For best results, how would one sell thier own jewelery designs on the internet, are auctions viable?
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Nice stuff guy... yep ebay>>>> they're the big players and yahoo auctions too
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LOOK AT SOME OF THE CATAGORIES THAT INTEREST YOU ALREADY ON EBAY THAT SEEM TO HAVE A GOOD MOVEMENT RATIO AND THEN ADD YOUR OWN PERSONAL TWIST TO THE ITEM AS ALWAYS THE LAWS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND WILL PREVAIL:)GOOD LUCK
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I can't believe that someone could be an online diamond trader.  I guess you would see a picture of a diamond, you could be absolutely certain of its value, and you then could buy and sell it.  Sort of like stocks, but without the intrinsic value.\n\nYes, I know of an e-biz.  Write me back at yahoo, since they won't allow me to answer questions like this directly.  They call it Spam.
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I suggest you spend some time reading how to sell on ebay. Ebay has a number of tutorials and guides on how to start selling:\n\neBay's Seller Central http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/index.html\neBay University http://pages.ebay.com/university/index.html\n\nThere is only one rule to success on ebay: Sell products that people actually want. \n\nSelling on eBay is not as easy as some portray. In fact, go to eBay and check out the number of auctions that end without a single bid. Competition is getting tough, as more sellers go to eBay; even the big boys are joining in the eBay marketplace. Add to that the increasing listing and final value fees.\n\neBay has several ways for you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace: \n\nItems In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html  \n\nHot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left. \n\neBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action. \n\nMerchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html  to view the current Merchandising Calendar.\n\nNow, assuming you list your product for 7 days at opening bid price of $15 and you used the gallery feature and Buy It Now, your fees are:\n\nInsertion fees for starting price of $10.00 – $24.99 = $0.60\nGallery Fee = 0.35\nBuy It Now for starting price of US$10.00 – US$24.99 = $0.10\n\nSo whether your item sells or not, ebay will already charge you with $1.05 -- the listing fees are something you need to consider when thinking of the starting price for the product. The final price must cover your product costs and ebay fees.\n\nIf that product sells at $20, there are additional fees to pay:\n\nFinal value fees $0.01 – $25.00 = 5.25% of the closing value which translates to $1.05 that ebay will take from you\n\nSo assuming that the buyer will pay you with a check for $20 + shipping fee, you would pay ebay with:\n\nListing fees - $1.05\nFinal value fees - $1.05\n\nor a total of $2.10\n\nThe more selling features you add, the higher the charges. If you use Paypal, you will also be charged Paypal fees.
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there are many ways to make money online. But there are no shortcuts to making money online. if there was...everyone would be doing it ...and that would take the profit out of it.\nSelling on auction sites is profitable...buy low sell high\nhttp://www.ebay.com/\nThe key to this would be promotion...promote your auctions...if you are trying to sell crafts promote your auctions on crafters forums etc...\n\nadvertising...place advertising on your website/blog and promote your site/blog (need about 50,000 to 100,000 visitors per month to make decent money)\nhttps://www.google.com/adsense/\n\nhttp://publisher.yahoo.com/\nthere are many more\n\nCreate and sell T-shirts with this site\nhttp://www.goodstorm.com/participate\n\ncreate and sell something original that people want!\n\n"D"
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ebay\n\nThat is the best way to get them to the largest possible marketplace.\n\nDo some research to find out what category they should be posted.
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Your best option is to use the eBay Trading Assistant program, where sellers register on eBay to sell for other people. You can search for trading assistants in your area using this tool:\n\nhttp://tradingassistant.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?TradingAssistant&page=main
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I am very experienced with Internet businesses, as I run a couple of Internet businesses, I buy and sell on eBay and I have some customers who have large internet sales businesses.\n\nYahoo answers will not let me publish my web address, but if you write me at yahoo mail, I will be happy to give you any information I can about how to be successful on the web and how to keep from being scammed.\n\n-- Mark
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Try e-bay.  I used to own a store in my home town, I bought stuff from sellers in Hong Kong off of e-bay.  Also look for wholesale jewelry distributors on the Internet.
