Comments on: Hillary DePiano: Where to sell online http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html eBay & ecommerce made easy Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Neele http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-51456 Neele Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:57:48 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-51456 You ust have forgotten about http://www.pennysaverusa.com/ this one. I thin its one of the best places to put free classifieds if you're selling something. I find it more reliable than ebay. You ust have forgotten about
http://www.pennysaverusa.com/
this one. I thin its one of the best places to put free classifieds if you’re selling something. I find it more reliable than ebay.

]]> By: Hillary http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50910 Hillary Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:54:20 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50910 I have used Cafepress a ton of small project (IE, fundraisers, family gifts, shirts for the cast of my play, etc.) and I have tried many times to apply their technology to something I can sell on eBay, elsewhere. But somehow what made them so great for me for those small projects just didn't work on the larger scale. That said, some print-on-demand stuff can be ideal for eBay or elsewhere sales because you only need to pay for merchandise when you sell it so that lesser overhead can be pretty awesome so I am not through with them yet, you can be sure! :-) I have used Cafepress a ton of small project (IE, fundraisers, family gifts, shirts for the cast of my play, etc.) and I have tried many times to apply their technology to something I can sell on eBay, elsewhere. But somehow what made them so great for me for those small projects just didn’t work on the larger scale.

That said, some print-on-demand stuff can be ideal for eBay or elsewhere sales because you only need to pay for merchandise when you sell it so that lesser overhead can be pretty awesome so I am not through with them yet, you can be sure! :-)

]]> By: Steve Antony Williams http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50897 Steve Antony Williams Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:36:51 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50897 I agree with Andrea. It's well written and nothing with being verbose in this case. I agree with Andrea.

It’s well written and nothing with being verbose in this case.

]]> By: Judy http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50874 Judy Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:48:59 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50874 As an Antipodean online seller, I've been reading UK and US online selling blogs for years and have never quite got my head around all the different selling venues or Amazon's different options. Thanks for explaining them all so well, Hillary. I still can't, or won't, use them, but at least I now understand what they're all about. Heading over to check out your blog now. Cheers from Oz As an Antipodean online seller, I’ve been reading UK and US online selling blogs for years and have never quite got my head around all the different selling venues or Amazon’s different options.

Thanks for explaining them all so well, Hillary. I still can’t, or won’t, use them, but at least I now understand what they’re all about. Heading over to check out your blog now. Cheers from Oz

]]> By: buzzcowboy http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50862 buzzcowboy Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:10:21 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50862 Just a note that CafePress also has a new Group order functionality (bulk buy on steroids), which is a great alternative to a traditional long-run print job that requires the same shirt, same design, etc. http://groups.cafepress.com/ Cheerio. Just a note that CafePress also has a new Group order functionality (bulk buy on steroids), which is a great alternative to a traditional long-run print job that requires the same shirt, same design, etc.

http://groups.cafepress.com/

Cheerio.

]]> By: Sue Bailey http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50841 Sue Bailey Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:46:42 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50841 Heheh. I really vividly remember reading your title in my RSS reader and thinking "huh? that doesn't sound like Hillary..." :-D So I put "impossible to make a living on eBay" into your search box and there it was ;-) Heheh. I really vividly remember reading your title in my RSS reader and thinking “huh? that doesn’t sound like Hillary…” :-D
So I put “impossible to make a living on eBay” into your search box and there it was ;-)

]]> By: still trading http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50840 still trading Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:28:23 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50840 our dog, the budgie, the rabbit, next doors cat, and its fleas all make a living on ebay, not to mention those that make a living selling advertising to them ,writing about them, supplying them, and their sellers, and lets not forget the revenue inspecters ,the accountants the law enforcement agencies that make money or get their living from ebay and its sellers our dog, the budgie, the rabbit,
next doors cat, and its fleas all make a living on ebay, not to mention those that make a living selling advertising to them ,writing about them, supplying them, and their sellers, and lets not forget
the revenue inspecters ,the accountants the law enforcement agencies that make money or get their living from ebay and its sellers

]]> By: Hillary http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50839 Hillary Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:24:43 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50839 Look at you, finding stuff! I just sat here trying to find that myself saying...wait what words were in that post again? lol Sad. Look at you, finding stuff!

