I did sell on Ebay for a couple of years, mostly ren fair/SCA stuff. It was okay, but Ebay's gotten to be a huge hassle for sellers. Plus, I would put hours of work into them, some of them the only thing not historically accurate as that I used a machine and bought the fabric, and then not get back anywhere near what they were worth. It was very frustrating to see tings made from cheap materials and obviously constructed badly go for $100 and up and then see things that were done well and with good materials go for $50 and under. Granted, it wasn't all of them. There are some people that were doing the Ren Faire stuff that did BEAUTIFUL gowns that were getting what they deserved for them. It was all very inconsistant, you just could never depend on what was going to happen. I haven't sold on Ebay for a couple of years now, so I'm not sure if things have changed or not. I thought I would do the "store out of the garage" thing this year with the things I've revamped and then I'll make a few from scratch, too, in case someone is interested in something like that. Plus there's a great flea market near us that I may do a weekend or two at in early October, but there I think I'll just bring the kids' stuff (hittin' up that grandparent market *L*) and I've started doing some pet costumes, too. The stuff that's easy to transport. Other than that, my husband does computer stuff (software development, websites, ect.) and this winter I may have him put me together a website to sell on. I want to talk with our tax lady first though and see what I'm looking at from that angle.
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