Comments on: Etsy Surveys Sellers on Their Reaction to This Week’s Fee Hike

By: Missy

Missy — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 02:11:54 +0000

I have had the utmost respect for Etsy being unlike some of the other marketplaces. E-commerce seems the way to go these days.

Likewise, buyers are getting smarter too. If they go to an independent store they find on the internet, they receive far better pricing, great service. . .

THEN the marketplaces will suffer dearly. When they push around a good seasoned seller they are setting themselves up for disasters. Seasoned sellers will go out on their own.

The buyer is NOT paying the seller’s overhead pricing, such as the 35% commission, processing fees for payments and the rest.
THINK HOW MUCH BUYERS WILL SAVE?

By: Stoned11

Stoned11 — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 16:27:42 +0000

And good luck to those who feel that getting a website is going to be the “saving grace”, because a website has fees, too. Just take a look at Shopify…their mid-ranged fees are $80 monthly….none of these website companies give you a site for free. The ultimate success to any business is by selling items that are unique, because…

“too much of the same thing competes with too much of the same thing”. This is ultimately what kills shop owners.

By: Bluedenim

Bluedenim — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 10:35:17 +0000

I know the fee increase is just the cost of doing business and it would happen sooner or later. The timing was rather hard for a lot of sellers with their sales declining this year after the major spike of sales during the pandemic and now with the insane amount of inflation on top of it. For that Etsy congratulated a lot of us by forever rolling our shop into their offsite ads scheme.

Honestly, I don’t think they have any real plans to better their customer service for us sellers or make any useful improvements to the site. But I do agree with The End, it is a great time to build your own website. I am so ready to move on.

By: Bluedenim

Bluedenim — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 10:14:47 +0000

I know the fee increase is just the cost of doing business and it would happen sooner or later. The timing was rather hard for a lot of sellers with their sales declining this year after the major spikem of sales during the pandemic. For that I am forever rolled into their offsite ads, spammed dailty on how to improve my shop, customer service, here look at trends and see all the good Etsy is doing for us sellers… It is exhausting.

The E

By: The End

The End — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 08:24:21 +0000

“make it easier and smoother to grow your business” ?
Stop raising fees.
Get rid of the nonsense :
Star Seller, redundant stats, weird bookkeeping, unending messages from “Etsy” about how we should run OUR businesses. It’s all just too much.
“make it easier and smoother to grow your business”…go get your own website and enjoy. You’ll be glad you did.
Leave Etsy in the dust.