I just sat here trying to find that myself saying…wait what words were in that post again? lol Sad.

]]> By: Sue Bailey http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50838 Sue Bailey Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:10:45 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50838 This post? http://thewhineseller.com/2009/04/its-impossible-to-make-money-selling-on-ebay/ I remember LOLing at that one. This post?
http://thewhineseller.com/2009/04/its-impossible-to-make-money-selling-on-ebay/
I remember LOLing at that one.

]]> By: still trading http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50837 still trading Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:05:35 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50837 too right hillary it seems to succeed on ebay is almost the same as being taliban too right hillary
it seems to succeed on ebay is almost
the same as being taliban

]]> By: Hillary http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50836 Hillary Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:01:14 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50836 I actually wrote a whole post about this once bordered around a lady who accosted me at the post office to "warn" me that it was impossible to make money doing eBay. She had tried it for a week. I've been doing it for 12 years. I was like, um, maybe impossible for YOU. :-) In all seriousness, it isn't one size fits all. I am sure that some of the eBay changes totally crippled some businesses. But just because it hurt your business doesn't mean that the whole site is evil. I actually wrote a whole post about this once bordered around a lady who accosted me at the post office to “warn” me that it was impossible to make money doing eBay. She had tried it for a week. I’ve been doing it for 12 years.

I was like, um, maybe impossible for YOU. :-)

In all seriousness, it isn’t one size fits all. I am sure that some of the eBay changes totally crippled some businesses. But just because it hurt your business doesn’t mean that the whole site is evil.

]]> By: Hillary http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50835 Hillary Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:59:03 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50835 I am a guest blogger today, yes :-). If you want to yell at me on a regular basis, I am over at http://www.thewhineseller.com :-) Andrea - I appreciate your support but it's OK. If there is one thing I have noticed its that saying "I am still doing well on eBay" seems to be a dirty word online. I always feel like I need to apologize for the fact that my business isn't failing. But I do understand that there is a lot of anger for some people and that is fine. I don't work for eBay, I owe them nothing so it's no skin off my nose, as they say, whether people like eBay or not. :-) I am a guest blogger today, yes :-) . If you want to yell at me on a regular basis, I am over at http://www.thewhineseller.com :-)

Andrea – I appreciate your support but it’s OK. If there is one thing I have noticed its that saying “I am still doing well on eBay” seems to be a dirty word online. I always feel like I need to apologize for the fact that my business isn’t failing.

But I do understand that there is a lot of anger for some people and that is fine. I don’t work for eBay, I owe them nothing so it’s no skin off my nose, as they say, whether people like eBay or not. :-)

]]> By: Sue Bailey http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50834 Sue Bailey Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:58:02 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50834 <i>Business is not a 1 size fits all. </i> That is one of the best bits of advice anyone will ever get - and it's something that eBay sellers (myself included) forget far too often. Business is not a 1 size fits all.
That is one of the best bits of advice anyone will ever get – and it’s something that eBay sellers (myself included) forget far too often.

]]> By: Hillary http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50832 Hillary Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:49:28 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50832 still trading - LOL I usually say it in so few words as well but Chris asked me for a complete review of each site I had used, pluses and minuses so I wanted to be a throughout as possible. Shelly- eCrater I just plumb forgot about! I will add that and ask Chris to edit, good call. My purpose was that Chris had asked me to do a guest post reviewing all the different sites I'd used. I know some people hate eBay and I am not trying to convert/upset anyone. I have just been selling online for over 12 years now and was sharing what I found. Business is not a 1 size fits all. Your business may die on eBay, thrive on another site for all I know. The only life I have lived is mine so that is the only frame of reference I have. For my business, this is what I found. That doesn't mean you'll find the same thing. You made my day by saying I was appalling! I figured at my age I didn't have it in me to shock anyone! LOL :-) Thanks for reading and if anyone has any questions or needs clarifications, please let me know and I will try to answer as best as I can. still trading – LOL I usually say it in so few words as well but Chris asked me for a complete review of each site I had used, pluses and minuses so I wanted to be a throughout as possible.

Shelly- eCrater I just plumb forgot about! I will add that and ask Chris to edit, good call.

