Hi everyone, I have found the need to take a step back and seriously re-think about the direction I want to go with my lampwork beads and where to offer them for sale. I was selling my beads on ebay for a few months and while some beads went for prices that I could live with and would make it worthwhile continuing to make them, sadly,..most beads went for very little and so I couldn’t help but question over and over whether to continue selling on ebay.
To be honest, I think it would be foolish to continue spending so many hours at the expense of neglecting my family and home,…making, cleaning, photographing, listing, doing after auction admin, packing and shipping etc,.. for 8 auctions per week,.. when many auctions bring sales of $4-$6. It’s a huge amount of work and time and I could be spending my time more wisely. In fact…. as silly as it sounds,.. I would be better off not listing on ebay at all,..(saving a full day and night of work on Fridays),..and posting on my blog to give away free beads to the first 8 people who reply.
I’m not naive in thinking that my beads are that great that they should fetch huge dollars. I think they are nice enough to be worth more than ebay bargain hunters are willing to pay though,..and for the time invested in them, it certainly would be nice to at least make it worth my while doing them.
So,.. I really needed to take a break,.. step away from it for a bit and re-think what I am doing. I am still thinking,.. and working on a couple of projects that need a few more elements piece together before I can see if they are the way I want to go with my beadmaking. I should know the answer to that hopefully this week or next when I receive some tools that I have had custom made for one particular project. I am very excited about the ideas I have, and apart from selling a few random beads now and then on ebay again…I think my main outlet for these items will be in my Artfire shop and possibly Etsy shop also.
I can’t wait for the postman to deliver my parcels this week,.. I have some serious torch sessions I want to do.
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