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Starting an online collectibles business

Have you noticed, Ebay doesn't love collectibles sellers any more? We tried selling a few things there but it feels to much like a treadmill. Tons of rules, frequent ugly rule changes, and at the end of the day you have to get up an do it again the next day. We like starting online business that we can buld once and let them run on autopilot after that.

 

World of Antiques

World Of Antiques is our second Weebly site. Weebly is a website development tool that I am finding easy to use and with which I can build out nice looking sites much faster than before. It is all web based, lacks the …

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Antique Christmas

AntiqueChristmas.com is a domain I first registered in 2002. I have tested a variety of content there and one year did well income wise with an affiliate link to a Christmas shop.

I had gotten indications that most of the visitors were actually looking for information …

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Bakelite Antiques

BakeliteAntiques.com would be a great website for an Ebay seller with a lot of these products. There are more than 4,000 individual auctions for Bakelite items at any one time, so there is clearly a huge demand for them. There is also some serious problem with …

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Bobbin Lace

Bobbin-Lace.com is a website for bobbin lace collectors. There was a period of time when lace was all handmade. Thousands of people earned their living making fancy lace by hand. Bobbin lace was one kind of product. The business was popular …

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Cast Iron

Cast-Iron.us There are lots of cast iron antiques and it is still popular for many products. I had already built the site on the dot US domain when I got Cast-Iron.info. At that point in time I thought the dot info …

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DDR Zeit

DDRZeit.com is the term our German (East) exchange student used a lot in his conversations. Life after the wall came down was NOT the same as before, and not all the changes were perceived as a good thing.

From the standpoint of …

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Erzgebirge, Germany Collectibles

Original-Erzgebirge.com is one of our “listings” sites where we display, discuss and sell our collection of wooden figures and handcrafts from Germany’s Ezgebirge region. We also have OriginalErzgebirge.com pointing to that site.

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Expertic

Expertic.biz This site features folk art from East Germany (DDR) before the wall came down. Expertic was the label placed on items which were made for export to generate hard currency. It mostly shows up as a sticker on the base of wooden …

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German Nutcrackers

German Nutcracker Nutcracker figures and nutcrackers have been made in Germany for several hundred years. It was even recognized by a USA stamp featuring a variety of German nutcrackers at Christmas 2008.

We have collected some of these and will publish pictures and descriptions …

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German Smoker

German smopker is a site with pictures of our collection of German Smokers. These popular hand crafted works of art have been made in the Erzgebirge region of Germany for many years. The figures are hollow and have a metal tray to hold …

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Hatpin

Hatpins.us This website currently displays Ebay auctions for hatpins.
Hatpin.info This is a collectible, frequently sold on Ebay. The auctions include much more than the old fashoned long hat pins. There are tons of new hatpins made for cowboy hats, etc. also …

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Head Vases

HeadVases.com

Head vases are very popular collectibles that come in thousands of shapes and styles, from hundreds of manufacturers. There are whole books written about them and their values range from cheap to extremely expensive.

Exact match

Head vases 1,300 Ebay 682
Head vase 590
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Inkwells

Inkwells.biz Inkwells are a very popular collectible and some of them bring a lot of money on Ebay.

Exact match
Inkwells 880 Ebay 608
Antique inkwells 390
Antique inkwell 170
Inkwell silver 170

 

Lace Hankies

LaceHankies.com Kleenix has replaced the hanky and even fancy ones with handmade lace sell for almost nothing on Ebay. Times have changed.

 

Niloak Pottery

Niloak Pottery was established in 1909 and lasted until 1946. They are especially known for their Missionware line from their early days. Sometimes called Mission Swirl, this pottery was made by combining various colored clays, but not blending them. When turned the result was earth …

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Old Gold Watches

OldGoldWatches.com Old gold watches are very collectible and many are sold on Ebay.

There are only 73 searches for old gold watches, but there are 86 Ebay auctions for them. Obviously all the people interested in buying or selling these items don’t waste …

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Pine Needle baskets

PineNeedleBaskets.com is a site which will have pictures and descriptions of various examples of this folk art craft.

Exact matches

Pine needle baskets 1,000
Pine needle basket 390
Pine needle coiling 390
Pine needle basketry 210
Pine needle basket weaving 110
Pine needle weaving 91
How to …

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Souvenir Spoons

Souvenir-Spoons.com These made a nice, inexpensive collectible. My mother had a spoon rack on the kitchen wall that she enjoyed a lot.

Google says there are only 590 exact match searches, but there are 1,800 eBay auctions. Obviously buyers and sellers don’t bother searching, ...

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