How much do you charge for a dozen eggs?

[McNugget]

I'm selling my surplus eggs for $2 a dozen if the person provides me with an egg carton. $2.50 if they don't (the carton costs $.049 at the local TSC). Is this a good price? The local grocery stores charge $2.99 - $3.50 for their organic, brown, free range eggs. I use the money to buy chicken feed so the chickens can make more eggs

 

[brkuk]

I charge $2.00 for eating eggs. There are too many people selling eggs around us.

 

[Countrywife]

A dollar, but I am really sorry I did that.

 

[trilyn]

I think that is more than fair. I am going to increase my price to 2.00 this spring myself, right now I'm charging $1.50 and I know I'm on the cheap side. My grocery store sells their "cage-free and all natural" (uh-huh, sure) eggs for 3.99 and obviously they're getting it. So, I figure to make a new sign, raise the price and see what happens!

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Ours are WAY better then store eggs and most people know it and are willing to pay the higher prices. I charge 3.00 a dozen to friends and family. They appreciate that too which is nice. NOW the people I work with are cheap lol and they say I can get eggs for a buck at the store and I tell them " if you want to promote chicken torture". They just don't get it and expect me to sell my eggs for a buck but I refuse. My hubby's work LOVES the eggs and are willing to pay more and are ok with it

HUMM I hate to say it but hubbys work is way more intelligent then mine *sigh*

 

[McNugget]

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You can tell your customers you have to raise due to feed prices. Which is true... I got my flock back in Oct/09 and TSC has gone up on Layena $2 since I have been buying from them. And make sure your customers know what they are getting! At the least, they are getting FRESH eggs... Those at the grocery store are a good 1+ weeks old by the time they hit the selves. I assume your's are free range and grain feed... that's a plus too! Better eggs!

 

[lilblessings5]

I sell for $2.00 a dozen. I re-use egg cartons people give me..so I dont' have any cost there.

I think there are others around that sell for $3.00

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

I just remembered another thread about selling eggs and how people were saying that those selling for under 2.00 should up their prices...for one, it costs twice that for brown "farm" eggs at the store here and those aren't free ranged or organic. They don't taste nearly as good either imho.

Also, there is perceived value to consider. As silly as it is, a surprising number of people can't get past $ as a measure of value/worth. If your eggs are healthier and tastier than the store eggs at half the price, for those people the store eggs would be superior in their mind.

Don't forget the extra labor and expense you have vs the big egg factories with 100,000 chickens stuffed in cages too small to turn around in and conveyor belts feeding the hens and collecting eggs. Those guys are producing $1+ eggs. It seems silly to me to think our eggs are not worth more. A simple taste test proved to me long ago that our eggs blow those away for taste.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I charge $3.00 a dozen.

Periodically I'll look at the egg prices in my local grocery. I like to stay at about the price of their most premium non-organic eggs. I'll donate them to the local homeless shelter before I sell them for less than even just what the feed costs.

.....Alan.

 

[Kittymomma]

$3.00 a dozen with their carton $3.50 with mine.