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Learn your keywords.  People search by keywords, learn as many keys that will pull up your items on search as you can find.\nFor me, things like L@@K! and other silly things don't work as well as a well worded title that catches a lot of lookers from the search.  And link your auctions together so that people who find one of your auctions can also look at everything else you may have offered.\nGood clear photos of the item from several views are a must.\nI've also found that by listing through channeladvisor rather than ebay, I can post many auctions to start on the same day - Sunday evening works best for me.   I have a much better sell through rate the more items I have up at one time. \nAlso, in the past, this time of year I would plan on having hundreds of items up at the same time, 40 or so ending each day.  That way I have new items popping up in the 'just listed' catagorie as well as in the 'ending soon' catagorie and once a week I pay the $19.95 fee to have one really good item listed as a 'Featured Item".  I find that this bring me hundreds of lookers to my other auctions and results in better sales.  I offer combined shipping with no extra packing fees, as close to actual shipping as possible and I do ship internationaly.  I offer good customer service and have good feedback, which I think helps with sales as well.  I start items at a low but fair price and I use the re-list feature for any that don't sell the first time.\n\nI have sold on ebay for over 8 years, mostly estate clearance and private collections, and one other thing I have found is that you have to research before you list or you will be wasting your time and money.  Some things just are not good sellers, no matter what you say or how much flash you put behind it.  If you are selling an item that you can already find listed many times in the completed items as a no sale, you need set that item aside for a while or offer it at a garage sale.  \nGood luck to you in your Ebay career, I hope you have a profitable holiday season!
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If you just have some of your own stuff to sell, it's a piece of cake! The submission process guides you through it Just got to ebay and go to "sell", it'll all be explained in detail, easy!\n\nIf you want to sell commercially, you want to create a really nice looking page, that looks like a store on the internet. That will take mroe work, and learning html, but you don't need that at all to sell stuff! \n\nIf you do want to make more than just a basic page (basic you can do without any knowledge of anything, Ebay will guide you through), but you don't want to learn html, check out http://www.auctiva.com/ They have nice page 'templates' for free, so all you do is pick one, and write your information in it!\n\nGood luck, you can do it!!
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You can sell to boutique stores but be careful of consignment.. There is also a boutique show where buyers go to buy wholesale.. it is expensive to do these shows but if you jewelry is unique and highly salable it might be worth a shot.. and you might branch into doing craft shows and state fairs - wherever people go in your area - - Christmas can be great in the right mall but also expensive - you get what you pay for... if the rents are high that usually means that the traffic is high too... You must have the inventory to make it worthwhile..\n\nYes, I used to do this for a living - best to you..
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make sure you research keywords first.  See if anybody else is selling a similar item and see how they're positioned.  Think of it from the buyers standpoint - what would you search for if you were looking for one.\n\nMake your descriptions as detailed as possible and provide good images.  You'll sell anything on ebay.
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http://beadwork.about.com/ has tons of links to patterns, ideas, and marketing resources!  Very good place to start.\nThey have an article on selling jewelry online via auction sites: http://jewelrymaking.about.com/od/thejewelrybizonline/a/021205.htm\nAnd this is their link to resrouces on The Business of Jewelry Making On Line http://jewelrymaking.about.com/od/thejewelrybizonline/\n\nAs well, there are several beading/jewelry magazines that have archived articles/projects.  Here's a few:\nhttp://www.lapidaryjournal.com/store/books.cfm\nhttp://www.beadandbutton.com\nhttp://www.stepbystepbeads.com\nhttp://www.beadstylemag.com\n\nAso, if you do a search on 'beading tutorials' 'bead patterns' 'jewelry ideas' 'selling bead jewelry" etc., you will get more links than you can read in a week!
