Bonanzle & Artfire

[Seer]

Well I pent a year trying to sell on these 2 sites, 4 sales the first month on Bonanze, zip on Artfire. So as of today I will not list there again working on my own website and a server I have to host my own at home. I carry a display box with me as I travel to alot of car dealerships for work and show them off which I usually will sell something. I know the 2 sites mentioned some people have great success but not for me, not worth the time and energy, nuff said.

I might try Etsy but I can sell better local for now.
A small Rant :biggrin:

 

[Russianwolf]

Don't expect a dedicated site to be any better really. You have to spend a lot of time in order to get people to the site, plus setting it up so it looks decent can be time consuming also.

I have a site and I haven't made a sell in nearly a year now on it except one slimline. Ebb and flow. There are times I sell half a dozen pens to one customer through the site and it pays for the site for several years. But I also had to work hard to get and keep myself on the first page of google when people search for Irish Bog Oak.

 

[bitshird]

My experience is the same as Mikes, I found that if I keep listing new items on Etsy though I do OK but I've only sold 5 or 6 pens in two years from my Web site, and none of them were items I had showing, they were custom orders. Like mike said it paid for a couple of years on my site and one order was pretty nice, but all in all I think Etsy or 1000 markets are the clear best bets, 1000 markets is just a pain because Amazon holds your money for a while and there are several things you have to do after the sale or else you'll never get paid, (read the instructions dummy) both are reasonable on their fees.

 

[TellicoTurning]

Another voice chiming in... I've had my own website for about 3 years... while I've sold enough to have covered the cost for those 3 years, haven't had a sale off the site in about 6 months.. I also list on ETSY, ARTFIRE, 1000Markets and a couple of directories... so far I've had a couple of sales off ETSY, 3 off ArtFire and none from 1000Markets yet.
I'm actually thinking about dropping the website and concentrating on the other market sites... I don't have any pens listed on the market sites, just on my website and haven't sold any pens off the internet in well over a year. I still do my art/craft shows around the area and do most of my selling there.