How Much is Your Honey?

[Raceyboy]

Hi, seen a couple of signs out selling local honey for £3.50 for a 1lb jar, that sounds pretty cheap to me. What is the going rate?

 

[greatbritishhoney]

It all depends on the area where you're selling and your target market.
I can sell at £6 a jar in the right setting.

 

[Raceyboy]

It all depends on the area where you're selling and your target market.
I can sell at £6 a jar in the right setting.

Is that for a 1 lb jar??

 

[greatbritishhoney]

Is that for a 1 lb jar??

Yes.

 

[Russel]

£5 a lb no prob's here either even though there's another BK within 2mls that sells for £2.50 on the gate.

 

[TOBY-3652]

As ive said before it is around here its only £3-50 to £3-75 and thats in the shops.. Theres at least 6 people in a ten mile radius selling between £ 3-00 and £3-75 for a pound jar.. How many do you want to buy at $4-00 you can sell them at £6-00 and make £2-00

 

[VEG]

£5 a lb no prob's here either even though there's another BK within 2mls that sells for £2.50 on the gate.

That is way too cheap

 

[richardbees]

I'm selling my 'local honey' in S London at £5 / 1lb jar.

Pointless cutting the price as I've only got a limited amount

 

[Hivemaker.]

£2.90 lb.

 

[Bee-Key-Pur]

£2.90 lb.

Is that your bulk sale price?

Brian

 

[Hivemaker.]

Yes,that and £2.40lb.

 

[isc26]

Maybe think of selling in smaller jars. I find a high price on a pound jar can put folks off. Its often a novelty purchase so a smaller jar sells well and often at a better price pro rata.

 

[Raceyboy]

£5 a lb no prob's here either even though there's another BK within 2mls that sells for £2.50 on the gate.

£2.50 for a 1 lb jar??? Might as well give it away, I thought there was a shortage?

 

[kighill]

Last year I was selling 1ib jars for £4.50 I sold the same jars to OAPs for £4 because I am a nice chap.

I have now moved over to 12oz fancy hexagonal jars, which I will be selling for £4 or £4.50

 

[Russel]

£2.50 for a 1 lb jar??? Might as well give it away, I thought there was a shortage?

There's a guy around the corner from me that buys of him and at his gate price if I was only in it for the money I could............... make 2.50.

I've not sampled it but have been told mine is lush.

 

[Raceyboy]

I think £3.50 for a 12oz jar is a reasonable price .............. I know its our hobby but we still need to try and cover our costs etc

 

[fincaazul]

Took a small surplus in April. Gave a jar to a fellow allotmenteer/ returning beekeeper. Within days was besieged by other allotment holders wanting to buy honey. I tell them it's £4.00 a pound and get the reply ' is that enough '? One Polish guy took three days to pay me and asked for another jar as it had all been eaten. Honey is a premium product and should not be undervalued.

 

[beeatshellards]

after posting a thread earlier on about what people were charging for their honey I have decided mine is going to sell for £4.95 not quite a fiver but darned good value for all the bees work me thinks...

 

[chickendave]

Took a small surplus in April. Gave a jar to a fellow allotmenteer/ returning beekeeper. Within days was besieged by other allotment holders wanting to buy honey. I tell them it's £4.00 a pound and get the reply ' is that enough '? One Polish guy took three days to pay me and asked for another jar as it had all been eaten. Honey is a premium product and should not be undervalued.

 

[MuswellMetro]

£5 to £6 per lb

and i can not produce enough

local North London bka sell AT £7 BUT I market mine further north as my hives are in outer london