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Dan Carmichael

9 Years Ago

They Got It Correct About Etsy

We are not to talk about competitors, so I won't.

But I did find it enjoyable this morning that the news media finally got it right.

In a story about the Etsy stock debut, the Associated Press began its story with this: "Shares of online crafts marketplace Etsy..."

"crafts" marketplace. It's enjoyable to see it labeled correctly. Etsy is not an art marketplace and has not been for some time.

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Jane Linders

9 Years Ago

I sell my photos on Etsy and have noticed sales decline in the past couple of years. Still worth selling there IMHO.

 

Cynthia Decker

9 Years Ago

I stopped taking Etsy seriously years ago when despite the "all handmade" claim there were many many resellers of cheap mass manufactured goods.

 

David Bridburg

9 Years Ago

Yep, I noticed late last year while researching that one NOT NAMED famous poster artist
who stuffs the channels had a southern Connecticut local printer producing everything, probably
licensed. The printer was printing a lot of other artist's works a well. Nothing wrong with that, but
nothing truly hand made either.

If I was much bigger online I would be doing the same. No sour grapes.

Dave

 

Jim Hughes

9 Years Ago

Etsy is doing what all big companies do: find something that works, then set about trying to make it bigger and bigger, until it doesn't work anymore.

 

Valerie Reeves

9 Years Ago

BINGO, Cynthia! I closed up shop there YEARS ago.

This thread should be closed any minute now. lol

 

Jim Hughes

9 Years Ago

Within the last year I bought several 'handmade' things from Etsy. They were just what I wanted. It was a great place.

Once a company goes public, the deterioration sets in and only accelerates. The pressure to constantly push up the stock price by meeting impossible profitability targets is relentless and corrupts everything in its path. Etsy will become just another giant online strip mall, trying to sell everything to everybody.

 

JC Findley

9 Years Ago

Etsy is not a PoD and actually can be used in conjunction with FAA. Sell it there and fulfill it here.

I gave up there long ago but keep the shop for custom orders. It looks better for print sales now that you can fer more that one size per listing,

 

Guna Andersone

9 Years Ago

I am selling on Etsy my handmade jewelry and fashion items. Not complains till now.

 

Toby McGuire

9 Years Ago

Etsy has been pretty good to me- I expect to hit 100 print sales over there in two months or so. I've made my money back on a lens or two from it so it's been worth it.

 

Peggy Collins

9 Years Ago

It's been very good for me! Don't know what changes will come now that it's gone public...I'm going to set up my own websites just in case though.

 

Randall Nyhof

9 Years Ago

I had 2 shops there for a very short while and I still have 1 shop there going on 5 years. My total sales from both shops exceed 600. For me it has been very worthwhile.

 

Nancy Ingersoll

9 Years Ago

All good points - cute crafty items, a great place for jewelry that you might give to a teenager/college girl and supply type stuff like little bottles or whatnot. But really, those little glass bottles I bought, were clearly made in a factory in China, and I did not care because I was buying cheap little class bottles for a craft. The problem with art there is that the control aspect is lost and you don't know if you are getting a legit print or something off a $49 inkjet printer.

 

Melissa Bittinger

9 Years Ago

Sold more and have been seen more by buyers there than here with their search system. All sites are different. Being on one doesn't mean ditching another. I have liked a few of the changes made there but definitely not all, but that can be said about any site. They royally screwed up search last year and many sellers suffered big time.

They will sometimes remove shops that are not in compliance when the shops are reported but it doesn't happen real fast. I suggested to them to just make a category for for 'commercial' in addition to handmade,vintage,supply after reporting a few shops myself. They opened pandora's box by changing their definition of 'handmade'.

Good things they did were to add drop down listing variations for different size prints on a single listing and to allow dropshipping. Dropshipping was originally only going to be for artists/photographers selling prints but within a few months anything could be dropshipped...which cracked pandora's box wider!

@Nancy, the bottles you purchased were probably listed under Supply category. Certainly there are cute crafty items there but there are also serious sellers that do use professional print labs or have pro printers themselves...that is in addition to the few that are printing on a $49 printer. Like any marketplace, it is buyer beware.

I hope things settle down there now that they've finally gone public. My mom sells jewelry there too. There is not another 'handmade' site that pulls in buyers as well as Etsy does, in spite of there being issues, it's still the better choice for many sellers until such time another site can pull in buyers like they do.

 

Marlene Burns

9 Years Ago

But wait! FAA has tee shirts debuting any day!

 

Janelle Dey

9 Years Ago

I had no issue selling on Etsy, until now. I think they're doing what any big company would do, I still have my shop open.

 

Sharon Cummings

9 Years Ago

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