bluekarin Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 I'm thinking of selling some home-made crafts on-line. I had a look at Etsy, but that's for the US market only. Anyone have any suggestions on who to use? I have an ebay account, but I think that crafts would get lost on there. I'd like to be able to use paypal for payments as well. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacake Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 try folksy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel19 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Or set up your own website. I did mine through create.net and it was really easy. You can set up a shop easily and accept payment through paypal including credit/debit cards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 I think Poet sells her mum's knitting, she might be able to offer some pointers too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachelk Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I've just set up a shop on Etsy. Its not just for the US, you can specify where you are prepared to send to, and there are quite a lot of UK 'shops'. Wish me luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleTree Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I had a shop on Folksy selling painted glass items. It was really easy to set up, but of course you've got to pay Folksy a listing fee & then a fee on anything you sell. I shut mine as I discovered you're meant to register as self employed if you set up any sort of online shop. I didn't really want to get into any of that, especially as I didn't think I'd sell anything. The only thing with Folksy is that there's huge amounts of stuff on there, I can spend hours just browsing. There's a lot of similar things too, particularly jewellery & cards. I think you need something really special & individual to be noticed. Good luck though whatever you choose to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I had a shop on Folksy selling painted glass items. It was really easy to set up, but of course you've got to pay Folksy a listing fee & then a fee on anything you sell. I shut mine as I discovered you're meant to register as self employed if you set up any sort of online shop. I didn't really want to get into any of that, especially as I didn't think I'd sell anything. The only thing with Folksy is that there's huge amounts of stuff on there, I can spend hours just browsing. There's a lot of similar things too, particularly jewellery & cards. I think you need something really special & individual to be noticed. Good luck though whatever you choose to do It depends, RE the self employed thing. You'll be allowed to accept a certain amount of money before you reach any tax threshold and it depends on your profit margin, so if you take into account labour costs you never usually make a profit and so it doesn't matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleTree Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I was told you still need to register though & fill in a Tax Return every year. So I'd have to keep a record of everything bought & sold. It seemed a lot of hassle for something that I still view as a hobby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbiggs Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 You can either try setting up your own website. If you do not want to invest on it that much, you can even go for Facebook to be your shop for the meantime. There actually are a lot of options but you just have to pick the right one which would ensure to give good returns. Creating your own web site is good as you can give it your own brand and you can have whatever components you need but if you do not have that big of a base yet, it would be hard to start of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
