The Amiable Leaf

[primsong]

Seeing as we're doing fun stuff like having to re-stain the house, replace a dying dishwasher, replace two patio doors AND help with some college this year, I'm looking for ways to bring in a few more pennies on the side. The result so far has been setting up an Etsy account/'storefront' wherein I can peddle some of my assorted vintage whatnot and maybe dabble in selling some artsy things too, eventually. Somewhere down inside me must be some of those shopkeeper genes from my many merchant forefathers, if I can just rummage some of them up.

It's called 'Amiable Leaf' and so far it's, er... empty. With a pathetic banner at the top that I'll have to work up a replacement for. I'm still scratching my head over how to calculate shipping and other odd bits and am frankly a bit intimidated, like a little kid with a lemonade stand in a mall.

What I'm wondering is if any of you have tried selling anything on Etsy, and how it's going? Has it been worth your time? I'm eyeballing ebay as well, but they're so darn complicated and add fees every time you turn around or breathe - Etsy seems more friendly.

Comments

[estellye.livejournal.com]

I agree that Etsy is more friendly and it's growing. Plus I do all my shopping there, lol. I have a store that I recently set up called Curious Preoccupation, but so far it's in the same state yours is in so I don't have any insight for you. I look forward to both of us figuring it out, though, lol.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I think you were how I first heard of it - and now I've ended up buying things there as well, it's just fun to even browse. Best of luck on getting yours off the ground too! I wonder how many hundreds of us 'nervous clueless noobs' they have there, ha! I think I'll start with small things that don't break and go from there.