Eggs selling slow

[Bald Bee Man]

We have 19 laying hens and have more eggs than we are selling. I need some ideas on how to sell these eggs. Currently the wife sells some through work. I post on Facebook. We have a box on the front porch where we sell eggs and honey but we are not along a main road we're kind of out of the way. Basically our neighbors purchase, they love it but that's not enough for the amount of eggs we are getting each day. Before I start giving them away I would rather just feed them back to the chickens considering we have to buy feed anyway. So any unique ways anyone here has been able to sell their eggs and not be backlogged or maybe I should say back egged.

 

[azygous]

When I started selling eggs, I approached people I know that live along the six miles of dirt road I need to travel when I go to town for supplies about once a week, and I said if they would agree to a weekly purchase, I would deliver to their houses.

The same went for the folks I know in town. I sell my eggs for $5 a dozen, and I never have a surplus. Promising to deliver is one of the best ways to get customers to think they're getting an awesome deal, and I always know my eggs are going to be churned.

 

[Cindy in PA]

I have never been able to sell here in 25 years. We live up on a hill off a major state road, but traffic lines up so much that no one will drive up the hill to just get eggs. The best I can do is sell them to my sister for $1.50 & she resells for $2.50. I saw the cheapest eggs in my grocery store are $1.99 right now & most are over $3.00, some organic being $4-5, but no one will pay that here for mine. I have been doing better using them myself this year. Only sold 8 dozen out of 100 dozen since August. I do give away to my father, FIL & Fil's girlfriend!

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Raise the price, more than anyone else's and then post on FB, only 2 dozen left... Scarcity inflates value. I have a neighbor who sells eggs for $3 OR 3.50 and always begging for customers. I rarely have enough to sell yet I have people lined up to buy for $6 when available.

Good luck

Gary

 

[azygous]

One word. Marketing.

Gary's right. People unconsciously have the notion that expensive means quality and inexpensive means something's wrong with the product.

 

[Bald Bee Man]

Wow.... first let me say I like the delivery idea. I also understand the marketing because there's a story out there that simply goes like this. If you went to a local restaurant that had a $5 hamburger and it suddenly dropped to a dollar you would be like what's wrong with it meanwhile if you went to McDonald's to get a $1 hamburger and it suddenly went to $5 you would be like no way. I can honestly say I never thought about that with eggs I have with my honey, and my photography, but not eggs.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Wow.... first let me say I like the delivery idea. I also understand the marketing because there's a story out there that simply goes like this. If you went to a local restaurant that had a $5 hamburger and it suddenly dropped to a dollar you would be like what's wrong with it meanwhile if you went to McDonald's to get a $1 hamburger and it suddenly went to $5 you would be like no way. I can honestly say I never thought about that with eggs I have with my honey, and my photography, but not eggs.

We want to hear back after you update your marketing plan!

Gary