Selling your juice

[roxics]

Ok why have or haven't you decided to sell your juice creations? I know this is the DIY forum and many are here to mix their own to save some money. But if you come up with a line of juices you enjoy what has or hasn't stopped you from packaging them up and selling some?

Is it having to deal with the business side of it (taxes, customer service, safety, etc.)
Are you just not confident enough in your creations?
You just don't have the setup to do quality in quantity?
All of the above and then some?

 

[NicLiq]

I only have 2 flavors that are good (so far), but I did think about being able to make juice for our friends who are switching.

I'd be afraid of the liability. The smokers (and new former smokers) we know are in the 45-55 age range and have been smoking since the 70's. Logically, if anything bad health-wise happened to them, it would be because of prior bad habits, but people have a tendency to blame the last thing they did.

I had problems with my blood sugar jumping all over the place about 2 weeks after switching. Even though I know better, I was thinking it was my juice at times, but I'm sure it was really from quitting smoking.

 

[Vidi]

I have about 8 original recipes that I am tinkering with. Two I believe are good enough to sell, the other six are not quite there yet as I don't think I have the exact right mix yet. Someday if I can get about 20 original recipes that I feel are high quality flavors, Ill consider opening a web store. But at the rate, I'm tweaking in my recipes, it'll be a year or more before I'm ready for that.

Hehe I've already filled two composition notebooks with notes on my "experiments" and only have 8 out of it. I'll prolly fill another ten before I get done lol.

 

[MaxUT]

Hey, I already have a career...

Maybe I'll make juice for other than friends and family after I retire, assuming that a person will still be able to buy nic juice by that time. (I doubt that)

 

[Hoosier]

Quite a few reasons.

I sold my business quite awhile back and got a JOB. I was fed up with the paperwork for the various taxing agencies, the regulations that were constantly changing and enforced at random, inspectors who had no idea what existed outside their forms, the various legislators who spent their time discovering new ways to screw over my business to "help" me, employees who felt entitled to a paycheck, but did not see the need to earn it, and the cost of insurance.

I make my juice and some for family and friends. It is a hobby that I enjoy, but if it was a business it would lose that joy. I've even given it to random people on ECF that I thought were deserving.

So even though I know my current job will end in July, due to plant closing, I would not consider making a business out of my juice.

(So if anyone knows of a great job for a Product/Production Designer near me, let me know.)

 

[bluebelle]

I have a only a couple of recipes I have finally tweaked to perfection for my tastebuds at least and that has taken months to get right. Just ordered a bunch of summer-type flavorings to try and experiment with. Probably will be getting those perfected next Winter they way I am going

Given the uncertain e cig climate in NY as far as legislation I would not even think of it either.

Am trying to make some flavored juices though to try and convince my daughter to try vaping again.

 

[bmwjen]

I've got about 8 of my recipes that i like.......i've sent some stuff out & have been asked "oooo how did you make this?"
I'm actually considering a web store with 2 other people at the moment.

I don't know if i'm so ready for the paperwork, etc though.

 

[Stosh]

I have half a dozen flavors I like to vape, mix a batch and tweak it if necessary.
If I were to sell it, it would have to be perfect out the door, no tweaking, not the
same. Besides from reading reviews and recommendations, nobody likes quite
the same mixes as I do.