topic Re: Help in Selling

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ciderdog10 — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:03:56 GMT

Hi I live in Adelaide Brighton and I'm looking for help, in my area selling my craft.

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4channel — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:21:50 GMT

@ciderdog10 wrote:
Hi I live in Adelaide Brighton and I'm looking for help, in my area selling my craft.

What kind of craft are you selling? I couldn't see a picture.

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shoppingbag* — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 07:28:14 GMT

I am not sure what you are asking. You want to sell on eBay? Just in your area? If so, make your listings "pick-up" only

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ciderdog10 — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:01:27 GMT

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ciderdog10 — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:43:56 GMT

I am partly disabled so doing the posting etc is a bit much for me. I'm looking for a person living close to me who can sell my craft for me. I have other things that I make too. like sun catchers and jewellery.

Marg.

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davewil1964 — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:31:19 GMT

You can't post your email address here. Apart from the fact that it is now available to anybody with an internet connection, it is against board policy.

I have asked a moderator to remove it.

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padi*0409 — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:34:38 GMT

You might be better of trying a local Facebook buy/swap/sell site.

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ciderdog10 — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:42:11 GMT

Sorry, didn't know, I am new to this. Marg.

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ciderdog10 — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:45:47 GMT

I know they look a bit rough ,but once I have done a dozen in each colour.they are tidied up and pulled into shape. My idea is to provide ready made flowers too sew or glue them onto headbands etc..

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countessalmirena — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:37:07 GMT

@ciderdog10,

It's going to be very difficult to find someone to sell your items just by posting on these threads. eBay's rules concerning exchange of contact information (including emails, phone numbers, addresses, etc.) are extremely stringent, and there is a range of sanctions that they will visit upon eBayers who trangress those rules.

The reason for those rules is generally understood to be eBay's determination to prevent off-eBay sales and fee avoidance.

You may want to look into eBay's Valet program.

❝Our Valet program takes all the effort out of listing and selling. You send in your items and a selling expert prices and sells them on your behalf, for an agreed share of the sale price.❞

However, anything without a barcode can't be sold through eBay Valet. There are other restrictions as well.

I echo the recommendation that you might be best off selling on Facebook. Perhaps the site rhyming with Betsy could be of interest as well. (I don't know whether or not you can find someone to help you packing/posting, or listing/selling for you, but bear in mind that the margin for these sorts of items might not be large enough to bear the cost of paying commission to someone else selling on your behalf.)

What about getting relatives involved to help you? Do you have nephews or nieces or grandkids or friends who would be happy to give you a hand for a % of the profit? (Wide range of relatives as we've no idea about how old you are!) Let's say that you want to sell on eBay... You could stipulate a handling time of 7 days so that would obviate the need to send off orders every day; making it once a week might make it viable for you.

If you do decide to start selling on these boards, you should read up on the various eBay selling policies to give you a good background. It would also be an excellent idea to ask questions on these boards about anything on which you're not clear... how to deal with non-payers, whether selling internationally would be worth it for you, how to get the best out of your listing titles, how to deal with requests for refunds, and many many more issues. The help you can get on these boards is better than any course... it's worth more than gold. It may sometimes be proffered bluntly, but it comes from the wealth of experience in many different selling categories from various different sellers.

Think about whether it would be worth it... Best of luck!

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lyndal1838 — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:31:08 GMT

I hate to put obstacles in your way but you are wanting to sell in a category that is already very slow.

There is one ebay seller who makes similar items who has been around for many years and had/has a large store as well as his own website.

For quite a while he has been voicing his concern over the future of his ebay selling and concentrating more on his own website.

I agree with the other members who have mentioned the Facebook selling sites....there are no fees there.

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glenbankloel — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:05:32 GMT

Perhaps contacting some dance groups, calisthenics groups or acting groups might be an outlet for your items.

Would think that there are some in your area, can you check your local hall, church hall, local school especially preps/kindergartens etc and send some information to them or drop into the office and see if you can put a notice up on their notice board.

I would also suggest that you try to contact your local newspaper (most are online now) and see if you can get a message in their adds.

Items like this are very attractive to clubs and groups so word of mouth is invaluable if you can get the right contacts.

Can you turn them into attractive/pretty cushions? Just a thought.

Good Luck

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4channel — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:26:08 GMT

@glenbankloel wrote:
Perhaps contacting some dance groups, calisthenics groups or acting groups might be an outlet for your items.

Would think that there are some in your area, can you check your local hall, church hall, local school especially preps/kindergartens etc and send some information to them or drop into the office and see if you can put a notice up on their notice board.

I would also suggest that you try to contact your local newspaper (most are online now) and see if you can get a message in their adds.

Items like this are very attractive to clubs and groups so word of mouth is invaluable if you can get the right contacts.

Can you turn them into attractive/pretty cushions? Just a thought.

Good Luck

That's a very good suggestion glenbankloel. Hopefully what you posted here will also encourage some other good likewise suggestions.

Dance groups is a very good idea. Perhaps too some other clubs etc..

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digital*ghost — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:09:46 GMT

It sounds like you need help more on the order fulfillment side than anything else. A lot of Facebook groups do concentrate on local buy / sell so you could sell to people who can come and pick up, if you're comfortanle with that and it's a safe option for you.

I'd consider perhaps looking for someone you can wholesale them to, this way instead of trying to organise and post multiple small sales on a continual basis, you'd only need to organise one large sale every so often.