Location: North Carolina, United States of America
I am a woodworker, and I specifically make hunting calls; turkey, deer, and duck.
A whiskey company reached out to me to make some game calls using some whiskey barrel wood. Unfortunately, I failed to meet the deadline for their first batch of duck calls for an event they were going to. They paid for the first batch of duck calls, and the prototype turkey calls I sent them, but have sense ghosted me.
I have about 20 finished turkey calls on hand with epoxy (dyed to look the whiskey). With, probably, about 35-40 man hours and maybe $40 in materials (epoxy is expensive). These calls do not have the company’s name on them, as they’re not completely assembled.
I would like to sell these calls as my own. There’s no contract or anything signed. They send me wood, I send them finished product and an invoice, they pay me.
But I’m sitting on like $1,200 of product that I can’t do anything with because I’m hesitant because it isn’t my own material. I assume that the company owns the material (at least the wood) because they sent it to me with the purpose of me sending them finished product.