Thinking of starting an online toy store on eBay. adive and opinions needed.

[FantasticFirefly]

  Yes!
If it's ok, I can pm you! I've been working on a blog covering a lot of this stuff to help collectors, and non collectors (re-sellers) so they can sell ponies to happy buyers. So I've written up a lot about these topics, they're just not finished/edited yet. I can show you my system for organizing. for the trading post and arena I keep an excel sheet so I know when I shipped, to whom, what they've bought. Ebay is easier in that sense as your account is nicely organized as a seller and I can show you a pic of my sales binder that I keep things like postal receipts in.

[lovesbabysquirmy]

You know the "crazy toy dealer" stereotype?  You know why they get like that?  If you make this stuff your business, in order for it to make you a profit (because of all the hidden costs) it has to be your FULL TIME job and you work 12-14 hour days, not always including the commute time! 

I'm not trying to discourage you because yes, it does look like fun!  But know what you're getting into... 

[Princess-Sparkles]

Yes!
If it's ok, I can pm you! I've been working on a blog covering a lot of this stuff to help collectors, and non collectors (re-sellers) so they can sell ponies to happy buyers. So I've written up a lot about these topics, they're just not finished/edited yet. I can show you my system for organizing. for the trading post and arena I keep an excel sheet so I know when I shipped, to whom, what they've bought. Ebay is easier in that sense as your account is nicely organized as a seller and I can show you a pic of my sales binder that I keep things like postal receipts in.

Yes thank you. That would seriously be awesome. Thanks heaps.

You know the "crazy toy dealer" stereotype?  You know why they get like that?  If you make this stuff your business, in order for it to make you a profit (because of all the hidden costs) it has to be your FULL TIME job and you work 12-14 hour days, not always including the commute time! 

I'm not trying to discourage you because yes, it does look like fun!  But know what you're getting into... 

Yeah I know it'll be hard work, I'm looking into as a hobby.. For now. I'm wanting to run a proper business eventually I think this may prepare even just a bit.

Oh and thanks for moving it, I realized after I wrote this. Lol

[kezrob23]

There's always Facebook too. Doesn't cost anything to list, as it's your own page, and if anyone stuffs you around you can just block them I regularly buy candles from a fb page that's home run, and my sister has a couple of friends that successfully sell cheap brand name clothes. I have my own fb page (see sig ) but don't work on it or promote it as much as I could. Plus there's fb buy swap and sell sites too