Selling Crafts on eBay
Tips and FAQ for a Home Business

Many crafters use eBay to help broaden their audience base. You instantly connect with millions of people around the world who are interested in your project. Even if they don't like the particular item you are selling, they now know about you and your types of products. While it isn't proper to use an eBay listing to get yourself advertising, you can of course mention that you are in the business of creating whatever the product is. So if you are selling a quilt, it's perfectly proper to say you are a long time quilter who sells quilts for a living. You can link back to your website's page that describes the types of materials you use and your quality techniques. That way a person who doesn't happen to like that one item can still learn about the other things you make.

I highly recommend selling 2-3 or more items at once - and having each item being quite different from the others. That way if someone sees one quilt and says "Oh but I hate blue, I wish it was in red", they can look at your related items and see that you do indeed make red items. Also, if someone is into quilts, and they see you have a number of nice quilts that they just aren't interested in, they can easily bookmark you to see what else you offer in future auctions.

Of course I'm using quilts as an example but that is true for any item :)

It's important that you describe the item in detail. Don't worry about scaring people off. If anything, they become MORE trusting and bid higher when they are sure they know every single detail about the item. If you try to hide flaws, people will get nervous at the lack of detail and refuse to bid. Take as many photos as you can, from every angle. People LOVE photos, to really know what it is they are bidding on. Try to include something to give a sense of scale, so they know how big or small the object is.

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