trying to use Paypal and ebay

[Jordan]

Ebay and Paypal are one and the same, To me they are both scams to profit off others labors, unfortunatly there are very few other choices when selling on the internet. Just my feelings after trying to sell my beemer last year. I ended up selling it through craigs list.

[papabear]

I've been doing quite a bit of eBay auctions and Amazon fixed price sales lately. I've used PayPal for about 2 years now no problems so far very secure. Be careful about what time of the month eBay takes your fees out and keep up with that.

On eBay make sure that you always go to the next higher weight to accomidate the packaging and postage differences, they don't always agree. If in doubt go to USPS.com and use there calculator it's much more accurate.

When setting your prices always look at what else is available and see what everyone else is getting. Don't go too low you can always relist it if it doesn't sell and change your terms and pricing to sell it then if it sells eBay will usually give you a refund on some of the listing fees.

If your selling on your own site definately use PayPal it's worth the bother they handle almost all the agrivating parts of collecting your money. Amazone seems to be a good place to sell at fixed prices and they set your listings in a store for you. They also offer some other good services, check them out. They don't use PayPal but work directly with your bank accounts and make edeposits and withdrawals and notify you by email.

[papabear]

By the way I don't sell my leather craft items on eBay or Amazon. Too much like a garage sale. I only do leather craft for my old customers and friends anymore mostly because they won't leave me alone and now I enjoy it again. Now it's when I can as I can and at my prices. When I had to do it for a living most of the fun left. If you can compete with the imports as far as price go for it. It's hard to promote the quality of good leather crafting on the net and get a reasonable price for your work. Craft shows, rodeos, swap meets. bike rallies, fairs, inactments, etc. That's what will get your quality products advertised.

Your customers will sell for you. Do the best you can on each project and take pride in your work and demand a reasonable price for it. You will succeed if you have the right attitude. I took my time and made 3 beautiful black lined belt yesterday 1 for a Christmas present with 8 silver conchos on it and 2 for an old customer who has waited about 6 months for me to do them. I charged $30 apiece to my old customer for his. I really enjoyed the day of crafting yesterday!