Does anyone have experience selling stuff on ebay?

[smurasaki]

I have some stuff that's definitely worth selling and some stuff that might be worth selling, and ebay seems like an okay route to go.  I'm not comfortable selling stuff on craigslist - I'd rather lose a little money on shipping stuff than go to some strangers home or have them go to mine.  (And yet this does not bother me when it comes to

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[foxinthestars]

I haven't done it in years and have my own anxiety about it apparently (although I really should unload some to most of my Asian ball-jointed dolls). When I did it, though, it was really pretty user-friendly.

Tips would be to search completed auctions for the kinds of things you want to sell to see what they're being listed for and what they're actually selling for. Also if you have something pretty valuable, sometimes a simple minimum bid doesn't work as well as a "reserve price", which is essentially a hidden minimum bid, but if you let people start bidding with low numbers apparently they get into it and will keep going, where if you just confront them with the actual asking price they'll get sticker shock and shy away (it worked this way with the BJDs which were in the hundreds, but I don't know if it would apply to your items). And of course, use the best pictures you can.

Good luck!

[smurasaki]

Thanks!

(Sadly, my cell phone will have to do for a camera, but it does take decent pictures as long as there's good light, so I think I'll be okay there.)