Ebay vs. Tias and others

[Kyle Boyd-Robertson]

I closed my ebay store back when they first started raising their price on us "little guys" who helped build them. Since then I have opened my own website, Paper Moon, but am now wanting to return to a store format on on of the online malls. I think I have narrowed it down to two different ones. I am thinking about Ebay once again just because of the traffic the get but I am also quite interested in TIAS. If any of you have had positive or negative experiences on either I would appreciate the help in making my final decision.

[Nancy]

Kyle
I closed both my Ebay stores over two months ago and that was the best move I have ever made. I just list at auctions now.
I signed up at Etsy.com and do very well on that site. I use to sell On TIAS many years ago, but never seemed to do very well there.
I just signed up on a postcard site called Playle's, have not sold anything yet, but I find that till you have at least 500 items listed in any store site you do not make many sales. After reaching 500 mark I also try and list at least 10 items per day on each site to have my listing at the top of the search's.
I Have More Sales on Etsy then Ebay or Playle's. Ebay is so big my listings get lost. If I have HIGH END items--then ebay is the place I list--auctions only!! Lower end and common items I sell on Etsy at fixed price.
Nancy

[2badcats]

I am new here, and very new to selling, but I started with Etsy and absolutely love it. They have some nice features for promoting your shop front, and have a partnership with Google for indexing of items and listings. I have had great traffic already and I've only been open a week. Etsy is booming with vintage sellers and ephemera dealers. I personally recommend checking it out. 20 cents to list an item for 4 month and 3% of so fee on the final transaction. Not bad.

My 2 cents :)

[rose rector]

I'm on Etsy also. I peeked into this discussion to see where a good place to sell might be. Sounds like I am in the right spot already. I am pretty new to selling and to Etsy but I'm not doing bad there.