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Title: amazon/etsy
Post by: batmobile on March 31, 2016, 09:35:40 pm: do you buy or sell things online? which is better etsy or amazon?
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Post by: nickylanena on March 31, 2016, 11:18:05 pm: Quote from: batmobile on March 31, 2016, 09:35:40 pm
do you buy or sell things online? which is better etsy or amazon?

I sell on Ebay. I love Etsy for unique things. And Amazon is good for books.
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Post by: gaby_ro_2004 on April 01, 2016, 09:53:20 am: I don't sell but i use both of them:Amazon and Etsy.
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Post by: beatsdrop on April 01, 2016, 10:36:53 am: Etsy is mostly for handmade stuff. I'd rather sell on Amazon or eBay.
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Post by: natashaspy on April 01, 2016, 11:05:02 am: I don't use either but my sister swears by ebay. Its been around for forever and she says she never had a problem with it.
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Post by: DeliriousKris on April 01, 2016, 11:44:56 am: I've had some issued with buying from eBay and getting something that isn't what I thought I was ordering.

I've sold on eBay and Etsy before, and I love buying from Etsy and Amazon.
The only problem with Etsy is everything is handmade, and therefore much more expensive. Sometimes I can't pass up a beautifully handmade item though!
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Post by: dancer139 on April 01, 2016, 11:54:41 am: I haven't bought anything on ebay for a long time. the last time i did I received something that was not even close to what I ordered. last time for me
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Post by: aflyingmonkey on April 01, 2016, 12:08:59 pm: I just purchased a round white rug from China off Ebay.
The picture looked like a beautiful small white rug & for $10 quite a bargain... exactly what I wanted. When it came, it was horrible. Horrible quality, it was yellow colored, with white border -- can't use it at all... looked nothing like the picture. So I filed a SNAD case. & in order for me to be refunded, I would need to send the rug back to China with tracking that was over $30. The seller didn't have to send a label for a return, which is required of American sellers. The Chinese sellers have government subsidized shipping which is next to nothing to send to America which also gets USPS tracking for free. Ebay has negotiated with the USPS virtually free postage for the Chinese sellers in something called epackets... they do nothing for American sellers. Ebay to me has become a big scam market, with no regulation. So eventually, even though I have tons of pictures of the "rug" -- not the same as in the picture at all, except they are both round, ebay finds in the seller's favor to let him keep my money, then they have the gall to say that they found the item to be the same AND then the Chinese seller, acts like some injured party that I was ruining his good name & practices.. I wish I could have put it on a credit card directly & not through paypal, my credit card company would have found in my favor for fraud. Such a scam. Ever since then... just last month, I am completely over ebay -- it is just not safe to buy on there any longer. I buy a lot on line, used to buy a lot on ebay... that item was the last straw.

I feel safer using Amazon.
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Post by: tgreen20 on April 01, 2016, 12:43:58 pm: I like Amazon the best
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Post by: crisstar on April 01, 2016, 02:15:09 pm: I say sell your products on as many platforms as you can - Shopify, Etsy, Tripleclicks, Amazon. Some sites don't have listing fees (Tripleclicks), so those are the sites I'd say you should definitely list your products on. You only pay when you sell a product.
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Post by: vickysue on April 01, 2016, 02:56:10 pm: I have sold some items on ebay, but they just seem to keep going up on their fees, buy lot from Amazon. Now thinking about selling my gourds on etsy. But I need to buy a new printer and stuff as all I have is a cheapie So next time I go to Sam's club I will be looking at some new printers and also a tower. But I also need to get busy and start some more gourds.
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Post by: mrisha on April 01, 2016, 07:00:02 pm: I have never sold anything on Amazon. I usually order from them. Also never sold anything on Etsy.
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Post by: Nancy5 on April 01, 2016, 08:03:59 pm: I don't sell anything online, but I do buy from Amazon and have never had any problems.
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Post by: mardukblood2009 on April 02, 2016, 03:08:11 am: I sell stuff on ebay. I have never sold stuff on amazon before. I bought a ton of stuff off that site though.
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Post by: cateyes1 on April 02, 2016, 04:08:37 am: I buy a lot off amazon, not sure of the other one mentioned
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Post by: ljrjess69 on April 02, 2016, 11:16:22 am: i buy stuff online i like amazon.......
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Post by: DwanaMR on April 02, 2016, 12:59:52 pm: I've never sold anything on Amazon or Etsy, but I've bought things from Amazon and have never had a problem. As for selling things, I'm mulling over CafePress. I love t-shirts and think it would be fun to make and sale my own online.
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Post by: darkxtsuna on April 02, 2016, 03:22:09 pm: I but from Amazon from time to time but not as often now that they raise their free shipping to 50 $.
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Post by: bowrunner on April 02, 2016, 05:10:07 pm: This is the first time I ever heard of etsy. I occasionally sell things on EBay but buy more than sell and sometimes buy books etc. on Amazon.
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Post by: yikes77 on April 03, 2016, 06:12:47 am: Amazon, all the time thanks to GCs I've earned. Ebay once in a while.