[SELLING PRINTING SERVICES] Does Ebay work for Tshirt Business??
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[SELLING PRINTING SERVICES] Does Ebay work for Tshirt Business??
I was wondering if posting on Ebay works as far as making custom tees and/or embrodiery services. I currently have over 15 posts in my Ebay Store and I am not sure if I should keep doing it. I usually get business through schools, companies, and charities. Please let me know.
I put a few of our shirts up on ebay the other day as a little experiment. Maybee I'm not using the best search terms but there hasnt been much interest at all.
Plus it costs 40p to list each item and you have to give 10% to ebay if you sell it...not that impressed to be honest.
I have never had much faith in eBay for tee shirts..true I have not tried but figured not worth my time..I can make more by local promotions...as an example..on eBay there are over 1,000,000 tee shirt items listed...and on the web search in google, there are over 49,000,000 sites for custom tees...
I have never had much faith in eBay for tee shirts..true I have not tried but figured not worth my time..I can make more by local promotions...as an example..on eBay there are over 1,000,000 tee shirt items listed...and on the web search in google, there are over 49,000,000 sites for custom tees...
google figures/numbers that you mentioned includes "blog posts" or "site" mentioning "custom tees" word or topic on their webpage. it doesn't have to be store URL itself.
I have an ebay store ..Ive been running it since mid june and total sales are just over 800 bucks.....not to good if you ask me......Im thinking about closing it down...but want to try a few more design Ideas...plus with the holidays approaching , I might leave it up till after the new year.
Here a post from another place by a person that I deem pretty reliable...about some new way PayPal is handling fees...you might be interested
According to a letter to the editor of AuctionBytes, PayPal has a new policy in the pipeline which will allow them to hold payments received by account holders. This will affect all those who put less than $20,000 through their PayPal account in a 90 day period. And that includes me! These payments can be held for up to 21 days which would absolutely a lot of business out there.
For example, if I sold 50 items in a 21 day period, but did not receive the shipping money from my buyers due to PayPal holding it, I would have to pay over US$390 in shipping, out of my own pocket! I wouldn’t be able to sustain this for long, and my online business would surely crumble eventually.
In the letter published by AuctionBytes, the author and fellow PayPal member called the support centre to enquire about holds on his accounts He was told about a memo that was circulated among support staff, which detailed the new policy. According to the customer service representative, the fact that he had over 1600 positive feedbacks and 4.8 or 4.9 on all seller ratings didn’t mean a thing. The new policy is interested in one number, and one number only, and that’s the number of $$’s going through your account.
PayPal’s new policy is apparently based upon their quest to provide buyers with greater security. Their logic is: If the money is held for 21 days, the buyer has 21 days to dispute the transaction, and get a full refund. Although PayPal deny they will be making any interest off the money they would be holding, I find this very hard to believe.
PayPal haven’t yet released any new information about the policy, which gives me some hope that this won’t go ahead. What we have found out though, is that last October, PayPal released some new information on their payment holds policy. We can confirm that according to their current policy on payment holds, the amount of money going through your account has no bearing on whether your funds will be held. Also, currently, the holding policy will be used at PayPal’s discretion, and will not affect everyone.
Of course we will let you know about any new developments on this.
As a concluding remark, I will say that the lack of cash flow issues is one of things that makes online retail so great, and so easy to get started in. It’s one of the main reasons that so many people can successfully launch online retail businesses with little to no investment. With PayPal now threatening to put all that to an end, I think I will have to add "sign up to MoneyBookers/ProPay" to my to-do list this weekend.
I have not heard of ProPay...I may have to check into this
Ebay is good if you can get repeat business. The people that buy from you and then return and buy more shirts but you avoid all the ebay fees from them.
I'm a little concerned about what I'm hearing re PayPal and changes to EBay set to occur in March. I was considering opening an embroidery store, which would tend to lend itself to repeat customers. I know there are some already on there - no idea how well they do.
Does Ebay work for Tshirt Business?? 
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