ETSY SELLING TIP # 11

Buy cheap items at the store- sell them as “Handmade Items”  

Everyone tells “White Lies” in their lifetime, right ?  We men tell white lies when our wives ask us “do I look fat in this dress?”… and our wives tell us white lies when they say “you are SO GOOD in bed!”   My mom tells me white lies when she says “I am so proud of you son”. 

So, now it’s your turn to tell some big old fashioned White Lies. 
You can make a financial killing by buying cheap items at the discount stores and selling them on Etsy as “Handmade Items”.  
Start with the 99 Cent Store or Big Lots, and buy any arty type stuff there… little figurines, children’s toys, kitchen stuff, etc.    After that, go browse the local K-Mart or Target and buy the really cheap discounted knick-knack stuff that they put on sale in those sales bins.  After that, bring them home, take them out of the package, and photograph them in a really nice decorative setting, like on a kitchen table with flowers and a nice painting on the wall.  Surrounding the really cheap junk you just bought with really nice things makes that junk seem more valuable.

If you bought a country style oven mitt at K-mart for $ 2.25, you can describe it as “Handmade cotton country farmhouse inspired oven mitt for those home-baked apple pies and biscuits”… and sell that thing   for  $ 18.00 !   If you purchased a pair of chrome plated hoop earrings at Target for $ 3.99, you can turn around and sell them for $ 25.00 as “Hand-crafted silver fashion hoopie momma earrings for that uptown girl looking to shake her money-maker at Da Club”.   If you bought a cheap-o cloth bear doll make in China at the 99 Cents Store for 99 cents,  you can sell that junk for $ 22.50 on Etsy as “Handmade knit fabric soft-as-a-baby cutsie bear baby for your cute little baby, baby”   

NOW GET TO WORK !