Vintage sellers - Do You know of sites other than Etsy?

Posted by MissGoodEye on May 20, 2008 at 2:31am in Selling Vintage on eBay, Ruby Lane, eCrater & Other Sites.

My sales are Nil,Zero, Zip, Nada,
on Etsy since the change in the search function. I am investigating other websites which might be good as an alternative venue for my VINTAGE.

Has anyone found a reasonable alternative, other than Ebay?

I have looked at :
www.PinkDoodle.com

And some others which I will list later. Tell me what you have found.

Tags: 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, clothes, marketplace, mod, selling, vintage

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Permalink Reply by Gabreial on May 20, 2008 at 9:01am: I think it's time we have another thread here at the forums for other places to sell your vintage/antiques. So I started a new one!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gabreial on May 20, 2008 at 9:04am: There is always

eBay
Ruby Lane
eCrater

PinkDoodle is based in London, not sure if that makes a difference.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Vintage Goodness on May 20, 2008 at 9:29am: Tias and GoAntiques, though I haven't tried either one personally...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Vintage Goodness on May 20, 2008 at 9:30am: Oh also BuyItSellIt - a free storefront similar to eCrater...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kelly/The Vintage Butterfly on May 20, 2008 at 10:29am: you can use paypal's widget and sell off your own blog or site. I'm going to try this out along with my etsy shop.

http://storefront.paypallabs.com/authenticate/review; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Vintage Goodness on May 20, 2008 at 10:44am: Wow, interesting, I hadn't seen that before... let us know how you like it!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by MissGoodEye on May 20, 2008 at 11:28am: The Paypal Widget thing is new. Also see that it is a beta testing release.
I might try it out.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by MissGoodEye on May 20, 2008 at 11:30am: I see that at least one store is posting vintage clothes and artifacts, on this site.

Thanks. I may as well give it a go.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by MissGoodEye on May 20, 2008 at 11:37am: It doesn't matter much to me, once I get the conversion of currency factor committed to a degree. London, New York, Spain...must learn to think Global

Etsy sellers come from around the world. If those guys can work with dollars I guess I had better learn to think in terms with Euros and Pesos etc.

(however hard it is to teach an 'OLD Dog'); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by MissGoodEye on May 20, 2008 at 11:39am: Have heard of these but not tried them. Thanks I will add these to my list.

Eventually I will try many.

Putting all your eggs in one or two baskets (Ebay and Etsy), may not be a good thing.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lori on May 20, 2008 at 12:11pm: I have sold on eBay and here. I still love Etsy but have been listing a few things on feebay. I really do not like to list in auctions, the risk of selling to low is very high. I have only looked into the sites that sell with listing formats. I tried BlueJay and am not happy there. the inventory system is not automated and you have to remove your own items for sold and pending sales. I had a nightmare situation where someone ordered a item over and over when there was only one.

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Permalink Reply by CrochetBee on May 20, 2008 at 3:08pm: You get what you pay for in a website. Free is not the greatest. If you open a shop there, Pink Doodle, you will be a sub domaim just like at Etsy.

You are better off with a blog, your own domain name and the PayPal widget. More and more sellers are going that way and that is my intention. When I find myself in Google, my domain will be there, not Etsy`s or anybody else`s. I have seen good ecommerce blogs at Blogspot, Wordpress and Typepad.

It is also much easier to build page rank with own site. Lots of work. Success won`t happen overnight. You have to tend it like a baby, but it is worth it.; ▶ Reply to This