Do you use online auction sites or 'storefront portal' sites to buy or sell online?

I definitely agree with the last two answers that Lulu.com is an excellent company for selling just about any printed material, DVDs, CDs, and more. I have an ebook listed on my website that if you click on it, will take you to the item listing on Lulu. Check it out and you can see how it looks.

Etsy.com is another favorite and they also have been great to work with. They also allow you to put items from your Etsy store directly into your website or blog. When people click on those items, they are brought to your Etsy store.

CafePress is an interesting place. You don't put your items directly on the store, instead you upload your images and you can have them put onto various items (coffee cups, tote bags, calendars, bumper stickers, and tons more).

If you are selling art, there are places like ImageKind.com and ArtFlock.com.

E-junkie.com is highly recommended for selling anything online. You upload your ebook (or just about anything) to their site and they handle the whole transaction, including providing a link that becomes inoperable after a certain number of days and lots of other features.

Lastly, here is a great post on LifeHacker.com that gives you tons of reader responses to this same question:

http://lifehacker.com/software/ask-the-readers/whe...

Chris O'Byrne

www.OnlineArtsMarketing.com

Hi. It depends what you want to sell.

As a freelance publisher, writer and artist, I use:

www.lulu.com

It's free to publish what you want, and it's only when u sell your item that they charge you a very small fee. Payment is secured and can be by Paypal the best.

I'm a publisher on Lulu and very satisfied.

To sell anything, I know some good sites but they are French.

www.encher.fr

www.freebazar.net

www.onatoo.com

www.topachatvente.fr

I don't know if these links will help you, but they are good ones that I have tried. And the best was topachatvente.fr.

Good luck.

Owlwings,

The only major one I use is e-bay, though I have started working with www.lulu.com, which has a whole line of sites attached to it sorted by genre. Those sites are all populated with books published by lulu, which of course means individuals. Lulu charges a per-book rate for printing, with vast discounts for printing 100 or more, but they will print as few as one. You set the amount. If you are using their network, there is a flat rate $99 fee to get your books on retailers list, and they supply the ISBN number. You still need to register the copyrights yourself.

Lastly, anybody can open a storefront (not talking LULU here.) My hosting provider provides a back-end database and a shopping cart function for around $30 a month. You can take Paypal only, or pay for a third party to take credit cards (or set that up yourself, which isn't so easy).

Most hosts provide for that, as does Yahoo, I have not used their service since I did not want to work with templates. I get my site up and running, I will send you my URL, got a couple of books I am getting ready to push through LULU though (one should be out in two weeks - reading through the proof as soon as I get it, which should be either today or early next week.

-Dio

I'm a licensed MA auctioneer and appraiser with 25 year in the antiques/ auction business. I've been on eBay for almost 9 years and am a Powerseller.

I use eBay, but I also have my own site where I sell online antiques appraisals, consultation time and collectible ephemera lots. http://auctionwally.com/

This model works very well for me, and it costs nothing because I host it on Google's Blogger and receive payments via PayPal!

Well, I do pay for the domain name and nominal PayPal fees.

We're working to get a Cheapcycle group going in our area, in some places they are a very good way to buy and sell (ours is too small right now):

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cheapcycle_Groups/

There are a huge number of products and services that you can create yourself...do a simple search of eBay or other online auction sites and see for yourself!

it's best to have your own storefront

check out http://www.yourownonlinestorefront.com/