eyecandyarts now Pimpin' the 'bay...

[WORLD FAMOUS]

So I recently started pimpin' the 'bay. I listed about a dozen things on eBay recently, and I will be adding more tomorrow, and then again every few days or so through Xmas as a little 'trial run' to see the potential for myself. Please check it out if you have a minute, and let me know what your thoughts are, from a consumer point of view, and from an artists point of view. Any thing you really liked, and anything that caught your eye or anything that possibly confused you, etc...

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZeyecandyarts

Some goals I want to achieve sooner than later are; offering a Charity marble once a month or every few weeks where the proceeds are donated entirely to a different charity each month. I'm thinking about keeping them small and easy, so it can accomplish two things - offering a nice affordable piece for someone to sample my work, and two, it goes to a good cause, and three, it maintains a presence on eBay at all times, even if I don't have much to offer that week.

I'd like to reformat my auctions so it looks similar to my website too, which offers similar items, but available for instant purchase. I want to add more images such as logos, graphics to the auction pages to make it more exciting, but not cluttered or too flashy that it loses the point of selling the item. The web address for that site is www.eyecandyarts.com. I am trying to offer more high-end, high-quality items; I'm not targeting bargain shoppers, and I want my auctions/website to reflect that.

Do you think I'd be better off offering the pendants seperately, or is there a market for complete ready-to-wear necklaces? I'm researching this abit online, but I'm looking for real-world experience from someone who's been down this road before too, or a consumer of said items at one point in time.

I realize I need to host my images off of eBays server because it blurred out my pictures slightly. I also have a photo booth/diffuser box to help with my pictures that was supposed to be here already, but I went ahead and took some pics. The dichro shots are dark because they gave off the dichro detail more, but I think give off a bad representation and possibly misleads that the rest of the pics might be dark, which are normal lighting. I don't know. I think I'm trippin on small stuff now, but that's why I'm asking from other p.o.v.'s. The photos will be alot better very shortly.

One thing I need an opinion on too, is that I have 1 negative feedback from a long ass time ago, but 1 in 30 sales is still barely 97%. This concerns me since it's been said you need near perfect feedback. I guess I could buy a binch of little crap to pump it up. If I had 100 purchases, 1 bad feedback would give me a 99%, hehe. It was so long ago, and a dumb little nopay on a $5 item like 3 or 4 years ago too, I wish they could just forgedaboudit. Do you think 97% is seriously gonna kill me at first?

Man I just typed alot...sheesh...Thanks if you are still reading! My face is all burned from tube pull mania yesterday so I can't really work without discomfort today, hence I'm here typing my brains out, bouncing a few ideas off you guys...

Any ideas, suggestions, critisisms? Thanks in advance...

[PyroChixRock]

Looking good nate! I don't know about the feedback, if I didn't know you it might affect the sale, but not sure since it was so long ago. I'd say try it a few weeks and see if you can get some + feedback built up to counter it, and go from there.

[borealisglass]

Looks good...I think it looks good...maybe a full view of the necklace. I know people buy uncompleted jewelry to make their own jewelry, but you can charge more if it is completed. There are so many people selling pendants/beads that it is really hard to get noticed for that unless you pop up in like every search. You will just have to trial and error with that. Pictures look good, just make sure your macro is on. I know that dichro is hard and I always have to change up the exposure to photo it, if your pics don't look quite like you like, just explain it in the listing...ie. adjusted exposure for complete view of dichro, surrounding blue will be lighter than photo.

OK, good luck!

[gotglass?]

i always look at the reasons people leave for the feedback.....if they have a ton of good feedbacks very positive ones then one neg won't ruin it too bad..... some people just like to bitch and don't care about the repercussions to the seller.....then you have to take into consideration those who don't leave feedback that throws off the statistics also..... if the neg feedback is the result of the seller obviously not being on top of thier game then i'm wary ..... on the dichro shots you might consider using a better lit shot to show the back of the marble per say as well as one t shot that highlights the dichro..... you have stellar feedbacks as a buyer with the exception of 1 transaction and your one as a seller is positive and the neg has a valid disclaimer apologizing for you go for it i'd trust you based on these feedback numbers but overall well put together auction page ... keep up the good work on and off the torch

bill