O dear! That means I'm vintage too :shock: :lol: :lol:

What happens when you are twice or three times vintage? :shock:

Wow! You are one hard working lady. I looked at just a little of your stuff. Your prices are very reasonable. Hard to know what to order. Those 100 hearts with iron-on are neat. You could iron them on everything, including your envelopes!
Thank you!

Than you are double- or tripple-vintage lady...:)) :lol: Getting older doesn't bother me at all. :D

It makes me eccentric :D:D:D

I don't sell a LOT there, but like eBay, it's good advertising. I get queries about special orders from people who see my work there.

It's cheap and the search function is really considerably better than eBay's once you know how to use it.

Loretta -

Etsy is similar to eBay in some ways. You "list" things as you do on eBay, but it's all direct sale instead of bidding/auctions. The listings cost 20 cents each and are good for a couple months. They are easy to renew if they expire.

Etsy hosts your pictures. For eBay, I host my pictures on photobucket or my own website and write an html "page" for the listing. That means I can have different fonts and plenty of pictures, etc. Pictures are what sell quilts. Etsy is more basic - you can only write plain text.

Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Glory-Quilts-Aqu...item19b8660192

Etsy:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php...ng_id=16865873

The final value fees are lower than eBay's, too, and the payment options aren't so rigid. I find etsy very easy to use, but it's not as "nice" an option for listing something like quilts.

One advantage to etsy is that I can list a $2000 quilt for 20 cents, just as I can a $50 quilt. On ebay, your listing fees go up with the sales price.

Good post...etsy is a very interesting site to visit, but you could spend literally hours looking at the "stores". I like the idea of buying through a blog...but as a well and truly "post vintage" type (jurassic eccentric perhaps?), I would rather buy person to person, via a market or arts stall or maybe a local artisan group (we have two here in our town).

I have a shop on Etsy where I sell reusable sandwich baggies and a few vintage items. I just opened in August and have 90 sales! I have a twitter account that I use for my primary advertising, which brings in tons of item views. My average monthly bill for Etsy is about $18, which isn't too bad.

The secret to success on there is to relist items often, however it costs $.20 each time you relist an item. This brings your items back to the front page of the category and when someone searches for a word that is included in your tags. That's the other secret-- use as many words as possible to describe your items in your tags!

Here's the link to my shop if you'd like to look!

www.bellsandunicorns.etsy.com

Maride, I'm an antique, long past vintage. Ebay does the same thing...I think over 20 years is vintage there also, so they tell me. I have to check this Etsy site out. I know sometimes there are so many things on a site that it is hard to choose and seems like everyone has things they want to sell. I wish them all well no matter what they do.