Why Not Use A Free Site

Fair comment.

I went back to Wensy and searched the then 28,761 U.S. listings to identify the number that were auctions.

There were 10,432 U.S. items listed as auctions (36.3% of the U.S. listings) and 9 of those had bids.

It is Monday morning 8.30am Queensland Australia and I have 70-80 lot of letter rate stamps sets from Australia 1990-2000 sitting in front of me that are scanned and ready to list. It is a typical Monday morning and instead of listing I am here writing this.

It took 2hrs to put the stamps into stock card to make them ready to scan. It has taken 45mins to scan them. To list them it is going to take the next 3hrs. After I am finished I need to pack the 13 sold lots and get them to the PO 3mins away.

And then I start all over again for tomorrow Tuesday at 8.30am. Can you see why I want to sell my listings and not just look at them on a site that is....... I have forgotten the name already!

Can't bother with auction sites..life's too short to hang around the internet and get a "deal"...Here in Ottawa, Canada there is a monthly
Stamp and Coin sale. There were 17 stamp dealers today and I scored a lot of great stamps..at half book price or less...no sales tax or shipping costs involved. Free admission.

I had not heard of my little auctions, so I visited. The reason I will not use them is they had 52 US listings and 51 of those were first day covers.

Wensy has always been good for me. I don't mind sitting back and waiting for the bids to come in. I had about 600 lots listed. Keep having them relisted until finally was ready to give up. I decided to give it one more try and within a week had sold over 100 lots. Ok, maybe not a lot of money, about $40.00 total, but the stamps had been sitting around gathering dust anyhow. I list my items for 10 days with 5 relists and when they are done, I just click a few buttons and start all over again. Sure can't do that with e-bay. Not unless you have a fortune to spend. Once you have them on Wensy you can keep relisting them for as long as you wish with hardly any effort. Just keep adding to your lots, and eventually someone will see what you have, and you never know, all those 5 and 10 cent lots can add up over time.
If you have high value lots, and they don't sell on e-bay, how much does it cost to keep listing them? You take the time to scan and list them anyhow. Then you pay your fee at e-bay to list and then a week later, it hasn't sold, and you relist for more money, then maybe a week later it still hasn't sold. Do you pay more and relist it or give up? If you give up then you haven't made any money for your time. If you don't give up then you have just taken another bite out of your profit. Where you could be listing at Wensy, for two or three times, for nothing. Then your profit goes into your pocket when you have sold your item.

If you already have good customers on e-bay and they like your items, then send them to Wensy. If they like what you have, then they won't care which auction they buy from. Shouldn't matter to them one way or the other. Only thing is, you might be able to give a really "good" customer a bit of a break or free shipping now and then, because it didn't cost you anything to list. Then your customers will be really happy.

Wensy looks interesting, I shall certainly give it a try and compare it to my little auctions.
As a simple collector I cannot afford to pay fees to both ebay and paypal, the cost is prohibitive.

I have bought lots of material on Wensy, especially cheaper classics at great prices. I have never tried to sell though.

Selling on Wensy is a labor of love. I've been selling there for over two years now and have over 1600 listings. I only do "but it now', never any auctions. I think most sellers do that, that's why auctions are low, just my opinion. I also have over 800 positive feedback. And as someone else said it's most duplicates that are sold there. The best part is of course no fees other then PayPal.

Finally I can see how to get these Free auction online sites to work even if there is low traffic.

1kg of kiloware off paper with a good spread of stamps over 30 to 40 years. With a cost of $100 = 15,000 stamps at under 1c per stamp.

I am sure with so many buys = no postage it will work one way or another.

Seeing this, I just went over to Wensy where I had set up an account years ago thinking I would do some selling there, put my email address into send password and found myself still registered.

New here's what puzzles me...

How does Wensy keep going?

Using it is free, and it must take up a chunk of bandwidth, yet there aren't even ads all over it or jumping out at you.

It doesn't seem like much of a business enterprise, so is it someone's hobby board that went wild and survives as a labor of love?

Ray, what is your Wensy ID? I got a few nice items from you on SCF

Modern_who, you will be surprised what some people can make from Google ads (which Wensy has), and donations (which wensy has).

BeeSee,

My id number is 9433. And I'm listed here on SCF under:

Sales Promotion: ebay, eCrater, Wensy, etc.

So I put several adverts on both Wensey and My Little Auctions at the same time, the latter shows far more viewings and 100% more sales!

Wensy can be infuriating.
They could make much more money for the site and make it wholly more usable if they would charge for the 'extras'. With no charge they are absolutely meaningless and it does nothing to improve what could be a great place to hang out.
When you see Gallery listings at 10c a throw then you know something is not right.
Everyone bar none, would be very happy to pay for them and it would cut out this 'donation' lark that belittles an auction site.

A great pity.

Londonbus1

I just signed up for Wensy and listed a few items. Even with the low exposure, I like the option. I'm getting tired of eBays fees and lack of seller support. I recently listed an item, mistakenly as a fixed price, quickly deleted it (because you can't change it) and relisted as a auction. I was charged .50 cents. When I called to have the charge removed, they reluctantly removed it, as a one time courtesy. I don't have a lot of stamps to sell, just duplicates. I'm not a dealer and I'm in no hurry to sell them. I would like to list them here, but that's not going to happen any time soon.

I think Wensy is a good option.