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No one is buying my stuff.

I recently opened a shop, I’ve always wanted a shop its my goal in life, now that I got closer no one is buying my stuff, I tried to read things like how to increase your sale etc but its not really working.

I dont know if anyone has a similar experience? What do i do now?

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roofdonkey offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 8 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (4 minutes after post)

Ok, where is your shop located?
There is a principle in sales.
“Get your product to your customers”
Is your product able to be put on craigslist or ebay, etc?
What about you, or a representative to physically take your product or advertisement items, flyers, or literature and make them available in shopping malls, parking lots, store fronts, even sign wavers on street corners.

Get your product in peoples faces.
goodluck!

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(o_o) offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (20 minutes after post)

Advertise, advertise, advertise!

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southern_comfort offline Verified User (7 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 178 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (23 minutes after post)

(o_o) wrote:
Advertise, advertise, advertise!

Except HERE!!

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southern_comfort offline Verified User (7 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 178 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (27 minutes after post)

Can you give us one specific item that you sell and your price?

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verge offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 134 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (51 minutes after post)

Advertise and make sure your wares are laid out accessibly and all pretty looking.

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Dr. Jackson offline Verified User (5 years) Long Term User Shouts: 43 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (52 minutes after post)

southern_comfort, IP wrote:
Can you give us one specific item that you sell and your price?

Yes this might help. Also where are you selling it?

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southern_comfort offline Verified User (7 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 178 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 1 minute after post)

Dr. Jackson wrote:

southern_comfort, IP wrote:
Can you give us one specific item that you sell and your price?

Yes this might help. Also where are you selling it?

Just a wild guess; brick and mortar on the corner of Labradoodle and Park avenues. Across from Igor’s mortuary and pizza parlor.

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Dr. Jackson offline Verified User (5 years) Long Term User Shouts: 43 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 6 minutes after post)

Igor has some good cross business ideas… Take the profits of one and put it into another! Delicious!

southern_comfort offline Verified User (7 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 178 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 12 minutes after post)

Word of advice: Pass on the Guido Special with “mystery meat”.

That is on the Funeral menu, not the pizzaria.

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mindhealer online Verified User (3 years) Long Term User Shouts: 47 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 40 minutes after post)

What do i do now?

Provide as many details here as possible, this could trigger helpful ideas in people.

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southern_comfort offline Verified User (7 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 178 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 45 minutes after post)

Perhaps the OP forgot to CLOSE the shop and is heading back frantically with the front door keys.

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mindhealer online Verified User (3 years) Long Term User Shouts: 47 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 48 minutes after post)

Or perhaps she has already taken one of the above advices, earned a fortune, and retired to treasure island.

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southern_comfort offline Verified User (7 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 178 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 56 minutes after post)

Mark Zuckerberg bought her out… Sizzling tell-all book to be released by August.

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11 months, 1 week ago (20 hours, 13 minutes after post)

Lol I wish. I’m selling on Etsy, but I’m not going to give away which shop because I want to remain anonymous. Basicly I’m selling fashion accessories and I’ve been advertising quite heavily on different websites, I got 70 views today alone and been getting a lot of views because of my advertising but 0 sale, I think my products maybe just isnt good enough I dont know…As for price initial I was selling my items for around 30 but now down to 5 each as a final attempt to get some sales but still 0.
Luckily these product are made out of left over materials so in the end you could say I lose nothing but weeks of efforts…
I don’t know…Im not giving up yet…

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Dr. Jackson offline Verified User (5 years) Long Term User Shouts: 43 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (21 hours, 47 minutes after post)

Anonymous wrote:
I’m not going to give away which shop because I want to remain anonymous.

That’s not the best attitude for someone trying to make a living…
Also, it’s very likely that your products are cheaper somewhere else.

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mindhealer online Verified User (3 years) Long Term User Shouts: 47 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (22 hours, 10 minutes after post)

The first thing I would do is read and reread every single thread on etsy forums. The wisdom of experience is there, somewhere, maybe underneath. That is the sort of thing that has helped me the most with conducting any sort of marketplace/business-work online.

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Anonymous #
11 months, 1 week ago (22 hours, 38 minutes after post)

I’ll try my best, I’ll give it another go.

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roofdonkey offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 8 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months ago (1 day, 4 hours after post)

Anonymous wrote:
I’ll try my best, I’ll give it another go.

I was gonna mention.
You may consider physically taking your items into certain shops or private postal centers and speak with the owner to see if they could allow you to place some of your items there in a basket or on display which they would recieve a certain cut.
If practical, (and if you are particularly gutsy) take your items on the road and walk up to strangers in parking lots or heavy populated public areas.
Some very famous clothing lines and labels started out selling hand to hand to the public out of their trunks of their cars.
If its a hobby it will stay a hobby, but if you really, really work at it, soon it will pay.
But like all jobs… If they dont pay, then maybe its time to move on.

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