cents worth. Durng the "Income Tax Season" a lot of people see and purchase my Pens. That being said, my best selling colors are various purples, various greens,various reds and lots of wood. I do not make up very many blue pens either. Some of the last clients mentioned blue. I have two orders for something blue that came from those clients.
 
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