My sister in law sells her knitted granny squares on eBay and aggressively promotes them on her Facebook page where she has thousands of friends thanks to Mafia Wars and other games. I’ve noted recently that she’s shifted from calling them pieces for afghans and started calling them “potholders.”
Apparently she makes some profit from her online business. But it’s not for everyone, according to Steve at bripblap,
It was a good deal at first, and some of the items – surprisingly things like religious icons – sold very well. But it was a HUGE amount of work to deal with the posting, packing, shipping, dealing with “special orders” and so on. We tracked time spent on it for a while and finally realized – after our Turkish connection got greedy after seeing our resale prices and raised his – we were making pennies per hour, especially considering eBay’s never-ending price hikes.
We had thought about starting our own online store, but after some lengthy investigation determined that it just was not worth the effort and more people lost major amounts of money than the few who were successful.
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