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I have a friend who's wife sells jewelry on Etsy. She's tried to convince me to put some pens on there, but i haven't. She does well, but her stuff is VERY good and unusual. She also is not concerned whatsoever with profit.

There are some penmakers on there, maybe they're here also and can tell you if they have good results.


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I use Etsy and have had good results. I haven't had the time to keep up with it lately, but plan to use it extensively soon. My wife sells hair bows (for little girls) and some toddler clothing and it does very well for her. When she's pushing it, she can hardly keep up.

The prices are reasonable, it is easy to list items, and they have a pretty good interface for people to find things. Just like ebay, you have to work on how to make your items "findable" using keywords and category assignments, but it's not that hard.
Eric
 
Well !! I just took a peak at Etsy and found a pen made of Maple with four lines of embelishment. A postable capped rollerball pen for $22.00 I don't think I can compete with those kind of prices . He should be doing well on Etsy .
 
Etsy is nice site. Their listing prices are very reasonable. People that like handmade products shop there. The downside is that items like pens are priced so low that it's hard to make any real money selling pens. If you sell more niche or unusual products, you will get sales. I've had a store there (pcwoodcraftandpens.etsy.com) since October 2008 and have only sold 15 items over that time. I spend very little time with the site because listing fees are so cheap and whatever I make there is just something extra.

Pat Camara
 
I agree that most pen prices are pretty low on Etsy. I did not follow the trend and priced my pens at my typical rates (higher than the site average). It did not seem to hurt much; but then again I haven't advertised too hard. I will have a better feel for it later in the year when I have more time to devote to advertising and such.
Eric
 
I run a number of pieces on ETSY as well as ARt-Fire.com
I haven't set the world on fire, but I appear to get lots of views on my pieces. I've sold a few pieces on both. I've mentioned that I have items on ETSY at a couple of shows and my customers seems to know about the site.. I don't put any pens there because of the low pricing, just bowls, peppermills, etc...

ETSY is pretty economical... costs $0.20 per listing.. listing is for 4 months.
On Art-Fire.com there's no charge to list, but there's a monthly fee.. I got in under their promo/set up rate and only pay $7, but the fee is now $12 per month.
 
I haven't had much luck with Etsy. As I mentioned in another thread, I've only sold one pen to a new buyer. But I've sold over 100 using face-to-face marketing.

Any website, regardless of the host, will require you to market your stuff somehow. Etsy is easy to get into, your own site quite a bit more difficult.
 
I have a site on etsy (pensmyth.etsy.com) I've had a ton of views and have sold one pen so far. Its cheap to list and easy to use. I'm also working on my own web site. Its good exposure for a small fee.
 
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