It used to be that if you wanted to sell your hand crafts online, only a couple of real options were available: e-commerce by yourself (or through Yahoo Store), or say get cozy with eBay (or other garden variety of auction sites). Then there was Craigslist. Thankfully, now there’s a new self-serving online service called Etsy.
Etsy is like a flea market where hand craft sellers can list their items for buyers to browse and purchase. It has a few very cool and innovative search tools: search by color, geographic location, time posted and of course, good old categories.
Search by locale
Search by color
The service is very clearly targeted at eBay with simplified listing process and lower fee structures. Unfortunately it suffers lack of marketing and hype. But it shows a lot of potentials as an alternative to eBay.