Should i open a store on ebay?

You would have to have very rare items or sell very low. The market is saturated. There is one parts company alone that has 500,000 (with a comma!) listing running at all times and made Ebays Top seller of the year. Do your local car shows. Sue B.

Thanks lady Sue! I guess it's a moot point now since the listing fee sale is over now. Who knows when ebay will have one again! My auto parts have been doing well for many years on ebay, so I don't think i'll be hauling my goods to a local car show any time soon. I just thought it would look funny to open a store and have it show my collectibles alongside my car parts.
Thanks for your help though!

On a similar vein - I sell second hand watches , and start them all at 99p to fnd their own level. But I also have a lot of unused quality leather straps, that cost from £10 - £40 new. I find it is just too risky to put them in a ten day auction at 99p - they get about 2 or 3 watchers whereas my watches get maybe 20 or 30 or more. What I would like to do is put them on as 30 day 'buy-it-now' items - but it costs 40p each to list - putting a hundred £20 straps on at £5 , or £10 straps at £3 and paying 40p to list them is quite pricey, especially if they do not sell ( I do not know , but if I work on a sell rate of one in five I would be paying £2 for each item sold !) - what would people recommend as the most efficient way to sell them - I have thought about setting up my own website - is that easy/ feasible ? What sort of costs would be involved in that ?

I guess I don't need a store afterall. And with this sale going on with the listing fees, I think I will get busy listing regular auctions!
Thank you all for your advice!

100 free any value listings for non-store sellers (read chumps, myself included) for about five weeks. I wonder how many they lured into opening a store?

I don't want Meg as governor, I want her back at ebaY!

I was thinking the same thing, nothopping! It's like a head-game ebay is playing with us. Trying to keep us confused!