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The problem with your theory is that Price and Value (Value being the labor embodied in the boot and price being the money name or dollar amount of the boot for sale) are not in harmony with each other. So there is no way of determining Bedo’s labor to the amount of labor it takes in general to make a boot when bootmaking is factory produced requiring less labor to make. So its all simply based on what the boot owner is willing to pay for a boot. You’d have to compare Bedo’s labor to another product that takes equal time to make, for example, how much is a hand made Indy whip, say , $500. Whips are not machine made, they are hand crafted. With two handcrafted products we can compare the time element. How long does it take to make the whip and the boot to compare the two different labors to arrive at its real value? If the boot takes Bedo a day to make and the whip maker takes two days to make the whip then Bedo’s boot contains half the value of the whip. His price for the boot should be $250. Bedo is not going to sell a boot he makes for $250 pricing his work according to a value principal. This is because a whip and boot to Bedo and the whipmaker are completely two different kinds of labor are incomparable but this is where both Bedo and Mr. Whipmaker are wrong. We can compare a tailor’s work making a dress or pants, or suit to the labor of the making of the boot by hand by a boot maker because a boot is considered a garment, a whip is an accessory to a garment. Therefore, whip-making is not comparable with boot-making. The common thing to them is that they are hand made. But dress or suit makers and boot makers are comparable. A wedding dress cost, say, $10 grand and takes one month to produce, a boot made by hand takes two days. The value of the boot is 2/30ths of the value of the dress, comes to, 1/20 of value or $200 bucks. But dollars are not worth much they contain little value and command little value. The boot then would rise in price to $2000 dollars for a pair. Only a rich person would buy the boot. This is why economies are in crisis and real value is a complete mystery. The Alden machine made boot or partially machine made should be even less the price of a Bedo hand made restored or produced boot because there is less labor embodied in the Alden boot. Really, the disparity or inequality between price and value is the fault of buyers and sellers acting out of whim or affordability are willing to pay for a boot no matter what the price. Not Bedo’s fault that his labor loses less value everyday to the machine made boot makers, he has no choice but to charge a high price. The fault is with the buyers that Alden can raise the price as the value of the product in production falls compels the producers by hand of boots to raise the price because, simply, they can. There is no such thing as a fair price.

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@@MrDXRamirezFirst of all his name is Steve. Second, you don’t have an effen clue what you are talking about. It doesn’t take many videos to see how many hours go into a typical job. For craftsmanship at this level, $100/hr would be fair. The cost of leather is very high. $800 ish for this job is absolutely fair. And yes, if the fair price is more than someone is willing to pay, they won’t won’t pay. But Steve works days, nights and weekends and has a backlog at all times, so clearly the willingness to pay and perception of value is there for his customers. And to compare Steve-made boots with machine made boots is a waste of words. Steve doesn’t make boots. He repairs and restores. There is no comparison with a manufactured product. Steve has a vibrant business and hundreds of happy customers. You, on the other hand, are an unhappy keyboard warrior that doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

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​@@MrDXRamirezvalue is not determined by the labor that went into the item. value is determined by what the buyer is willing to pay. what you are talking about is the communist notion of labor theory of value, which marx and engals didn't even believe, and they invented it

As much as I get it, you can pretty much get custom boots made with whatever you want for that much money (when you include the boots themselves).

@@Aggnog absolutely true, but some people like the idea of recrafting something. I'm with you though that custom would have been the way to go, he could have even gotten the other stitching in blue as well and (I know, I know) better quality than the original pair.

You are in the lgbtq realm for sure

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