Is Craftique just focused on “handmade”?
This was a question that I received and decided to try to clarify what the “craft” in craftique means.
First we want everyone to succeed in their business which is owning a boutique on our site. We will be promoting your boutiques, your products, your items on many different social as well as picture sites! We will give to you the best possible customer service that there is! This is a promise.
We, together at www.craftique.us, have sold and bought on many venues and we feel that customer service is lacking on most of these sites. Maybe they have gotten so big they do not care about their sellers. I have read way too many complaints on forums about NOT having customer service. A friend that sells (for now) on a big name web site tells me that it is like all they (being the web site owners) just want his money and they throw any complaints (which are a lot) out the door! You are left on your own to settle any problems with your customers as the site offers no help! Well, we will offer help with problems as well as mediation for any that a buyer as well as a seller might have.
Now, starting a boutique, shop, or store, whatever you might want to call it, is not an easy thing to do! You have to “set up” your place, think of a name that in someway might define your wares that you have, then the listings, taking good pictures, trying to describe to potential buyers all about your items and all of this takes time and it is in essence becomes a “craft” to do all this. Making a banner for your place is that not a craft? Taking good photographs is a craft and that has to be done to show your items.
We feel that your boutique is a craft in itself and that is where the “craft” in www.craftique.us comes from.
We are not only hand made items but what you have in your boutique is unique for you, for your boutique. Therefore every boutique is unique!
Not everyone has exactly the same things. I have a sofa and you have a sofa but what are the odds that we have the exact same sofa? This is just an example of meaning your boutique, shop or store (whatever you may want to call it) will be the unique for craftique!
I was also questioned if any of us were “crafters,” artist, or “made” things? We are a diverse group that does a little of everything so we do know the time that you spend in creating and making your wonderful hand-made items.
We are also vintage lovers that buy, sell and collect vintage as well as retro items. So, we do know the joy of finding that special vintage item we want. We also know the time spent in going to local auctions, local vintage shops, local thrift stores and finding a vintage item that is in perfect condition and buying it. Then later on deciding to sell it.
I at one time collected teapots. I had a gazillion of them, having to clean and dust almost every day so just decided one day that I was tired of all of them and so I sold them.
So there will be a number of different items that you can sell, things you find here and there, things that you no longer want or need.
There is a “craft” to buying and selling to make yourself profit. And we are going to help you succeed in your “craft” of having an online boutique with us.
We are not here to “get rich” off of you that is one reason our pricing is low. We want everyone to have the power to succeed in their business and you cannot do that if at the very beginning you have high fees, final value fees, shipping fees and a whole lot of other fees to figure into your cost of your place. After a while you seem to make nothing but am selling for the cost of fees! You should get your price of what the value you set for your items and NOT have to take away from that with high fees!
The only fees you pay for having your boutique on www.craftique.us is $5.00 a month or $50.00 a year! This is unlimited items you can list, NO other fees, ever!
Nothing will change!
Time to go and work on the list of reserve names which are coming in more and more. So, please reserve your name early so no one takes your name you want for your boutique.
Happy Holidays to all!!!
First we want everyone to succeed in their business which is owning a boutique on our site. We will be promoting your boutiques, your products, your items on many different social as well as picture sites! We will give to you the best possible customer service that there is! This is a promise.
We, together at www.craftique.us, have sold and bought on many venues and we feel that customer service is lacking on most of these sites. Maybe they have gotten so big they do not care about their sellers. I have read way too many complaints on forums about NOT having customer service. A friend that sells (for now) on a big name web site tells me that it is like all they (being the web site owners) just want his money and they throw any complaints (which are a lot) out the door! You are left on your own to settle any problems with your customers as the site offers no help! Well, we will offer help with problems as well as mediation for any that a buyer as well as a seller might have.
Now, starting a boutique, shop, or store, whatever you might want to call it, is not an easy thing to do! You have to “set up” your place, think of a name that in someway might define your wares that you have, then the listings, taking good pictures, trying to describe to potential buyers all about your items and all of this takes time and it is in essence becomes a “craft” to do all this. Making a banner for your place is that not a craft? Taking good photographs is a craft and that has to be done to show your items.
We feel that your boutique is a craft in itself and that is where the “craft” in www.craftique.us comes from.
We are not only hand made items but what you have in your boutique is unique for you, for your boutique. Therefore every boutique is unique!
Not everyone has exactly the same things. I have a sofa and you have a sofa but what are the odds that we have the exact same sofa? This is just an example of meaning your boutique, shop or store (whatever you may want to call it) will be the unique for craftique!
I was also questioned if any of us were “crafters,” artist, or “made” things? We are a diverse group that does a little of everything so we do know the time that you spend in creating and making your wonderful hand-made items.
We are also vintage lovers that buy, sell and collect vintage as well as retro items. So, we do know the joy of finding that special vintage item we want. We also know the time spent in going to local auctions, local vintage shops, local thrift stores and finding a vintage item that is in perfect condition and buying it. Then later on deciding to sell it.
I at one time collected teapots. I had a gazillion of them, having to clean and dust almost every day so just decided one day that I was tired of all of them and so I sold them.
So there will be a number of different items that you can sell, things you find here and there, things that you no longer want or need.
There is a “craft” to buying and selling to make yourself profit. And we are going to help you succeed in your “craft” of having an online boutique with us.
We are not here to “get rich” off of you that is one reason our pricing is low. We want everyone to have the power to succeed in their business and you cannot do that if at the very beginning you have high fees, final value fees, shipping fees and a whole lot of other fees to figure into your cost of your place. After a while you seem to make nothing but am selling for the cost of fees! You should get your price of what the value you set for your items and NOT have to take away from that with high fees!
The only fees you pay for having your boutique on www.craftique.us is $5.00 a month or $50.00 a year! This is unlimited items you can list, NO other fees, ever!
Nothing will change!
Time to go and work on the list of reserve names which are coming in more and more. So, please reserve your name early so no one takes your name you want for your boutique.
Happy Holidays to all!!!
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