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    Default My recent project Traditional Japanese handmade woodcraft pendant

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    white shellac is used for first coat

    Glass coat is used for final finishing

    I put these pendants on my ebay ask for 6-7 dollars free shipping if who likes them
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    An interesting design. I like the way you had made them very nice.

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    Very nice. I had a look at them on ebay too. Surely you can get more then $6 for these - especially with free postage.

    I think they would sell better on Etsy or Artfire. Ebay is for bottom feeders - people are more willing to pay what things are worth on the other sites.

    cheers
    Arron
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arron View Post
    Very nice. I had a look at them on ebay too. Surely you can get more then $6 for these - especially with free postage.

    I think they would sell better on Etsy or Artfire. Ebay is for bottom feeders - people are more willing to pay what things are worth on the other sites.

    cheers
    Arron
    Thanks for your hints very useful. i just realized whatever how cheap i put no ones going to buy it! Could you PM your address i send one to you as a gift

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    Very cool indeed !!!!

    Thanks for showing.

    Steven.

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    yosegi zaiku, a very cool interpretation of it.

    Good work.

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    Just elaborating on this.

    Etsy, Bonanza and Artfire are the three big online craft markets. There are many other smaller ones. Although they are based in the US and dominated by US sellers and buyers, there are still a lot of Aussie buyers on them - plus your item is cheap to post so you will get sales from the US too.

    Here's a couple of other things that make the online craft markets appealing to sellers:
    All the craft market websites are cheaper to sell on then Ebay.
    They give you great statistics, so you can see how many people are looking and at what.
    They send you daily information, tutorials, webinars etc to teach you how to price, market, sell, list etc. Its good info too.
    You can join groups (teams) where you cross-promote each others work.
    You can buy ad campaigns - where you come up at the top of an Etsy search. These are very cheap to participate in.
    People can favourite your items (treasuries) so you will end up in lists of people's favourites, which visitors to their shops can see and click on.
    If you have your own external website, most of the craft markets don't mind you pointing to your website in your Etsy (etc) listings. Ebay wont allow this. It means even if you aren't selling anything on the craft market site you still get value out of it because it is directing customers to your own website. Its advertising for your website that's pretty nearly free - and qualified buyers at that.
    As the commissions are low, you can get friends to purchase your items and write glowing feedback. Its cheating, but it gets you runs on the board so others will be reassured to buy (I didn't say that, did I).

    If you go to Etsy.com and do a search on 'wooden pendant' you will see dozens of makers selling them- but very few of them are as detailed and well made as yours. Prices seem to average somewhere in the range from $15 to $25 for the reasonable stuff. You can see how many are really selling and at what prices by looking at the different sellers sales histories (usually somewhere on their home page).

    If you are not selling, then I don't think its price that is the issue. Its more likely marketing (ie product photos, choice of outlet, product description, customer engagement etc etc). In a situation like this, putting prices down doesn't help - it only makes people think the item must be cheaper and nastier then it looks. Paradoxically, putting the price up will often increase sales - as long as it is accompanied by better marketing. It doesn't happen a lot, but with some products if something is dearer then people are likely to assume it must be better.

    Its always tempting, when something doesn't sell, to assume it must be the price that's the problem and put the price down. So often its folly - when so often its better marketing that you need. Better, smarter marketing - by that I mean understanding what a customer wants, what they see when they look at your offering, and what will trigger them to buy.

    cheers
    Arron (who spent a few years as a salesman and never really understood this)
    Apologies for unnoticed autocomplete errors.

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