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basically from January through March eBay brings in a bit of extra money. Those are the winter months and in much of the US a lot of people do not want to leave their houses to go shopping. I have been doing eBay for about a year and a half and eBay has made more money off of my jewelry than I have. I have finally figured out a good balance between making money & paying money to eBay and for the past few months I have actually made more money that I paid out to eBay. EBay has extremely high fees that they charge to set up a store, list an item and the percentage that they charge when an item sells.

The feedback system that they have is a bit of a nightmare to say the least. As both a seller and a buyer I have actually had to spin the truth a bit when giving feedback to say that everything was fine when it wasn't, just so that the other person does not come back at me with negative feedback. Negative feedback shows that some one is unhappy with you as a buyer or with your work, that you did not do your job well and that it could be risky to deal with a particular seller. I have bought beads on eBay for the purpose of making them in to jewelry to sell. Some have been OK, but for the most part nothing more than just OK. I have gotten beads that look nothing like the beads that I purchased, but not wanting to get a negative retaliation from the seller I have simply said Thank You in my positive feedback to them. If I am unhappy with a customer I would never tell them, its just bad eBay business.

I have had customers who were a nightmare to deal with! There are customers who think that eBay is an online Flea Market and everything can be bought for a small fraction of the asking price. I specifically state all of my selling guidelines on my eBay store, but I still get customers who win an item and think that they can change the rules. I get customers who win little items that I put up for auction for .99 cents 'To draw attention' to my store and then turn around and tell me that they bid on it on accident and want to exchange it for an expensive piece of jewelry that I would never even put up for auction in the first place. When they don't like my polite replies of no they respond with emails that state 'You seemed so nice' or 'I just don't want it now'. And the fact of the matter is that eBay states in every auction that winning bids are binding contracts that are to be kept.
There is a lot of junk on eBay and that makes it very hard for the serious Artisan to make

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