Etsy????
08-03-2010, 06:18 AM
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Can anyone here tell me if listing on that site is worth doing? I saw that site this morning and thought it might be a way to offset some of the costs for doing my children's quilts for the hospital. If i sold some of them there then i could put that money into doing more baby quilts. Ebay seems to be satuarated with quilts so that's why i'm asking about this site. Any info would be apprectiated.
08-03-2010, 06:51 AM
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the listing fees are only 20 cents - you only pay the higher amount if you sell your item.
Some people have had luck with Etsy. I like it better than eBay, but I have only sold a few items on Etsy. You have to work hard at marketing and your listing drops down pretty fast (newest listings are shown first in searches). It's an easy way to set up a "shopping cart" for your own website - my sales were for the most part, from people who already know me from elsewhere.
Some people have had luck with Etsy. I like it better than eBay, but I have only sold a few items on Etsy. You have to work hard at marketing and your listing drops down pretty fast (newest listings are shown first in searches). It's an easy way to set up a "shopping cart" for your own website - my sales were for the most part, from people who already know me from elsewhere.
08-03-2010, 06:53 AM
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You have to watch as Etsy seems to attract those with money scams. Someone will offer to buy your items & then the payment gets complicated & they start asking for you to pay someone "agent" to pick up the item.
08-03-2010, 06:53 AM
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I too, am interested in the info you get about ETSY... Right now, I am working on a commissioned quilt, but for the most part - I do quilts for charity.
I had the opportunity to put some quilts in a local consignment shop, but she wants 50% of the selling price so in order to make anything on these, I would have to WAAY overprice the quilts, which I think would keep them from selling...
I had the opportunity to put some quilts in a local consignment shop, but she wants 50% of the selling price so in order to make anything on these, I would have to WAAY overprice the quilts, which I think would keep them from selling...
08-03-2010, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by donnajean
You have to watch as Etsy seems to attract those with money scams. Someone will offer to buy your items & then the payment gets complicated & they start asking for you to pay someone "agent" to pick up the item.
08-03-2010, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by CoriAmD
I too, am interested in the info you get about ETSY... Right now, I am working on a commissioned quilt, but for the most part - I do quilts for charity.
I had the opportunity to put some quilts in a local consignment shop, but she wants 50% of the selling price so in order to make anything on these, I would have to WAAY overprice the quilts, which I think would keep them from selling...
I had the opportunity to put some quilts in a local consignment shop, but she wants 50% of the selling price so in order to make anything on these, I would have to WAAY overprice the quilts, which I think would keep them from selling...
08-03-2010, 07:01 AM
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Just as an impartial opinion, I've gone to Etsy a few times, but the search results seem jumbled, and to me, at least, it is much harder to search for something specific than on ebay. Obviously it's a completely different program, but it seems unnecessarily difficult to me, so I don't go there any more.
08-03-2010, 07:20 AM
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I have sold many things on ebay and craigs list but everything I had on etsi I never heard from anyone. Transferred them to ebay and they were gone in 2 days. Ebay has good security with Paypal. Since I own a business I can take credit cards directly.
08-03-2010, 07:23 AM
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I ran across this "craft community" a few days ago and have been thinking about listing on it. I haven't done very much research, but it seems to be more organized that Etsy.
http://www.handmadecatalog.com/
If anyone has listed items there - how is it?
http://www.handmadecatalog.com/
If anyone has listed items there - how is it?
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