| OK, you have decided to start selling t-shirts on-line, | | | | costs. If you are registered for VAT you are going |
| or you already are doing. When starting an on-line | | | | to be liable for another 87p. so out of the £8.00 |
| t-shirt business most peoples first selling platform is | | | | you are going to end up with about £3.87. eBay |
| eBay.eBay has its pros and cons, the biggest | | | | gets £1.00 and you get £3.87 So bear this in mind |
| downside to selling on eBay is the fees and when | | | | you are giving eBay over 25% of your profit. |
| selling for a small amount the fees can cripple you. | | | | Another downside to eBay is that if your design is |
| Firstly the submission fee is 20p OK not a lot you can | | | | not uniquely yours and your sales go well you may |
| live with that. The final selling fee is 8.75% for items | | | | get a lot of rival sellers copying your idea. It is a good |
| up to £29.99 the pay pal fee is then a further 3.4% | | | | idea to keep your sales private, this way people cant |
| so a total of 12.15% plus the 20p to submit your add | | | | see what your most popular sales are. |
| in the first place. So the average price a printed | | | | The pros are quite a lot. If you are just starting in |
| t-shirt sells for on eBay is around £8.00. Out of this | | | | the t-shirt business then eBay is ideal for you. The |
| your total eBay and pay pal fees will be £1.00. The | | | | start up cost for selling are minimal as apposed to |
| t-shirt will cost you about £1.30 a little more if you | | | | the costs incurred building a website and paying out |
| go for a Fruit Of The Loom Premium T-Shirt, or a | | | | for Google AdWords etc. The actual cost is just 20p |
| high grade Gildan T-Shirt. Then say £1.00 for printing | | | | and the purchase of a few wholesale t-shirts. |