Listing to port

[wombat1138]

First of all, new shiny with a capital SHINE:



Secondly, I posted some new auctions on eBay last week for uranium glass bead bracelets. (They're just about over, and it looks like one of them will sell. Woohoo.) I'm noticing a lot more hits on the ones I put into the Pottery/Glass category than the ones I put into the Artisan Jewelry category, and after browsing around for some other stuff on my own, I think I can see why-- the so-called "artisan" categories are getting pretty choked up by mass-produced items.

I also rechecked etsy, where I've let my account go dormant because they have an four-month expiration date on unsold items. I am frankly croggled by the high prices being asked there for uranium glass beadage, which makes me think I should port most of my unsold auction listings over there and could probably double or even triple my asking prices. It's a pity that etsy's fee structure doesn't support multiple-item listings, or I'd start slapping up galore of my loose beads there as well. (People are asking *how much* for loose uranium glass beads there? More to the point, people are *paying* that much? Wow.)

If you shop for handmade jewelry, do you even bother checking eBay anymore, or do you write it off as a lowest-denominator consumer wasteland?

Comments

[branchandroot]

Oh wow, that's a really cool one!