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Selling Recipe's on Ebay
Sep 13, 2004 06:57 PM
I have posted this question on another thread but thought it should have a thread of its own. I am selling an original soup recipe on ebay with the buy now feature as the only option. I have one sale and it is half over. Can recipe's be sold successfully on ebay? If anyone has done this , how successful were you?
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Selling Recipe's on Ebay

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Selling Recipe's on Ebay
Sep 13, 2004 06:57 PM
I have posted this question on another thread but thought it should have a thread of its own. I am selling an original soup recipe on ebay with the buy now feature as the only option. I have one sale and it is half over. Can recipe's be sold successfully on ebay? If anyone has done this , how successful were you?
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(48 of 56)
Selling Recipe's on Ebay
Aug 16, 2006 11:06 AM
but I think I'll stick to cookbooks. Well, it would be quite expensive to have your recipes converted into an illustrated, hard-cover cookbook! I only needed to photocopy my recipes set when an order came in. So there was no waste in unused set copies, thus maximizing my profit.

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(49 of 56)
Selling Recipe's on Ebay
Aug 16, 2006 08:20 PM
Hmm,

Your making it sounds better and better.

~ Susan
(50 of 56)
Selling Recipe's on Ebay
Aug 16, 2006 09:32 PM
Nowadays, you don't even have to print the recipes anymore. Just copy them onto a floppy disk and sell them as such.

~ Life is a journey. Live it well. ~


~ Happy is he who can discover the causes of things, for thereby he has mastered all fear, and is throned above fate. -- Goethe ~

(51 of 56)
Selling Recipe's on Ebay
Aug 17, 2006 10:52 AM
I have started putting my favorite recipes on a Memory Stick.

~ Susan
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Re: Selling Recipe's on Ebay
Nov 10, 2010 08:29 PM
I've got a bid so far for $1.00 on my first original recipe I listed. I started the bid at just $0.25 and it still has a day or so left I think. I am happy! :)
(53 of 56)
Re: Selling Recipe's on Ebay
Nov 15, 2010 04:26 AM
I don't see how you could be successful selling a recipe anywhere...there are too many places to get anything one wants for free. I have never paid for one & never would; I don't know of anyone who would either. It's just not worth it.


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(54 of 56)
Re: Selling Recipe's on Ebay
Nov 21, 2010 09:38 AM
Interesting thread, although the OP stepped out.
Like most cooks, I have a box of God knows how many recipes I let pile up. A few years ago, after I couldn't add one more scrap of paper to the box, I took a friend's advice and started them for 99 cents. Something like "BOX OF RECIPES THOUSANDS SAVED 20 YEARS" or whatever. To my shock, it sold for $40.......
Wow!!!!!
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Re: Selling Recipe's on Ebay
Mar 2, 2012 04:00 PM

I just want to say that I don't know what you're selling these for but since you've already gone through the trouble of putting in text format and shipping is essentially free to you, then lowering the price to say 99 cents and selling lots and lots more might be better. I would periodically put a few at a time up for auction or buy now. Make sure to add pictures as that is what makes me hungry and want to buy. Keep in mind that often people are buying feedback and getting a good recipe is a good kicker and encentive to buy when there are literally thousands of recipes free on the internet and cookbooks can be picked up for a dollar at garage sales. Just trying to maximize your profits.

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Re: Selling Recipe's on Ebay
May 31, 2012 04:57 PM

From what I can tell, you can't list recipes digitally unless you list them under the everything else category.  How could someone come out after paying the listing fees and then a $.44 postage stamp when they sell a recipe for $.99.

 

Am I understanding this correctly?

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