Selling food on Ebay

[jellybirddesigns]

Just discovered that one can sell HOME-MADE food on Ebay!

Holy cow - you can't sell your home-made cookies at the local market, but you can send them off in the post all over the world?

I may have just discovered a new batch of items to sell - after all, hubby is a chef.....

[*tippy*toes*]

Welcome to the forum. Thank you for your valuable contribution to this thread. Your reply was very helpful.

[springyzone]

[springyzone]

I didn't realise this was one of those old threads at first but I just had a new thought on it.

If I were a little seller & not some sort of commercial enterprise, I wouldn't like to sell home made biscuits etc on ebay as I think it would be super easy to be scammed. A buyer would only have to take a photo of a hair seemingly coming out of a biscuit or claim they had mouse droppings or whatever in the pack and I am betting ebay would refund them immediately. You might even end up having someone claim your product made them sick & giving feedback to that effect.

Nope, I think markets etc would be the place to sell that sort of fresh produce.

I still buy some spices and tea etc from ebay (from Australia) but from companies & have never had a problem, just the opposite.

[*tippy*toes*]

You can't legally sell home made stuff unless you have all the certificates and inspections from the safe food handling people. There are big fines if you get caught. One disgruntled buyer could land you in boiling hot water. Schools can't even have cake stalls for goodness sakes! I don't know how we didn't all die of food poisoning growing up, with school fetes and cake stalls!

The old lady volunteers at work have a cake stall fundraiser once a month. They make all the items themselves. The line up is a mile long. They can't keep up with the demand! No-one questions them whether they have food handling certificates. They do write the ingredients on them though. I look forward to my monthly binge on coconut ice and butterfly cakes.

[springyzone]

Yes, I know about the food handling in schools.

I used to teach and we would,once or twice a year, have a sausage sizzle for our classes. $1 for as many sausages in bread that they wanted, plus a drink. (These were usually very young kids so most only ate one or two, at most 3).

The kids loved it, the parents loved it & we made a small profit which we used to put towards buying the easter eggs or Christmas presents.

The food handling rules weren't too hard to implement but unfortunately our prin didn't want us doing it any more. Pity really as it had been a bit of fun.

[lyndal1838]

Bureaucracy has gone mad IMO.   All the traditional fund raisers for schools are not longer available to the volunteers.

I am not aware of any kids getting sick from the traditional sausage sizzle or cake stall or toffee apples.

They were the best money spinners at the school fete when my kids were at school.

My grandmother was a school teacher for over 60 years and she could not remember any problems with the home made cakes etc that were sold to raise funds....there were far more problems with the school milk that was left in the sun.  And that was supposed to be good for us.

[*tippy*toes*]

Ahhh, but the trick with the school milk was to arrive early and get them while they were cold!

We were only talking about school toffees the other night. They were one of the highlights of the fete. There were brown ones or clear ones, depending on the colour of the vinegar used. Then there was the stickjaws. Boy didn't they make a mess! The top had hundreds and thousands, or sprinkles, or nuts and sometimes they'd have coconut.

It was nothing for us to go home with a couple of full sized cakes and stuff our faces on patty cakes. I don't recall anyone catching anything from school fete food. I'd like to see the evidence of all the people who got sick from eating someone else's home made cooking that we now have all these ridiculous laws.

[lyndal1838]

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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

Ahhh, but the trick with the school milk was to arrive early and get them while they were cold!

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It didn't work at my school....the milk was delivered just after classes started and we had to wait till 11am to drink it. 

Our trick was to belt out to the milk crates as soon as the bell rang, grab a bottle and head to the toilets to dispose of it before the teacher arrived to supervise the distribution of the milk.

It worked just fine for a couple of years for me....until I was in 2nd class and our class room was on the other side of the school grounds...the Milk Duty Teacher always got there before us because her class room was closer to the milk storage area.

[*tippy*toes*]

Isn't it funny, I don't know of anyone who got sick from drinking the milk, yet today, the safe food people would have a pink fit if it happened, citing all the reasons why it's going to kill someone. Milk wasn't pasteurised back then I don't think either, so more likely to make you sick than milk today.

Edit: Our milk was delivered before school started, that's why it paid to get there early. Get the stuff from the shaded area, especially in the warmer months. By the time the bell rang, it was all in full sun.