SELLING

What Sells at Antique Malls?

That depends. It depends on what part of the country you’re selling in, what state, what city and even what part of a large city.
It also depends on the shop and/or mall that you sell in, current trends and which shelter magazines ran which stories on what collectibles. It depends on what Martha [...]

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Breaking eBay

What started out as a wonderful buy and sell marketplace for the unique and unusual has been tweaked beyond recognition.
Year by year, change by change, small sellers of vintiques and collectibles get squeezed out in favor of high volume sellers selling 50,000 packages of imported socks in a single fixed price listing.
I guess the ultimate [...]

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Dissing Etsy Sellers

There was a op-ed floating around online a few weeks ago dissing Etsy sellers as delusional housewives wanting to get-rich-quick. I thought I had bookmarked the article, but now I can’t find.
The gist of the ridiculous point being made was that the webmasters behind Etsy are scamming poor, stupid women into thinking they can make [...]

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How I Got My Work Into Stores

This informative guest post was written by Etsy seller PlumeAdore
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For those wanting to get your products in stores and grow your business with some wholesale work, here is what I’m doing.
In under 3 weeks, I’ve gotten 5 wholesale orders (ranging from $250-$850 in size) and have 4 more appointments coming up next week (1 being [...]

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