14 Tips To Start Selling Vintage Clothes and Costume Jewelry on eBay

A friend of mine wants to start selling on eBay - as a project with her son - what a great idea for all you Mom-preneurs. They're hitting thriftshops together, and building their inventory up, and are just about ready to start selling. My friend's a total eBay beginner, so I emailed her some advice, and figured I might as well share it here, too.

My friend is focusing on Vintage Clothes and Jewelry -- and here are lots of really helpful links for getting started. The most important thing -- do your homework.

Don't lose money with too-low selling prices -- there are ebay selling fees, and paypal fees to figure in - use the nifty calculator link (below) for that - very enlightening.

There's no substitute for actual experience though, so get started. Summer is traditionally the slowest time to sell, but it's a good time for you to study, make a plan, devise a system, and list several practice items to get the feel of it all.

Then start photographing and writing up as many items as possible, and start seriously listing the end of September - after kids are back in school, so all the shopping Mom's have time to surf.


Tips from New Life Auctions very helpful website:

HOW TO START A SUCCESSFUL EBAY BUSINESS

HOW TO START AN EBAY STORE

EBAY FEES charts

EBAY AND PAYPAL FEE CALCULATOR

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Super great photography tip site:

CameraJim's Guide to eBay Auction Photography

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Fashion-Era.com's site for Vintage Clothes is awesome! Some of their tips:

Tips for Sellers Buyers of Vintage Clothes

• Points for Would-Be Sellers and Buyers of Vintage
• Value of Labels
• A Condition Report Point
• Dating Clothes and Estimating Dates
• What Is Vintage Fashion?
• What is Internet Vintage? Master Guide Tips for Buyers and Sellers
• Presenting Vintage Clothes With Photographs
  

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eHow.com tips:
How to Price Vintage Costume Jewelry

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