Hi, i just joined Folksy a week ago, i put just few flavours of honey into my shop for now.
On the sites like ebay, amazon there is so much honey sellers that you can list through them forever.
Does anyone here on Folksy have experience of selling homemade food here?
What ratio you have views:sold items?
In couple of days i have over 100 views (i tried amazon too, over 2 weeks now and still not even 1 view), so i think its not so bad. what you think?
Where are you actually producing your honey? I note you say it is sunflower honey, but the UK is not exactly famed for its waving fields of sunflowers.
Sam x
Pruduced by my brothers in Slovakia, and importing just in small portions now to see if it will grow as its very succesful for them in slovakia.
I don’t know much about the rules for selling food products on Folksy, but this is a site for UK sellers and makers only. For this reason I have reported your shop to Folksy Admin so that they can investigate your product further.
Sam x
I live in UK for 10 years now so i am UK seller, i do make it here in uk from his honey so im UK maker i guess…
Are you importing the honey then mixing it here in the UK?.
yes together with fruits
I don’t know if that’s allowed here, but @admin will confirm for you, if you contact them.
ok, will do.
thanks
I’d also have a think about the claims you post, such as ‘prevents cancer’.
It doesn’t. And someone reading this who has cancer might be a bit peeved if they read a claim that honey prevents it…
well, everyone is saying different, some people say it doesnt and some say,it might even disrupt cancer cell growth because is aturally boosting the immune system and fighting infections.
so even if there is only few cases that it prevents or helps or even reduce growth it means it works, but sadly not for everyone.
Unfortunately, you can’t really make claims based on people’s opinions. If you’re making claims like that, they should be clinically proven to work.
You run the risk of being sued for misrepresentation. Even the most effective of clinically tested drugs cannot currently claim to prevent cancer. I strongly suggest you seek legal advice.
Your products sound lovely . Good luck with them 
statement is chamged now
Sorry to have sounded a bit short (which I think I did sound when I read back my post).
Honey undoubtedly has good beneficial properties, and emphasising this in your listings will promote it in the way you want; but there is so much legislation out there which states how you can and cannot promote products (not just food products btw but all manner of craft related products) that we all need to be aware of how we can and cannot describe our products.
The ‘prevention of cancer’ statement is a real hot topic at the moment, hence me identifying that immediately as a no-no. But there is plenty of discussion that says honey has anti-carcinogenic properties so a statement such as ‘honey is said by many to have beneficial properties’ would be fine. - There are lots of things out there that can trip us up - but the forums are great for sharing knowledge and we all want our fellow shopkeepers to be successful - because the more of us that are successful the better the site becomes as a whole.