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Top Tips For Selling Art On Ebay
Is eBay Your Art Sales Gallery? If so, you’ve no doubt run into the gamut of customers. Those who are wonderfully generous, leave sincere, appreciative feedback and pay your fees (no griping) quickly. Most I’ve dealt with are in this crowd (Thank God). Then there are the “others.” Every once in awhile you get someone who doesn’t think the green is as blue as it appeared in your listing. It’s too yellow. Instead of writing to express this upon receipt of the painting, they leave less than happy feedback. Too late to do anything about it now, isn’t it?
Any experienced eBay seller knows that once feedback is left, that’s all she wrote. The fat lady done sung. It’s over. There’s no going back to change things once those words have seen the light of day on your computer screen. eBay doesn’t like to change the feedback. Less-than-stellar feedback is horrible–especially when you’ve really gone out of your way to make the transaction as nice as possible. The only way to deal with it, is to ask for positive or pleasant feedback. Let your customer know that if there is ANY problem, they should contact you immediately so it can be fixed BEFORE feedback is given.
Originally posted 2009-08-20 15:55:00.
Selling Your Art On Ebay
As an artist, you’ve probably already realized that the “creative” end of your profession is handled. It’s the “marketing” of your work that is the challenge! In a previous article, I covered some of the key points of traditional Artist Marketing through participating in Art Shows and Festivals. This article will cover one online approach to marketing your work — Selling on Ebay.
As a venue for selling Art, ebay is a much debated issue. Some artists say that ebay devalues an artist’s work and that one should never sell their work on ebay. This is certainly a valid opinion — a large percentage of ebay buyers are looking for
bargains. That being said, here is another way to look at it: selling work on ebay to obtain exposure and advertising of one’s work, along with making sales. Let’s face it, there is no way to get around the fact that MILLIONS of people visit ebay everyday with the express intent of SHOPPING. It is unlikely that any other online site for marketing artwork will generate that volume of traffic.
Originally posted 2009-08-13 15:43:00.
