Online Selling On Accessories

felisthestore

I've done selling online thru eBay until they have start increasing the prices. That was last year. The response was fantastic. I made quite a sale. So I move to my blog website to promote my accessories. So far not that good as we have to advertise ourselves to let others know we exist.

1) Your website must be nicely done and easy to find the links and all.
2) The pictures of course my be clear.
3) Offer your customers discounts/free gifts/cheap prices.

One way to attract more people to your site is make your URL a signature in your Yahoo, hotmail etc, meaning whenever you send out any mails, the receiver will definietly see your link and wants to open it.

Bambie

Hello Felisthestore,

Care to share some experience on ebay selling? Coz I always feel that for things to sell at eBay an Yahoo, prices must usually be very cheap. How much do you usually price your accessories at??

felisthestore

Hi Bambie

Well I did some selling on eBay Singapore. That was free at first when I started in early 2005. But somehow they added like to make it bold you need to pay this much, if you need to highlight your picture so it will stand out, you need to pay this much. It's pretty pricey so because of that you need to increase your selling price.

I had a monthly store costing me $24 per month. But because of that I have to increase my prices by like a dollar more. Sometimes I didin't make any profit. One advantage of having a store is that you have an URL but disadvantage is that you need to cover up your store rental prices.

It's kinda hard to maintain my stuff as my working schedule got in the way so that's why I'm opting for blog website to sell my stuff. Just need to work harder to advertise it.

cashmere

It is still free to sell on EBay..
It's just that you have to pay to set up a store..
But for normal listings with no specialty (e.g bold words/highlight), it is free..

felisthestore

That's the problem. You need to set up a store so as not to continuously keep relisting your items every week. It took up 1 hr of my time just selling at least 40 items if I don't set up a store. Having a store you have a choice of having your items on the site for as long as you want.

But that's another problem. Usually when you keyed in something in the search engine, eBay will give results of those items that will soon expire. So if you have your item for 30 days, nobody will bother to look for it at the bottom of the list. Anything that catches their eyes first they will buy it. But if decided to list the item for example 7 days, at the end of the 7 seven days you need to relist it just so somebody will buy.

cashmere

Yeah, I agree...
It is troublesome to relist the whole lot every week.
But well, that's the hassle you have to go through for free things..
Otherwise, maybe people won't even pay to set up a store there.

justgift

currently you have to pay for using ebay,. its no longer free

pokerface

yeah, that sucks. and worse, yahoo auctions is giving me lots of problems now in the sign-in part.. haiz..

anyway gals, i used to run an online website to sell my beaded accessories. for about 3+ years. closed it last august cos too busy with my work to maintain it. now after joining this forum, my heart itchy again, dun want to see my passion die eh.. thinking of reopening website. if you all want to advert/list your products in my website, can let me know. webbie may be up in august or later this year, depending on my work schedule (again.. haiz!)

cheers and good luck for your biz too

em.belle

Hi
I'm interested in adverting / listing at your website do keep me update
=)

shortcake

what type of accessories are well sold? i also have problem selling off my accessories such as bracelets, earring and necklace online. how can we take nice pic of a pair of earrings? to lay them on the floor or to hanging them up? what about bracelet? to wear it on the hand or to lay it flat on the floor? Seems that the pic i taken not so appealing to online shoppers lei