Would Anyone Be Interested? - Page 3

racinghamster · 07-22-2011, 05:23 AM

Sounds good Silver.

can I ask please, will you be doing small `tester` bags for sale for people to try? Say 50g/100gram bags?

And will you be allowing a list of ingredients on the bags? So we know what our hamsters are actually eating? Or is that going to be a trade secret!

You could go onto Dragon`s Den and make a pitch for your patented hamster mix!!!

**Silver** · 07-22-2011, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by racinghamster

Sounds good Silver.

can I ask please, will you be doing small `tester` bags for sale for people to try? Say 50g/100gram bags?

And will you be allowing a list of ingredients on the bags? So we know what our hamsters are actually eating? Or is that going to be a trade secret!

You could go onto Dragon`s Den and make a pitch for your patented hamster mix!!!

MMMM Dragons Den hey....

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Im afraid the smallest bag size will be 500g. The reason behind this is because the ingrediants are so finely measured out some ingredients wouldn't be there in 50g or 100g bags

The ingredients will be listed on the website, just not how much of each ingredient

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racinghamster · 07-22-2011, 07:59 AM

Okay, thanks.

**Silver** · 07-28-2011, 06:12 AM

Hello

Ok ive got some bad news. Well I guess bad news for me :laugh2:. Ive heard back from the pet food website today regarding selling my mix's on there forum. Basically they are willing to sell my mix's on there website for free & keep all the profits

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After breaking down what the average animal mix costs with what the food costs, tax, picking & packing, & everything else I can understand why as there is very very little left.

I have been down the road of having the mix's made but they are only willing to manufacture 3 tons at a time :wacko:.

So I am now left with two options:

1, Buy the mix's from the pet website then sell them on, which would obviously bring the cost up further.

2, Let the pet website sell my mix's & get nothing money wise back but have my mix's being sold so others can benefit from having this type of mix.

Any ideas, thoughts welcome as im fesh out of them

Noodle · 07-28-2011, 06:29 AM

Maybe you could sell them on ebay, and spread the word around on here? I'm sure you'd build good reputation, and once you have more websites would be interested.

LawaRawr · 07-28-2011, 08:08 AM

sell the mix to friends and family to get the word around then try selling some on ebay and post a link on the forum so members can buy some

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racinghamster · 07-28-2011, 08:55 AM

Hmmmm....sounds like you need some business advice on this Silver. It certainly is`nt fair that you are providing the need but they are keeping the profits? I don`t know how these things work to be honest but maybe they are willing to see how the product sells before they take it into a bigger marketplace? Companies won`t spend good money on new products unless it already has sound feedback, but obviously with a pet food, it has to be trialed for a while to see how it sells and whether it keeps selling because it proves popular. Marketing something like this would cost a small fortune and maybe this is why they just want to take baby steps to see how the product sells?

It`s a shame more companies won`t believe in new ideas and get them out there into the marketplace because competition is definately needed in the small animal food trade. When you look at what`s already available, it`s not exactly brilliant unless you like corn and alfalfa...

KatiePillow · 07-28-2011, 01:10 PM

Tbh, if you could get some breeders on board then you could end up with a large market, some people buy 15kg at a time, so that's only 66 orders...D: the issue is that they'd need taster sizes first and it could be a large gamble.
tbh, if I wasn't going to make any profit from it, I'd just publish the recipe, but If I bought this I'd want the money to go to you. You put all the leg work in, and I don't think the website should get all the profit...

**Silver** · 08-27-2011, 08:15 AM

Ok,

Ive had the list back for the Protein, Fat & Fiber.

It's not quiet right yet so need some more tweeking. Sorry it's taking so long but it needs to be right.

**Silver** · 08-30-2011, 12:57 PM

Well I have decided to give the pet food website my mix's without recieving any money from the sale of them.

I have decided that I would prefer that there was a good natural food for Dwarf's to buy rather than me waiting longer to find wholesalers & setting up & selling them.

We are just getting the fibre levels up with research on what different seeds & grains that have high fibre, it's actually interesting & is much much better having a few different types of fibre than one pellet that they wont eat.

This has all been done without the help of any breeders.

The pet food website has also recieved a All Hamster mix. I don't know what the ingredients are but believe it to be along the same lines of a natural mix. So for all you Syrian owners there will also be a mix to try.

Hopefully the mix's there are three will be done in the next couple of weeks then I will trial them on my three ginea pigs....cough....dwarfs

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So I guess watch this space