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Post by RetroMonde on Jul 9, 2019 17:34:04 GMT
Here's today's greetings from Etsy regarding free shipping and ranking or priority placement for sellers that cooperate with the scheme. So now I've gotta redo my pix sizes AND sneak so-called ' free shipping' into my prices, hoping I don't price myself outta the market, considering the downward spiraling prices. Another week, another atrocity. Geez! Selling online isn't for the faint-of-heart... it's officially stopped being a fun way to make money. |
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Post by Pantlandia on Jul 9, 2019 17:59:25 GMT
Etsy had so much potential to be the anti-eBay, but sure are trying to destroy what they have.
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Post by RetroMonde on Jul 9, 2019 20:13:17 GMT
Yeah, they (corporate) sucked the life right out of it, at least for this seller! I checked their forum earlier; 45 pages of very unhappy comments. But since we (the sellers) are easily replaceable that really doesn't make much difference. I started working on my website again today. I've let it sit unattended for quite some time because I kept thinking that Etsy was a valid venue for me but I guess I was wrong. I think I'm unwilling to put up with their unending BS & carry their shareholders any longer.
Etsy's claims that buyers expect free shipping is bull. Poshmark seems to manage just fine IN SPITE OF their flat rate priority fee. But I have very low expectations of how things will go there for sellers once they go public.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Jul 9, 2019 20:28:36 GMT
I'd be more amenable to changes if my items still sold on that site - I've gone from 1k a month to almost nothing and it happened in a period of about three months, right about when they rolled out their new search.
It's a lot of bull, I agree.
Oh, and I DO have free shipping on a lot of the few items that are left in my shop (I've been letting things just lapse and moving them elsewhere where they sell fine but had free shipping on them before just to get rid of the stuff) - doesn't work.
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Post by jesmelric on Jul 10, 2019 17:15:11 GMT
When I buy on Etsy I am buying something vintage or handmade. I expect to pay shipping because it's not that type of "corporate" site, or so I thought. Sigh. I only have few vintage things on Etsy, the are double listed on Ebay. I'm going to keep them there and keep the reasonable shipping as it is. I've never sold much there anyway.
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Post by frakinfashion on Jul 10, 2019 18:11:19 GMT
Here's today's greetings from Etsy regarding free shipping and ranking or priority placement for sellers that cooperate with the scheme. So now I've gotta redo my pix sizes AND sneak so-called ' free shipping' into my prices, hoping I don't price myself outta the market, considering the downward spiraling prices. Another week, another atrocity. Geez! Selling online isn't for the faint-of-heart... it's officially stopped being a fun way to make money. I just listed something on Etsy today that had that ! symbol next to a picture objecting to the number of my pixels. I didn't fix that and it listed it with the perfectly good picture anyway. Maybe you don't have to fix your pictures...? |
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Post by val2525 on Jul 10, 2019 21:54:06 GMT
Going public is often the kiss of death to a formerly successful company.
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Post by RetroMonde on Jul 10, 2019 22:22:30 GMT
Here's today's greetings from Etsy regarding free shipping and ranking or priority placement for sellers that cooperate with the scheme. So now I've gotta redo my pix sizes AND sneak so-called ' free shipping' into my prices, hoping I don't price myself outta the market, considering the downward spiraling prices. Another week, another atrocity. Geez! Selling online isn't for the faint-of-heart... it's officially stopped being a fun way to make money. I just listed something on Etsy today that had that ! symbol next to a picture objecting to the number of my pixels. I didn't fix that and it listed it with the perfectly good picture anyway. Maybe you don't have to fix your pictures...? I don't think we have to fix it, at least right now. But I read that poor image quality would result in placement or ranking or whatever it is. So it sounds like it will need to be fixed eventually. So with the free shipping requirement that's 2 dings against product placement in 2 weeks. Heck, I have stuff with no likes in a month; who knows if it's even been seen. I'm thoroughly disgusted with Etsy at the moment. When this stuff happens I usually adjust but I'm not seeing the silver lining in these changes at the moment. |
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Post by chapeaunoir on Jul 10, 2019 22:39:52 GMT
The yet newer requirement to have our images at 2000 px is patently ridiculous.
I've gone with the changes, etc., and some I've agreed with, but after making tens of thousands of dollars worth of sales on that site in just the three years I've been there, my sales were choked off in a matter of a couple of months, and no amount of adaptation, changes, etc., remedied it, so it got to be good money/time thrown after bad. I put everything on free ship just to get rid of it (I only have about 80 items left) before I shut down.
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