I need some advice from those of you who have sold things online.  I have a cou­ple of dif­fer­ent routes here and I’m not sure which one is best.

First of all– the mem­ber­ship kits are ready to start going out the door.  They will start sell­ing on Monday if not sooner.  The only ques­tion is, which method should I use to sell them?

I have two options I’m look­ing at.  One is that I use an Etsy account and pass peo­ple inter­ested in buy­ing a mem­ber­ship over to the Etsy web­site.  The fees look okay.  One thing I don’t under­stand though is that Etsy charges you by the count for the things you list.  But it looks like every­one just lists a quan­tity of one.  ANy expe­ri­enced Etsy sell­ers that can explain to me why peo­ple do that?  For the mem­ber­ship kit, do I just list it with a quan­tity of one, then, what, relist each time some­one buys it?  Not clear from the FAQ how that works.

The other alter­na­tive is to use Paypal Payments and cre­ate but­tons on the site.  You can use Paypal Payments to col­lect pay­ments via Paypal or credit cards.  Fees look roughly the same as Etsy.  The down­side here is that Etsy would pos­si­bly get me extra sales from peo­ple just brows­ing Etsy.

And then maybe there are options out there I’m not even aware of.  So, poten­tial buy­ers, fel­low merchants–what’s the best way for me to do this?  I’m hop­ing to have some­thing set up by Sunday night, so please let me know your opinion.

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