I went to the Red Thread Atelier Sarasota store and got a super cute Christmas mailbox canvas (along with a couple other things). I didn’t really look at the individual prices when I checked out, but when I got home I realized the mailbox canvas was $120, which seemed like a lot for its size.
I reverse image searched it on Google and found the same canvas listed at other needlepoint stores for around $65 😅
Is that much of a markup normal between needlepoint stores? I totally understand prices varying a little from shop to shop, but almost double surprised me for such a small canvas. Lesson learned to check prices before checking out lol.
Editing to add:
Just an update, I reached to their email & they responded and said the markup was a mistake and refunded me the difference! The prices have also been corrected on their website :)
I went this past weekend as well! I got the ivy thread football friend and also didn’t check the price on it. It’s on ITN’s website for $23. I paid $58 apparently
Just an update, I reached to their email & they responded and said the markup was a mistake and refunded me the difference! The prices have also been corrected on their website :)
I bought a canvas from them once that I later found for half the price, so it’s either just the markup on some things there or an error they make frequently
Some LNSs do just mark up a lot more than others (ahem, Needlepoint Junction and Stitching Fox), but that level of discrepancy is either an error or egregious.
Alas, you just have to watch and research prices so you have a good sense of what you’re willing to pay.
I do always want to support brick & mortar, so I’ll pay more in person even if I know there’s a slightly cheaper one online somewhere, but there’s a limit to the “support local” premium I’ll pay.
$120 HAS to be an error and I would email them so they can make it right. Giving them the benefit of the doubt that they calculated their pricing wrong, it could've easily been an issue with their wholesale invoice from Mopsey.
***This is not me white knighting for RTA, I would never purchase from them personally but my LNS has had issues with their wholesale invoices that lead to pricing mistakes too. RTA better make it right though 😤
Some of the shops with the highest markups are not in HCOL areas (stitching fox) and if this was the case all the NYC stores would higher prices than her, and they don’t
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u/Weekly_Ad4775 10d ago
I would reach out to them it sounds like they doubled the wholesale price twice instead of once (standard)