I would like to claim that Saucy Panties was all my own idea but it wasn’t although I was one of the original founders of the site. Originally Saucy Panties was a group of four girls each with their own for sales page and all orders going through Sue. At first it worked great but somewhere down the line we lost the way.

I think there were many factors attributing to the downturn we experienced, four different personalities, four different idea’s and maybe lacking a personal touch. When the opportunity came for me to take full control I did and although the other three and myself parted company I was joined by Tiffany from the USA and since it has been just the two of us we haven’t looked back.

Some people assume that selling used panties is easy, pop a pair of panties on, wear and send, simple as. I totally admit that in the early days it really was this simple but over the years you build many friendships and you also build some very demanding customers. Most are very understanding but there are a small percentage that feel hurt and upset if you do not reply to an email within hours and who do not understand how your scent changes at different times of the month as your cycle changes.

When I first started out I had a very small customer base and it was easy to keep on top of everything, however your own success and popularity can be your own downfall. After 10+ years of selling panties I have really eased back, I have disabled my shopping cart and I am down to just a very small handful of regulars now. Tiffany is still going strong and I do try and push most of the orders her way.

For anyone out there considering becoming a panty seller don’t try and do it on the cheap, get yourself a nice little web site and domain name and think outside of the box. Work hardest on making a customer a repeat customer and above all ensure you enjoy doing what you are doing.

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…

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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.

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