eBay sellers

[beebiz]

The fees at etsy & even w/ payment processing through paypal is NOTHING to what you would pay if you had a store front. Heck, a craft show would cost you more than the fees at etsy. Rental of a credit card machine alone would be more than etsy fees.

You must look at the etsy fees as your overhead & figure it into your product mark up. It sure as heck beats 1000 month for a shop, 500 for electricity, 75 minum charge for CC processing machine & fees, phone service, advertising, etc etc....

It is pronounced Betsy w/o the B.

You make some very good and valid points here. About 13 or so years ago, my ex-wife and I had a beauty salon in Memphis, TN. The rent alone was over $1000 per month. Then, there were all the other expenses. We didn't have it long before we figured out why the previous owner sold it. It made good money... but, at that it didn't make enough to cover all the bills!! Owning a physical store is EXPENSIVE to say the very least!!!!

Robert

 

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Well yesterday I closed my ebay store..........

I decided if they were going to think so little of it's sellers then they don't need my money that I pay them in fee's. I know i wasn't a power seller but I did really good with my store there. At least with my doll accessories. The bath and body market is so flooded there that most items go unsold there.

So that really put me in a bad mood yesterday. Because I had my ebay store for so long, I was very proud of it. I had taken the time to design my own store front and made it all pretty and whatnot. So it felt like part of me died. Now I will only sell casual there and I only have 3 listings listed right now.

I also ended my subscription to sellers sourcebook as well. I have the talent to make and design auction templates but instead I was lazy and used SSB. So now that I will have fewer listings I cancled my subscription with them. And I have created my own template. Well I've got one used, and the other one I made is just waiting to be used. And I also sat down and created a new ME page template as well. *smiles softly*

Here's my ME page
http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... rid=iiapco

And here are the two others that I made.
http://www.iiapco.com/c.htm
http://www.iiapco.com/d.htm



So now i need to work on getting my items listed on my own web site as well as etsy........

sorry for the rant........