Hi All
Just a quick intro - we're Split Infinity Comics, been trading for about seventeen years now at comic fairs around the UK - still enjoying them, but there's no-where near enough cash coming over the tables to give up the real job. At one point there was, but now we go mainly for the social element of them.
Like most of you, I used feebay up to about six months ago - then realised they were snatching about 15% of my income, so shied clear for a while.
Lucky Target told me about Ebid, so I'm giving it a try now.
My first 150 +/-auctions were all variants of one form or another, because I noticed there was a lack of them on the site - there WERE a few, but not that many, so I figured I'd be able to set up my own little niche market.
I'm not going to sell my stuff short - my comics are going to be listed at about 20% less than they would if I was selling them at the comic fairs - basically that's the money I lose on van hire, deisel, table hire, etc. Wen I was using feebay, I had to build in their fees as well, so my stuff's going to be cheaper on here than my usual outlets - but they will be fair prices - I COULD sell them at 50p - and there are some that still MIGHT be sold at that price, but they will be lower grades or items I have vast multiples of, so would be sold at that price at the fairs anyway.
We WILL be adding Ebid to flyers at the comic fairs - although we have a website, we also have had a lot of problems with it, so have really let it go downhill the last couple of months -still plan to use it, but probably just for the Standing Order Service and concentrate on using Ebid for our back issue sales.
Thanks for 'listening'