Selling on line

 

Before I retired I sold on eBay. I sold my dad's collection of  brewania. Brewania is signs, glasses, posters, patches, and other items related to the brewing industry. I also sold items I picked up at yard sales, flea markets, Goodwill and my wife's extra crafts . I sold enough items that I had a feedback of over 800.

At some point eBay decided that it did did not need the small seller. So when it got very expensive and I did not want to work for eBay or so it seemed, I closed my store. My protest of exorbitant fees had very little effect on eBay and they continue to thrive. The price range of the items I was able to sell made it unprofitable for me to continue on eBay.

So after retired I found Etsy. They have low insertion fees and very reasonable, actually low final value fees. That being said traffic and sales are much lower than eBay. I have two stores on the Etsy website. One store is named Decortiques, the other is Thriftpickers. Decortiques sells vintage and some handmade items. Thriftpickers sells supplies and some vantage patterns. Originally Thriftpickers was designed to sell vintage under $10. That did not work out well and I am not sure what I will do with that store.

I was considering closing both stores but since I have this new speech recognition program Dragon, I may continue on Etsy for awhile. Not being able to type quickly made it very difficult to list items and do the correct amount of tags. I also I'm planning to focus on some type of specialty items for the stores. If you are in the market for vintage items or just want to browse, go to Etsy and search for Decortiques or Thriftpickers.