What makes you say there are too many high fees on eBay? eBay earns their money by providing dozens of state of the art selling tools and a ready made marketplace for just about anything imaginable. I was once a powerseller on eBay and made some very good money. I'm in the middle of a little experiment right now selling some things there and so far, it's working out well.

As for selling from a Website of your own, you could try it but it will be literally impossible for you to get anywhere near the exposure you'd get from eBay. You could try CraigsList but that marketplace isn't even close to the exposure and safety you'd find on eBay.

You could sell the items on Amazon as a vendor. My girlfriend does this with good success.

Cheers,
Coby

Thank you very much for all your suggestions. You all give really good reasons that ebay would be the way to go, so maybe I need to try it out and see how it goes.

There is sooo much stuff here to put on ebay. Would it be better for me to open a store to sell, or just make listings?

Just make listings. As these will be one-time sales it wont be worth the time or money for a store.

I own an auction house and buy items outright also. Im always looking for antiques, collectibles and memorabilia if you have anything along those lines.

That is a greedy way to think about it, Ebay is actually doing all the selling for you. It's like you are giving them a small commission for each sale they make for you. You can always list stuff for sale on your own website, but you won't sell a thing if you have no traffic coming to it. Ebay already has millions of buyers looking to buy every single day.

If you want to go the free listing route, than use Craigslist.

You should hold an estate sale. You can run it privately or you can have a third-party company come in and run it for you, particularly if there is a lot of good-conditioned items. Just google "estate sale auctioneers + city" and you should find them. Good luck!

Sorry about your mom. You can always start up an e-commerce store with Yahoo Shopping. This is a great way to get the ball rolling. You should also consider Craigslist. Alot of physical products sell here fast. And also consider Ebay. Even though you say too many "high" fees, your items can still sell quickly - and profitably.

Do this: Open an ebay account, start selling some stuff....also, setup your website using yahoo stores as mentioned. You can let the ebay customers, know about your own website and build the traffic to that site as well...

I sell stuff for a friend on ebay. He photos the items and brings them here for me to add for him. It is the easiest way to do it and will give you the best results over time.
The key is to write a full description and always tell the truth.

Randall, thank you for your condolences

Wow, you all have given me great ideas. TeamBringIt, I like this idea along with what Randall Magwood said about a yahoo store.

Thanks paulie123, but estate sale would be out. My Dad is from back in the day and the neighborhood his house is in... well, you dont want people coming inside (was a beautiful neighborhood when they first bought the house.)

Alex Blades, Im not a greedy person at all Ive heard sooo much talk about the extremely high fees on ebay and how many companies and people have left ebay because of it, tends to shy a person away.

JustinG30, I will certainly keep you in mind as I go through things. They have plenty of antiques here.

KyleG1461...travlinguy and laurencewins, thank you for steering me away from the store, and the run down... that was the first thing I was going to do Thanks again guys, I have a lot of work ahead of me.