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If you are looking for ebay success stories, there's NONE better than the couple Jay and Marie Senese (username jayandmarie) http://stores.ebay.com/JayAndMarie of the 1-cent CD fame. They have the highest positive feedback number of all sellers on eBay - and they are certainly one of those who have made tons of money on ebay. \n\nTheir business model is to buy very low cost CDs in bulk (those that CD stores sell in their discount bins) and offer them on ebay at a starting price of 1 cent http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886080.htm Their success is based on the fact that they stumbled on a sustainable business model with products that people really want. They sold their business -- where else but on ebay -- for $5 million! Now that is success.\n\nBuying from garage sales and selling on eBay is fun, and good getting a few dollars here and there from ebay. Sometimes, you luck out on an item and hit big, but many times it will just be so-so (assuming you can even get the price you paid for it). In terms of fun factor, it is great. But from a business stand-point, it is not. Not sustainable.\n\nIf you want to earn serious money from eBay, you need to have a well-thought out business model. Selling on ebay is getting tougher -- just look at the number of auctions that closes without a bid. Go to the boards on ebay and you will hear even oldtimers complaining about how stiffer competition plus higher fees make it so much harder to sell on ebay.\n\nThe key success factor is: Sell products that people actually want. \n\nSelling on eBay is not as easy as some portray. In fact, go to eBay and check out the number of auctions that end without a single bid. Competition is getting tough, as more sellers go to eBay; even the big boys are joining in the eBay marketplace. Add to that the increasing listing and final value fees.\n\neBay has several ways for you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace: \n\nItems In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html  \n\nHot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left. \n\neBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action. \n\nMerchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html  to view the current Merchandising Calendar.
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Sell products that people actually want. \n\nSelling on eBay is not as easy as some portray. In fact, go to eBay and check out the number of auctions that end without a single bid. Competition is getting tough, as more sellers go to eBay; even the big boys are joining in the eBay marketplace. Add to that the increasing listing and final value fees.\n\neBay has several ways for you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace: \n\nItems In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html  \n\nHot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left. \n\neBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action. \n\nMerchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html  to view the current Merchandising Calendar.\n\nHow to Find the Hottest Products to Sell on eBay\n http://www.powerhomebiz.com/102005/ebay.htm\n\nFor managing ebay listings, I use Timbercreek's Sold! http://www.timbercreeksoftware.com/... - it can create invoices, schedule your listings, manage multiple auctions, manage customers, track payments receive, etc.\n\nI suggest you read the articles on Success with Auctions http://www.powerhomebiz.com/internet/auctions.htm\n\nBuying from garage sales and selling on eBay is fun, and good getting a few dollars here and there from ebay. Sometimes, you luck out on an item and hit big, but many times it will just be so-so (assuming you can even get the price you paid for it). In terms of fun factor, it is great. But from a business stand-point, it is not. Not sustainable.\n\nIf you want to earn serious money from eBay, you need to have a well-thought out business model. Selling on ebay is getting tougher -- just look at the number of auctions that closes without a bid. Go to the boards on ebay and you will hear even oldtimers complaining about how stiffer competition plus higher fees make it so much harder to sell on ebay.\n\nOne success model of ebay is the couple Jay and Marie Senese (username jayandmarie) of the 1-cent CD fame. They have the highest positive feedback number of all sellers on eBay. Their business model is to buy very low cost CDs in bulk (those that CD stores sell in their discount bins) and offer them on ebay at a starting price of 1 cent http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886080.htm Their success is based on the fact that they stumbled on a sustainable business model with products that people really want. They sold their business -- where else but on ebay -- for $5 million! Now that is success.
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If you can not sell to friends or family I recommend Ebay.com \nA pawn shop will rip you off and a jewelry store will only pay 20-30% of its value. The only other option is to look for a local consignment shop which should only keep 15-20% of the sale price