Folks: I was wondering if anybody here sells (or buys) on the Arts and Crafts site Etsy online?? If so, you know how ebay has the buttons you can click that list “open listings”, “closed (or ended) auctions”, and “sold auctions” which is auctions that show the items that actually sold and what the item sold for. This is a great thing for sellers as it don’t matter if you run a million items it doesn’t matter if the auction ended and did NOT sale. Anyway, does anybody here know if Etsy allows you to look up items that have sold??
If the item don’t sell, you have to re-list the item and pay “insertion fees” to run the item again, so you run it several times, when it DOES finally sale, you’ll have ended up having more in fees than what you had in the item. And the reason it’s sooo important too, is that if a zillion others are selling hand turned bowls etc (which is what I plan to try and sell on Etsy) then there might be too much competition for those items. Then, #2, just because you see ppl who have listed their bowls for, say, $125 each, that don’t mean that ppl are paying that much for the same or similar items. But it also tells me for example that bowls are NOT selling, but hand turned vases (or even fly rod reel seats for example) are selling, so I’d turn the type items that ARE selling as although bowls are my favorite things to turn, if ppl are not buying bowls, but are buying turned Christmas tree ornaments, then that is what I’ll turn and list instead because like with fly tying and my 1,000 other hobbies LOL, I enjoy doing it all. I have never sold on Etsy, and ebay has “lost it’s roots” hich means it started out as a way for ppl to get rid of their things they hd for sale, like a giant internet yard sale, but it’s now mostly a gigantic “Made in China dollar store” in large part, and ppl want stuff for nothing on there these days. Thanks for ANY tips about Etsy. Chuck -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
