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Why use The Sellery to sell your stuff?

We offer many advantages that you simply can't get by selling it yourself or from other eBay consignors:

• Free fantastic-looking listings:
• • We host our own images on our own servers. A signature of our service is the unusually large photographs we have in our descriptions. This is possible because we host our own images, allowing us to make your images as large and plentiful as necessary in order to accurately describe your item.
  • We will list your items for free, starting the auction at $24.99.
• Free advertising
  • Since it is in our best interest to get top-dollar for your items, we advertise the heck out of our listings. Often, you can find your listing on the first page of search google search results for the items model name within 24 hours of the item's posting date. We'll often create targeted ads on Google's advertising network exclusively for your items -- all at no extra cost to you.
• A extra layer of protection and anonymity:
• • Selling through The Sellery is a great way to sell something anonymously as we never release your information to the buyer.
• Professional management throughout the entire consignment process:
• • We have developed a custom web-based software to manage receiving your items, also called, 'The Sellery' it has been developed in parallel with our business model and allows us to track your listings, invoice your sales, and manage our payments to you. We provide this software as a service even to our competitors because it is simply the best software package available for mid-sized consignment shops.
• We have an excellent reputation on eBay with many satisfied and loyal customers
• • Buyers can instantly judge the reputation of a seller by looking at their feedback ratio. Our good reputation encourages more people to bid on our listings. Likewise, we do everything we can possibly do to earn this good standing on eBay.
• Commissions starting at 40% of the selling price
• • Our commissions are the lowest in the business. We can afford this because of our low operating overhead; we rely on word of mouth rather than flashy storefronts to attract our customers. This saves us a bundle so we can pass that on to you.
• We know how to get top-dollar for your items
• • Computer literate or not, selling on eBay is tedious business for the individual who isn't geared for the job. We have the equipment, knoweledge, and experience to guarantee that the listings for your items will fetch top-dollar and will be handled in a professional way. Our professional listings and sales experience often completely compensates for our already low maximum commission of 40% of the selling price.

What we sell:

We will sell most things that have a recognizable name brand like Teac, Sony, Apple, JVC, and many others. Non name-brand merchandise and one-off items like artwork or custom clothing don't lend themselves well to selling on eBay because shoppers can't reference the credibility of the piece anywhere else on the web. We have found that most of the time, value is defined mostly by reputation and just a little bit by apparent worth.

We start all our listings at $24.99. This is for two reasons: If we expected an item to sell for any lower, it wouldn't be worth our time to list it. If the starting price is too high, the item might not sell at all, which means no money for you, and wasted time for us. The bottom line is that if you intend to use our serivces, you should be willing to sell your items, but should expect an excellent job on our behalf in doing so.

What we don't sell:

We don't sell non-name brand items, wedding dresses, anything under $24.99 in value, or houses

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Staff Profiles

Thomas Hallock

Thomas Hallock started The Sellery in the spring of 2004 out of a bedroom in his parent's house, selling stuff for his friends, mostly road bike racers, to raise money to support his own road bike racing ambitions. He has leveraged his background in IT and a degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin to always keep The Sellery on the cutting-edge of consignment service technology. Thomas shuns titles such as "CEO" or "President" and prefers to just call himself the "owner" of the operation, and a "member of the 24-hour support team" when appropriate.

When Thomas is not making critical decisions, integrating two obscure IT systems, or answering your support requests, you might find him swinging poi, riding his bike, caving, rollerskating, windsurfing, or hanging out with eBay president and CEO John Donahoe.

Brett Reeves

Brett Reeves has been on the production team at The Sellery since the spring of 2007 and has been behind many of the listings we've launched since then. Brett has a keen sense of style and places customer and client satisfaction above all else.

When Brett isn't making fantastic-looking listings or packing sales, he's known as Dash Kizer in the Austin and San Francisco live music scenes.

John Dana

John Dana has been a cornerstone of The Sellery's production team since the BKH Hanger Liquidation project back in 2006. Even since, John has demonstrated his devotion to making The Sellery a workable business model, and has proven his worth many times over. A former mechanic for the military, John brings a strong focus on details and perfection to all aspects of his work.