Do you have an ebay "store"?
By eden32
@eden32 (3973)
United States
February 28, 2008 9:31am CST
I've been using ebay for years. Occasionally buying items, and occasionally selling. Recently I've started to put more energy into offering items on ebay.I've been sorting out things I don't need anymore, working on some craft type items & I intend to offer my hypnosis CDs there soon. I have some major changes happening in my life this summer (moving, doing an apprenticeship for school, etc) and I need to augment my budget to afford to do those things. I'm wondering if investing in setting up an ebay store, as opposed to just listing items is a worthwhile investment? Does anyone here earn their primary income from ebay?
Are we allowed to plug our accounts on ebay here? I'll take the chance that we are- if you may be interested in the stuff I am offering, my user name there is Peamommy.
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5 responses
@floridawonders (41)
• United States
1 Mar 08
Hello!
I guess ebay is a good place to get rid of your stuff tha you don`t need anymore. But I `ve never tried an ebay story, I just sell sometimes this and that...
I`ve checked your items, if you`ll have some stuff for kids (girls) 4-5T let me know :)
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
29 Feb 08
Hello dear eden. I do not have any e-shop, but I am getting interested in it as I have often read about people talk about it, doing business online, which I think could be very interesting and adventurous to me. By the way, I hope that your business at e-bay will be booming as you wish. Good luck to you, my dear friend.
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
30 Mar 08
I used to have an eBay store and I did sell a few things from there, but, recently, I haven't been able to sell anything. I'm an artist and when the economy goes bad, people tend not to want to buy art because it's not a big necessity. So, I moved my store over to Etsy.com because it's cheaper.
If you are regularly selling, then I think a store would be good for you. If you sell only occasionally, then it might not be worth it because there are extra fees involved. One thing a store did that regular listings didn't was show other items on the bottom of my regular auction pages, thus driving traffic to my store.
If you have a store, you probably will still need to list regular auctions that will drive traffic to your store items.
I would say that you can give it a try for a few months and see what happens. You can always cancel it, later on.
@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
30 Mar 08
I haven't sold anything, yet, but I'm also still building it up. I also do fiber art projects and plan to list those items as well.
I am getting a good amount of page views compared to the last month or two of my eBay store. I admit, I'm not getting a flood of interest, but it's still a lot better. And, I can keep the items in my store for four months and it's way cheaper.
Etsy is beginning to be a pretty big and well-known site that can probably give eBay a run for its money in the art and hand-made item categories.
Here is the link to my store:
http://desertdarlene.etsy.com
@Justme2007 (1848)
• United States
28 Feb 08
I have an e-bay account and I have romance books for sale there at a cheap price. I really don't think you can make a good living off of e-bay you have to have something that someone needs all the time.I use posing4me2006 because I like to take pictures of people.
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@momalisa65 (1971)
• United States
8 Apr 08
I have an ebay store. www.LisaAnnsCloset.com
I mainly sell stuff I don't want anymore. Clothes, CD's, Videos, etc. The monthly cost for having a store is about $15 (unless it went up and I haven't been paying attention) Then it's only 6 cents for each item to be listed for 30 days. It's not my main job. Just a little extra money, just like MyLot.
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