I had already approached a few mens magazines with regards to advertising costs and they were too far out of my reach, I was not interested in top shelf mens magazines but ones like Bizarre I thought would be ideal. They told me that one month for a small box advert in the classifieds would be £110.00. If I sold 12 pairs of panties at £12 a pair I would break even (not forgetting the cost of panties) but I was not prepared to have my home address displayed as it could quite easily attract an undesirable or two.

I enquired about the cost of a PO box number and I think it was around £40 for the year, an extra 4 pairs was it worth the gamble, well I had put by some of the profit I had made through eBay so what had I to lose.

The advert was placed and of course, the few days after release I waited to see what the postman delivered. Before the end of the first week I received five envelopes, one was full payment and the other four were dirty letters or begging ones. I started to feel this was going to be one to put down to experience.

Into week two and my orders had increased by another four and by the end of week three I had just about hit my target with a total of 15 sales. The sales trickled in after that over the next 4–5 weeks, I guess the beauty is with these magazines is they are not always thrown away and mates pass them around. After a total of 8 weeks I had received around 20 orders and I still had my PO box number paid up for another 10 months.

I had already decided to take out a longer advert in the same magazine but this time I wanted to ensure customers could remember me without the need of holding onto the mag. I used the online service of Vista Print to design some business cards. I included my PO Box number and a sexy little message on them and they worked a treat. By now I was confiding in a few friends who also expressed an interest and one of them told me that she had already had an idea for a web site. This was music to my ears, not only could I point sellers in the magazine to a PO Box number I could possibly inform them of a new panty selling web site…

To be cont…

I have had a few emails this past couple of weeks from girls saying that they would like to sell their panties online, can I help. I decided it would be easier for me to add a category to this blog on how I started selling my used panties online. I am not claiming this is the right way or a way that did not bend a few rules here and there but it worked for me back in the mid 1990’s. I totally agree things have changed and moved on over the past few years so trying to copy the way I started probably won’t work for you but it might give you a few ideas.

Part One.

I remember reading an article in the Bizarre magazine about women selling used panties and I thought hey, what a great, easy way to make some extra money. I had not long been an Internet user and back then I remember it was old fashioned dial up service providers and phone bills of £100 a month when I occasionally allowed online time to run away with me. I was an eBay addict as well and I thought if I could make just £100 a month for selling used panties then my Internet time would become free time. I did not set out to get rich from selling panties, I just saw it as paying for my Internet time.

eBay seemed the natural route, they never really allowed used panties to be sold but they did turn a blind eye to the auctions with cleverly written descriptions. I do see some still trying the same tactics un-WORN panties for sale is an old one, making the auction ‘private’ is another clue or ‘email me for ANY requests/questions’ in the description is another I see from time to time.

I used to be a little different from the others, if the closing bid was £8.00 then I would wear the panties for the £8.00 and I would charge £1.00 postage. I know a lot of other girls at the time would say to the buyers that postage is £2.50 and they would say yes you have brought my panties for £8.00 but if you want me to send them unwashed then you need to add another £5.00. Buyers were not going to argue, did they really want negative feedback saying “you asked me to send my panties dirty” for everyone to read…

I was different, I could see that there was a quick killing to make but I did not want the quick killing, I wanted buyers to feel looked after and cared for, I wanted to build up a regular customer base. I wanted customers to look out for my auctions, I wanted happy customers bidding against each other pushing my prices higher and sure enough within 6 weeks my panties were fetching double and often triple what rival auctions were fetching.

I cannot remember what year it was when eBay had a real big clamp down, we all ignored the warnings and sure enough within a couple of weeks accounts were closed, feedback lost and sellers lost their place to advertise. I was one of the lucky ones as I had already expanded into other places to sell. I cannot claim to have seen it coming, I didn’t but I had already moved on to other outlets so it wasn’t too big a deal for me, in fact it probably helped as lots of rival sellers bit the dust.

One thing I always did back then was to re-invest some of the profit I made from selling worn panties. It is something I still do in life today, how can you expand your ideas if you spend all your income. My auctions were going great but I was hitting such a small part of the market, it wasn’t only Internet users that enjoyed smelling worn panties, I used to think about all those without Internet access, how could I reach them? I turned to the place that first gave me the idea, the Bizarre Magazine.

To be cont…

I remember a couple or more years back when accusations were being branded around, panty wars were breaking out and every week I for one was having to duck and dodge the arrows (although I was firing some back). Well I stumbled over a few sites the other day where scam and fake panty seller alerts are doing the rounds, not towards myself but another seller that advertises at my husbands site Panty Draw.

I haven’t the time or energy to look into the claims, I stand beside every other panty seller who says do your own homework, if you feel uncomfortable move on. I did however mention to my hubby that maybe he should look into those that list on his site as I really do not wish the associated with by association tag. Until a decision has been made as to the future of Panty Draw no more applications to be listed are going to be accepted.

Gosh there was a time when I seemed to be posting on this blog nearly every day, now I am making less and less posts, I cannot believe that my last post was nearly six weeks ago. I had a quick look over some other blogs that I used to check on a daily basis and those too seem to be updating less and less.

I tried to analyze why and I guess the truth is panty selling starts to be less and less important to you as you get older. At first you set out to be number one, you think it is piss easy to pop a pair of panties on and send them off a day or two later. Then regulars ‘can’ become more demanding of your time and many do not understand that you might have 20 or 30 other regular customers that are just as deserving.

Before you know it you are spending several hours a day, emailing regulars, answering questions to those curious and chatting to people you have met online and what started off a bit of fun becomes nearly a second full time job. Don’t get me wrong I am not complaining, just thinking out aloud as to why I have spent so little time blogging and distancing myself from possible new orders.

So what have I been doing with my spare time, online nothing, I have almost given up working on any new projects, my hubby is better at that side of things. He asks my opinions and I duly give them. Later this month a new stockings site is set to be launched, I shall share that with you later. Away from the web I have been busy decorating and ensuring that the brick and mortar side of things is strong enough to emerge from the credit crunch we are all going through.