Does anyone sell on e-bay?
By kathy08
@kathy08 (46)
United States
February 15, 2008 12:30pm CST
Hi Everyone
I make alot of handmade items. Cross stitch gifts, puzzles in frames, framed by # oil paintings, Gift baskets. I have some other items I sell from my catalog. I need direction.
Thanks
Kathy
1 response
@SweetTrix (1071)
• United States
15 Feb 08
You might want to try http://www.etsy.com/, that is a free site where you basically have your own store where you can sell your things through their site, there are no fees at all and a lot of the stuff that is sold there is handmade items.
I haven't sold handmade items before on eBay but the fees can hurt you if the items aren't in demand. You have to pay a listing fee and a final value fee. If you do list on eBay you might want to make the item price $0.99 and then charge more for shipping and handling (like think of the shipping and handling as the item price), this is because eBay takes fees out of the final value of the "item price"...... so if you started your item at $0.99 and it went up to $2.50 you would only have to pay fees on the $2.50 not the s&h. This way you can avoid some of the fees, make sure to state shipping and handling in your auction or the buyer can complain about the shipping price if you only state it as shipping.
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