Really interesting video. Step 4 Research can also include Who is Buying. Many jewellery sellers find that niche on ebay is no longer successful for them, while their Etsy shops are showing increasing sales. Around 65% of Ebay's buyers are male, whereas Etsy is about 70% female, so it does make sense. That said, I like to challenge the market! and I'm actually trying to set up a postcard shop on ebay aimed towards female buyers. I think as long as we market in the right places, organic traffic is not really relevant since we can drive prospective buyers direct to our store, so all my marketing will be on social media sites with high female demographic. This can be applied to any product, as long as you have a clear picture of who will be buying the product and on which buying platforms and social media sites they hang out. Thanks again for your interesting video. :)
You are the encouragement I need, thanks. I am now retired (as of today) but have been selling vintage books and recently vintage postcards part time for a couple of years. I'm really enjoying building my shop, but slowly getting sales. Thanks to your information, I think I just need to get more in my shop and try to look back to see if my items are selling at the right price. I love what I'm doing, but I really need to step up my game to add to my diminished income.
Thank you Mailseum - always enjoy your videos - quick question to you - do you list your postcards by store categories such as RPPC, Street Scenes, locations, etc or just have them all in one store category? Thanks.
I have a few categories, but not a category for everything. I believe I have an RPPC category, old cars, chrome, and a few states like Georgia, Tennessee, and several others.
There are over 14 million postcard listings on eBay and only 4 million video games, I'm not sure which category I would call "Undersaturated" I bet there are a lot more video game players than postcard collectors.
By undersaturated I don’t mean how many items are for sale on eBay, but the potential for a new seller to enter the market and make money. Video games are difficult because it is extremely easy to determine the value and harder to find inventory. If you know what you are doing, you can walk into a postcard show and buy as many postcards as you want to resell for 10x or more what they cost (the only limit is your time). There are no places, to my knowledge, where you can do that with video games. It depends what you mean by collector. I bet more people in the US own a postcard than own a video game. Postcard collectors likely make more purchases than video game collectors because postcards are cheaper and take up less space (not to mention there are millions, if not billions, of different postcards one could collect). There’s great crossover interest with postcards and virtually no crossover interest with video games - I sell so many postcards to people that don’t technically collect but love purchasing old views of their hometown. I don’t doubt that video game reselling can be great and even lucrative, but as someone that collects video games and postcards I believe postcard selling is far easier to make money doing!
Love it! Thank you for making these videos!
Really interesting video. Step 4 Research can also include Who is Buying. Many jewellery sellers find that niche on ebay is no longer successful for them, while their Etsy shops are showing increasing sales. Around 65% of Ebay's buyers are male, whereas Etsy is about 70% female, so it does make sense. That said, I like to challenge the market! and I'm actually trying to set up a postcard shop on ebay aimed towards female buyers. I think as long as we market in the right places, organic traffic is not really relevant since we can drive prospective buyers direct to our store, so all my marketing will be on social media sites with high female demographic. This can be applied to any product, as long as you have a clear picture of who will be buying the product and on which buying platforms and social media sites they hang out. Thanks again for your interesting video. :)
You are the encouragement I need, thanks. I am now retired (as of today) but have been selling vintage books and recently vintage postcards part time for a couple of years. I'm really enjoying building my shop, but slowly getting sales. Thanks to your information, I think I just need to get more in my shop and try to look back to see if my items are selling at the right price. I love what I'm doing, but I really need to step up my game to add to my diminished income.
Hello! Good to see you again. I get a lot of value from your videos. Thank you.
Great video, thank you!
Thank you Mailseum - always enjoy your videos - quick question to you - do you list your postcards by store categories such as RPPC, Street Scenes, locations, etc or just have them all in one store category? Thanks.
I have a few categories, but not a category for everything. I believe I have an RPPC category, old cars, chrome, and a few states like Georgia, Tennessee, and several others.
There are over 14 million postcard listings on eBay and only 4 million video games, I'm not sure which category I would call "Undersaturated" I bet there are a lot more video game players than postcard collectors.
By undersaturated I don’t mean how many items are for sale on eBay, but the potential for a new seller to enter the market and make money.
Video games are difficult because it is extremely easy to determine the value and harder to find inventory. If you know what you are doing, you can walk into a postcard show and buy as many postcards as you want to resell for 10x or more what they cost (the only limit is your time). There are no places, to my knowledge, where you can do that with video games.
It depends what you mean by collector. I bet more people in the US own a postcard than own a video game. Postcard collectors likely make more purchases than video game collectors because postcards are cheaper and take up less space (not to mention there are millions, if not billions, of different postcards one could collect). There’s great crossover interest with postcards and virtually no crossover interest with video games - I sell so many postcards to people that don’t technically collect but love purchasing old views of their hometown.
I don’t doubt that video game reselling can be great and even lucrative, but as someone that collects video games and postcards I believe postcard selling is far easier to make money doing!
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