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34 posts tagged makers

selling

Pricing sarees and ethnic wear for a live auction

Weave, region and work decide it. Hours of labour are the floor you should not go under.

The Metzee team1 min read

selling

How to sell sarees and ethnic wear on Metzee

A saree on a table is not a saree. Drape it, move it, and show the reverse.

The Metzee team1 min read

trust

Why trust is the product

In a market of strangers selling things that are not uniform, trust is not a feature of the thing being sold. It is the thing being sold.

The Metzee team2 min read

selling

Selling from outside a metro

Two real disadvantages, and one advantage that beats both.

The Metzee team1 min read

selling

How to sell on Metzee

What selling live actually involves — a camera, a table, an hour — and every step from opening a store to getting paid.

The Metzee team2 min read

shipping

The quiet case for meeting in person

Half of what a courier does is undo the care somebody took wrapping the thing. Sometimes the answer is to not post it at all.

The Metzee team2 min read

makers

What a maker keeps

A seller should be able to answer "what did I earn on that?" without doing arithmetic we made necessary.

The Metzee team2 min read

shipping

The parcel is part of it

Handmade things are not uniform, and a delivery system that assumes they are will break them.

The Metzee team2 min read

makers

Eleven languages, and why English was not enough

The person with the best work in the room is very often not the person with the best English. Building only in English quietly decides who gets to sell.

The Metzee team2 min read

You should know hoe to click and when to click

live auctions

A photograph is not the thing

A listing can show you a bowl. It cannot turn it in the light, or tell you why the glaze pooled thicker on one side.

The Metzee team2 min read

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