Selling online, what fun!
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Comments (1)Never heard of it in the Northeast...See MoreSelling Quilts Online -- what's your ideal?
Comments (4)1) are you a quilter? do you know anything about quilting? I'm a new quilter; just finished my first quilt top last month. It's my newest obsession and I love it. Programming is my other obsession, so it would be fun to meld the two :) 2) what's in this for you? are you going to make a commission on any sale? will you be charging members to list their items for sale? I'd probably have to charge a nominal fee to cover my web-hosting costs. Part of why I'm asking questions is that I'd want to know what people thought was fair -- an upfront fee? A small percentage of the final sale price? I wouldn't do both, just one or the other, so my question would be, what would you, as a seller, consider the most fair way to do it, and how much would you think is acceptable? 3) will there be a set time limit of how long an item can be listed? will there be a charge for relisting an item? Nope for the first one. And the second one is moot, since listings wouldn't expire, so no need to relist. My only concern about letting listings not expire is that people may sell things through other venues, and then forget to remove it from my site -- so I'd probably have something in place where if the item has not sold after say, 3 months? 6 months? then the seller has to take some sort of action to make it stay active (like, click a button to renew the listing for another 3 months). If they don't, it becomes "archived" (no longer searchable), but the seller can come back and unarchive it at any time. 4) how many images per item will be allowed? I imagine I'd make it unlimited. 5) will you offer different methods of payment? I'd probably have to leave payment up to the seller; I would have ways for them to indicate which payment methods they'll accept, but I don't want to personally be dealing with payment between buyer/seller. The site's intended to be more like a...quilting classifieds that brings together sellers and buyers, rather than a "click here and buy it now" kind of thing. Doing the latter would require more legal involvement than I'm interested in dealing with -- I'm one person, not a company. 6) will there be separate areas for new quilts and antique quilts? Yes. 7) how would you handle listings for cheap, foreign-made quilts? Having never bought or sold a quilt myself, I wasn't aware of this being a problem. Do you have any suggestions yourself on how to handle this? My preference would be to keep such listings out altogether -- mass-produced quilts isn't really what the site is intended for. I could probably limit the IP addresses of people selling to only those within the US & Canada, although I'm sure the foreign sellers would find ways around that... Excellent questions, Teresa. If you have anymore or have comments on what I've said above, please throw them at me....See MoreOnline plans, catchy names, no wonder they sell.!
Comments (34)Some of it is a bit out of date because of the publication date, but much of it I'd dead on. My copy has a blurb that says it has something guaranteed to offend just about everyone. His wife and son are also authors, I knew his son, who wrote an expose about bodybuilding ....See MoreJust for fun, what was the last thing(s) you ordered online?
Comments (203)I'm on a roll - Chantelle undergarments, SOMA bras, and more sandals for me. UNTUCKit shirts for DH. Also ordered waterproof mattress pads for bunk room, YETI tumbelrs so DD2 and her DH have for coffee when here, a few more dresses from WRAP (Poetry's sister company), printer ink, Oribe Impermeable Anti-Humidity Spray (after my stylist used - OMG, game changer!), and an Amika iRed straightening brush that she highly recommended. Oh, and a few more cooler shirts to wear while walking each morning. If you are a student, nurse, medical profession, responder, military (current or veteran) or goverment employee, you might be missing out on discounts from shop.id.me For example, UnderArmor was anotehr 40% off and UNTUCKit is always 25% off....See MoreFun2BHere
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