Selling price

[Forrest hunters]

Haven't heard in a few years but what is everyone selling 12oz, pints and quarts for now? Been out a couple years but back. I usually make between 15 and 35 gallons a year.

[dugit]

we get $10 a pint and $20 a quart

[ebliese]

We sell our 16.9 oz for $20.

I know that's a higher price. I was a bit hesitant to post it, honestly. But we do sell most of our syrup before next year's crop comes in. I have one customer who wants 20 bottles already.

[antelope76]

I am in Upstate NY and bottle all of my syrup in glass. I have been charging the following for the last 4 years or so. Prices did go up this years at some of the bigger local sugar makers.

12oz $10
Pints- $14
Quarts-$24
1/2 Gallons $35

[Kbrooks80]

I get $12 Pint and $20 Quart

[maple flats]

You will find prices all over the board, what someone sells their syrup for in any other area should have little if any bearing on your price. I suggest you try to find what others in your aarea sell for, then I try to stay slightly above the average. Basically I get 5 or more prices, drop the high and the low, the avarage the rest and go a little above the average. What will throw this off is if you have many Amish producers in your area, they tend to sell too low. Prices vary greatly from one area to another. you want to be in line with your local market

[maple flats]

One other way I did it in the early years of selling my syrup, I got the cost of each container, and then added the amount per oz I thought I should get. For 2 reasons that brings the cost per oz in any container up because the smaller container costs more per volumn than the larger one. For the smaller containers you generally pay more per oz than a container twice that size. I.E., you pay more for 2 at 16 oz than one at 32 oz. Also, it takes longer to fill 2 at 16 oz than one at 32 oz. Keep that part of pricing in mind as you set prices. If you look at answer #2 in this thread, $10 a pt and $20 a qt, they are making far less per oz on the pint than on the qt, but my observation is that both would certainly not be found in y area, far too low.

[Keith32]

We take our gallon price and for each half of that size is 60% of the larger size. So say a gallon is $60 your half gallon would be 60% of that is $36.

[maple flats]

My approach in my early years was quite similar to what Keith32 does. However, because I sell so much in half gallon size I don't pack any gallon size. The reason is because since I ship so much and I can fit 2 HG jugs ny Sugarhill in a medium flate rate box who's shipping costs less than what a 1 gal in a box (using USPS Flat rate boxes) ships for, I stopped filling gallon size. My only glass is in smaller sizes too, generally I only ship bourbon barrel ages syrup in glass except by special request