Launch Hic-Ups

We decided to launch www.thecrafrybeggars.com on Thursday evening, mainly because we thought it would be a good idea to have our ebay, 10 day listing finishing on a Sunday evening. I’m not sure now that this was the right thing to do but……anyway!

An hour before we were due to list our first items, ebay sent us an email saying ’sorry you have decided to leave ebay, your account is now locked and you will not be able to list/bid any items from now on’!!

Of course, we had not asked ebay to do this, so it caused a little worry. Right enough, the account still existed but it was locked and wouldn’t allow access to the selling section. Time to PANIC. An email was dispatched immediately but, for all we knew, this might not be read for several days…..DISASTER.

Fortunately ebay did read the email and eventually we were able to start listing just a couple of hours late. Strangely though, the email ebay sent to confirm this started ‘I’m pleased you have changed your mind about closing your ebay account’. It didn’t give the impression the email I sent had been read!!

The upshot?

We started listing on Thursday. The business is live!!

To start with, we decided to list half of our stock, adding the rest next week. This means, if we list every week we will have a steady amount of items showing all the time.

The next step will probably be an ebay store. We’ll see!

Interesting Times

We’ve spent the weekend trying to get our site ready for launch.  The site will have details of all our stock, www.thecraftybeggars.com will not actually sell direct to the public, instead acting as an information site and providing links to EBay where customers will be able to buy.  Our intention in the long term is to sell direct from the site but the costs involved add a significant amount to our overheads.  Of course, if we want to offer the cheapest prices possible, we need to keep our overheads as low as possible.

Long Time, No Writing……!!

There’s been a long gap in the posts on this page because we’ve been on a bit of a roller-coaster at home. First was an operation to try and subdue the chronic pain I suffer, then came Christmas and now comes a new business venture that we’re deciding to give a shot.

The op was a great success. I had a Dorsal Column Stimulator fitted to my back. This replaces the pain with a tingling, very similar to a TENS machine. Well worth considering if you’ve been in pain for as long as I have!!

The business venture………well, just selling a few bits on ebay to start with, but who knows!!

www.thecraftybeggars.com will start by supplying Die Cut Decoupage through ebay. Hopefully later, we’ll get to run our own site shop but that may be a little while off. Anyway, we will update this site with stories of how the development goes. Who knows, it might even be interesting!!