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does anyone sell on ebay
we don't normally do that well on there but this time of year we do well with thank you cards for teachers our personalised bookmark cards do really well and again at christmas time the personalised teacher cards go well

I have never really been intrested in ebay, don't think it is very seller friendly and the fact that paypal hold funds for around three weeks when you start selling on their doesn't help much either, though our kind of stock shouldn't cause much of a problem on that score.

I would prefer to sell on Amazon, even though they hold your funds as well for a certain time, though they do seem to have a better class of client on their (hope that doesn't sound too pompus lol)

I sell on Ebay Tracey and if you can find a niche you tend to do quite well out of it- by that I mean selling things that other don't already sell. Trying to compete with those who already have an established reputation for selling something is setting yourself up for failure IMO and experience. I recently stumbled across my niche by accident when I had some left over stuff from some jewellery I was making. I made a kit out of it and put it up on a buy it now- it was only there 5 minutes and it had sold so I bought more and put those on and they sold within a couple of days. This time I ordered enough for 20 kits and half of them have gone in a week- here's the listing url http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :MESELX:IT. Some were sold in a different listing and hence why it only has '4 sold' on this particular one. The trouble I have now is that very few people search for 'Pandora Kits' so in order to sell more of them I need to cross promote my items by finding something I can knock out really cheap to get people to look at 'my other items'. Ebay and Paypal are a rip off in my opinion, I know they need to make money- so does every business but after they've taken their listing fee, then the final value fee and then the Paypal charge, you have to add on about 25% to the cost of your stock before you even think about profiting from it. Like Shane said, I'm thinking of trying Amazon too...their charges are similar to Ebay I believe but people tend to look for quality on Amazon in my experience at a reasonable price rather than cheap bargains on Ebay!

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