Looking for alternatives to selling on eBay

[obcbeatle]

Originally Posted by Leon

100%. This post should be stuck to the top of each page.

Personally, I am on the forum 90% of the time from a laptop pc, from my home office with an external monitor, keyboard and mouse. I don't even try posting pics from my phone (and it's a S23 Galaxy).

A lot of images I post are hosted on my personal website, luckeycards.com.
If they are there I take the url and insert it where you would normally upload a picture. It works perfectly but sometimes I still need to resize them before posting.

When that happens-
I right click on images to save them to "my photos" . Then open them with MS Paint, downsize them appropriately and save. Then I can then upload them onto the forum.
This whole process takes about 2? minutes; less if I've had 2+ cups of coffee.

Nowadays, in the instant gratification environment we are in, anything more than 3 seconds is slow.

That said, anything less than 3 minutes is fast to this dinosaur.

**Young ones don't remember John Spencer's (hi Yoda) first iteration (circa 1997-8?) of this forum. They would go bat-shi$ crazy.

And a tintype...(not many ladies baseball tintypes out there...)

Whoa...cool tintype!!

[obcbeatle]

Just following up to thank everyone for their comments/suggestions. Shortly I will try selling a few non-sport items via a private Facebook group. I have never sold via Facebook, so these are my final questions. And feel free to PM me privately since these questions aren't necessarily pre-war baseball related:

1) What 3rd party payment/shipping app. are you using for selling/shipping items on FB? I've been using eBay's built in payment/shipping system for years, so I'm a bit behind the curve. I plan to use Paypal for payments whenever possible, and I do use Venmo when my daughter needs money fast. I'd like to be able to to do invoicing and print labels, like in eBay. So not sure if printing eliminates using an iPhone app (I have an old printer)? I prefer using my laptop for most things.

2) Have you had any luck with DOND (deal or no deal), or just stating the asking price? I see a lot of DOND in Facebook groups, but as a buyer I want to know the asking price. The advantages of using DOND as a seller are obvious. So just wondering if DOND is a waste of time?

Any other advice/comments welcome. Thank you.

Edit: Forgot to ask, is there a specific way to invoice from within Facebook? I can't find it if there is.