My purpose was that Chris had asked me to do a guest post reviewing all the different sites I’d used. I know some people hate eBay and I am not trying to convert/upset anyone. I have just been selling online for over 12 years now and was sharing what I found.

Business is not a 1 size fits all. Your business may die on eBay, thrive on another site for all I know. The only life I have lived is mine so that is the only frame of reference I have. For my business, this is what I found. That doesn’t mean you’ll find the same thing.

You made my day by saying I was appalling! I figured at my age I didn’t have it in me to shock anyone! LOL :-)

Thanks for reading and if anyone has any questions or needs clarifications, please let me know and I will try to answer as best as I can.

]]> By: still trading http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50831 still trading Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:43:25 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50831 sound sensible and useful advice just a bit pointless, as anyone with any wit knows ebay and Amazon are the only place to sell on the web, other than your own site, we are not trying to escape ebay ,far from it, we are trying to list more on ebay , ebay is our god not our boss :twisted: sound sensible and useful advice just a bit pointless,
as anyone with any wit knows ebay and Amazon are the only place to sell on the web, other than your own site,
we are not trying to escape ebay ,far from it, we are trying to list more on ebay , ebay is our god not our boss :twisted:

]]> By: Ellen Kunec http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50830 Ellen Kunec Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:41:47 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50830 <i>Remember, the more you pay for the product upfront, the more you have to charge for it and the less you make per sale. </i> No kidding? :cry: Remember, the more you pay for the product upfront, the more you have to charge for it and the less you make per sale.

No kidding?

:cry:

]]> By: Andrea Kennard http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50829 Andrea Kennard Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:39:55 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50829 Blimey! Hillary is a guest, I believe, on Tamebay. Any need to be quite so vitriolic? I really liked what she said, I found it informative and nicely written. In fact, it made me decide to go and relook at some of the sites I had decided to ignore, even though Hillary states they are not yet doing well. She points out some of the good points and did put a positive slant on them. I think YOU ought to be ashamed of yourself for coming across so bitterly! Blimey!

Hillary is a guest, I believe, on Tamebay. Any need to be quite so vitriolic?

I really liked what she said, I found it informative and nicely written. In fact, it made me decide to go and relook at some of the sites I had decided to ignore, even though Hillary states they are not yet doing well. She points out some of the good points and did put a positive slant on them.

I think YOU ought to be ashamed of yourself for coming across so bitterly!

]]> By: Shelly http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50828 Shelly Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:15:12 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50828 Why exactly do you consider overstock, eBid, ioffer, Bonanzle, and epier "noteworthy"? You wrote that in your opinion they are worthless so why did you decide they are noteworthy? Very odd. What about eCrater is it not even worthless enough to be considered noteworthy by you? Or, should I assume eCrater is a good site, because you didn't include it among the noteworthy sites to mention? Exactly what is your purpose? Do you really think that any seller that was on eBay imagines they will sell more quantity on these smaller new sites than on eBay? You ought to be ashamed of yourself for trying to terrorize sellers looking to escape your boss eBay. Anyone with a conscience would get out of the way of sellers ready to unshackle themselves from eBay. Absolutely appalling! Why exactly do you consider overstock, eBid, ioffer, Bonanzle, and epier “noteworthy”? You wrote that in your opinion they are worthless so why did you decide they are noteworthy? Very odd.

What about eCrater is it not even worthless enough to be considered noteworthy by you? Or, should I assume eCrater is a good site, because you didn’t include it among the noteworthy sites to mention?

Exactly what is your purpose? Do you really think that any seller that was on eBay imagines they will sell more quantity on these smaller new sites than on eBay?

You ought to be ashamed of yourself for trying to terrorize sellers looking to escape your boss eBay. Anyone with a conscience would get out of the way of sellers ready to unshackle themselves from eBay.

Absolutely appalling!

]]> By: still trading http://tamebay.com/2009/09/hillary-depiano-where-to-sell-online.html#comment-50820 still trading Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:18:44 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=8437#comment-50820 you can tell she writes books, I can say the same in less than 10 words when selling online , ebay & amazon are the only option you can tell she writes books,
I can say the same in less than 10 words

when selling online ,
ebay & amazon are the only option

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